Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran Nuclear Threat, US May Be Headed for Iraq Redux

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Democracy Now! interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about his latest article for the New Yorker magazine, "Iran and the Bomb: How Real is the Nuclear Threat?", in which he reports that the United States might attack Iran based on distorted estimates of Iran's nuclear and military threat—just like it did with Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq. Hersh reveals that despite using Iranian informants and cutting edge surveillance technology, U.S. officials have been unable to find decisive evidence that Iran has been moving enriched uranium to an underground weapon-making center.

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[ZedAlfa273]

In Middle East Israel is greater nuclear threat than all others combined.

[Dubwise78]

They dont talk about why certain politicians and media are pushing these lies and distortions, and for who. US traitors are working for a foreign power bent on war, the fulfilment of extreme supremacist religious ideology. Israel and all their little helpers need to be exposed for the traitors they are. they would send US servicemen to their deaths to please their AIPAC pay masters

[MrLibertyFighter]

@eastariel Sounds like the reign of Satan if you ask me...

[eastariel]

A VAMPIRE'S GUIDE TO RULING THE WORLD

1. Get in bed with the power elite

2. Blackmail/manipulate/brainwash the power elite, playing them off each other

3. Nuke Israel

4. Blame it on Iran

5. Nuke Iran

6. Terrorize Arab countries into obedience

7. Kill outspoken Americans for treason

8. Set up a vampire-led communist world government, killing freedom

[eastariel]

Say More Hersh,

Please say more. You give me hope that we will soon enter an era in which love and reason will prevail.

God bless you, truth-chaser. I'm hoping and praying that you can help those old dinosaurs called the newspaper giants get out of the muck and evolve into birds, as the dinosaurs did. Truth can help the American eagle fly again.

[beefy69]

whatever happened to freedom of speech?

[badgeless]

@ZedAlfa273

Iran has signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Agreement. Israel has not. Israel has never acknowledged they have nukes. They don't deny it either. Watch U.S. politicians squirm and dance around the question of Israel's nukes. The U.S. knows Israel has nukes but wont admit or deny it either.

[badgeless]

@adamoba5

"Iran will use them when they get them"

Get what? There's no proof they're "getting" anything.

If it's nukes you're talking about what indication do you have that says they will use them? Who has Iran attacked in the last 300 years?

[rolomail]

@ZedAlfa273 Again, according to "US Satellites". The US being infiltrated by zionist, and promoting the interest of zionism fitting into the agenda of the CFR et al, nothing the US says about Israel is reliable. Have the Russians detected a nuclear test? Contrary to domestic brain-washing, Russian space technology was far better than the US in the 1970s. If the Russians never detected a test, then it never happened. It promotes the agenda of empire to make Israel seem stronger than it is.

[ZedAlfa273]

@rolomail They have them, they just won't admit it.

Israel's nuclear facility is in the Negev Desert. And in the 70's, US Vela satellites detected above ground atomic tests of thermonuclear weapons that although no nation has claimed responsibility for, are generally assumed to have been Israeli in origin.

While Islamic countries like Iran & Pakistan, in the interest of peace & transparency, are open about their nuclear programs, Israel is not.

Israel, a nation of Zionist liars & deceivers.

[rolomail]

@adamoba5 Israel's possession of nuclear weapons is the most difficult to believe claim I've ever heard. Every country that builds a nuclear weapon has to test the design. After you test the design, and prove it works, then you would sink billion after billion into building hundreds of them. The zio-theater about the supposed weapons sounds ridicules to my ears because the claim is that without ever testing one, they've built hundreds of weapons. Israel is the most deceitful country on earth.