{"id":61,"date":"2007-09-24T23:54:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T06:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2007-09-24T23:54:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T06:54:04","slug":"turning-ahmadinejad-into-public-enemy-no-17-by-juan-cole-on-saloncom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/turning-ahmadinejad-into-public-enemy-no-17-by-juan-cole-on-saloncom\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 17 by Juan Cole on Salon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1<\/font><\/h2>\n

Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n

By Juan Cole<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sep. 24, 2007 | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a>'s visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly has become a media circus. But the controversy does not stem from the reasons usually cited.<\/font><\/p>\n

no evidence for any US Media\/govt. Lies<\/font><\/p>\n

Washington is also unhappy with Mohammad ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He has been unable to find credible evidence that Iran has a weapons program, and he told Italian television this week,<\/a> \"Iran does not constitute a certain and immediate threat for the international community.\" He stressed that no evidence had been found for underground production sites or hidden radioactive substances, and he urged a three-month waiting period before the U.N. Security Council drew negative conclusions.<\/p>\n

The neoconservatives are even claiming that the United States has been at war with Iran since 1979. As Glenn Greenwald points out,<\/a> this assertion is absurd. In the '80s, the Reagan administration sold substantial numbers of arms to Iran. Some of those beating the war drums most loudly now, like think-tank rat Michael Ledeen, were middlemen in the Reagan administration's unconstitutional weapons sales to Tehran. The sales would have been a form of treason if in fact the United States had been at war with Iran at that time, so Ledeen is apparently accusing himself of treason.<\/a><\/p>\n

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from Salon.com Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1 Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war. By Juan Cole Sep. 24, 2007 | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly … Continue reading \"Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 17 by Juan Cole on Salon.com\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13],"tags":[85,69,82,30,36,39,81,83,84,12,49,80,71,33,70,26,51,86,75],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-field","category-jai-note","tag-ahmadinejad","tag-chalmers-johnson","tag-double-bind-theory","tag-economics","tag-future","tag-gamer-theory","tag-government-lies","tag-gregory-bateson","tag-juan-cole","tag-marketing","tag-media-ecology","tag-media-lies","tag-national-security-state","tag-neocons","tag-nss","tag-politics","tag-spook-country","tag-treason","tag-why-they-hate-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}