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Disinformation tactics

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RT Wrote, " Iran has sometimes provided false information about its nuclear program in order to mislead foreign intelligence agencies, Iran’s nuclear chief has said. The remarks come as still no comprise has been found regarding Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. In an interview with pan-Arabic London-based newspaper al-Hayat Fereydoun Abbasi, a nuclear scientist, who also serves as Iran’s vice president, accused Britain’s MI6 of spying on Iran’s nuclear program.   “We presented false information sometimes in order to protect our nuclear position and our achievements, as there is no other choice but to mislead foreign intelligence,” he told the paper. “Sometimes we pretended to be weaker than we really were, and sometimes we showed strength that was not really in our hands,” Abbasi admitted.   He also noted that the International Atomic energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, deals with Iran as if it’s guilty.   "Others accuse us, and the agency seeks to establish th

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USA, in search of a new enemy

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  As the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks against the United States approached, I noticed that the matter was not discussed very much by Americans I encountered or in media outlets. Perhaps that’s because an 11th anniversary of any event is not particularly memorable. Or because the killing of Osama bin Laden removed much of the personalized anger and sense of looming threat that had driven the high-level of preoccupation with terrorism and Al-Qaeda in the United States in recent years. Or perhaps most Americans were simply tired of having their understandable rage and sense of vulnerability manipulated to unnatural levels of frenzy, as happened during the two George W. Bush administrations. Whatever the reasons, the 9/11 anniversary in the United States this year passed with little fanfare, and so the American public and political system appeared to be searching around for a different foreign threat or enemy to focus on. “Terrorism” as a generic phenomenon or

Outsourcing Canada's foreign policy !

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Canada's surprise decision last week to break diplomatic relations with Iran and close its embassy in Tehran has sparked fierce criticism at home and abroad, with many commentators calling the move ill-conceived  The decision was announced by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok, Russia, on Friday, saying Iran had become a threat to global peace. Ottawa also ordered all Iranian diplomats in Canada to leave the country within five days. Iran has vowed to retaliate, and as a first move, cancelled a scheduled visit to Canada by its parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani. Larijani also scoffed at the decision, saying the severance of ties was a desperate move by Canada. "The cheap behaviour of the Canadian government which was shown in an inexperienced manner indicates that they are in a state of confusion after seeing a gathering of a majority of the world states in Tehran (during the Non-Aligned Moveme

Interview !

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 This interview will take 6 minutes of your time and can help make a lot of the issues at hand comprehensible. Former National security advisor  Zbigniew Brezezinski, somebody who know what he is talking about.

One man’s terrorist is the others.....

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Terrorism has always been a boomerang and one is appalled at the utter stupidity of some of those insisting on investing in such methods to promote politics.  This is an interesting documentary on the results of the hundreds of Millions of dollars approved by different US administrations in fighting Iran's Government throughout the years. I hope the US shall one day learn to resist and neutralize the countless lobbies that are actually causing all these wrong policies.

NAM

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The Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ) is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major Power Blocs   (Capitalist and Communist) . As of 2012, the movement has 120 members and 17 observer countries. The 120-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has unanimously endorsed Iran’s civilian nuclear energy program, saying Iran has not only the right to produce energy through nuclear fission, but has a right to enrich their own uranium to do so. This statement, part of the “ Tehran Declaration,” stands in sharp contrast to Western positions on the matter, which have regularly claimed Iran was violating international norms by enriching their own uranium for civilian purposes. Notably even Egypt signed on to the declaration, despite a western insistance of  a "public row"at the summit during which President Mursi’s condemnation of Syria sparked a walkout. (apparantly it was not such a big issue as reflected in some western Press agencies)