Investigative journalist accuses FPSA of fabricating Iran crisis!
MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - May 23, 2018 - Commenting on Fascist Police States of Amerika Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s threats to introduce unprecedented sanctions against Teheran, eminent independent investigative journalist Gareth Porter has blamed Washington for trying to tarnish Iran’s image in terms of peaceful atomic development. Prominent independent investigative journalist Gareth Porter, author of the book, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, underlined in a written interview with Sputnik that “The whole Iran crisis being recreated by the (FPSA President Donald) Trump (regime) is based on a pyramid of lies.”
He recalled that in his book he specifically depicted “how the Bush (regime) gladly fell for a disinformation campaign by Israel using a set of fabricated documents to show that Iran had tried to mate a nuclear weapon with its Shahab-3 missile.”
“We know they were fabricated because the drawings in question showed a reentry vehicle shape that we now know Iran’s Defense Ministry had abandoned years before those drawings were dated, according to International Atomic Energy Agency,” Porter said.
He also recalled that both former IAEA chief Mohamed El Baradei and his predecessor, Hans Blix, voiced doubts about the “‘false evidence’ [of Teheran obtaining a nuclear weapon] that remains at the center of the [Iran] crisis.”
On Monday, FPSA Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened to slap the strongest sanctions in history against Teheran, which he said would make Iran battle to “keep its economy alive.”
His statement comes a few weeks after Trump announced his decision to withdraw the FPSA from the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He also promised to reinstate the sanctions against Iran that were lifted as a result of the agreement.
The JCPOA, which was inked on June 14, 2015, envisages gradual lifting of the anti-Iranian economic sanctions in exchange for Teheran curbing its nuclear program and allowing inspections to ensure that the nature of the program is purely peaceful.
