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with Noam Chomsky
raceforiran on Jun 11, 2013
On May 14, 2013, the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT sponsored an event, “Iran and American Foreign Policy: Where Did the U.S. Go wrong?”, featuring Noam Chomsky and Flynt and Hillary Leverett, authors of the controversial “Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Hillary Mann Leverett starts 18:20 into the video, Flynt Leverett at 37:00, and Noam Chomsky at 54:00.
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with Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
June 14, 2013
TheRealNews Jun 13, 2013
Gareth Porter interviews veteran US officials about why US policy towards Iran needs to change.
By Paul Craig Roberts
June 16, 2009 “Information Clearing House”
How much attention do elections in Japan, India, Argentina, or any other country, get from the US media? How many Americans and American journalists even know who is in political office in other countries besides England, France, and Germany? Who can name the political leaders of Switzerland, Holland, Brazil, Japan, or even China?
Yet, many know of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. The reason is obvious. He is daily demonized in the US media.
The US media’s demonization of Ahmadinejad itself demonstrates American ignorance. The President of Iran is not the ruler. He is not the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He cannot set policies outside the boundaries set by Iran’s rulers, the ayatollahs who are not willing for the Iranian Revolution to be overturned by American money in some color-coded “revolution.”
Iranians have a bitter experience with the United States government. Their first democratic election, after emerging from occupied and colonized status, in the 1950s was overturned by the US government. The US government installed in place of the elected candidate a dictator who tortured and murdered dissidents who thought Iran should be an independent country and not ruled by an American puppet.
Flynt Leverett (Senior Fellow; Director, Geopolitics of Energy Initiative – New America Foundation) discusses the shift in negotiation policy toward Iran and its implications.
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Iran and the US: Beyond the war of rhetoric
Anti-war group calls actions as US & Israel prepare for attack on Iran
Iran
Is Lebanon on the brink of civil war? What are the implications for the region? What is America’s role in the current crisis?
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May 13, 2008
Featured Speakers
- Rami Khouri (by phone)
Editor-at-Large
The Daily Star
- Hisham Melhem
Bureau Chief
Al Arabiyah
- Nir Rosen (by phone)
Former Fellow, New America Foundation
Fellow, NYU Center on Law and Security
- Daniel Levy
Director, Middle East Policy Initiative, New America Foundation/The Century Foundation
Publisher, www.ProspectsforPeace.com
- Steven Clemons
Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com
- Flynt Leverett
Director, Geopolitics of Energy Initiative
New America Foundation
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see
Lebanon does not want another war. Does it? By Robert Fisk
Disturbing Stirrings – Ratcheting Up For War on Iran by Stephen Lendman
Are the Clashes in Beirut a Signal of the inception of a new War for the “New Middle East”?
By John H. Richardson
Esquire
10/18/2007
Two former high-ranking policy experts from the Bush Administration say the U.S. has been gearing up for a war with Iran for years, despite claiming otherwise. It’ll be Iraq all over again.
In the years after 9/11, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann worked at the highest levels of the Bush administration as Middle East policy experts for the National Security Council. Mann conducted secret negotiations with Iran. Leverett traveled with Colin Powell and advised Condoleezza Rice. They each played crucial roles in formulating policy for the region leading up to the war in Iraq. But when they left the White House, they left with a growing sense of alarm — not only was the Bush administration headed straight for war with Iran, it had been set on this course for years. That was what people didn’t realize. It was just like Iraq, when the White House was so eager for war it couldn’t wait for the UN inspectors to leave. The steps have been many and steady and all in the same direction. And now things are getting much worse. We are getting closer and closer to the tripline, they say.
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