On this morning's show we discussed intervention options in Syria and Iran, what can be done to combat escalating gas prices at home, how the Obama administration is handling whistleblowers here and abroad, and what You Should Know for the week ahead. Plus, Chris's Story of the Week addressed how Republicans have failed to come to terms with the Iraq War even while distancing themselves from President Bush.
Joining Chris today for the discussions were Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), former director of policy planning for the U.S. Department of State Ann-Marie Slaughter, Puffin Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Jeremy Scahill, founder of Women for Women International Zainab Salbi, former speechwriter for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Elise Jordan, author of Beatuiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times Eyal Press, Iranian author of The Ayatollah's Democracy: An Iranian Challenge and The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran Hooman Majd, and CNBC contributor and author of Oil's Endless Bid Dan Dicker.
-Brett Brownell (@brettbrownell) is video and web producer for Up w/ Chris Hayes which airs Saturday and Sunday mornings on MSNBC.
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This show was better than sex!
Holy crap! What an awesome show. I agree totally with Melissa Harris Perry that today's show was riveting. We are now several weeks in and Up has only gotten better and better.
The former speech writer for Condoleezza Rice unfortunately had nothing to contribute aside from her childish snide remarks but at least she kept her mouth shut when she had nothing to say. Which was most of the time.
The discussion between Ann-Marie Slaughter and Jeremy Scahill was a blueprint for how to disagree on issues you care deeply about and remain friends without descending into shouting matches. I wish I could do as well but sadly I all too often don't live up to that.
I'm already cannot wait to see what Sarah Vowel has to contribute next week but I"m sure it will be fantastic.
The show is so good I might even get up at 5 am to watch it instead of watching the videos here.
I wish I could afford cable. I would watch the whole thing too.
Finally! Someone brings it to Anne-Marie Slaughter. Thank you Jeremy Scahill. She says he's ridiculous, he asks her if she wants a cookie.
Her reflex militarism and her high position in the State Department reveal a lot about this administration's priorities in international relations. As in fact do the appointments of Geithner, Salazar, Holder, etc. in their own respective jurisdictions.
Why she is a regular on your show continues to mystify me. But if you insist on having her back, please invite Mr. Scahill as well.
I don't know about this administration's militarism, per say, but a destabilized Syria is a great concern to an already concerned Israel. I worry that the confluence of events could cause Israel to get into something that we would inevitably need to help pull them out of. As crazy as it may sound, Assad is who we want in Syria. We don't want a straight-shot Islamic theocracy from Iran to Israel. That could lead to a massive ground war. But Assad has gotten to big for his britches, as my granddad would say, and decimating his armor might knock him down a few notches without significant risk to American troops. A delaying action, if you will.
Assad and Abdullah II of Jordan are the only secular rulers keeping Iran from being able to deal their way into a march straight to the Israeli boarder, and they have numbers on their side. If NATO won't sign off on it, I think a fairly short air campaign, aimed at removing artillery and armor could alleviate some of the tension. It would put the tension on us, but what else is new?
I know that pacifism is in vogue now in the democratic party, and I'm all for avoiding avoidable fights. I think Libya was a strategic mistake, but Syria is in a critical area, and needs attention. The Arab League has already said they want to arm the rebels. I don't think that regime change in Syria is really in our best interest. Better to deal a blow to the power of one side without increasing the power of the other. In my opinion.
She always turned to inflammatory rhetoric when Scahill would take her comments down with facts. She ended up what she had to say with "Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map" This was never said and you would think Chris Hayes or Scahill would have called her out on this endlessly repeated false claim. Former CIA middle east analyst and Iranian expert Flynt Leverett called Chalie Rose out when Rose repeated this hooey. This is the false claim that has been repeated thousands of times the last six or seven years and goes unchallenged. Anne Marie Slaugher was on Cspans WashingtonJournal a while back and said "negotiations with Iran have been exhausted" Chris needs to have Flynt and Hilalry Mann Leverett on his incredible program. That is if he wants educate the public with facts like Scahill and others can provide. Anne Marie Slaughter has turned into a bit of a hack
Completely agree. Jeremy Scahill is a great journalist. Slaughter always parrots the administration talking points and he nailed her on it particularly about the US enabling of Saleh in Yemen.
My comment was originally posted twice for some reason. I don't know how to cancel it.
@the Cavalier: Even if it were true that Assad is Israel's great friend ("Syria is one of Israel's most intransigent opponents, and supports a number of armed groups that carry out attacks against Israel. Hopes for reconciliation have repeatedly foundered over the Golan Heights."--BBC), your proposal makes sense only if you place Israel's security as our first and only priority in the region. Do you care nothing for the thousands that Assad has murdered or the decades of brutal repression he and his father have brought to Syrian citizens? (". . . Emergency Law, which had been in place since 1963 and under which security forces detained and tortured people with impunity." --BBC). Even the Arab League has called for Assad's departure, but you want to prop him up?
I don't have the answer, but it can't be to support a regime that murders its citizens. We can't let the fear of "a straight-shot Islamic theocracy from Iran to Israel" drive a policy that tolerates repression by slaughter.
The value of bringing Mrs Slaughter to the table is so you get a picture of what the ideas are of the inner world in international relations, not because of her expertise or analysis of international politics per se. To me she often comes over as naive and not understanding much of the world outside of the circle of diplomats and atachés.
She certainly was not interested in what the new Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff General Dempsey said last week on Fareed Zakarias program about Syria and Iran. Dempsey on Iran "the Iranian regime is a rational actor" Not convinced that they have a nuclear weapons program.
On Syria Dempsey said something similar to what Scahill was saying. You can not arm people when you do not know who you are arming
I think you have it exactly right. Letting her share her view provides an insight to the ignorance and the arrogance that permeates the white house and the diplomatic service establishment - especially when it comes to our “Israel first” foreign policy. Listening to her helps to explain why our military forces are everywhere (every problem looks like a nail so....etc.) and the hypocrisy of our policy of Libya vs. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, etc.
I hope this show will help convince Chris Hays that he needs to have a countervailing guest to AMS such as Jeremy, Ami Goodman, one of the Leverett's or others unafraid to speak truth to power. Would love to see her on with Robert Fiske or Chris Hedges.
I agree with all above, this was a riveting show.
Dr. Marcy Wheeler aka Emptywheel would be a great guest on the program to discuss torture, wiretapping, elections. The woman is a brainiac. If you do not go to her site then get with it. Marcy and her team, research beyond measure.
In regard to Iran...Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett if COMCAST....MSNBC's owners will allow it. Professor Juan Cole you know fact based folks. Anne Marie Slaughter went to the desparate inflammatory rhetoric far too often. Pathetic really
This show, today 2/26, is an example that ALL political show in this country should try to emulate. Intelligent, respectful, loaded with opinion AND fact. What a concept, huh!?!?
I agree with complaints re Ms Slaughter, but add that my greatest objection is her lack of respect of other speakers by her constant interruptions and shout-downs. I wouldn't mind hearing her opinion, but resent her lowering the respectful, edifying tone of this stellar program.
So many talk overs. This is the way she tries to dominate and scatter the conversation. She does not listen, objects almost immediately and then throws in inflammatory rhetoric. She is the new face of the war pushers.
What a wonderful show. I love it when the world can see how liberals debate issues from facts, use science, and have humor. The "want a cookie" comment was priceless.
By the way I learn more about what's going on in the world from weekend UP then from Al, Chris, Ed, Rachal, and Larry in a week. Keep UP the great job.
Love the cookie remark for someone so sure of herself yet still so naive. Slaughter could use some work on the culture front as well as the history of the region. It wouldn't hurt her to learn more about the art of listening either. I confess that I am not very pleased if she is representative of what the views are within the government and would prefer to see more expertise combined with more open-mindedness and out-of-the-box thinking.
Slaughter is not naive. She knows exactly what she is doing
Don't know what show @MsDrema was watching, but it wasn't this am's UP...I couldn't disagree more with her negative response to the show.
In fact, I have a suggestion for MSNBC/Comcast/? all the corporate owners who have a say in programming: Put on the five hours of UP w/Chris Hayes and MelissaHarrisPerry on Saturday night from 6-11PM and four hours from Sunday from 6-10PM to give these fine programs a more prominent voice than at 5 or 6 am PST or eastern time zone. These programs are so outstanding - they require greater support and exposure.
Terrific show today...teaches viewers to extend their critical thinking/listening skills and provides invaluable opinion AND facts as the above poster stated.
I really meant re-broadcast them, not just show them in the evenings...
Would like to know what the six Whistleblower cases are that have been excoriated by the administration?
It may be a slippery slope, but if exposed classified information causes physical harm to those exposed vs. exposing those causing corruption, illegality, or unethical actions to be held accountable, I would think the former would be villified and the latter whistleblowers vindicated.
Many reading this quote know the thoughts of Martin Luther King. Yet liberals are amazed to see how effective they were in Zuccotti park or how rapidly nonviolent confrontation forced legislators in Virginia to back down.
Why are we amazed? Is it because we are a violent culture and our mental terrain is dominated by tropes of the effectiveness of the violent hero confronting nefarious opponents? The Neocons suggest that nonviolence methods aren't working and will never work. Iranian elites feeling the pain of sanctions claim the same- that sanctions aren't working and will never work. See? Consensus on both sides of the debate, therefore those advocating nonviolence should stand mute?
Let's step back and look at the history of this conversation. This is the way the discussion always has always been expressed. America in the 60s: Racists in power saying nonviolence will never work. Black militants saying nonviolence will never work. They do not represent two ends of the debate, they represent the same end- the violent pole of the debate. They feed off each other: violence and fear keeps each faction in power. Netanyahuu needs a confrontation; he needs a Neocon in the White House; and he needs credible bogeymen so that his violent faction can stay in power.
This was the same dynamic- the same Gordian matrix of violent rivalries that Gandhi confronted- the Indian nationalists and the British army both telling him that nonviolence would never work. Ultimately he was killed by a member of one of those groups who believed that nonviolence emasculated Hindus and would lead to their defeat by Muslims.
But let's be clear it was not only the advocates of violence who were telling Martin Luther that nonviolent action did not work. Moderates also felt that negotiating and engaging the local authorities was the path of peace, not nonviolent non cooperation with that power.
This brings us to the discussion today on Chris Hayes' show.
There is absolutely nothing new about what Hooman Majd is saying. He is the voice that says, all sanctions are doing is making the Iranian elite more intransigent, and that the only way is to.... What? "Bring them back into the economic community" (resume trade) and... what? They will voluntarily submit to regular and unfettered IAEA inspections ?
Wrong. Either King was correct or he wasn't. "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given..." The countries of the Middle East need to be free of the threat of nuclear proliferation. For whatever reason, Iran is blocking efforts at maintaining that freedom, and they shall not submit voluntarily as Majd is suggesting.
Majd tells us ""I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action".
Of course Majd can't. He is a moderate "who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice." There will be no justice if all countries of the world have nuclear weapons.
We cannot submit to the myth that such a nuclear armed world is inevitable. We must be vigilant in fighting with all nonviolent means at our disposal any further proliferation of nuclear weapons. In that effort, we must be extremists, and there is no place for Majd's milquetoast proposals for greater patience and "moderation".
No. Iran must submit immediately to unfettered IAEA inspections and full compliance with all of its Non Proliferation Treaty obligations. Israel must publically forswear any resort to violent attack on Iran, including assassination of its scientists. If these parties do not comply the countries of the world must bring all nonviolent pressure to bear on them. Any countries such as China or Russia who refuse risk similar treatment by the world community.
Source of quotes: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Remember when Chris Hayes asked Anne Marie Slaughter if there was anything that the US could do to stop Israel from attacking Iran if that is what they decide to do. Slaughter "no" Go watch what Dr. Zbig Bryzezinski had to say on Fareed Zakaria's GPS Program today. Dr. Zbig said Obrama needs to spell it out clearly for Netanyahu on March 5th when he visits. Letting Netanyahu no support from the US, no flying over US controlled air space, and we will not follow you in, not back you up. Dr. Zbig had plenty to say. Worth the watch
That would be the typical naive approach.
Netanyahuu has political problems of his own in Israel. Replace all occurances of the term "Israel" in Hayes' show and replace with "Netanyahuu's administration", or the "Israelii Right Wing".
Obama needs to do to what Netanyahuu has been doing to him- do things calculated to strengthen his opponents. We should not interfere, but there is no reason to hide what the disadvantages will accrue to Israel should they continue to elect hard right politicians.
How about the threat of cutting off the $3 billion plus in aid for starters?
Zbigniew Brzezinski would be a fantastic guest for Up!
He would be great. Some of his recent interviews on foreign policy and his new book "Strategic Vision"
Zbigniew Brzezinski - The Diane Rehm Show
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Fareed Zakaria GPS - Brzezinski: "divorced from reality" - YouTube
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I second that. I am very concerned by the melding of State and Defense (War Dept). Cleaving to WWII energy plans and militarized thinking is the road to destruction for our shared climate, dwindling resources, and coexistence as humans on the same planet.
It is going to take Public determination and resistance to break the stranglehold that the military/financial/congressional complex has on our domestic and foreign policies.
The time for change is now. We need to see more evidence of peaceful and cooperative thinking. At present, the testicle crushers are protected, and the American Idealists such as Occupy and whistleblowers, I would argue the truly patriotic, are oppressed.
Like Ms Slaughter, it is obvious that institutionally, our country thinks in terms of fear and dominance rather than reality and progress.
My Second goes to Pete, CT. I'm not doing the Reply thing correctly.
John Messerly, substitute President Santorum for President Achmadinejad...or Netanyahu... or President Romney for President(?) Harper... No shortage of fools on the international stage, and the US is a big part of the international picture.
On Fareed Zakarias Sunday program Dr. Zbig said that the pool of Republican candidates "embarrassed" him
I'm curious does Ann-Marie Slaughter works for U.S. Department of State's employee or is she a "spokesperson" for Israel's Likud Party?
IAEA has never stated that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon program - never not even once! IAEA fact findings are all available on the web. I suggest Ms. Slaughter to peruse the report before making herself look extremely misinformed. Secondly, I highly doubt that she speaks Farsi; I do. President Ahamadinjad has never said Israel should be wiped off the map. His statement was deliberately mis-translated by the usual suspects, AIPAC, et al and fed to the press. What he said was, "The regime occupying the Jerusalem will vanish from the pages of time." He was repeating Ayatollah Khomeini's statement.
But hey neocons never bother with pesky facts do they? Ms. Slaughter can hide behind her "democratic" affiliations but as far as I'm concerned she's no less than Wolfowiz.
Note to Ms. Slaughter, lose the facial tic; it's unimaginably vexing. Thanks.
No one wants a repeat of the Iraq fiasco. But neither do we need more countries with nuclear weapons. There are good reasons be concerned with Iran's non compliance with their obligations under the nuclear non proliferation treaty. They must allow unfettered inspections by the IAEA as is their obligation. If Iran returns to a regular inspection regime and is found not to be enriching uranium beyond what is necessary for energy production, and is not undertaking research relevant to nuclear weapons production, then there will be no need to continue with sanctions.
The assertion by Hooman Majd that the IAEA has no information it is concerned about is of course nonsense.
Cut off Iran from the rest of the world until they comply. If they have a civilian nuclear program, this is just plain silly not to comply. Why make it into a big deal unnecessarily?
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This is really for JohnM - what gives the US the right to say who can have nukes and who can't?
If we are willing to give up ours, then and only then do we have that moral authority. Until then, we are operating on a 'might makes right' basis. This is why we have 750 military installations based in 150 countries and why our main export is war and violence. I believe this will have to change soon or the empire will implode.
John if UP really wants to have experts on about Iran they will have Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett on their program. Although Comcast owners of MSNBC may be blocking that from happenning. Chris and team should cut through it. Challenge the owners
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Flynt Leverett – Biography
Flynt Leverett is a professor at Pennsylvania State University’s School of International Affairs and directs the Iran Project at the New America Foundation, where he is a Senior Research Fellow. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Peking University’s School of International Studies.
Dr. Leverett is a leading authority on the Middle East and Persian Gulf, U.S. foreign policy, and global energy affairs. From 1992 to 2003, he had a distinguished career in the U.S. government, serving as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, and as a CIA Senior Analyst. He left the George W. Bush Administration and government service in 2003 because of disagreements about Middle East policy and the conduct of the war on terror.
Dr. Leverett has written extensively on the politics, international relations, and political economy of the Middle East and Persian Gulf. In a series of monographs, articles, and opinion pieces (many co-authored with Hillary Mann Leverett), he has challenged Western conventional wisdom on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign policy and internal politics, documented the historical record of previous Iranian cooperation with the United States, and presented the seminal argument in American foreign policy circles for a U.S.-Iranian “grand bargain”. His new book, Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic (also co-authored with Hillary Mann Leverett), will be published in 2012.
Dr. Leverett has published opinion pieces in many high-profile venues, including The New York Times, POLITICO, and CNN, and contributes frequently to Foreign Policy. He has been interviewed about Iran and its geopolitics on leading public affairs programs around the world, including Charlie Rose, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Empire and Riz Khan (Al Jazeera English), Viewpoint (Abu Dhabi Television), Spotlight (Russia Today) and Washington Journal (C-Span), as well as in leading publications such as Der Spiegel and Le Monde. Along with Hillary Mann Leverett, he was featured in the PBS Frontline documentary, “Showdown With Iran”, and profiled in Esquire magazine.
Dr. Leverett has spoken about U.S.-Iranian relations at foreign ministries and strategic research centers in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. He has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University.
Dr. Leverett holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies
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Hillary Mann Leverett – Biography
Hillary Mann Leverett is CEO of Strategic Energy and Global Analysis (STRATEGA), a political risk consultancy. In September 2010, she will also take up an appointment as Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
Ms. Leverett has more than 20 years of academic, legal, business, diplomatic, and policy experience working on Middle Eastern issues. In the George W. Bush Administration, she worked as Director for Iran, Afghanistan and Persian Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council, Middle East expert on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, and Political Advisor for Middle East, Central Asian and African issues at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. From 2001-2003, she was one of a small number of U.S. diplomats authorized to negotiate with the Iranians over Afghanistan, al-Qa’ida and Iraq. In the Clinton Administration, Leverett also served as Political Advisor for Middle East, Central Asian and African issues for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Associate Director for Near Eastern Affairs at the National Security Council, and Special Assistant to the Ambassador at the U.S. embassy in Cairo. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a Watson Fellowship, and in 1990-1991 worked in the U.S. embassies in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt and Israel, and was part of the team that reopened the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait after the first Gulf War.
Ms. Leverett has published extensively on Iran as well as on other Middle Eastern, Central and South Asian, and Russian issues. She has spoken about U.S.-Iranian relations at Harvard, MIT, the National Defense University, NYU, the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, and major research centers in China. She has appeared on news and public affairs programs on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and Al Jazeera (Arabic and English), and was featured in the highly acclaimed BBC documentary, Iran and the West. Along with Flynt Leverett, she appeared in the PBS Frontline documentary, “Showdown With Iran”, and was profiled in Esquire magazine. She has provided expert testimony to the U.S. House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.
Ms. Leverett is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brandeis University. She also studied at the American University in Cairo and Tel Aviv University.
John the former weapons inspector Robert Kelly and others have said that the the new head of the IAEA MR. Amano (Isreal, I lobby approved) allowed material into the latest IAEA that the former head of the IAEA El Baradei would not allow in because the material could not be verified. Listen for your self
Former IAEA Inspector: Misleading Iran Report ... - at The Real News
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I get it. There is a conspiracy at the IAEA.
John the conspiracy was the bloody WMD's in Iraq conspiracy created, cherry picked and dessiminated by the Bush administration. You know that conspiracy the one promoted by the majority of MSM outlets.
Yeah no I lobby effort to take out Obama's pick to head the National Intelligence Estimate Charles Freeman. No effort by the I lobby there. They knew he would go with the facts about IRan not with Israel's manipulated intelligence about Iran
Freeman speaks out on his exit
Posted By Laura Rozen Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 10:35 PM Share
Retired Amb. Chas Freeman, who said today that he no longer accepts an offer to chair the National Intelligence Council, has just sent this message:
Go listen to what weapons inspector Robert Kelly has to say about the latest IAEA report. He states that the new head of the IAEA Mr. Amano
Chris Hayes is definitely providing the best political discussion on network news.
Just giving Scahill this much time to talk is worthy of note. However, I was saddened to see him echo the message that the protests in Afghanistan are about the burning of the Qurans - as if that is the only thing it is about. As usual Glenn Greenwald has the best piece I've seen on this news meme here:
We need more Greenwald on UP!
Hayes is just light years ahead of most of what is seen on the networks, but it is telling when even folks like this who I respect fall into traps like this that are just clearly simplistic, biased and faulty analysis of others being repeated. Really, the only thing that is causing this recent explosion of protest is the burning of Qurans? The Afghani people have nothing else to be angry at the US about?
A brilliant idea for an UP show -- invite Greenwald to address this issue (and others). If Chris acknowledged publicly that he let himself get caught in that part of the echo chamber, he would be truly be illustrating the best that a journalist in his position should do -- keep having interesting discussions, and share evidence that shows he got something wrong when he sees it.
Last time I saw Greenwald on a MSM outlet was when he and Dylan Ratigan took down Cliff May's lies about the Iranian President, Iran and the Israeli Palestinian issue. One of the best take downs ever. Although Ratigan has barely touched the issue again and Greenwald has not been back on. Comcast owns MSNBC and according to Phil Weiss at Mondoweiss ComCast owners have huge leanings towards Israel no matter what
Here is the Greenwald/Cliff May/Dylan Ratigan hot interchange
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Glenn Greenwald: Who Really Rules America? | Dylan Ratigan
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Panels on US foreign policy. Greenwald, Steve Clemons, Walt, Mearsheimer, Marcy Wheeler (Emptywheel.net) Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett (Race for Iran) Professor Juan Cole, Wesley Clark, General Zinni, Pat Lang.
Ok put on the new go get Iran crew.....Mr Singh, Mr. Jain from WINEP, Anne Marie Slaughter, Barbara Slavin. Yochi Dreazen
Glenn Greenwald: A Bank-Led Smear Campaign ... - Dylan Ratigan
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The US is seeking a regime change in Iran by imposing sanctions even after US intelligence analysts have said Tehran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program, an analyst tells Press TV.
http://presstv.com/detail/228546.html
"The latest assessment by 16 American spy agencies revealed that there is no hard evidence for Iran trying to build a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported on Friday. However, the EU and the US have imposed unilateral sanctions on Iran over its nuclear energy program. "
Wow, really thoughtful & detailed analysis. It is hard to discuss facts or different points of view when people have sacra-fied (made sacred) an ideology or set of beliefs. I see a lot of that on these cpmments. Your broad-base of knowledge and opinions are quite uncommon. I don't know where you find the patience.