#Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program. Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? | FAIR
▻http://fair.org/home/iran-doesnt-have-a-nuclear-weapons-program-why-do-media-keep-saying-it-does
So why do some many reporters keep mucking this up? A few reasons: It’s just a #mantra repeated ad infinitum, and journalists and pundits often mindlessly repeat an oft-repeated phrase.
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Another major reason for this recurring falsehood, as FAIR (7/6/17) noted after the #New_York_Times twice “mistakenly” accused Iran of carrying out 9/11 (one of the smears going uncorrected for over three years), is that one can say pretty much anything about Iran without any professional or public backlash. Because Iran is an Official US Enemy , and its motives are therefore always deemed sinister, the idea that it is plotting to violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and build a nuclear weapon is simply taken as a given. The lack of hard evidence for this is irrelevant: Intentions of those in the crosshairs of US power are always presented as cynical and malicious; those of the US and its allies benevolent and in good faith. Iran’s sinister motives are simply the default setting—no matter much evidence points to the contrary.
#MSM #nucléaire #désinformation #malhonnêteté #etats-unis (et ses #vassaux)