The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
►http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/the-secret-history-of-americas-t.html
In Bush’s second term, Cheney’s daughter, Elizabeth, a deputy assistant secretary of State, lectured US Foreign Service officers “including those fluent in Farsi” about “the nature of Iranian society and its government” even though she “had no background on Iran,” Crist writes. The lectures were delivered to the “Iran-Syria Working Group, an interagency body co-chaired by Cheney and Elliott Abrams, a neoconservative in the Bush White House.
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