The US news media's coverage of the Iran nuclear issue has been woefully off-kilter for many years.
Iran has responded to Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal by resuming the stockpiling of low enriched uranium, removing the cap on the level of uranium enrichment and resuming work at the Arak nuclear reactor, while making it very clear that those steps would be immediately reversed if the United States agreed to full compliance.
The major fact about Iranian nuclear policy before the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was negotiated should shape public understanding of the current conflict: For more than three years, from 2012 to 2015, Iran could have enriched enough uranium at 20 percent enrichment level for one or more nuclear weapons, but it chose not to do so.
From the start of the current phase of the conflict, corporate media coverage has overwhelmingly emphasized a presumed new Iranian threat to "Break out" in order to obtain the enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon.
A July 1 Times story by Rick Gladstone about Iran's breach of the JCPOA cap on uranium stockpile stated that Iran's latest move "Does not by itself give the country the material to produce a nuclear weapon. But it is the strongest signal yet that Iran is moving to restore the far larger stockpile that took the United States and five other nations years to persuade Tehran to send abroad.".
David Sanger, who for two decades has served as chief national security correspondent for The New York Times, wrote a story published July 1 that led with the assertion that Iran had "Violated a key provision" of the 2015 nuclear deal.
Sanger acknowledged Iran has "Consistently denied that it has any intention of making a nuclear weapon," but asserted, "[A] trove of nuclear-related documents, spirited out of a Tehran warehouse by Israeli agents last year, showed extensive work before 2003 to design a nuclear warhead.".
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/july/19/how-corporate-media-are-fueling-a-new-iran-nuclear-crisis/
Iran has responded to Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal by resuming the stockpiling of low enriched uranium, removing the cap on the level of uranium enrichment and resuming work at the Arak nuclear reactor, while making it very clear that those steps would be immediately reversed if the United States agreed to full compliance.
The major fact about Iranian nuclear policy before the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was negotiated should shape public understanding of the current conflict: For more than three years, from 2012 to 2015, Iran could have enriched enough uranium at 20 percent enrichment level for one or more nuclear weapons, but it chose not to do so.
From the start of the current phase of the conflict, corporate media coverage has overwhelmingly emphasized a presumed new Iranian threat to "Break out" in order to obtain the enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon.
A July 1 Times story by Rick Gladstone about Iran's breach of the JCPOA cap on uranium stockpile stated that Iran's latest move "Does not by itself give the country the material to produce a nuclear weapon. But it is the strongest signal yet that Iran is moving to restore the far larger stockpile that took the United States and five other nations years to persuade Tehran to send abroad.".
David Sanger, who for two decades has served as chief national security correspondent for The New York Times, wrote a story published July 1 that led with the assertion that Iran had "Violated a key provision" of the 2015 nuclear deal.
Sanger acknowledged Iran has "Consistently denied that it has any intention of making a nuclear weapon," but asserted, "[A] trove of nuclear-related documents, spirited out of a Tehran warehouse by Israeli agents last year, showed extensive work before 2003 to design a nuclear warhead.".
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/july/19/how-corporate-media-are-fueling-a-new-iran-nuclear-crisis/
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