-------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:46:39 +0000 From: Rory Winter <•••@••.•••> Subject: Black Propaganda on UK's Channel 4 TV Jonathan Rugman presented a biased anti-Iran report on "Iran invites journalists to nuclear site" on Channel 4 News on Saturday 3rd Febraury. While showing monitoring cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) all over the Isfahan nuclear site, what the UK and the US governments not to speak of Israel would never allow, he repeatedly stated that the enrichment programme in Iran can be used to build nuclear bombs, failing to mention that: (i) the IAEA after over 2200 person/hours of intrusive inspections for some three years for most of which the Additional Protocol was voluntarily observed by Iran have not found any shred of evidence for a nuclear weapons programme in the country, (ii) the Director General of the IAEA, Dr Elbradei, has repeatedly said that there is no evidence of a diversion to a weaponization programme in Iran, (iii) there is a religious decree by Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the final say on all major state matters, against the production and use of nuclear weapons. (iv) Rugman also failed to observe that Iran has only enriched uranium to less that 5% far short of the 90% grade uranium required to build a bomb.In fact, the British nuclear physicist Dr Frank Barnaby of Oxford Research Group who is a leading world expert on Iran's nuclear activities has stated categorically that Iran is unable to enrich uranium beyond 20% due to contamination of its uranium with heavy metals. See page 4 in <http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefings/IranNuclearMar06.pdf>http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefings/IranNuclearMar06.pdf Jonathan Rugman's report also had the effect of softening up the public for an illegal military attack by the US and/or Israel against Iran. In fact, he asserted twice that if diplomacy fails then Iranian nuclear sites can be attacked failing to point out that the UN Security Council has explicitly ruled out any military attack on Iran. Therefore while trying to persuade the viewers that Iran is exercising any thing other than its legitimate right under the Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium for a civilian nuclear programme, he in effect gave justification for an illegal military attack against Iran. Is Jonathan Rugman's memory so short that he cannot see here a rerun of the propaganda in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq? There the propaganda was the false premise of the Weapons of Mass Destruction which never existed; here it is the false premise of a nuclear weapons programme. In this case again, the media is softening the public to accept an illegal, criminal and catastrophic attack on Iran. Dr Abbas Edalat, Campaign Iran, 3 February 2007 <http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/>http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ -- -------------------------------------------------------- Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org subscribe cyberjournal list mailto:•••@••.••• Posting archives http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Blogs: cyberjournal forum http://cyberjournal-rkm.blogspot.com/ Achieving real democracy http://harmonization.blogspot.com/ for readers of ETM http://matrixreaders.blogspot.com/ Community Empowerment http://empowermentinitiatives.blogspot.com/ Blogger made easy http://quaylargo.com/help/ezblogger.html
