Gareth Porter

My latest piece explains how the original "Military Industrial Complex" has morphed into something much more frightening -- a Permanent War State in which the political power of a drone contractor is a crucial factor. bit.ly/2QNd1fv

@iang_fc @countersources @TheEconomist You haven't responded to the larger point that no one has ever challenged the evidence that I documented in detail in my 2014 book that Iran never intended to make a nuclear weapon, because TWO Supreme Leaders forbade it on Islamic religious principle.

@countersources @GarethPorter @TheEconomist wot, you mean, the US made a deal, and kept their word? that's . . . unbelievable

30 years of Iran almost about to get a nuke. Gotta be some form of record - @TheEconomist is the only one who comes close, with like 25 years of China about to collapse.

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For the record, I have never been involved with WMDs or any nuclear or that matter in Iran, but I have researched the topic extensively, and notably there is no serious evidence of a WMD Program. The Supreme Leader who was just murdered by the USA was actually opposed to it and on numerous occasions upheld the Fatwa forbidding both Chemical and Nuclear Weapons. Chemical Weapons in particular are a sensitive issue in Iran, because during the Iran-Iraq War they were he largest population since WW1 that has been subjected to them. See my interview below with @GarethPorter on it. hkrugertjie.substack.com/p/the-history-…

@ElRalphing @LVADMatt Iran has raised its level of enrichment to 60% in the past as a political-diplomatic response to political-military threats -- as a form of pressure on the U.S. to back off. But it was NOT followed by enrichment to weapons grade (90%). sipri.org/commentary/ess…

@GarethPorter @LVADMatt So why enrich uranium up to 60%? All reports I’ve seen have said that’s higher than Iran has any use for in peaceful applications.

Wonder how long the United States has been accusing Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons? Believe it or not last Saturday was the 30th anniversary of the first such U.S. accusation by CIA Director John M. Deutsch on March 20, 1996, without any real evidence to support it.

@countersources @iang_fc @TheEconomist So no need for evidence for the official claim or to examine the evidence that I have amassed and published over a decade of research and reporting on the subject -- none of which has ever been challenged?

@iang_fc @TheEconomist Doesn’t mean they weren’t getting it It’s been 30 years of trying to stifle them Then Obama just handed them cash to speed it up

@ElRalphing Witkopft was lying. latintimes.com/trump-envoy-st….

@GarethPorter You don’t consider the IAEA inspector reports to be real evidence? What about the Iranian negotiators stated position when Trump was trying to get a deal to avoid a war? That wasn’t real evidence either? cbsnews.com/news/trump-ste…

@ElRalphing Witkopf was clearly lying about what he was told by the Iranians, as was pointed out by a non-Iranian diplomat involved in those talks. latintimes.com/trump-envoy-st….

@scotthortonshow @EricBrakey People may be interested to know that the editor at Foreign Policy who published this article was given serious grief by the powers that be about his decision to publish. The national security elite is vey touchy about this subject.

@EricBrakey When the Ayatollah Said No to Nukes by @GarethPorter archive.ph/AJ0a1

As I understand it from listening to @scotthortonshow and his guests, Ayatollah Khamenei was a powerful force in Iran against the country developing nuclear weapons — because he declared it in violation of the Islamic faith. I wonder if the next guy will share that belief.

@scotthortonshow @EricBrakey Thanks, Scott, as always.

@liam_mcknight @scotthortonshow Iran had serious religious rules forbidding nuclear weapons, which were already explicitly laid down by the Supreme Leader before they began to obtain technology for a nuclear program. And they didn't believe they needed them to defend themselves.

@GarethPorter @scotthortonshow Wouldn’t they be mental retards to not pursue nuclear weapons

@LVADMatt Centrifuges can be used for peaceful nuclear purposes as well as for nuclear weapons.

@GarethPorter So...the centrifuges?

@Bot1397642 Sorry, but none of this is relevant to the sordid history of the U.S.-Israeli allegation of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, which I detailed in my book "Manufactured Crisis" (2014).

If Iran was developing a UAР program, it would be classified under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Maybe the evidence was classified under nuclear secrecy, which the presidents or DoD don't even have access to. I only say that because we've had over 40 credible whistle-blowers and 3 congressional hearings in the last 3 years exposing a hidden cold war occurring sub risa between near-peers to retrieve and reverse-engineer UAРs, which has all been covered-up like Epstein for over 80 years......... So some of the whistle-blowers have said that some of the craft🛸 in our possession came from ancient archaeological sites. "WMD's" in Iraq = Sumerian artifacts = UAР shit... which translates to "nukes" in the public sector. Persian artifacts 🛸

@LOULOUGUINNESS Thanks. Very kind of you! Sorry for my absence, which was caused by depression over Israeli genocide.

@GarethPorter Welcome back, Mr Porter, your voice has been missed here.

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@MaxBlumenthal South Americans need to unite and fight back, if they invade Venezuela...another Vietnam war. x.com/MaxBlumenthal/…

Trump wants to get the Nobel Peace Prize, but he should get the War Criminal of the Year award for his Israeli bootlicking Gaza proposal -- or maybe it should be called the Jeffrey Epstein Prize.

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