Talk:Anti-Iran propaganda

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Beginning in early 2005, several organizations geared up to create conditions that would encourage a hardening of US policy towards Iran with the policy consequences ranging from placing crippling sanctions against its economy all the way to conducting an attack on Iran's nuclear industry. (NB: military analysts indicate that an attack on the nuclear sites could well involve a major conflagration.) No matter how flimsy the evidence, if it would prove useful to smear Iran, it was enough to be pushed.

alpha order

 * AIPAC
 * AJC
 * Center for Security Policy
 * Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD)
 * Iran Democracy Foundation
 * Iran Policy Committee

People

 * Abolghasem Mesbahi — probably a pseudonym
 * Clare M. Lopez
 * Emanuele Ottolenghi
 * Raymond Tanter
 * Bruce Tefft
 * Kenneth R. Timmerman
 * Hamid Reza Zakeri

Incidents exploited for propaganda purposes

 * 1) "Iranian agent" seeking to hire Mexican cartel assassins to target Saudi ambassador
 * 2) US Court hearing featuring serial fabricators, and on the basis of this the Judge declaring that Iran was responsible for 9-11

Policy actions due to Israel lobby pressure

 * Sanctions against Iran
 * Blocking sales of Iranian oil to third parties
 * Blocking the sale of key industrial components to Iran (e.g., airplane parts, chemicals for oil refineries, medical-use radioactive materials)
 * Blocking of financial transactions, and blockade of the Iranian central bank
 * Freezing of international bank accounts of key Iranian personnel


 * Prohibition on US diplomatic contact with Iran