Update: AP Issues Clarification
Chalk up another win for media accountability. Thanks to everyone who took action at IranFact.org to call out the Associated Press for its misleading article, “Graph Suggests Iran Working on a Bomb,” we once again succeeded in stopping the pro-Iran war narrative in its tracks. Less than 24 hours after we issued our action alert demanding...
Distorting the Facts to Sell War and Sanctions in Wall Street Journal
Today, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) that promotes an outright distortion of the facts in order to argue for more crippling sanctions and potential military strikes on Iran. The authors–Reul Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz–claim that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspects...
Netanyahu Takes Cheney’s Seat at Meet the Press
By Robert Naiman and Jamal Abdi If you happened to catch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Meet the Press this past Sunday, you may have thought you were watching a rerun from ten years ago. After all, it was September 2002–almost a decade ago to the day–that Dick Cheney went on Meet the Press to sell Americans a...
