Gareth Porter

Investigative historian and journalist on the national security state; author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (2014).

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

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. https://t.co/PFO5DoLl8K

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@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.

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@SeesClarity @TrackAIPAC @joshforprogress @JoshShapiroPA Every individual in the world with the knowledge of Israeli genocidal crimes as documented in this horrific list must do his/her part to complete the task of making Israel a complele pariah state -- and to stigmatize any reponsible public officials who refuse to do so.

[Hügo Krüger @hkrugertjie]

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.

https://t.co/kjMSb5Rn2x

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@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%).

https://t.co/sZp9PkGqw4

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

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.

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@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?

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@ElRalphing Witkopft was lying. https://t.co/InizUrBW3A.

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@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. https://t.co/InizUrBW3A.

[iang @iang_fc]

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.

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@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.

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@scotthortonshow @EricBrakey Thanks, Scott, as always.

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@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.

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

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

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@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).

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

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

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

@yousef_ki1 ...

[未知の兵士 @Justfight_X]

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

https://t.co/z4YwlUeGLO

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

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.

[SO? @noor_supernova7]

telling you with a broken heart. I have been diagnosed with malnutrition due to lack of food. My body is gradually collapsing. Yes, I am hungry and I cannot buy food.

If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot . it's just a dot.

[Gareth Porter @GarethPorter]

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