{"id":762,"date":"2007-05-24T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2012-01-28T00:52:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T00:52:58","slug":"iaea-rapport-mediaclaims-over-nucleair-iran-overdreven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/iaea-rapport-mediaclaims-over-nucleair-iran-overdreven\/","title":{"rendered":">IAEA-rapport: mediaclaims over nucleair Iran overdreven"},"content":{"rendered":"

>Net als in de aanloop naar de oorlog tegen Irak <\/a>wordt nu de “dreiging” van buurland Iran<\/a> schromelijk overdreven, door politiek en pers.<\/span> “De pers” is in dit geval <\/span>David Sanger<\/a>, van de New York Times. <\/span><\/p>\n

Die Iraanse dreiging zou gebaseerd zijn op de progressie<\/a> die het land maakt met het verrijken van uranium. Los van de vraag of je v\u00f3\u00f3r of tegen kernenergie bent, kun je je bovendien afvragen of er werkelijk sprake is van Iraanse pogingen, dan wel capaciteiten, tot het maken van kernwapens.<\/p>\n

Sean-Paul Kelley legt het nog maar eens uit, op The Huffington Post.<\/p>\n

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What is at issue here today is whether recent reports of Iranian breakthroughs in enrichment are true. Before today’s report it was pretty clear the media’s claims were not correct. The claims<\/a> had been completely debunked by experts<\/a> before the IAEA report came out. And yet the claims still managed to form the dominant media narrative, as this ABC Report reiterates:<\/a> <\/p>\n

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to confirm Iran’s rapid progress in advancing its uranium enrichment program<\/b> in a report due tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only problem is that the report confirms no such thing. What the report details and conversations with arms control experts confirm is that the Iranians have made no major breakthroughs like that claimed by David E. Sanger of the New York Times.<\/a> Furthermore, his story of May 15 was, as one expert put it, “misleading and sensationalized.” Lees verder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Herinnert u zich d\u00e9ze nog???<\/span><\/a><\/marquee><\/p>\n