by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

11/22/04

A three-pronged propaganda campaign is now underway to justify a preemptive military strike -- either by the U.S., or Israel -- against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons facilities. It just so happened that, on the very day Powell blurted out his accusation against Iran, a Paris-based Iranian exile group, the 'National Council of Resistance,' held a widely-publicized press conference stating that Iran is continuing to enrich uranium -- and claiming that, sometime in the mid-1990s, Tehran acquired a bomb blueprint from Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. ... But what they don't tell you about the 'National Council of Resistance,' except for alluding to its dubious record of intelligence-gathering, is that it is a front for one of the all-time weirdest cults in existence, which embraces a bizarre combination of neo-Maoist Marxist-Leninism and neo-conservative foreign policy prescriptions...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4031


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp