Interview With Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh

Interview With Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh: “The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing“
By Charles Hawley and David Gordon Smith
Der Spiegel, 28/09/07

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has consistently led the way in telling the story of what’s really going on in Iraq and Iran. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to him about America’s Hitler, Bush’s Vietnam, and how the US press failed the First Amendment.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was just in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Once again, he said that he is only interested in civilian nuclear power instead of atomic weapons. How much does the West really know about the nuclear program in Iran?

Seymour Hersh: A lot. And it’s been underestimated how much the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) knows. If you follow what (IAEA head Mohamed) ElBaradei and the various reports have been saying, the Iranians have claimed to be enriching uranium to higher than a 4 percent purity, which is the amount you need to run a peaceful nuclear reactor. But the IAEA’s best guess is that they are at 3.67 percent or something. The Iranians are not even doing what they claim to be doing. The IAEA has been saying all along that they’ve been making progress but basically, Iran is nowhere. Of course the US and Israel are going to say you have to look at the worst case scenario, but there isn’t enough evidence to justify a bombing raid.

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Seymour Hersh, Iran, dan Serangan Nuklir

Seymour Hersh, Iran, dan Serangan Nuklir
Oleh: Wawan Kurniawan
Pendiri Kajian Internasional Strategis (KAINSA)

“Everyone wants to go to Baghdad, real men want to go to Tehran” (Newsweek, 19/08/02).

Beberapa hari kemarin ini, pemerintahan Bush menyibukkan diri menangkis laporan bahwa Amerika Serikat (AS) sedang mempersiapkan kekuatan militernya untuk menyerang Iran. Tidak cukup bantahan resmi dari juru bicara pemerintah, samapai-sampai Bush sendiri yang memberikan komentar saat berbicara di Universitas John Hopkins, New York (BBC, 10/04/06).

Laporan yang ditulis Seymour H Hersh dengan judul “The Iran Plans: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb” dan dipublikasikan oleh majalah New Yorker edisi 17 April itu mengemukakan rencana serangan AS ke Iran.

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