'Most in Arab world want nuclear Iran'

This article is terribly misleading.

Firstly it gives the impression that most of the arab world want a nuclear iran.
>> Most in Arab world want nuclear Iran'
>> "A new opinion poll finds that most people in the Arab world favor nuclear Iran amid growing distrust about the US government's policies in the Middle East.

Then it says the majority:
>> According to the latest annual poll by the Washington-based Brookings Institution, "a majority of the Arab public now see a nuclear Iran as being better for the Middle East."

Then we actually find out the truth of the poll and realise it is actually just above 1/2
>> In 2010, 57% of those polled indicate that such an outcome would be positive for the Middle East," the pollster published on its website.


How the fuck did 57% become "most"
Inaccurate, misleading, propaganda, treating the readers like they are thick, bullshit.
I might as well be reading the Daily Mail. At least that is vaguely true.
Disappointed. Why is every other article on indymedia a load of misleading bullshit

More proof if proof were needed that these anti-nuclear "activists" are actually Islamophobes, actually. It will later be found out that all the leading lights of the present day antinuclear "movement" are working for the CIA.

Ahmadinejad: 9/11 death toll was exaggerated
Iranian President says no Zionists were killed in the World Trade Center because 'one day earlier they were told not go to their workplace.'
By Reuters

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were exaggerated in a fresh broadside at the United States just days after U.S. President Barack Obama voiced willingness to talk to Iran.

Well-known for his anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric, the hardline populist Ahmadinejad also repeated his denial of the Holocaust, on which the consensus of historians is that six million Jews were exterminated by Nazi Germany.

Ahmadinejad said the Sept. 11 attacks with hijacked airliners on New York and Washington D.C. had been trumped up as an excuse for the United States to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

Speaking at a Tehran conference, Ahmadinejad said there was no evidence that the death toll at New York's World Trade Center, destroyed in the attacks, was as high as reported and said "Zionists" had been tipped off in advance.

"What was the story of Sept. 11? During five to six days, and with the aid of the media, they created and prepared public opinion so that everyone considered an attack on Afghanistan and Iraq as (their) right," he said in a televised speech.

No "Zionists" were killed in the World Trade Center, according to Ahmadinejad, because "one day earlier they were told not go to their workplace".

"They announced that 3,000 people were killed in this incident, but there were no reports that reveal their names. Maybe you saw that, but I did not," he told a gathering of the Iranian news media.

There is a published list of Sept. 11 dead from more than 90 countries available online.

A total of 2,995 people were killed in the attacks, including 19 hijackers and all passengers and crew aboard four commandeered airliners, according to official U.S. figures. The United States blamed the assaults on al Qaida, led by Saudi-born Sunni Muslim fundamentalist Osama Bin Laden.

Ahmadinejad accused the U.S. government of exercising more media censorship than anywhere in the world.

He had previously said the "9-11" attacks were a "big fabrication" and has rejected the historical record of the Holocaust. On Saturday, Ahmadinejad repeated his belief that the Holocaust had been invented to justify the creation of Israel.

"They made up an event, the so-called Holocaust which was later laid as the basis for the innocence of a group," he said.

Ahmadinejad last week challenged Obama to a televised debate on global issues during his trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September.

Two years ago he asked to visit the site of the World Trade Center "to pay his respects" but New York police refused.

Washington succeeded in June in getting a fourth round of UN Security Council sanctions imposed on Iran to pressure it to suspend its disputed nuclear program.

Tougher U.S. and European measures have further tightened restrictions on doing business with the major OPEC country.

Obama signaled on Thursday he was open to talks with the Islamic Republic and was seeking "a clear set of steps that we would consider sufficient to show that they are not pursuing nuclear weapons".
Ahmadinejad has said he is prepared to return to international talks, which were last held in October, but insists that Iran has the sovereign right to enrich uranium.

Western powers fear the Islamic Republic aims to stockpile the material for possible use, when more highly enriched, in nuclear weapons, and UN nuclear inspectors cite indications that Iran is researching how to build a nuclear-tipped missile.

Tehran says it is refining uranium only for electricity and medical treatments.

Israel considers the combination of Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial and his pursuit of nuclear technology a potential threat to its existence and has said it does not rule out military action to prevent Iran developing atomic bombs.

A Washington-based think-tank with access to intelligence said on Friday Iran had begun using recently installed equipment to enrich uranium more efficiently, a step it said could be justified nominally on civilian grounds but in fact made more sense in the context of learning how to make bomb-grade uranium.

What? A Washington based institution creates a justification for fearing/attacking Iran, by using the most easily abused form of research? What a staggering coincidence, that the poll's findings justify Washington's already established foreign policy. I can hardly believe it!

Cynical idiot.

from the archives:


 http://www.2020visioncampaign.org/pages/319


excerpt from: European mayors want withdrawal of US nukes from their territory marking INF 20th anniversary

2020 Vision Campaign website, 6 December 2007


“While our public is regularly provided alarming media reports of nuclear dangers in Iraq, North Korea or Iran, what is supposed to be a well-informed western audience is living in ignorance of the destructive power of thousands of potential Hiroshimas stored in their backyards.”


[excerpt from the Mayors for Peace petition launched on 6 December 2007 by European Mayors on whose territory US nuclear weapons are deployed, namely:

Stefano Del Cont (Aviano, ITALY), Anna Giulia Guarneri (Ghedi, ITALY),
Theo Kelchtermans (Peer, BELGIUM), Dr. Joke W. Kersten (Uden, NETHERLANDS), Heinz Onnertz (Buechel, GERMANY) and Vedat Karadag (Incirlik, TURKEY) ]

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US Nuclear Weapons in Europe 2008:

Turkey Incirlik 50-90
Belgium Kleine Brogel 10-20
Germany Büchel 10-20
Holland Volkel 10-20
Italy Aviano 50
Ghedi Torre 20-40

(150-240 in total)


source: Hans Kristensen, “U.S. Nuclear Weapons Withdrawn From the United
Kingdom”,

Federation of American Scientists, 26 June 2008

 http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/_images/EuroNukes.pdf

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Percentage of population desiring Europe to be free of US nuclear weapons:


88.1% in Turkey
71.5% in Italy
70.5% in Germany
64.6% in Belgium
63.3% in Netherlands


source: Hans Kristensen, “US Nuclear Weapons in Europe: A Review of Post-
Cold War Policy, Force Levels, and War Planning”,

Natural Resources Defense Council, February 2005

 http://www.cnduk.org/pages/binfo/nato2005.pdf

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Sheep voting for Eid Al_Adha, I guess.

Most Arabs have an immense distrust of Iran. Historically Arabs and Persians have never gotten along. Even in modern times there is the very real split between the largely Sunni Arabs and Shia Iranians.

I doubt that many Arabs would go within 10 feet of supporting anything for Iran. Sorry that's just how it is back home.