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Iran's Photoshopped Missiles Are "Glorified Scuds"
Ridiculous merry-go-round over fake photos and the real
facts behind Iran's non existent weapons program
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The events of the last two days surrounding the Iranian missile
tests once again highlight that the perception of any threat Iran
poses to the U.S. and even to Israel is wholly manufactured and
has been blown out of all proportion by the Western media and,
by proxy, the two presidential candidates.
Several defense analysts reiterated yesterday that
the missile test, far from being a show of strength on the part
of the Iranians was another reminder of their supreme lack of
fire power.
Mark
Fitzpatrick of the London-based International Institute
for Strategic Studies (IISS) said:
"In terms of capability, they claimed the
Shahab-3 could travel 2,000 kilometres carrying a one-tonne
warhead. This is very unlikely."
“The Shahab-3 normally has a range of 1,300 kilometres
and the range can be extended to 2,000 kilometres but it would
require a much lighter warhead."
As Pepe Escobar of the Asian
Times points out, "Experts disagree on the merits
of the Shahab-3 - a copy of the North Korean Nodong; for some
it's not that less erratic than a glorified Scud."
In a nutshell, not only does Iran not have any nuclear warheads
to fire at Israel, it doesn't even have the missiles to put them
on.
(Article continues below)
This tallies with the report of the International
Atomic Energy Agency and even the US's own National
Intelligence Estimate, seemingly now completely forgotten,
which have both declared that an Iranian weapons program does
not exist and has not existed for at least five years.
And now we come to the missiles that never were.
Despite both the Iranian state media and our own
lamestream repeaters having reported that Iran fired a barrage
of missiles over two days, defense officials have since
admitted that only one missile was fired yesterday
and seven, not nine were fired on Wednesday.
The reason one further missile was fired a day late was because
it failed on the first day, a fact that was handily photoshopped
out of photographs and replaced with a clone of one of the other
firing missiles before being released to the media (see above).
The doctored image, said to have been released to
the AFP by Sepah News, the media arm of the Iranian Revolutionary
Guards, went on to appear on the front pages of The Los Angeles
Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other
newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com
and many other major news Web sites.
AFP retracted the photo yesterday afternoon and
throughout the day, according
to the New York Times, several news sites including
LATimes.com and MSNBC.com denied knowledge of where the photograph
had originated.
Meanwhile the London
Times sat on the fence and ludicrously cut the picture
in half!! Now there's only two missiles!
This all only came to light because the blog site
little green footballs noticed the doctoring and ran
a story on it, a fact that the mainstream media ignored
altogether. The Washington Post briefly ran a piece
on the fake photo with a credit to LGF, but has since removed
the story from their website.
Several experts on photography have
now agreed that the photograph was digitally manipulated.
Who altered the photograph? who knows, but clearly
it was done in order to cover up the embarrassing fact for Iran,
and anyone who would want to continue hyping an imaginary Iranian
weapons threat, that one of their "glorified scuds"
failed.
If Iranian state authorities were responsible for
the missile fakery, then they are either incredibly stupid or
are now desperate to make it seem they have more military might
than reality has proven. Either way this does not bode well for
the rest of the world.
“I know that these missiles are part of a
threat to wipe Israel off the map, but now they've proved that
they have the Photoshop capabilities to do it.” one NY Times
commenter succinctly offers.
"Clearly someone thought four missiles would
be 33% more scary than three." another suggests.
In closing, consider the following.
Israel has recently spent the last two months conducting
huge military exercises involving more than 100 F-16
and F-15 fighter jets, openly declaring them as dry runs for a
strike on Iran, and has also openly declared war with Iran to
be "Inevitable."
Add to this the fact that Congress is considering
an
absolute blockade of the entire country of Iran,
and punishment for any country or any business group trading with
Iran.
We also have, according
to Congressman Ron Paul, members of Congress quietly
wishing to preemptively nuke Iran.
Israeli war minister Ehud Barak will visit
Washington next week to meet with top U.S. government
officials and President Bush in what some are suggesting will
be the final planning session in anticipation of a military strike
on Iran.
None of these things are considered by the controlled
media to be provocations, but a test of substandard missiles by
Iran, photoshopped to cover up it's partial failure, has made
the front pages everywhere as an impending and deadly threat.
Inevitably, the two presidential candidates have
added their own seasoning to the same bubbling caldron of bullshit.
John McCain, who earlier this week joked that rising
exports of US cigarettes is "a
good way to kill Iranians", stated that "Iran's
most recent missile tests demonstrate again the dangers it poses
to its neighbors and to the wider region, especially Israel."
He also ludicrously used Iran's missile test as a way of vindicating
the establishment of U.S. missile "defense" shields
in the Czech Republic and Poland, countries Iran couldn't hit
even if it wanted to (which would take some explaining if it decided
it did).
In fact, while McCain declared the missile test
a grave threat to Eastern Europe, the
Russians used the same event to claim the exact opposite!
MCain's presidential "opponent" Obama, repeated a call
for "coercive diplomacy" and stated "The threat
from Iran's nuclear program is real and it is grave."
The Iranian threat is so grave and real that it has to be photoshopped,
wildly exaggerated and repeatedly blown out of all proportion
by every arm of the corporate media before anyone will buy it.
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