Gareth Porter Unveils 'Manufactured Crisis' in Tehran

Kayhan Int’l Political Desk TEHRAN - The launching ceremony of the Persian version of “Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare” is being held in Tehran on Saturday in the presence of its award-winning writer Gareth Porter, as well as top Iranian MPs, officials, and political experts.

Date: 26 September 2014 - 21:09

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The releasing ceremony of the Persian edition of the book, which traces the true history of Iran's nuclear program, as well as how and by whom the official narrative was constructed, is being held at the venue of Fars News Agency's central office.
Gareth Porter is a leading American journalist, historian, anti-war activist and correspondent of the Vietnam War. Porter’s writings have appeared on such publications as The Nation, Inter Press Service, The Huffington Post, Truthout, Al-Jazeera, Press TV, Antiwar.com and Common Dreams. Porter is the 2012 winner of Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, which is awarded annually to a journalist who exposes media propaganda.
His new book discloses the unseen and masked truths behind the decade-long standoff over Iran’s nuclear program. In this book, Porter endeavors to reveal the destructive role Israel has played in the exacerbation of Iran’s relations with the West over the former’s nuclear activities. Porter maintains that Iran’s nuclear program is completely legal and regularly inspected, abused by the United States and Israel as a pretext for pressuring Iran.
In a special introduction to the Persian edition of the book, Porter wrote: "The United States and its allies have chosen to make accusations of pursuit of nuclear weapons against the one state in the world that is based on a system of Shia jurisprudence that has forbidden for decades all weapons of mass destruction in place on religious grounds.
"The seriousness of the Iranian jurisprudential prohibition on such weapons was proven by the remarkable story outlined in the book of how Iran was unable to retaliate against the chemical weapons attacks of Iraq in the imposed war of 1980’s, because of Imam Khomeini’s fatwa (religious declaration) against chemical weapons. It was that fundamental historical fact that convinced me that Iran has indeed abjured the option of nuclear weapons development, as it has always maintained.”