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Znet Article Porter: Understanding Iran's Diplomatic Strategy

Znet Article, April, 30 2012 Gareth Porter
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Iran has been developing nuclear capacities in order to obtain leverage in diplomatic talks with the United States

Znet Article Porter: Details of Talks with IAEA Belie Charge Iran Refused Cooperation

Znet Article, March, 22 2012 Gareth Porter
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The first detailed account of negotiations between the IAEA and Iran belies earlier statements by unnamed Western officials portraying Iran as refusing to cooperate with the IAEA

Znet Article Porter: Who Was Behind The Delhi Bombing?

Znet Article, March, 05 2012 Gareth Porter
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The bombing of an Israeli diplomat's car in India isn't consistent with Iranian or Hezbollah involvement

Znet Article Porter: Dempsey Told Israelis U.S. Won't Join Their War on Iran

Znet Article, February, 04 2012 Gareth Porter
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Obama still appears reluctant to break publicly and explicitly with Israel over its threat of military aggression against Iran

Znet Article Porter: Clinton Revives Dubious Charge of "Covert" Iranian Nuclear Site

Znet Article, January, 14 2012 Gareth Porter
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Clinton's charges were part of a coordinated U.S.-British attack on Iran's enrichment at Fordow

Znet Article Porter: Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack

Znet Article, January, 05 2012 Gareth Porter
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The new Israeli "red line" would place the timing of an Israeli decision on whether to strike Iran right in the middle of the U.S. presidential election campaign

Znet Article Porter: ISAF Data Show Night Raids Killed over 1,500 Afghan Civilians

Znet Article, November, 09 2011 Gareth Porter
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U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed well over 1,500 civilians in night raids in less than 10 months in 2010 and early 2011

Znet Article Porter: U.S. May Have Concealed Deterrent Aim of Iranian Plan

Znet Article, October, 22 2011 Gareth Porter
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There is not a single quote from any of that series of meetings between late June and mid-July in which Arbabsiar explains the nature and purpose of those missions

Znet Article Porter: FBI Account of "Terror Plot" Suggests Sting Operation

Znet Article, October, 16 2011 Gareth Porter
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The idea originated with and was strongly pushed by a undercover DEA informant, at the direction of the FBI

Znet Article Porter: The Motive for Terrorism That Officials Dare Not Acknowledge

Znet Article, September, 16 2011 Gareth Porter
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America’s continuing wars actually increase the risk of terrorism against the United States

Znet Article Porter: Why Pakistani Military Demands a Veto on Drone Strikes

Znet Article, August, 19 2011 Gareth Porter
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Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets U.S. drone strikes hit

Znet Article Porter: Ex-PM Says Taliban Offer Talks For Pullout Date

Znet Article, July, 31 2011 Gareth Porter
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The Taliban leadership is ready to negotiate peace with the United States right now if Washington indicates its willingness to provide a timetable for complete withdrawal,

Znet Article Porter: Obama Endorses Long-Term US Deployment of US Combat Troops

Znet Article, June, 27 2011 Gareth Porter
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The Obama decision gives Petraeus the first full season with all or almost all of the troops he had wanted

Znet Article Porter: Why Washington Clings To A Failed Middle East Strategy

Znet Article, February, 04 2011 Gareth Porter
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The death throes of the Mubarak regime in Egypt signal a new level of crisis for a U.S. Middle East strategy that has shown itself over and over again in recent years to be based on nothing more than the illusion of power.

Znet Article Porter: US Stepping Up Pressure on Pakistan

Znet Article, December, 26 2010 Gareth Porter
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This week's leak to the New York Times of a proposal for U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids against Afghan insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan may be intended to put more pressure on the Pakistani military to take action against those sanctu...

Znet Article Porter: Intel Failure in Yemen

Znet Article, November, 16 2010 Gareth Porter
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The drone war that has been anticipated in Yemen for the last few months has been delayed by the failure of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to generate usable intelligence on al Qaeda there.

Znet Article Porter: Blowback in Kandahar

Znet Article, September, 18 2010 Gareth Porter
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During a round of media interviews last month, Gen. David Petraeus released totals for the alleged results of nearly 3,000 "night raids" by Special Operations Forces (SOF) units over the 90 days from May through July: 365 "insurgent leaders" kille...

Znet Article Porter: Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq

Znet Article, August, 05 2010 Gareth Porter
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Seventeen months after president Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sep. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011.

Znet Article Porter: Zombie Neocon Strategy Behind Israel's "Bomb Iran" Campaign

Znet Article, August, 02 2010 Gareth Porter
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Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack.

Znet Article Porter: Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Program

Znet Article, July, 20 2010 Gareth Porter
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Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear w...

Znet Article Porter: Switch to Petraeus Betrays Afghan Policy Crisis

Znet Article, June, 25 2010 Gareth Porter
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Despite President Barack Obama's denial that his decision to fire Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan and replace him with Gen. David Petraeus signified any differences with McChrystal over war strategy, the decision obviously r...

Znet Article Porter: McChrystal Faces "Iraq 2006 Moment" in Coming Months

Znet Article, June, 14 2010 Gareth Porter
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Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal confronts the spectre of a collapse of U.S. political support for the war in Afghanistan in coming months comparable to the one that occurred in the Iraq War in late 2006.

Znet Article Porter: Fuel Swap Shakes Sanctions Draft, Prods U.S. on New Iran Talks

Znet Article, May, 31 2010 Gareth Porter
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Although the Barack Obama administration continued to dismiss the May 17 Iranian fuel swap agreement Friday, there are indications that Iran's move has shaken the agreement among U.N. Security Council members on sanctions, and is bringing Russian ...

Znet Article Porter: US Says Only Reason for Talks With Iran Is Enrichment Halt

Znet Article, May, 22 2010 Gareth Porter
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The agreement on draft Security Council resolution sanctions against Iran has grabbed the headlines on the Barack Obama administration's response to Iran's nuclear swap proposal brokered by Turkey and Brazil. But the more consequential response is...

Znet Article Porter: Pentagon Doubts Grow on McChrystal War Plan

Znet Article, May, 13 2010 Gareth Porter
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Although Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's plan for wresting the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar from the Taliban is still in its early stages of implementation, there are already signs that setbacks and obstacles it has encountered have raise...

Znet Article Porter: US Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack Threat

Znet Article, April, 25 2010 Gareth Porter
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The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nucl...

Znet Article Porter: Two-Thirds of Boys in Afghan Jails Are Brutalised, Study Finds

Znet Article, April, 05 2010 Gareth Porter
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Nearly two of every three male juveniles arrested in Afghanistan are physically abused, according to a study based on interviews with 40 percent of all those now incarcerated in the country's juvenile justice system.

Znet Article Porter: Jailed Taliban Leader Still a Pakistani Asset

Znet Article, February, 20 2010 Gareth Porter
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Contrary to initial U.S. suggestions that it signals reduced Pakistani support for the Taliban, the detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the operational leader of the Afghan Taliban, represents a shift by Pakistan to more open support for the ...

Znet Article Porter: Taliban Regime Pressed bin Laden on Anti-US Terror

Znet Article, February, 13 2010 Gareth Porter
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Evidence now available from various sources, including recently declassified U.S. State Department documents, shows that the Taliban regime led by Mullah Mohammad Omar imposed strict isolation on Osama bin Laden after 1998 to prevent him from carr...

Znet Article Porter: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story

Znet Article, January, 06 2010 Gareth Porter
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New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian...

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