[Peace-discuss] More to fear from US & Israel than Iran

[C. G. Estabrook]

[It's typical of US media that the following account is from the Iranian news 
service.  AFAIK from Google, no US media covered Chomsky's talk. --CGE]


	Chomsky: More to fear from US, Israel than Iran
	Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:12:22 GMT

Top American intellectual Noam Chomsky says that the general public should fear 
more from the US and Israel than Iran.

During a lecture entitled "Obama, the Middle East and the Prospects of Peace" 
delivered at Boston University on Tuesday, the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology professor stressed that Iran is acting within the framework of the 
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

"All states [must] resolve their conflicts within the framework of the 
Non-Proliferation Treaty," he said.

"Who was that resolution directed at? Nothing in the resolution relates to Iran. 
Iran is not threatening the use of force, and as far as anyone knows, they are 
staying within the bounds of the treaty," Chomsky added.

He said people may have more to fear from the two countries that the American 
public would not typically associate with terrorism.

"The resolution is actually directed at the two states that consistently and 
regularly do resort to force and the threat of force, namely the United States 
and Israel," he said.

"Those are the countries that carry out aggression regularly and repeatedly, 
that invade other countries, occupy other countries, invoke terror and violence 
and they're unique in that respect," Chomsky added.

He stated that the US government and its media have propagated exaggerated 
reports about Iran's nuclear program.

"There has been a massive propaganda campaign that demonizes Iran, that portrays 
it as a major threat to world peace that has been going on for the past three 
years," Chomsky said.