Bogus Iran story was product of Pentagon spokesman, reporter says
Posted by Anders den januar 16, 2008
John Byrne, RAW STORY, Bogus Iran story was product of Pentagon spokesman, reporter says
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An American journalist and historian who was the first to break the story of a secret Iranian peace overture to the Bush Administration in 2006 alleges that the latest Pentagon encounter between Iranian ships and a Navy vessel was a deliberate fabrication.
The incident, on Jan. 5 in Strait of Hormuz off the Iranian coast, was originally described as a non-event — then quickly became one in which Iranian boats threatened to “explode” American ships.
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