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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Chain reaction: How the media has misread the IAEA's report on Iran

Chain reaction: How the media has misread the IAEA's report on Iran

When, earlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency  (IAEA) released a report on Iran's nuclear program, several media agencies and politicians walked away with two messages: that the Vienna-based agency now refutes past estimates of the US intelligence community, and that Iran is now making a break for the bomb. Both representations are false. Yet these assertions have been repeated often enough to give them traction with the public and Congress.

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