LIE #11: “IRAN CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A NUCLEAR WEAPON.”
“ contradict our fundamental religious and ethical convictions’ ” Jim Sciutto, Jennifer Rizzo, and Tom Cohen, “Rouhani: Nuclear Weapons Have No Place in Iran’s Security,” CNN, September 25, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/24/world/un-general-assembly-tuesday/. • “ the entire world will be safer’ ” Louis Charbonneau and Arshad Mohammed, “Kerry Says Iran, World Powers Closer Than Ever to Historic Nuclear Deal,” Reuters, April 27, 2015, http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/27/us-iran-nuclear-idUSKBN0NI0B920150427. • “engaging in ‘aggressive personal diplomacy’ with clerics” Michael R. Gordon and Jeff Zeleny, “Obama Envisions New Iran Approach,” The New York Times, November 2, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/us/politics/02obama.html?_r=1&. • “as ‘naïve’ on foreign policy” “Clinton: Obama Is ‘Naïve’ on Foreign Policy,” NBC, July 24, 2007, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19933710/ns/politics-the_debates/t/clinton-obama-naive-foreign-policy/#.VYQ9udjbJMs. • “calling for ‘a more serious, substantive’ discussion” Joby Warrick and Jason Rezaian, “Rouhani, Obama Sound Positive, but Progress Likely to Take Time,” The Washington Post, June 17, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rouhani-obama-sound-positive-but-progress-likely-to-take-time/2013/06/17/dd42d330-d793–11e2-a016–92547bf094cc_story.html. • “ based on transparency, accountability, verification’ ” Dale Armbruster, “Kerry on Iran: ‘The Deal Is What They Said It Was,’ ” NBC, April 12, 2015, http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iran-nuclear-talks/kerry-iran-deal-what-we-said-it-was-n340176. • “ should be the possibility of getting a deal’ ” James S. Robbins, “Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Fatwa Is a Myth,” World Report (blog), US News and World Report, February 18, 2015, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2015/02/18/irans-nuclear-weapons-fatwa-is-a-myth. • “no evidence of any fatwa of this sort” James S. Robbins, “Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Fatwa Is a Myth,” World Report (blog), US News and World Report, February 18, 2015, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2015/02/18/irans-nuclear-weapons-fatwa-is-a-myth. • “ amended and changed by circumstances’ ” James S. Robbins, “Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Fatwa Is a Myth,” World Report (blog), US News and World Report, February 18, 2015, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2015/02/18/irans-nuclear-weapons-fatwa-is-a-myth. • “ disrupt the dreams of America and Israel’ ” Reza Kahlili, “Islamic World Must Have Nuclear Weapons, Says Iran,” The Daily Caller, June 10, 2012, http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/10/islamic-world-must-have-nuclear-weapons-says-iran/. • “the bottom of the mural: ‘death to the USA’ ” Homa Katouzian and Hossein Shahidi, eds., Iran in the 21st Century: Politics, Economics & Conflict (New York: Routledge, 2007), 83. • “during a speech to a frenzied crowd in Iran” The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, “Amid Nuke Talks, Ayatollah Says, ‘Death to America,’ ” CNN, March 23, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/03/23/tsr-acosta-iran-ayatollah-nuke-talks.cnn. • “nuclear Iran is a far greater threat than ISIS” Louis Charbonnau and Michelle Nichols, “Israel PM Tries to Shift Focus from Islamic State to Iran at UN,” Reuters, September 29, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/30/us-un-assembly-israel-idUSKCN0HO1U220140930. • “ a thousand times more dangerous and destructive’ ” “Nuclear Iran 1,000 Times More Dangerous Than ISIS—Netanyahu,” RT News, May 28, 2015, http://rt.com/news/262309-netanyahu-isis-iran-nuclear/. • “ it was the Iranian king who saved the Jews” Robert Mackey, “In a Dance Remix of Netanyahu’s Speech, Two Words Echo: ‘Iran—Haman,’ ” The New York Times, March 6, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/world/middleeast/in-a-dance-remix-of-netanyahus-speech-two-words-echo-iran-haman.html?_r=0. • “ all of us should mobilize to kill’ ” Joshua Teitelbaum and Michael Segall, The Iranian Leadership’s Continuing Declarations of Intent to Destroy Israel (Jerusalem: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2012), 6, http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IransIntent2012b.pdf#page=6. • “ to erase Israel from the map of the region’ ” Joshua Teitelbaum and Michael Segall, The Iranian Leadership’s Continuing Declarations of Intent to Destroy Israel (Jerusalem: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2012), 6, http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IransIntent2012b.pdf#page=6. • “ Zionist regime’s death sentence’ ” Joshua Teitelbaum and Michael Segall, The Iranian Leadership’s Continuing Declarations of Intent to Destroy Israel (Jerusalem: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2012), 6, http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IransIntent2012b.pdf#page=6. • “ Israel in its entirety with a big holocaust’ ” “Senior Iranian Official Mohammad Hassan Rahimian: Our Missiles Can Cause ‘Big Holocaust’ in Israel,” The Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project, January 12, 2010, http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2342.htm. • “ not even have time to pack their suitcases’ ” “Cash: Olympics 2020 Held in Egypt and Palestine Is Free!” Daily Aftab, September 3, 2011, http://aftabnews.ir/vdcefx8zzjh8xwi.b9bj.html. • “ a cancerous tumor and it will be removed’ ” Dudi Cohen, “Khamenei: Zionist Regime Is a Cancer,” Ynetnews, February 3, 2012, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4184838,00.html. • “ no intention of going to war with Israel’ ” “Mr. Rafsanjani! So We Have Our War?” Vatan, accessed June 19,2015, http://www.magiran.com/npview.asp?ID=2720716. • “ this generation will be witness to its destruction’ ” “Representative of the Supreme Leader of the Qods Force: The Destruction of the Zionist Regime, and the Present Generation Will See the Destruction of Israel Soon,” Fars News, accessed June 19, 2015, http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13920511000792. • “ has no cure but to be annihilated’ ” Daniel Politi, “Iran’s Khamenei: No Cure for Barbaric Israel but Annihilation,” Slate, November 9, 2014, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/11/09/iran_s_khamenei_israel_must_be_annihilated.html. • “ Islamic nations awakening for your defeat’ ” “Not Safe Anywhere in Israel: Palestine Will Not Calm,” Fars News, Accessed June 19, 2015, http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13930503000516. • “ no such thing as the Zionist regime on Planet Earth’ ” “Iranian Regime Escalates Threats to Annihilate Israel,” The Middle East Media Research Institute, December 17, 2014, http://www.memri.org/report/en/print8337.htm. • “ not be quiet so long as Israel exists in it’ ” “Iranian Regime Escalates Threats to Annihilate Israel,” The Middle East Media Research Institute, December 17, 2014, http://www.memri.org/report/en/print8337.html. • “ totally deleted from the region’s geopolitics’ ” Reuters, “Iran Vows to Retaliate After Israeli Strike Kills Iranian General,” Huffington Post, January 20, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/israel-iranian-general-killed_n_6507146.html. • “destruction of Israel can bring about the end times” “The Emergence of the Middle East Should Be Changed,” Iranian Students’ News Agency, June 19, 2015, http://bit.ly/1HzJXQ0. • “ there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him’ ” Muslim ibn al-Hajjah, Sahih Muslim, Hadith 041: 6985, University of Southern California Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, accessed June 20, 2015, http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/muslim/041-smt.php#041.6985. • “ a new beginning, a rebirth and a resurrection’ ” Stoyan Zaimov, “Iranian President Ahmadinejad Tells UN Jesus Christ and ‘Ultimate Savior’ Are Coming,” The Christian Post, September 27, 2012, http://m.christianpost.com/news/iranian-president-ahmadinejad-tells-un-jesus-christ-and-ultimate-savior-are-coming-82336/. • “ prelude to the appearance of the Mahdi’ ” Miriam Karouny, “Apocalyptic Prophesies Drive Both Sides to Syrian Battle for the End of Time,” Reuters, April 1, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/01/us-syria-crisis-prophecy-insight-idUSBREA3013420140401. • “Islamic prophecy speaks of armies with ‘yellow flags’ ” Miriam Karouny, “Apocalyptic Prophesies Drive Both Sides to Syrian Battle for the End of Time,” Reuters, April 1, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/01/us-syria-crisis-prophecy-insight-idUSBREA3013420140401. • “later killed by
a car bomb” “Iran Car Explosion Kills Nuclear Scientist in Tehran,” BBC News, January 11, 2012, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-16501566. • “ depends on what you are doing in Natanz’ ” Saeed Ghasseminejad, “Iran’s Apocalyptic Policy Makers,” The Blogs: Saeed Ghasseminejad (blog), The Times of Israel, June 10, 2013, http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-military-strategy-for-apocalypse-soon/. • “ and IRGC is the instrument to do it’ ” Saeed Ghasseminejad, “Iran’s Apocalyptic Policy Makers,” The Blogs: Saeed Ghasseminejad (blog), The Times of Israel, June 10, 2013, http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-military-strategy-for-apocalypse-soon/.
LIE #12: “THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS A MODERATE, MAINSTREAM ISLAMIC GROUP.”
“ a betterment of the political order’ ” Josh Gerstein, “DNI Clapper Retreats from ‘Secular’ Claim on the Muslim Brotherhood,” Under the Radar (blog), Politico, February 10, 2011, http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0211/DNI_Clapper_Egypts_Muslim_Brotherhood_largely_secular.html. • “ Allahu-Akbar! Allahu-Akbar!’ ” Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of Muslim Brothers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969), 193–94. • “Jihadist luminaries such as Sayyid Qutb and Ayman Zawahiri” “The Muslim Brotherhood: Understanding Its Roots and Impacts,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, accessed June 20, 2015, http://www.defenddemocracy.org/the-muslim-brotherhood-understanding-its-roots-and-impact/. • “even vocal backing of the Obama administration” Arshad Mohammed, “Egypt Summons US Ambassador over Muslim Brotherhood,” Yahoo! News, June 8, 2015, http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-summons-u-ambassador-over-muslim-brotherhood-001016590.html, and Spencer Case, “How Obama Sided with the Muslim Brotherhood,” National Review, July 3, 2014, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381947/how-obama-sided-muslim-brotherhood-spencer-case. • “then Muslim Brotherhood ruler Mohammed Morsi in Cairo” Nick Meo, “US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Meets Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi in Historic First,” The Telegraph, July 14, 2014, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/9400749/US-Secretary-of-State-Hillary-Clinton-meets-Egypts-Muslim-Brotherhood-president-Mohammed-Morsi-in-historic-first.html. • “sentenced to death for his part in the uprising” Sharif Tarek, “Egypt’s Ousted President Morsi Sentenced to Death,” Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-egypt-court-sentences-morsi-to-death-20150516-story.html. • “invited Brotherhood members to his Cairo speech” Marc Ambinder, “ ‘Brotherhood’ Invited to Obama Speech by US,” The Atlantic, June 3, 2009, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/06/-brotherhood-invited-to-obama-speech-by-us/18693/. • “eighty bankers boxes’ worth of documents” Mohamed Akram, David Reaboi, and Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., An Explanatory Memorandum: From the Archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in America (Washington, D.C.: Center for Security Policy, 2013), introduction. • “ made victorious over all other religions’ ” Mohamed Akram, David Reaboi, and Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., An Explanatory Memorandum: From the Archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in America (Washington, D.C.: Center for Security Policy, 2013). • “evidence in a 2007 terrorism-financing trial” Government Exhibit 003–0085, United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al., 3:04-CR-240-G. • “ against the Zio-American arrogance and tyranny” Jeffrey Goldberg, “What the Muslim Brotherhood Stands For,” The Atlantic, January 31, 2011, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/01/what-the-muslim-brotherhood-stands-for/70502/. • “ pursues death just as the enemy pursues life’ ” “The Muslim Brotherhood: On the Record,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 4, 2011, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-muslim-brotherhood-on-the-record. • “ not through the sword but through dawa’ ” Andrew C. McCarthy, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (New York: Encounter, 2010), 84. • “pushing sharia into Western societies bit by bit” “A Short Course Part 3: ‘Civilization Jihad’—the Muslim Brotherhood’s Potent Weapon,” Sharia: The Threat to America, Center for Security Policy, accessed June 20, 2015, http://shariahthethreat.org/a-short-course-1-what-is-shariah/a-short-course-3-civilization-jihad/. • “colonizing positively the United States of America” Pamela Geller, “Tariq Ramadan Openly Calls for a Muslim Colonization of the US,” Pamela Geller: Atlas Shrugs, August 3, 2011, http://pamelageller.com/2011/08/tariq-ramadan-openly-calls-for-a-muslim-colonization-of-the-us.html/. • “among the world’s top ‘thinkers’ ” Bruce Crumley, “The 2004 Time 100: Tariq Ramadan,” Time, April 26, 2004, http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1970858_1970909_1971700,00.html. • “ most important intellectuals in the world’ ” Paul Donnelly, “Tariq Ramadan: The Muslim Martin Luther?” Salon, February 15, 2002, http://www.salon.com/2002/02/15/ramadan_2/. • “and the ‘Muslim Martin Luther’ ” Paul Donnelly, “Tariq Ramadan: The Muslim Martin Luther?” Salon, February 15, 2002, http://www.salon.com/2002/02/15/ramadan_2/. • “immense barrier in our quest for an Islamic state” Andrew C. McCarthy, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (New York: Encounter, 2010), 95. • “haranguing people who don’t dress modestly enough” David A. Graham, “Why the Muslim ‘No-Go Zone’ Myth Won’t Die,” The Atlantic, January 20, 2015, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/paris-mayor-to-sue-fox-over-no-go-zone-comments/384656/. • “ and obligatory to lie if the goal is obligatory’ ” Reliance of the Traveller, Revised Edition (Beltsville: Amana, 1988), 745. http://www.islamicbulletin.org/free_downloads/resources/reliance2_complete.pdf • “ not just for Muslims, but for all Egyptians’ ” Essam el-Errian, “What the Muslim Brothers Want,” The New York Times, February 9, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/opinion/10erian.html?_r=1. • “Coptic Christians were massacred and persecuted” Mike Giglio and Sophia Jones, “Christians Under Attack,” The Daily Beast, August 15, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/15/christians-under-attack.html. • “The Muslim Community Association (MCA), and others” “A Short Course Part 12: The Muslim Brotherhood in America,” Sharia: The Threat to America, Center for Security Policy, accessed June 21, 2015, http://shariahthethreat.org/a-short-course-1-what-is-shariah/a-short-course-12-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-america/. • “and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)” “A Short Course Part 12: The Muslim Brotherhood in America,” Sharia: The Threat to America, Center for Security Policy, accessed June 21, 2015, http://shariahthethreat.org/a-short-course-1-what-is-shariah/a-short-course-12-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-america/. • “ groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and the Muslim Brotherhood’ ” Stephen Coughlin, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (self-published and printed by CreateSpace, 2015), 18. • “ are addressed with a keen sense of urgency’ ” Stephen Coughlin, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (self-published and printed by CreateSpace, 2015), 21–22. • “deemed ‘biased, false, and highly offensive’ would be removed” Stephen Coughlin, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (self-published and printed by CreateSpace, 2015), 21–22. • “meet with the brotherhood, over the objections of congress” Stephen Coughlin, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (self-published and printed by CreateSpace, 2015), 21–22. • “Muslim 145 times, and Islam 322 times” National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004). • “Instead, they refer to ‘violent extremism’ in general” US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation: Counterterrorism Analytical Lexicon (Washington, D.C., 2009), http://cryptome.org/fbi-ct-lexicon.pdf, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence, The National Intelligence Strategy (Washington, D.C., August 2009), http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Reports%20and%20Pubs/2009_NIS.pdf.