Popular Iran War Propaganda Debunked
Scott Horton is Assistant Editor at Antiwar.com and host of Anti War Radio on KAOS 95.9 FM Austin, Texas. This is an excerpt from a debate on, “Obama’s Challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons and the Fate of the Middle East” that took place at the University of California Riverside.
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