American scholar Noam Chomsky...intellectual and political theorist of a socialist persuasion. He is noted for being so far out in left field he can't see the shortstop on every issue he pushes...
says the world does not accept the US portrayal of Iran as an "imminent threat" to global peace, and that Washington and Tel Aviv are instead seen as greater evils.
"There is little credible discussion of just what constitutes the Iranian threat, though we do have an authoritative answer, provided by US military and intelligence. Their presentations to Congress make it clear that Iran doesn't pose a military threat," Chomsky wrote in his latest article titled "What Are Iran's Intensions?" published Friday.
Chomsky added that even "the majority of Americans" recognized Iran's right to its nuclear energy program before Washington officials and media launched a "massive propaganda onslaught" against the Islamic Theocratic
Republicover the past two years.
He added that presently powerful countries like Russia, China, India, and 120 member nations of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) oppose the US policy on Iran.
"Western commentary has made much of how the Arab dictators allegedly support the US position on Iran, while ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the population opposes it-a stance too revealing to require comment," he said.
Instead, Chomsky said, "Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace," and in the Arab world he added, "Israel and the US are regarded as the pre-eminent threat."