Iran set up for US proxy strike

IN his letter (August 11) suggesting that Israel had the right to attack Iran, John Fitzgerald should have quoted directly from the proverbs: “The people of Israel have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.”

Mr Fitzgerald chooses to indulge his own paranoia by basing his case on a classic example of blatant propaganda — the claim that Iran wants to ‘wipe Israel off the map’.

This claim has precisely the same status as the claim about Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’ — it is a clever piece of propaganda based on a misquote deliberately taken out of context, deliberately misinterpreted, endlessly and uncritically repeated in western media so that it becomes received ‘fact’.