{"id":2781,"date":"2006-05-23T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/iran-disinfo-campaign-heats-up\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T20:59:17","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T03:59:17","slug":"iran-disinfo-campaign-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/iran-disinfo-campaign-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Disinfo Campaign Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the headline of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1148287850178&#038;pagename=JPost\/JPArticle\/ShowFull\" target=\"_blank\">this <em>Jerusalem Post<\/em> article<\/a>: &#8220;Iran Test-Fires Long-Range Missile.&#8221; Duck and cover, Newark! Stock up on tins of tuna, Atlanta! Good-bye, Gotham!<\/p>\n<p>Now read the very first sentence:<\/p>\n<ul>Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3 <strong>intermediate-range<\/strong> ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching Israel and US targets in the region, Israel Radio reported.<\/ul>\n<p>Gee, funny how those intermediate-range missiles\u00c2\u00a0grow to long-range in an editor&#8217;s hands! Also\u00c2\u00a0note that\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.utexas.edu\/maps\/middle_east_and_asia\/iran_pol01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. targets in the region are just across Iran&#8217;s eastern and western borders<\/a>, so the good people of Charleston and Baltimore can put down the Xanax \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but not for long:<\/p>\n<ul>The Shihab test was only &#8220;partly successful,&#8221; according to news reports. The nature of the difficulties was not clear. The Iranians have been working to extend the Shihab 3&#8217;s current maximum range of 1,300 kilometers.<\/ul>\n<p>Well,\u00c2\u00a0since 1,300 kilometers is 800 miles, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/gbv3p\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;d say we&#8217;re boned by next month at the latest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some country&#8217;s partisans\u00c2\u00a0really want us to attack Iran, and I&#8217;ll give you exactly one guess which one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the headline of this Jerusalem Post article: &#8220;Iran Test-Fires Long-Range Missile.&#8221; Duck and cover, Newark! Stock up on tins of tuna, Atlanta! Good-bye, Gotham! Now read the very first sentence: Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching Israel and US targets in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}