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Patrick Cockburn

[en]Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and, currently, The Independent.

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The demonization of Iran

by Patrick Cockburn

6 December 2011

The demonization campaign against Iran has the earmarks of a prelude for a military attack by the U.S. and Israel against Iran. The propaganda is very similar to that heaped upon Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 2002. In both cases, an isolated state with limited resources is portrayed as posing a (…)