The US intelligence report saying that Iran had halted a nuclear weapons programme in 2003 will make it much more difficult for the Bush administration to mobilise support for its anti-Iran hysteria. We are likely to see a battle between the Vice President Cheney and the intelligence agencies, says Phyllis Bennis in this radio interview.
Phyllis Bennis is an American writer, activist, and political commentator. She is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Her work concerns US foreign policy issues, particularly involving the Middle East and United Nations (UN). In 2001, she helped found the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace as well as the board of the Afro-Middle East Center in Johannesburg. She works with many anti-war and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the U.S. and around the world.
