What’s Really Behind The Doomsday Predictions Spurred By The Iran Deal?

There’s much more to this deal than two years of negotiations and the doomsday predictions coming out of Israel and Congress. The mainstream media won’t tell you about it, but MintPress will.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
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MINNEAPOLIS --- Just over three months have passed since a historic agreement was brokered between the P5+1 nations and Iran in Geneva to curb Iran’s nuclear program. And just this Sunday, President Barack Obama officially put the Iran deal into effect, marking the final step in a deal that took nearly two years to come to fruition. Yet

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Why Can Israel Have A Nuke, But Not Iran? Ask The US

With billions in military aid from the U.S. each year, it’s difficult to see what threat a nuclear Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, truly poses to Israel, a country which still won’t confirm or deny its nuclear arsenal.

Robert Fantina
By Robert Fantina
Israel's Sorek nuclear reactor center near the central Israeli town of Yavne.

KITCHENER, Ontario --- With the long-awaited agreement between Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus Germany) finally signed, it appears that Iran will continue its nuclear program for peaceful purposes, which it has always stated was its intent. This agreement was welcomed throughout most of

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How Hemp Can Clean Up Radiation From the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Hemp plants were shown to be effective in cleaning the soil around the site of Russia’s Chernobyl nuclear disaster and were even considered for use near Fukushima.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
A field of industrial hemp. With the proliferation of legalization, hemp has garnered renewed interest from both the scientific community and from industry.

The cannabis plant has myriad uses, from paper, fabric and even fuel that can be created from industrial hemp, to the many health conditions which benefit from medical marijuana. Here’s one more benefit to add to the list: removing toxic metals and even radiation from soil. The process of using plants to clean polluted soil is called

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Not The Nukes: What Israel Fears Most About An Economically Robust Iran

Mnar Muhawesh speaks with geopolitical analyst Sharmine Narwani who was present in Geneva during the Iran talks about the deal as it’s written to help clear the clogged up airwaves media pundits and politicians have filled with special interest talking points not facts that have been funded by the Israeli and Saudi lobbies.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Netanyahu is using the address to warn against trusting Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, listen. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Despite each year since 1996 of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crying wolf that Iran is just a few months away from obtaining a bomb with no mention of course of Israel’s 80 nuclear warheads, Spy cables leaked earlier this year to the Guardian revealed that Israel’s very own intelligence agency, the Mossad, and the CIA both admitted that

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Israel Arrests Nuke Whistleblower Vanunu After Giving TV Interview

Vanunu has been placed under seven days’ house arrest and barred from using the Internet after he gave an interview to privately-owned Channel 2 news station, which police say was a violation of his release terms.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
FILE - In this Dec. 29, 2009 file photo, Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, center, sits between two prison guards as he waits in a courtroom before a hearing in Jerusalem. Vanunu who spent 18 years in prison was taken into custody at a Jerusalem court Sunday, May 23, 2010 for violating the conditions of his 2004 release. Vanunu was a low-level technician at an Israeli nuclear plant who leaked details and pictures of the operation to the Sunday Times of London in 1986. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File) FILE - In this Dec. 29, 2009 file photo, Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, center, sits between two prison guards as he waits in a courtroom before a hearing in Jerusalem. Vanunu who spent 18 years in prison was taken into custody at a Jerusalem court Sunday, May 23, 2010 for violating the conditions of his 2004 release. Vanunu was a low-level technician at an Israeli nuclear plant who leaked details and pictures of the operation to the Sunday Times of London in 1986. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File) FILE - In this Dec. 29, 2009 file photo, Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, center, sits between two prison guards as he waits in a courtroom before a hearing in Jerusalem. Vanunu who spent 18 years in prison was taken into custody at a Jerusalem court Sunday, May 23, 2010 for violating the conditions of his 2004 release. Vanunu was a low-level technician at an Israeli nuclear plant who leaked details and pictures of the operation to the Sunday Times of London in 1986. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who exposed details of Israel’s secretive nuclear site in 1986, has been placed under house arrest for violating the terms of his release from prison over a decade ago. Vanunu has been placed under seven days’ house arrest and barred from using the Internet after he gave an interview

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Misleading AP Story On Iran Deal Draws Fierce Critique

Soon after publication of exclusive report, questions began to circulate about its accuracy and aim.

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton

An Associated Press exclusive report on the Iran nuclear program, published to much hoopla on Wednesday afternoon, appears to have been at best unintentionally misleading and at worst knowingly inaccurate, according to analyses of the reporting on Thursday. "Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused

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