After visiting Iran on September, Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector in Iraq in the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), said in a radio interview that contrary to what American and western media are advocating Iran is not a dictatorship but a very modern and pro-Western nation.
Ritter told Democracy Now radio in the US on Monday 16 October that he has been to dictatorships in the Middle East, he has been to nations that have a high security profile but Iran is not one of these nations.
"I'm a former intelligence officer who has stated some pretty strong positions on Iran, and yet I had full freedom of movement in Iran with no interference whatsoever," he added.
Ritter was able to do his agenda in Iran and interview senior government officials, senior military officials, senior intelligence officials, and to visit sites that were deemed sensitive.
He concluded from this visit that, "the American media has gotten it wrong on Iran. It's a very modern, westernized, pro-Western, and surprisingly pro-American country that does not constitute a threat to the United States whatsoever."
In this interview he gave a full account of his argument that what the Bush administration is thinking of about Iran is a regime change only and nothing else. He argued that "The path that the United States is currently embarked on regarding Iran is a path that will inevitably lead to war. Such a course of action will make even the historical mistake we made in Iraq pale by comparison."...
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