Institute for Science and International Security

David Albright: Congress’ Favorite Fear-Monger

By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep In America | August 5, 2015 This just in! David Albright of the Washington-based propaganda factory Institute for Science and International Security is making predictions about Iran’s nuclear program again. After years and years of his utter nonsense, how can anyone take this guy and his ridiculous analysis seriously? Here’s […]

Misread Telexes Led Analysts to See Iran Nuclear Arms Programme

By Gareth Porter | IPS | February 5, 2014

When Western intelligence agencies began in the early 1990s to intercept telexes from an Iranian university to foreign high technology firms, intelligence analysts believed they saw the first signs of military involvement in Iran’s nuclear programme. That suspicion led to U.S. intelligence assessments over the next decade that Iran was secretly pursuing nuclear weapons.