Iranian Doublethink

Here is an interesting op-ed in The New York Times which demonstrates the kind of disinformation to which we are continually subjected:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/opinion/dont-let-up-on-iran.html

LIKE all Americans, we strongly hope that the Obama [ad-Dajjal] administration’s diplomatic efforts lead to the peaceful dismantling of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

"Like all Americans ..."? Don't include me; I have no such hope, nor do I need one.

"... Iran's nuclear weapons program"? Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Iraq did not have a nuclear weapons program. Israel does have a nuclear weapons program, but apparently that is not open for discussion.

What is really going on here? Is this related more to the ascendancy of "Greater Israel" or to the war between Shia and Sunni Muslims? And why should anyone in the world give a damn, other than Israelis and Saudis?

Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ’doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.

George Orwell, from Nineteen Eighty-Four