Epstein Secrets

ime in Iran. White House officials last week were circulating a news report that Iran had pledged $5.8 billion in emergency aid to Assad's regime. Tehran and Damascus may once have pretended that they supported the Arab Spring, but no longer. If Assad falls to citizen protests, the Iranians know they

at Cambridge dinner parties where its opinions are the last word. And I've completely sworn off some of its writers. I don't believe a single word Seymour Hersh writes: His last report, I'm told, informed his readers that Iran doesn't have a nuclear device and is not close to having one, and he was informed

evice and is not close to having one, and he was informed of this by a man wearing a raincoat on a bench in Dupont Circle. (Actually, my allergy to Hersh goes back to 1968 when he quit the McCarthy campaign in New Hampshire, charging that "clean for Gene" was actually a racist.) Every time The New Y

ime in Iran. White House officials last week were circulating a news report that Iran had pledged $5.8 billion in emergency aid to Assad's regime. Tehran and Damascus may once have pretended that they supported the Arab Spring, but no longer. If Assad falls to citizen protests, the Iranians know they

at Cambridge dinner parties where its opinions are the last word. And I've completely sworn off some of its writers. I don't believe a single word Seymour Hersh writes: His last report, told, informed his readers that Iran doesn't have a nuclear device and is not close to having one, and he was informed of

evice and is not close to having one, and he was informed of this by a man wearing a raincoat on a bench in Dupont Circle. (Actually, my allergy to Hersh goes back to 1968 when he quit the McCarthy campaign in New Hampshire, charging that "clean for Gene" was actually a racist.) Every time The New Y

was suppressed through barbaric violence but its example helped kindle the Arab Spring. As Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University wrote in July, 2009: "Tehran, I believe, is ground zero of a civil rights movement that will leave no Muslim or Arab country, or even Israel, untouched." He added, "The moving pi

pid idea." He suggested his main worry was not Iran itself but Netanyahu's susceptibility to "dangerous adventure." Dagan's concerns have surfaced as Seymour Hersh concludes in a New Yorker article this month that, as he put it in one interview, "There's just no serious evidence inside that Iran is actually doin

n had halted a nuclear-weapons program in 2003 — still pertains in the classified N.I.E. of 2011. As a retired senior intelligence official put it to Hersh, there's nothing "substantially new" that "leads to a bomb." In other words, Iran, epicenter of inefficiency, unable to produce a kilowatt of electri