Scott Horton: evaluation

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…That’s not the topic here. I’m citing provocations. That doesn’t mean I’m saying that everything that happens in the world is only an equal and opposite reaction to an American provocation, and you can’t find me saying that. You can only somehow try to paraphrase me claiming that somehow or something like that. But that’s what’s at issue is as I said, for example, there’s the Reuters story that says that after Israel did the sabotage, which they bragged about at Natanz in April of ’21, that was when they started enriching up to 60%. now I’m saying that, and I’m just denying the agency of the Iranians or anything except that, no, I’m not. I’m just citing the Reuters news agency saying that this proactive action by Israel caused a negative reaction by your own lights, a very negative reaction in their beginning to again enrich up to 60% uranium. That means I’m just spinning for the Ayatollah or I believe that no one ever does anything except in reaction to Israel and America, except that I’m just citing specific examples of where that’s exactly the case. Donald Trump withdrew from the deal. He could have stayed in the deal and tried hard to make it better. He didn’t. He did try.…

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