Brian Hook is Trump and Pompeo's #Iran guy at the State Department and here's a short thread on what a shameless liar he is (just like his bosses) 1/ Hook wrote an op-ed in the @WSJ calling on the UN to maintain an arms embargo on Iran. @jarretblanc has a run down on all the BS contained within (see here:

https://twitter.com/JarrettBlanc/status/1260741368575668224

) but I want to focus on these three graphs at the end: 2/

This piece in @TheAtlantic is extraordinarily (and depressingly) kind to Mark Dubowitz and FDD and marks just another example of how those gunning for war in #ThisTown face little to no scrutiny. 1/9theatlantic.com/politics/archi… @TheAtlantic The piece is about how Iran has sanctioned FDD and Dubowitz. But it's basically a puff piece that takes Dubowitz's line almost 100% at face value. Nowhere does it mention the many times FDD staffers have called for war with Iran. 2/9thinkprogress.org/gop-megadonors…

This @nytimes piece by @ddknyt is a prime example of how mainstream US media is failing us in its coverage of the Trump-induced crisis we now find ourselves in with #Iran nytimes.com/2019/07/08/wor… 1/9 The piece purports to explain, as the headline suggests, "how the nuclear deal started to unravel." But in doing so, the piece makes many false and misleading assertions, seems to justify Trump's actions, and paints Iran in the most negative way possible. 2/9

I just listened to today's edition of the @nytimes' podcast "The Daily," entitled "John Bolton's Plan for #Iran."

It's was a total abomination. nytimes.com/2019/05/13/pod… 1/9 The episode set out to explain why we are where we are with Iran WRT to Bolton. While the reporters mention that he's gunning for regime change, not once in the entire 25 minute podcast, do they mention Bolton has been calling for war w Iran for more than 2 decades 2/9

There's been a lot of talk about the editorial independence of ThinkProgress from CAP in response to today's news. Seeing that this is a topic I happen to know quite a bit about, I will offer what I know nytimes.com/2019/04/14/us/… 1/16 I was the national security news vertical editor (which no longer exists) at TP from roughly 2011 to 2014. In late 2011/early 2012, we were smeared by the right-wing pro-Israel lobby and their allies as pro-Iran anti-Semites b/c we were writing stories ... 2/16

Nikki Haley said this today about the #IranDeal. It is false. The agreement was in fact just about nuclear weapons This is also false. Obama's goal was to block Iran from building a bomb, not end its nuclear program