Will the US attack Iran?, Reese Erlich, Sep 30, 2007
Erlich has reported from Iran and Iraq five times. Based on his first-hand reporting from the Middle East for over 20 years, Erlich explains what went wrong with the Iraq war and how the US is making similar mistakes with Iran. . He traces the troubled history between US and Iran that has led to the current showdown over nuclear technology, and he reports from Iran and northern Iraq to uncover details of how the U.S. has funded ethnic minorities to carry out guerrilla raids and terrorist bombings inside Iran. Erlich’s book The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis, has just been published.
In his previous book, the best-selling Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You, (co-authored by Norman Solomon, and with contributions from Howard Zinn and Sean Penn) Erlich presciently exposed the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or Al Qaeda ties to Saddam Hussein. He showed how the U.S. media failed to report the full spectrum of facts to the public.
He is the winner of a 2006 Peabody Award for his work as a segment producer on Crossing East: Our History, Our Stories, Our America, aired on Public Radio International. As a Celebration of Investigative Journalism, the City of Oakland Proclaims October 2, 2007 “Reese Erlich Day”