Especially because none of these politicians will be reading Noam Chomsky's more detailed debunking of a Washington cottage industry; the demonization of Iran.
BREAKING: Putin lifts ban on delivery of S-300 missiles to #Iran http://on.rt.com/b22yc1
AP at least removed some -- but not all - of its allegations from the original "exclusive." But damage has been done. If this had originated from media based in BRICS nations, especially Russia, China and Brazil, one can imagine the "international community" outrage. AP being exceptionalist-based, they might have thought they could get away with it. Well, they can't.
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