In a recent TV ad, a van snakes its way through an American city. As
the driver fiddles with the radio dial, dire warnings about the perils
of a “nuclear Iran” spill out of the speaker from Senator
Lindsey Graham and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The driver then steers the vehicle into a parking garage, drives
to the top level, and blows it up in a blinding flash of white light.
Words shimmer across the screen: “No Iran Nuclear Treaty Without
Congressional Approval.”
While diplomats from Iran and the “P5+1″ world powers
work to forge a peaceful resolution to the decade-long standoff over
Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, a well-financed network of
“experts” — like the “American
Security Initiative” that produced the above “Special
Delivery” ad — is dedicating enormous amounts of time and energy
to weakening public support for the talks in the United States.