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Press TV has conducted an interview with Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, about the US President Barack Obama once again repeating threats against Iran over the country’s nuclear energy program.

- It seems that the power of Netanyahu and the Zionist lobbies in America is finally showing color. What do you make of it?

- The story that we are presenting here is one of several hoaxes that have gone through the mainstream news. In actuality, President Obama’s intention was not to pass on the information that has been reported at all.

The stories themselves originated within the AIPAC lobby, were passed on to The New York Times and The Washington Post. They are hoax. The stories themselves originate from statements made by members of the press and Netanyahu.

The president has in no way changed his commitment to improve the relations with Iran. The story, like a story we had a week ago where the Iranian President Rouhani was purposely misquoted by all of the mainstream news here as having made holocaust denial statements. That is another hoax.

Prior to that, there have been similar hoaxes in The Wall Street Journal and New York Times about no-fly zones over Syria, about America moving massive number of troops through Jordan, about attacking Syria and Iran and these have been in the American papers. They have been all false and in many cases the government has actually ordered them to resend these from their online publications.

There is no story and this is simply a case of Netanyahu showing up in Washington in time to greet his friends in the GOP and Tea Party and to enjoy his part of shutting down the US government.

It is the Israel lobby to a large extent that is responsible for this government shut down. It is not just over Obama care. This government shutdown is also to some extent over Obama’s failure to bomb Syria, his failure to follow Israel’s line on Iran as well.