Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian.

This is the first part in a series of interviews on Porter’s new bookÂ Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Topics of discussion include US support for Iran’s early nuclear program under the Shah, why Iran went to nuclear weapons proliferater A.Q. Khan for civilian uranium enrichment equipment, and the false narrative on Iran’s program as told by David Sanger and other biased commentators.

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