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I'm Adam Johnson.

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is incredibly appreciated. We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full-length

episodes of citations needed. And with the ongoing war crimes committed by the United States

and Israel against Iran and the ongoing retaliatory attacks by Iran, there's a lot of stuff that

we can talk about, of course. But Adam, something we have discussed you and I for years now,

something we have both written about for many, many years. I will age myself a bit here,

certainly for over a decade and a half in my case, is the idea

that Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the world, we hear a lot, but certainly,

specifically to Israel and possibly the United States or European allies, yada,

yada, yada. But here's the thing. The premise that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program,

let alone an arsenal of nuclear weapons, is actually a foundational propaganda point

that has been made repeatedly for years and years and years. This is beyond the standard of maybe they'll get a weapon at some time in the future, which is another standard propaganda point. But Adam, we really wanted to talk about the scope of these allegations, the scope of this kind of fundamental belief system

that is repeated without any kind of critique, any kind of skepticism in the media,

and of course in political speech over and over and over again. And you have recently

written about it yet again as it pertains to the current moment during this conflict.

Yeah, so I wrote a piece for The Real News based on a new poll that came out.

It actually was commissioned back in February, but hadn't been published yet.

Through some contacts of mine, I reached out to the firm that had done it, Rethink Media, which used UGov, to poll this

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