About demonizing Iran

“…if you question the use of these methods of demonization of Iran, the immediate reaction from the intellectual class is that ‘you’re supporting Ahmadinejad. You’re a Holocaust denier.’ That’s a useful technique. It’s extremely important to protect the right to lie. For intellectuals particularly, that has a very high value. You must protect the right to lie in support of power. And one of the ways of doing it is by participating in the demonization of an enemy. That’s a standard.”
-Noam Chomsky
(What we say Goes, Metropolitan, 112)