pulitzer prize winner and legendary american investigative journalist seymour hersh is bust known for exposing the my lai massacre in vietnam and since then his investigations have continued to shake up washington from uncovering torture at abu grab to exposing secret u.s. military operations overseas to his latest piece which pokes holes in a commonly held assertion here in washington that iran is developing a nuclear weapons program mr hurst is down with r.t. to discuss his latest story in the new yorker magazine here he says the obama administration of allowing fear and not facts dictate a potentially disastrous foreign policy towards iran mr hersh thank you so much for sitting down with us based on your investigation is the united states wrong to assume the worst when it comes to iran if the fear is based on the notion that you know that some our iran has a bomb or is going to get a bomb soon that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have it from their own intelligence community and. the people of the property very good but you know there's no weapons there we've known

israeli officials about tehran's quest for the nuclear bomb pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh says the obama administration is actually exaggerating the iranian threat not to mention ignoring its own intelligence because latest piece a new yorker magazine has sent shock waves throughout washington and he sat down with me and r.t. to discuss what's behind the hype on iran there is based on the notion that you know that somehow iran has a bomb or is going to get a bomb soon that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have from their own intelligence community the the the people in the top of the bad government know there's no weapons there we've known that for years we've been looking for years after years after years we support the sanctions program that's designed to stop the punishment is. aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something you know we know they're not doing for me and as i wrote in the article the analogy between what they're doing with obama's doing with iran is very close to what bush and cheney device president then did to iraq no evidence of tha

the nuclear bomb are just hype that's at least according to pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh who says that the obama administration is exaggerating the iranian threat and in fact include nor in its own intelligence take a look based on the notion that you know that some iran has a bomb or is going to get a bomb soon that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have is from their own intelligence community. that the people who talk with the very government know there's no weapons there we've known that for years we've been looking for years after years after years we support the sanctions program that's designed to stop the punishment is it's aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something you know we know they're not doing for me and as i wrote in the article they analogy between what they're doing with obama's doing with iran is very close to what goshen dick cheney the vice president then did to iraq no evidence about weaponization there's no evidence anywhere i went you go to london you go to you go to you go to the french you go to the germans they all say the

president obama's politics towards iran and those of george bush's moves in iraq award winning writer seymour hersh has been following developments for years later he tells us here at r.t. why it can only lead to a dead. fear is based on the notion that you know that he has a bomb or is going to get a bomb soon that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have it from their own intelligence community. the people who probably know there's no weapons there we've known that for years we've been looking for years after years after years we support a sanctions program that's designed to stop the punishment is. aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something we know we know they're not doing for me and they wrote miracle the analogy between what they're doing with obama's doing with iran is very close to what bush and cheney the vice president and then did to iraq there is a lot of the punish they wanted to make a case against iraq they didn't like the politics. and so we made a case about nuclear weapons. so i don't i'm just turning twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital in