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On Tuesday, all three network morning shows worked to discredit and dismiss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Monday presentation detailing Iran’s deception about its nuclear weapons program prior to the 2015 international deal to prevent that program’s progress. While secret Iranian files obtained by Israel clearly demonstrated that the authoritarian regime lacked any credibility on the issue, anchors and correspondents made Netanyahu the target instead.
Reporting for NBC’s Today show, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell threw cold water on the revelations: “Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu documenting Iran’s past nuclear program and claiming Iran remains a nuclear threat....Evidence he says that Iran once was trying to build a nuclear weapon....But no smoking gun that Iran still has a nuclear weapons program today.”