Iran Apparently in Possession of Photoshop

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002709.html



Looks as though Iran has used smoke and mirrors, adding a fourth missile to look its best in the photo at left. (Sepah News Via Associated Press)

By Al Kamen
Friday, July 11, 2008; Page A15

It's customary for nations to do a bit of chest-thumping as they are about to begin negotiations, which Iran has agreed to consider in a meeting next week with European Union official Javier Solana. The idea is to do something that your opponents will see as a sign of strength before talks begin, especially, in this case, when the talks involve your nuclear program.

This might explain the timing of Iran's latest missile tests Wednesday. It might also explain what appears to be a bit of Photoshop work by Tehran to ensure the images were just so.

A photo on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Web site distributed Wednesday by Agence France-Presse showed four missiles launched simultaneously. That photo appeared on various Web sites Wednesday, including those of the New York Times and BBC News, and on the front pages of a number of newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.

more at link....

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Pinheads

Did they really think it wouldn't be noticed?

[Esra Star]

2. In today's digital world photos mean way less than they did

in the previous millenium.

My guess is that all the tests were done separately. That would be the smart way to conduct tests.
The testosterone thing is just becoming tedious.

[Daveparts]

3. The Source

for this story is the US defense department and the CIA and they would never lie would they? It's just as easy to airbrush one out as to add one in to undermine Iran's credibility and allay the worlds fear of Iranian retaliation in response to unprovoked attack.

Look at the motivations, who has reason to lie? What do the Iranians gain by adding one missile to the picture? Sound familiar? Remember North Korea's nuclear test, western experts weren't sure how successful it was.Hand grenades and nuclear weapons either they work or they don't. Remember the babies thrown from incubators in Kuwait story? Or Saddam gassing his own people, when the real story was US supplied satellite photos showed Iranian troops occupying the Iraqi town but the troops had withdrawn and the villagers had returned.

Not premeditated genocide but a friendly fire incident just like the ones the US exempts themselves from every day.

Three rules for testing a stories validity, who benefits from it?

Did the military report it? Is it repeated in the same newspapers that published the same kind of stories in the run up to the Iraq war?