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May 16, 2005
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Iranian TV: Jewish Lobby Set the Watergate Trap for Nixon

#689 | 01:28
Source: IRINN TV (Iran)

The following are excerpts from a news story entitled "The untold story of the Watergate affair", which aired on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on May 16, 2005.

Reporter:Today, it has become clear that Nixon's dispute with Israel and the Zionist lobby was among the main causes for his downfall. In fact, the reporters who exposed the Watergate affair and blew it out of proportion were Zionists, recruited to the ranks of the Zionist lobby. By using the media as its tool, Zionism tried to get one of its main opponents out of the way.

Nixon wrote in his memoirs: "One of the main problems I had to face was the narrow mindedness and the pro-Israeli views."

Nixon wrote: "In the 25 years since the end of World War II, these views spread and grew stronger to the point that many people consider refraining from supporting Israel to be anti-Semitism. I tried to make them understand that this is not true, but did not succeed."

Indeed, Nixon did not succeed. Along with Kennedy, he is considered a victim of a major political coup carried out by the Zionist lobby.

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