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Gareth Porter

  • Independent Investigative Journalist, Freelance
Arlington
As seen in: Wiley Online Library, Al Jazeera English, The Hill, Salon, Foreign Policy Magazine, Haaretz, New York Review of Books, The Nation, Common Dreams, Truthout and
Covers:  us relations with pakistan, iran nuclear, war in afghanistan, u.s. policy toward syria, us-iran diplomacy, us national security policy, us intelligence
Doesn't Cover: issues, security, other, than, national
Investigative historian and journalist on the national security state; author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (2014).

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Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and historian who writes on national security issues. He has contributed regularly to Inter Press Service since early 2005 on US policy toward and relations with Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan and Syria. He received the Gellhorn Prize for journalism in 2012 for his coverage of the war in Afghanistan. Porter was Saigon Bureau Chief for Dispatch News Service in 1971 while working on his Ph.D dissertation. He is the author of sever…

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Gareth Porter Gets Into the Primordial Ooze of Iran Nuclear Scare

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By Kelley Vlahos Verified, Gareth Porter
| Antiwar.com
I’m lucky that veteran investigative journalist Gareth Porter decided to take a break from his latest project on the Cold War to talk about how his 2014 book, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iranian Nuclear Scare has come full circle, unfortunately, in Donald Trump’s war on Iran today.
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What is fueling unrest across the EU?

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By Gareth Porter
| alethonews.com
What is fueling unrest across the EU? RT | April 10, 2026 The EU is sliding into a fuel crisis driven by a global supply shock caused by the US-Israeli attack on Iran. It has already triggered protests, early signs of shortages, and warnings of the wider economic impact. This has resulted from the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical route for global energy shipments.
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Why no power can undermine Iran’s eternal dominance over the Strait of Hormuz

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By Mohammad Reza Molaei, Gareth Porter
| alethonews.com
Why no power can undermine Iran’s eternal dominance over the Strait of Hormuz By Mohammad Molaei | Press TV | April 10, 2026 The Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway nestled between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, is not merely a geographical passageway or a shipping lane on the world map to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Bureau Chief in Saigon for Dispatch News Service in 1971

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Because I realized that connecting the dots and revealing stories that were not obvious or actually hidden is what I do best.
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