<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>***** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *****</div><div><br></div><div> KMEC Radio returns on Monday, April 13, at 1 p.m., Pacific Time, with hosts Sid and John, and guest, Reese Erlich, to talk about Iran.</div><div><br></div><div> We'll schedule Gareth Porter for a future show.</div><div><br></div><div> KMEC Radio, your community radio, airs at 105.1 FM in Ukiah, CA. We also stream live from the web at <a href="http://www.kmecradio.org" target="_blank">www.kmecradio.org</a></div><div><br></div><div> Our shows are archived. Shows are also featured at Youtube and will be available as podcasts. In the future, shows will also be posted the Public Radio Exchange and Radio4All.</div><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6453345188"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div class="yiv6453345188yqt4250953620" id="yiv6453345188yqtfd19610"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><br clear="none"></div><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">IRAN DEAL MYTH: SANCTIONS<br></span></strong><div><br clear="none"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;"> Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif -- in a clear rebuff to U.S. government officials' claims about when sanctions would be lifted on Iran -- has tweeted the following since the nuclear agreement was announced <span class="yiv6453345188aBn"><span class="yiv6453345188aQJ">on Thursday</span></span>: </span><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;">* "The solutions are good for all, as they stand. There is no need to spin using 'fact sheets' so early on."</span><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;">* "Iran/5+1 Statement: 'US will cease the application of ALL nuclear-related secondary economic and financial sanctions.' Is this gradual?"</span><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;">* "Iran/P5+1 Statement: 'The EU will TERMINATE the implementation of ALL nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions'. How about this?"</span><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"> Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a f</span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;">ormer Iranian negotiator who is now at Princeton University, disputed on "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.democracynow.org/"><span style="color:#000000;">Democracy Now!</span></a>" last week the often-repeated notion that the sanctions compelled the Iranian side to accept the agreement. In fact, he states, the Iranian side had put forward such a framework in 2003, but it was rejected. He also dismissed much-covered Israeli objections, since</span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#000000;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.accuracy.org/release/netanyahus-nuclear-chutzpah-as-u-s-government-released-documents-on-israels-nukes/"><span style="color:#000000;">Israel has a massive nuclear weapons arsenal</span></a></span>,<span style="color:#000000;"> and Israel also </span></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;">refuses to allow any inspections and sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. </span><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;">REESE ERLICH</span></div><div><br clear="none"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;"> Foreign correspondent Erlich's books include <em>The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis</em>. He recently wrote the piece "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalpost.com/article/6505220/2015/04/02/iran-deal-agreement"><span style="color:#000000;">Lifting U.S. sanctions to Iran's satisfaction won't be easy</span></a>" for Global Post. In 2013, he wrote the piece "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/iran/130725/iran-sanctions-decision-time"><span style="color:#000000;">Iranians say U.S. sanctions hit wrong target</span></a>." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> Erlich's bio is found at: </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese_Erlich</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;">GARETH PORTER<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/GarethPorter"><span style="color:#000000;"><br></span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;"> Porter is an investigative journalist and author of <em>Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare</em>. He recently wrote the piece "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-demands-lifting-sanctions-irreversible-moves-says-insider-1231828480"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;">Iran demands lifting of sanctions for 'irreversible' moves, says insider</span></a>" for Middle East Eye. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;"> Porter said today: "The final hours of the negotiations on the historic deal reached <span class="yiv6453345188aBn"><span class="yiv6453345188aQJ">Thursday</span></span> were marked by 'brinksmanship' by both sides, according to U.S. diplomat, seeking to convince the other side that there would be no deal unless the other side gave way on two remaining key issues: R&D on advanced centrifuges and the modalities of lifting sanctions. </span></div><div><br clear="none"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#000000;"> "In the end the negotiators resorted to compromise language that either left the issue to be resolved in later negotiations or achieved a compromise that leans toward the Iranian demand."</span><br clear="none"><div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Porter's bio is found at: </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Porter</span></div></div></div><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:arial;"><br clear="none"></span></span><div><br clear="none"></div><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:arial;"><br></span></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><br></div></body></html>