1. "Intelligence agencies" whose primary role is not protecting the interests of the United States, but compiling and disseminating propaganda to feed to the American public to promote political support for something that is completely against their own interests.
2. Non-profit think tanks that are established with a political agenda in mind, and do nothing but put an academic spin on whatever bullsh!t their financial sponsors are peddling.
No offense, but Item #1 should be a non-started for anyone with half a brain on FreeRepublic. After what we've learned about the U.S. intelligence community over the last two years, I'm genuinely shocked to find a single person here on FR who considers them even remotely credible.
Item #2 can be ascertained with some research about the board members and financial supporters of these groups. When the Saudi government donates $1 million to the John McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University (just to give an obvious example), you can be sure it's not because they once visited Arizona and had fond visions of establishing a camel breeding ground there.
Take the threats from Iranian leaders seriously. Do you deny their development of ICBMs do you deny their nuke program? no one else does. do you deny the terrorist acts listed in the links I posted.
You called me naive and your type of naiveté will get hundreds of thousands killed.