Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who was an economist in the Reagan administration, says Iran is being demonized with "obvious [U.S. government] lies" taking "all precedence over facts" and that these lies are reported as facts by the media. Some COGs (in particular, Gerald Flurry's group) accept this media perspective that Iran is an extreme danger (Flurry calls Iran the king of the South). It is the aim of the United States to start a war with Iran, says Roberts. The goal he says is to turn Iran into another puppet state of the USA and Israel.