Jason Rezaian of the Washington Post, imprisoned for 544 days by the Iranian government on dubious charges of spying, was surprised to find himself the target of another government spewing unfounded allegations: the U.S. government. In today’s Post he writes I never imagined the U.S. State Department would be funding my attackers. The Guardian has the...
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Iranian Special Forces Have Not Attacked Americans Since the 1990s
In the growing confrontation between the United States and Iran, the Iranian special forces, known as the Qods Force, will play a leading role in defending Iran. [For more on the Qods Force and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, click here.] While the U.S. officials have claimed knowledge of specific and credible threats...
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CNN Regurgitates Bolton’s Overblown Claims About the Threat of Iran
After John Bolton issued a statement on May 5 about “troubling and escalatory indications” from Iran, Americans have heard a barrage of reports from reputable news organizations echoing charges about Iran’s “troubling” actions. Now U.S. aircraft carriers are said to on the move while Saudi Arabia reporters its oil tankers have supposedly been sabotaged. It’s...
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Why Is Facebook Abetting Trump’s Reckless Foreign Policy?
Robert Wright reports that Facebook’s head of “counterterrorism policy,” Brian Fishman, has offered an explanation of why the social media giant blocked the Instagram accounts of high-ranking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers. When I asked Fishman to justify this policy, he said it’s designed to keep Facebook on the right side of the law, which...
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Google Joins Trump Campaign Against the Iranian Press
Google seems to be aligning itself with the Trump administration in its efforts to isolate and demonize Iran. The search giant is removing Iranian state media from YouTube Iran’s Press TV reports. On Thursday, Google removed 39 YouTube channels linked to the Iranian state broadcaster [Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting or IRIB]. Google terminated those...