Report: Iran detains 7 American troops

[Pete]

Report: Iran detains 7 American troops

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39254659/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

"TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian border guards detained seven U.S. troops as they tried to illegally enter the Islamic state, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday, without giving a source.........."

I would hope this story is not true - just propaganda.

Not much info at the site.

[T-Rock]

I would hope this story is not true - just propaganda.

Same here, anybody know if Parisa Hafezi is credible ?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Parisa+Hafezi&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official


ETA

Looks like MSNBC was running with the al-Reuters story…
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68I0OH20100919


Hot air thinks Hafezi is a propagandist…

So what’s my point in all this, other than to poke fun at David Duke’s academic credential? To point out that Reuters’ Parisa Hafezi has published, on Reuters’ byline, the closest thing to the Iranian government’s point of view that won’t show up on Mahmoud’s letterhead. A Google search on “Parisa Hafezi” turns up a mine of stories couched from that perspective, more or less. This is how Parisa Hafezi can continue to operate within the tyranny that is the Islamic Republic of Iran, and this is the product that Reuters puts out to its thousands of outlets around the world. Hafezi is useful to Iran, by publishing its perspective (though it’s often tin-eared and cluess, as in calling David Duke a “US academic”) as hard news.
Would Reuters publish a news story written from a more or less American government perspective, like it does routinely with the work of Parisa Hafezi?

Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/12/how-al-reuters-works-within-tyrannies/

[Richard]

Iran's state owned TV has denied a report from the semi-official Fars news agency that Iranian forces had detained seven US troops trying to enter the country.

Fars had earlier said that: "Recently seven American troops were detained by Iranian guards in a south-eastern province of the country... Two Iranians accompanying the troops were also arrested".

US officials say they have no knowledge of the reported arrests.

South-east Iran borders on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

But there are no US troops usually stationed in the reported area, says the BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo.

Our correspondent says the Fars news agency is known to be close to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, but it has made spectacular mistakes in the past.

The announcement comes amid growing tension over two US hikers who have been detained for about a year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11363616

[Penn]

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/iran-denies-media-report-that-it-detained-7-us-soldiers_100431149.html

Also as noted by Pete
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39254659/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

[incarcerated]

Prayers out, all the same…