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I would hope this story is not true - just propaganda.
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Same here, anybody know if Parisa Hafezi is credible ?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Paris...en-US:official
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Looks like MSNBC was running with the al-Reuters story…
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68I0OH20100919
Hot air thinks Hafezi is a propagandist…
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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?
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http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/1...hin-tyrannies/