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...first public meeting since the elections, Ahmadinejad visited officials at the Intelligence Ministry on June 30. "The enemies, despite their overt and covert conspiracies aimed at soft regime change, have failed," he said. Iran's state media took up a narrative of foreign intervention and sabotage; foreign media and Iranian dual-national journalists were cast in lead roles. "The day after the elections, CNN started a 24-hour psychological war room against Iran," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hassan Qashqavi told a moderator with seeming outrage on Iranian state TV. Later in the program, the host said he had heard the Saudi...
...semiofficial FARS News Agency published what it claims was a "press conference" with Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian correspondent for Newsweek. Bahari, 42, was arrested by security officials at his mother's home on June 21. In what appears to be a forced confession, the news agency highlighted Bahari's role as a producer for the BBC and Britain's Channel 4 and quoted him saying that "espionage by foreign reporters is undeniable" and that in some cases Iranian reporters "make mistakes, become emotional and greedy and fall into the trap of foreigners." The news report fails to mention that...
...Forum on World Affairs as “all reviewers found the piece one-sided.” Ms. Roy ignores the major source of Gaza’s tragic situation: Hamas, internationally recognized as a terrorist group whose military power is growing thanks to abundant support from the Iranian regime. Since 2006, when Hamas won Gaza’s elections, it has failed to fulfill any of the promises it made to Gaza’s people and dashed all their hopes for a better life...
...tempting to look at Twitter and see a magic anti-dictator bullet, a medium so anarchic and distributed that it can't be stopped. It's not impervious; the Iranian government has already moved to limit access. But Twitter has done its work. The protesters know they aren't alone, and Ahmadinejad now faces judgment not only in Iran but also in the court of world opinion...
...along, Netanyahu has insisted that a different Middle East crisis, Iran's nuclear program, should be the focus of his relations with Washington. And though the Obama Administration resisted that argument, Netanyahu may now be getting help from an unexpected quarter: the Iranian regime, whose violent crackdown on peaceful protests against election-rigging have created a more pressing foreign-policy crisis for the Obama Administration. (See pictures of President Obama in Saudi Arabia...