Thursday, December 1, 2016

Can propaganda save the threadbare Iran appeasement policy?

Can propaganda save the threadbare Iran appeasement policy?: With President Obama's administration expiring in a few weeks, the Iranian regime, its lobbies in the United States and Iran apologists with vested interest in the continuation of rapprochement with Tehran have initiated a widespread propaganda campaign to avoid losing their earnings in Obama's eight years of appeasement policy vis-a-vis Iran. Their efforts involve the publication of lopsided reports and hastily scribbled op-eds with enticing titles on highly viewed media outlets to reframe past failures as historical achievements, and to discourage President-elect Trump from choosing vocal critics of Iran's mischievous deeds as his cabinet members. An op-ed published in the Washington Post shortly after Trump's victory tried to demonize Rudy Giuliani, calling him a paid advocate of a shady Iranian dissident group, referring to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main opposition of the Iranian regime. The author of the article, Josh Rogin, has a long history of attacking the PMOI/MEK and quoting Tehran lobbies in his reporting.

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