NEWSWEEK PARROTS THE MULLAHS’ LINE

Powerline ^ | 12/16/19

[Liberty7732]

It might not be worth the effort to deconstruct articles appearing in a magazine that sold for $1, but still–when I saw this Newsweek cover on InstaPundit, I was curious.

I was curious because I am a frequent reader of Fars News, which is conventionally described as the “semi-official” voice of Iran’s mullahs. One of Fars’s most insistent themes is that the United States and Israel are allied with ISIS, and that Iran stands alone in fighting the terrorist group. This article is one of hundreds of instances of this fantasy, peddled shamelessly by Fars News on behalf of Iran’s regime. So when I saw Newsweek claiming that the mullahs are a necessary bulwark against ISIS, I was curious to know how Newsweek’s cover story fits in with Iranian propaganda.

Newsweek’s story was written by Tom O’Connor, whose Twitter feed reveals him to be a young man of the hard-core left. In 2017, Newsweek retracted and apologized for two false anti-Israel articles written by O’Connor:

[ifinnegan]

This sort of simple examination of our so-called press is good because it’s so easy to show them all anti-Anerican hard left liars.

[nuconvert]

Thanks for posting

[RideForever]

Clearly Newsweek is an unregistered foreign agent for the globalists.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Liberty7732. The Newsweak urinalist must work for Media Shills without Borders.

[I want the USA back]

I expect nothing less from newsweek, a failed leftist rag that isn’t even printed on paper any longer. Obammy gave our money to iran. bammy loves iran. iran hates the USA. newsweek rushes to show its love for iran. Nothing surprising about that.