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  • NEWSWEEK PARROTS THE MULLAHS’ LINE

    12/16/2019 7:29:41 AM PST · by Liberty7732 · 5 replies
    Powerline ^ | 12/16/19
    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...
  • Iran Withdraws Claim on U.S. Plane

    10/07/2008 9:47:29 AM PDT · by Perdogg · 52 replies · 2,613+ views
    NYT ^ | 10.07.08 | By ALAN COWELL
    An Iranian news agency said Tuesday that a United States warplane had been forced to land in Iran, but the Pentagon said there was no evidence to support the claim, and Tehran moved quickly to play down the claim. Within moments of the first report on the semi-official Fars news agency, an Iranian state television channel, Al Alam, said on its Web site that the plane “was not a military plane and did not belong to the United States.”