Pro-Hassan Rouhani Iranian editor defects while covering nuclear talks in Lausanne

Daily Telegraph ^ | 27 March 2015 | Ahmed Vahdat and Richard Spencer

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A close media aide to Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, has sought political asylum in Switzerland after travelling to Lausanne to cover the nuclear talks between Tehran and the West.
Amir Hossein Motaghi, who managed public relations for Mr Rouhani during his 2013 election campaign, was said by Iranian news agencies to have quit his job at the Iran Student Correspondents Association (ISCA). He then appeared on an opposition television channel based in London to say he no longer saw any “sense” in his profession as a journalist as he could only write what he was told.
“There are a number of people attending on the Iranian side at the negotiations who are said to be journalists reporting on the negotiations,” he told Irane Farda television. “But they are not journalists and their main job is to make sure that all the news fed back to Iran goes through their channels.

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Actions like this could motivate the military, who has sworn to uphold the constitution, to turn on their commander in chief.

Their must be a lot of retired and active military that are cringing at what they are seeing happen.

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Simply confirms what anybody who’s been paying attention already knows. This will in no way affect the LIV view of Obama.