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  • "Analysing" weird Biden admin. messages following Islamic Republic attack in Erbil

    03/15/2022 2:46:39 AM PDT · by Conservat1 · 4 replies
    Roi Kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס (@kaisos1987) Tweeted: Mar 14, 2022 Strange incident - an American source tells the New York Times reporter that the facility that Iran attacked in Arbil is Israeli and in fact aligns with the Iranians' claims. A moment later a senior official in the Biden administration denies to the same reporter the things and says it is a civilian facility. So what's going on here?((Farnaz Fassihi @farnazfassihi: A senior Biden administration official refuted the earlier comment by a US official...)) https://twitter.com/kaisos1987/status/1503497953671102467 ______REPLIES: One posted the picture: and added: Listen, there are here los...
  • [Local journalist]: 'I worked with Kurdistan24TV for 5 years. Everyday I looked at this compound, Iran & it’s proxies are lying. It’s NIT any "Israeli" center..'

    03/14/2022 10:17:10 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 3 replies
    Blesa Shaways @Bilesa_Shaweys Tweeted: I worked with @kurdistan24tv for 5 years. Everyday I looked at this compound, #Iran & it’s proxies are lying. It’s not an #Israeli center. There wasn’t any militants in it, we never saw any foreigners in the neighborhood... Everyone know it’s owned by Baz Karim & usually visited by his relatives. There was a small zoo inside it (contained many animals), also many luxury cars (some classic). Those who worked in this neighborhood know very well it’s no [t] an intelligence center. Some of pro #Iran journalists (unfortunately some of them working with #US media outlets)...
  • Farnaz Fassihi: NYT's Islamic Republic of Iran - mouthpiece

    03/14/2022 4:47:41 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 5 replies
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    In 2 recent tweets I pointed out Farnaz Fassihi’s pro-Islamic Republic (#IRI) bias & factual error. In response she simply blocked me!It’s disappointing that a @nytimes journalist displays this level of intolerance of dissent & criticism. pic.twitter.com/y7YEXWKB9b— Kamran Matin (@KamranMatin) January 7, 2020NY Times writer accused of Iran bias in Twitter uprising by John Ransom on April 13, 2021 The New York Times is facing an uprising of Iranian English speakers on Twitter who claim that Times journalist Farnaz Fassihi, who styles herself as an expert on the Middle East and Iran, is just a propaganda agent for the Islamic...
  • [Islamic Republic of] Iran’s Spy Arrested in Sweden: A Grim Reminder of Rooted Terrorism in Europe

    09/29/2021 4:54:32 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 5 replies
    EinNews ^ | Sep 27, 2021
    Kia was arrested on Monday. On Thursday, the court decided to order detention for this person on charges of grossly and unlawfully abusing his position as someone with access to classified information and violating national security to avoid him destroying documents or escaping. The arrested person is accused of espionage for reasonable reasons, the Swedish Security Service said in a statement. His arrest comes a month after the arrest of an Iranian couple, who had obtained refugee status in Sweden by presenting a false Afghan identity. They were the agents of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). In...
  • Murder Trial in Sweden Could Shine Unsavory Light on Iran's New President

    09/29/2021 4:54:45 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 6 replies
    NYT ^ | Published July 30, 2021 . Updated Aug. 2, 2021 | Farnaz Fassihi
    Nearly 3,000 miles from Tehran where mass executions were carried out in 1988, a murder trial in Sweden could produce new revelations that complicate life for Iran’s president-elect. Iran’s president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi, helped decide which prisoners lived or died during mass executions in 1988. A trial in Sweden may shed more light on his role.Credit...West Asia News Agency He was a 28-year-old student and member of a communist group in Iran serving a 10-year prison sentence in 1988 when, according to his family, he was called before a committee and executed without a trial or defense.
  • Iraqi Lawmakers Urge End U.S. Troop Presence as Iran Mourns a Slain General

    01/05/2020 9:04:54 AM PST · by rintintin · 39 replies
    NY Times ^ | Jan 5 2020 | Alissa J. Rubin, Steven Erlanger and Farnaz Fassihi
    BAGHDAD — Lawmakers in Iraq voted on Sunday to require the government to end the presence of American troops in the country after the United States ordered the killing of the Iranian leader of the elite Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, on Iraqi soil. The decision to heed the demands of angry Shiite factions and politicians came as hundreds of thousands of mourners poured into the streets of Iran to pay their respects to General Suleimani, the most powerful figure in the country after the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The vote is not final until Prime Minister Adel...
  • Iran Deploys Forces to Fight al Qaeda-Inspired Militants in Iraq

    06/14/2014 10:02:07 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 36 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | June 12, 2014 9:46 p.m. ET | Farnaz Fassihi
    The threat of Sunni extremists eclipsing the power of its Shiite-dominated Arab ally presents Iran with the biggest security and strategic challenge it has faced since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. With the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, an offshoot of al Qaeda, rapidly gaining territory, Iran deployed Revolutionary Guards units to Iraq, according to Iranian security officials. Iran has invested considerable financial, political and military resources over the past decade to ensure Iraq emerged from U.S. war as a strategic partner for the Islamic Republic and a strong Shiite-led state. The so-called Shiite crescent—stretching from Iran...
  • Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants

    06/15/2014 8:41:13 PM PDT · by Star Traveler · 54 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Saturday, June 14, 2014 | Martin Chulov
    Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency, a senior Iraqi official has told the Guardian. The confirmation comes as the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said Iran was ready to support Iraq from the mortal threat fast spreading through the country, while the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, called on citizens to take up arms in their country's defence. Addressing the country on Saturday, Maliki said rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) had given "an incentive to the army and to Iraqis to act...