The Shahram Amiri Sequel, etc: Sleazy Media Disinformation on the Gulf (and in London?)……..
Here Alarabiya quotes (headlines) an elderly official of the Shah’s regime who resides in London and runs something called an Iranian-Arab Center claiming that the Iranians had threatened Shahram Amiri that his wife would be raped if he did not return from the USA. I still have not decided if the guy, Amiri, was an agent, a double agent, or a triple agent, but he does not strike me as a dedicated loving admirer of Ahmadinejad. Alarabiya, owned by an in-law of the royals and managed by a chief editor of Asharq Alawsat (very royally owned), is the favorite Middle East interview network of the Bush and Obama administrations. It often resorts to sleazy headlines to compete with more serious outlets like Aljazeera, Nickelodeon, etc.
Four days ago the same network briefly headlined that Sunnis in Iranian Baluchistan were being attacked by mobs in the aftermath of the bombing by the Salafi Jundullah. They quickly took that headline down because the international media would not bite. They usually post these tidbits for a short while, hoping it would spread worldwide.
About a year ago they really won the prize: they headlined that an Iranian truck was intercepted by the Turks carrying “billions” of dollars in cash and gold, and that they were destined for Syria then Hezbollah. I forgot the exact date, but I have a posting commenting on it, with a link. Of course any idiot, okay most idiots, know that the Iranians can simply fly the “billions of cash and gold” to Syria instead of going through Turkey (they probably do). Only one or two Saudi front daily newspapers in a Gulf state took up that item for a couple of days. Not clear what that was about since everybody knows that the Iranian and Saudi regimes poured a lot of money into Lebanon before the election.
I am waiting for them to headline, briefly, that the awaited Mahdi has appeared in Riyadh and pledged allegiance to the royal family. (The Mahdi won’t show up in Tehran or Qom either).
Tsk, tsk, not very nice….
(Alarabiya largely reflects official opinion, and often they do have good extensive news coverage and sometimes they even publish differing opinions, something I have not seen the pro-government Iranian sites do.)
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