Hypocrisy and hope: How the media fools itself about Iran | Matthias Kuntzel | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel

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"Mr. Zarif succeeded in dazzling his audience – about 250 foreign policy experts — with commonplace sentences such as:"global security is indivisible”,"dialogue is necessary” or"war is not a good option.” He came across as an Iranian Gorbachev, a good-hearted reformer defying the powers of darkness.

Yet a few days earlier he had bowed his head before the grave of a particularly sinister figure — Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh who was not only responsible for the 1983 suicide bombing that killed 241 U.S. soldiers in their barracks building in Beirut, but is also considered the"inventor” of Islamist suicide bombing."


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