Posted 25 June 2009 by Brad Jacobson:

It might be more difficult for Republicans to bash President Obama for being “timid” in his comments about the Iranian government’s violence against protesters if the U.S. media didn’t consistently censor US-Iranian history.

Take CNN’s recent Iran timeline, titled “A brief look at Iran’s history.”

According to the timeline, which begins in 1979, Iran has “been at odds with the West and some of its neighbors” since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It refers to the Shah as having been “pro-Western.” Yet in the mother of all omissions, CNN leaves out how the US government was directly involved in bringing the Shah to power in a 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh…

Read the Scholars & Rogues post HERE

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The remarkable events taking place in Iran are truly awe inspiring.  This clip from CNN , 20 June 2009, imparts samples of the numerous fronts on which the fraudulent election and subsequent unrest have been making news.  Perhaps the most remarkable aspect is the role of internet social networking sites, Twitter in particular, which have allowed this news to escape the borders of Iran.

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See Also:

Here are a couple of links to live blogs of the events taking place in Iran:

Nico Pitney @ TheHuffingtonPost.com – Pitney has been on it since day one.

For a European perspective, see Iran Protests: Live @ Guardian.co.uk .

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