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1/ How do you spot an apologist for the Iranian regime?
These ppl have been welcomed in America, yet when faced with this intelligence report of a planned attack, their first instinct is to mock the US ambassador (a ditzy "handbag designer") & promote the IRI& #39;s narrative.
1/ How do you spot an apologist for the Iranian regime?
These ppl have been welcomed in America, yet when faced with this intelligence report of a planned attack, their first instinct is to mock the US ambassador (a ditzy "handbag designer") & promote the IRI& #39;s narrative.
2/ This woman is British-Iranian and presumably lives in Europe, but much like the others her first instinct is to mock the American official and assume Iran& #39;s regime is blameless.
3/ Americans too managed to get in on this talking point.
4/ This is of course the Iranian regime& #39;s talking point. Here& #39;s Mohammad Marandi, an IRI insider and a de facto spokesperson for the Iranian regime in Western media, saying exactly the same thing as Parsi, Karami, Dagres, Geranmayeh, Slavin, et al.
5/ I mean, you literally can& #39;t tell the regime apologists& #39; talking points apart from the Iranian regime insiders& #39; talking points. It& #39;s as if they& #39;re all reading from the same script.
6/ I should emphasize that we don& #39;t know enough about this story yet. The threat may have been less serious than described (though it& #39;s entirely consistent with past IRI practice).
My point is about the #IranLobby& #39;s immediate default to siding with the IRI.
My point is about the #IranLobby& #39;s immediate default to siding with the IRI.
7/ A final aside: I don& #39;t know much about Lana Marks, the US ambassador to S. Africa. No idea if she& #39;s qualified though I note that giving ambassadorial posts to friends and donors is a bipartisan tradition in America....
8/... But Marks has created a successful company with $8m in annual revenue and several dozen employees. That& #39;s a businessperson and an entrepreneur not a "handbag designer". If a man had built a steel mill with those financials, would these people be mocking him this way?
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