While there is no denying that Iran does have legitimate grievances against the West, especially the US for meddling in its affairs, Press TV is like a raging torrent of anti-Western propaganda aimed at fomenting dissent among disaffected Westerners. Every trouble spot in the world, every injustice, is either directly or indirectly attributed to the US or arch-foe Israel. The sooner there is a challenge to the Iranian regime’s relentless tirade of propaganda against the West, the better for preventing brain-washing and preserving free speech.

Well, there is always the SAS!
(just dreaming)

What kind of action?

You seem to inhabit a parallel universe where Islam is not a real and present threat. ‘Terrorists’ may invoke Islam when they commit, advocate and support Jihad murders against the West, but this is apparently to misrepresent ‘Islam’. So when Islamic Jihadists attack the West in the name of Islam, I should see beyond the reality of suicide bombers and recognise that the US and the West are to blame, and that Islam is benign! Apparently some ‘Merchants of Fear’, (trotted out by Cockburn), not Islamic Jihadist ones (?),
are distorting reality. The reality is, apparently, in that parallel universe, that Iran, for example, is not a threat, despite Ahmadinejad’s statements about Israel, and despite his plans to build nuclear weapons, that we see Islamic Jihad is not the real threat to the West, and that we should, apparently, be appeasing Islam’s jihadists and jihadist supporters. In that parallel universe, it is the West, which is seen as the real enemy:

“What Iran owes the ‘Palestinians’ (Hugh Fitzgerald)

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020312.php

The Zionist regime has plans to damage ties among Islamic countries in the region. Given their capabilities in the region and in the world of Islam, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia are among the regime’s targets in this plot,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini told reporters Monday.

Followed a few paragraphs later by this:

Hosseini said that Iran had no reliable information on the identity of the agents behind the terrorist attack on the staff of the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, adding the embassy is in contact with Iraqi officials and is investigating the case.The terrorist act on Thursday against a convoy of Iranian Embassy staff, consisting of two diplomats and two guards, was carried out by those who have been targeting friendly ties between Tehran and Baghdad, he noted.

“No reliable information”, yet Tehran knows…

Translation: come on Saudi, don’t we all hate the Jews?

Iranian diplomacy does know its audience.

And I’m certain that the next Al-Qaeda 3rd Raft Flotilla attack on 2017 will trigger a similar reaction: “gimme more tons of cash or the mighty terrorist ‘navy’ might annihilate the poor and defenseless US Navy… You are warned”.

Shayler.

Anyhow, I do think that Mosely was set up. I don’t mean that he didn’t willingly engage in some form of fairly dismal faffing with some fairly down at heel prostitutes: evidently, he did. However, clearly somebody really had it in for him. Can’t imagine who that might be…

Anyway, whatever all of our various semantic persuasions and distractions may be, this story is so sickening that I don’t understand how anyone would want to be associated in any way with Press TV, even as a guest.

Good on you Mr T.

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Pierrot, never be so sure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/washington/12navy.html