Filed at 9:59 pm, Thursday February 15th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Less than a week after reporters were told by anonymous military sources in Baghdad that the highest level of Iranian officials were involved in supplying explosives to Iraqi insurgents, the Bush Administration has been forced to recant that claim in a situation that is becoming more embarrassing by the day.
The breakdown started when a press […]
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Filed at 10:30 am, Wednesday February 14th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
In a signal that this story is gaining steam, the Associated Press sent out an article last night in time to make it into today’s newspapers. The AP article (which mentions Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Peter Pace contradicting the Administration’s Iran intel presented to reporters Sunday in Baghdad), is titled “Questions Arise About Iran […]
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Filed at 5:25 pm, Monday February 12th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
When Pentagon officials presented a 16-slide PowerPoint presentation to reporters Sunday in Baghdad, they did not imagine they would be on the defensive, only hours later.
The briefing, reminiscent of many pre-Iraq war briefings, was highly unusual because the officials that conducted it refused to let reporters attach their names to the intel they were presenting. […]
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Filed at 6:41 pm, Sunday February 11th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
You may remember, last month I wrote an exclusive report for Truthout.org (a progressive online magazine with over a quarter of a million subscribers) entitled Iranians Oppose US “Pro-Democracy” Efforts. For that piece, I interviewed high level Iranian dissidents and revealed that they largely opposed the Bush Administration’s “pro-democracy” efforts within Iran because they […]
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Filed at 3:38 pm, Sunday February 11th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Pentagon officials today presented what they say is evidence that Iran has been supplying explosive devices to Iraqi insurgents. But the same officials who are presenting what they say is evidence- are afraid to attatch their names to the very intel they’re telling the press is a slam dunk:
After weeks of internal debate, senior United […]
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Filed at 10:30 am, Tuesday January 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Why, oh why does the Washington Post hate America?
Four years after the United States invaded Iraq, in part to transform the Middle East, Iran is ascendant, many in the region view the Americans in retreat, and Arab countries, their own feelings of weakness accentuated, are awash in sharpening sectarian currents that many blame the United […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Sunday January 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
As everybody knows, the US and Iran have very abnormal relations since 1979, and this creates several problems. Not the least of which is the problem of accurate reporting about activities within and with regard to Iran. Of course there’s a language barrier, but there’s a lot more at play than that.
Iranian media is controlled […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Friday January 19th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I thought I’d share a little preview of my next article for Truthout.org. I don’t know when it’ll be published, but here are a few paragraphs dealing with a former member of Iranian parliament, one of the Iranian dissidents I interviewed for the piece. Her story is kind of a side-plot, and this is not […]
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Filed at 8:58 pm, Saturday January 06th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The interview mentioned earlier today went great. The person I interviewed was a former member of Iranian parliament who is currently doing a fellowship at Harvard, with a really, really interesting story I will include in my next piece for Truthout (sorry, no spoilers… or at least none until I start writing) the article. By […]
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Monday November 20th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Video provided by TheDailyBackground.com
Yes, I know Crooks & Liars and ThinkProgress had partial videos of this interview online yesterday when it first aired, but here’s the full interview, exclusive to TheDailyBackground.
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Monday November 20th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Okay, so Sy hersh has a new article out in The New Yorker. The topic? Like all of Hersh’s articles lately, it’s about Iran. It’s titled “The Next Act:
Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?“
Among other things, the article (which I have read… okay skimmed, although it is quite long) reveals […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Friday November 03rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
As rumored yesterday, The New York Times front-paged an article about an online program which was created at the urging of Congressional Republicans.
Specifically, Republican House Intelligence Committee Peter Hoekstra and Republican Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts are blamed for getting the ball rolling on the program, which many conservatives had been calling for. President […]
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Filed at 7:06 pm, Friday September 22nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
An source has told Raw Story that the Pentagon is arranging “second-state contingency” plans for an attack on Iran.
The official, who is close to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking officials of each branch of the US military, says the Chiefs have started what is called “branches and sequels” contingency planning.
“The JCS has […]
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Filed at 3:30 pm, Tuesday September 19th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I’m hardly the President of the Ahmadinejad fan club, but likening the Iranian President to Adolf Hitler is just ridiculous. Reuters:
Ahmadinejad — I call him Ahmad-in-a-head — I think he’s a Hitler type of person,” Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
“He has made it clear that he […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Thursday September 14th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Burried on page A17 of today’s Washington Post is a story of considerable signifigance. For some reason, the Post thought it was more important to put a story about some lady with a bionic arm instead of an article about the IAEA accusing the House Intelligence Committee on Iranian nuclear activities of falsifying evidence and […]
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