Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
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#2I don't have an economist.com account, but the byline suggests it's from 1843 Magazine, which doesn't require registration to read: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/trapped-in-iran
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#3There was a spy TV show produced in Iran and pushed heavily on the state run TV networks there that they used to help justify detaining reporters, very clever propaganda:
https://apnews.com/c5348f244a6b484fa3678f39a12e3ceb
I remember seeing a clip of an Iranian leader saying every journalist is a spy and if they aren't they should be because they "don't get paid enough". Gives you insight into their thinking, or what happens when you give the hyper-paranoid intelligence agency people way too much power (which the west isn't immune too).
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#4The internal political wonkiness where the Guard makes their own policy and other departments don't want to play along is amusing.
Re: Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
#5There was a spy TV show produced in Iran and pushed heavily on the state run TV networks there that they used to help justify detaining reporters, very clever propaganda: https://apnews.com/c5348f244a6b484fa3678f39a12e3ceb I remember seeing a clip of an Iranian leader saying every journalist is a spy and if they aren't they should be because they "don't get paid enough". Gives you insight into their thinking, or what…
The CIA is well known for recruiting journalists.
Re: Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
#6There was a spy TV show produced in Iran and pushed heavily on the state run TV networks there that they used to help justify detaining reporters, very clever propaganda: https://apnews.com/c5348f244a6b484fa3678f39a12e3ceb I remember seeing a clip of an Iranian leader saying every journalist is a spy and if they aren't they should be because they "don't get paid enough". Gives you insight into their thinking, or what…
The CIA is well known for recruiting journalists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
What do you feel that means in relation to what the person you're replying said?
Re: Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
#7Re: Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
#8There was a spy TV show produced in Iran and pushed heavily on the state run TV networks there that they used to help justify detaining reporters, very clever propaganda: https://apnews.com/c5348f244a6b484fa3678f39a12e3ceb I remember seeing a clip of an Iranian leader saying every journalist is a spy and if they aren't they should be because they "don't get paid enough". Gives you insight into their thinking, or what…
very clever propaganda indeed.
our politicians do the same thing.
Madam Secretary [0] was propaganda for Hillary Clinton
Diary of a Future President [1] is propaganda for Michelle Obama
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_Secretary_(TV_series) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Future_President
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#9All these politics and political games are such a shame. The Tehran that the author describes seems like a really vibrant city that I'd really like to visit and experience. But I never will for fear or something like this happening, becoming some tiny pawn in a much bigger game. And I wish that Iranians could come to the US and visit NYC or SF and see our culture. Then we might realize that the other side is something more than the strawman that media or government portrays them as.
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#10Iran has an incredibly rich culture that is (quite literally) thousands of years old and includes fantastic works in everything from poetry to painted miniatures to philosophy. The current political situation there is really a tragedy for world culture. I hope it becomes easier to visit within my lifetime.