Which headline on Friday does the best job clearly communicating what may happen in just a few days:
The New York Times: “President Acknowledges That He Is Weighing Limited Strike on Iran”;
The Wall Street Journal: “The U.S. Military Hardware Pouring Into the Middle East”;
The Washington Post: “Trump appears ready to attack Iran as U.S. strike force takes shape.”
If you said the Washington Post, I’d agree.
What’s perhaps most notable about that story is that The Post’s Persian-speaking correspondent who they sent overseas to cover Iran didn’t help write it. That’s because the correspondent, Yegenah Torbati, was among the more than 300 journalists The Post just laid off.
“Bewildering” Torbati said when I asked her what it was like to get that news while in Turkey, where she had just moved four months earlier. We discussed her reporting on the uprising in Iran, the regime’s deadly response to it, and how, despite some surface similarities, this is unlike anything Americans are seeing in the clashes between protesters and government agents in Minnesota, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Follow Yeganeh Torabi on Substack, and you can reach her on Signal: yjtorbati.94
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Links from the show
“President Acknowledges That He Is Weighing Limited Strike on Iran”
The New York Times
“The U.S. Military Hardware Pouring Into the Middle East”;
The Wall Street Journal
“Trump appears ready to attack Iran as U.S. strike force takes shape.”
The Washington Post
“The Islamic Republic’s Broken Promises of Economic Justice”
New Lines magazine
“Iranian forces massacred protesters fleeing burning market, witnesses say”
The Washington Post
“Trump promised Iranians the U.S. would rescue them. Some feel betrayed.”
Washington Post
“Videos show security forces firing into crowds in at least six cities across Iran”
The Washington Post
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