For those who found a comfy rock to hide under for the past 30 years or so and didn’t already know this, Voice of America Radio has been broadcasting pro-US messages into Iran for decades.
Voice of America’s mission is to promote U.S. interests abroad, which includes freedom in Iran. But VOA’s Persian newscast has been hijacked by pro-Tehran broadcasters.
The Obama administration’s sole strategy for defanging the Ahmadinejad regime is talk and more talk. Only, the propaganda that VOA is piping into Iran is helping the regime — thanks to deep-seated bias in favor of Tehran by Persian editors and producers whose salaries are paid by American taxpayers.
They’ve banned stories that cast the regime in a negative light, such as last year’s violent postelection crackdown on protesters in Tehran. They even refused for several days to air video footage of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young Iranian woman whose murder became an international cause celebre.
More, VOA has retaliated against broadcasters who’ve complained it’s too soft on the Iranian regime. One popular Persian-speaking broadcaster lost her anchoring job, having been demoted by a managing editor who happens to be the son of one of the Iranian mullahs.
So, apparently, the “official external radio broadcasting service of the United States government” is now telling Iranians that the official policy of America is to promote the Iranian theocratic government.
What an Obamanation.
Found via Bill Quick
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To be fair, this has been the situation for about ten years now. These people all weren’t hired last year, they’ve been there.
Exactly. Which is yet another reason I refused to vote for the GOP in 2006 or McCain in 2008.