O’Connor introduced Hassan Beheshtipour simply as “an Iranian international affairs analyst.” But Beheshtipour was a journalist for Iranian state television and was close to the office of the late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Sometimes an Islamist military dictatorship with a nuclear program that chants death to America and death to Israel is just an Islamist military dictatorship that seeks a nuclear weapon to destroy its enemies with it.
CAMERA prompts correction after Newsweek erred that Israel has no ties with any of the countries which sent rescue missions to Turkey. In fact, Israel has relations with more than two dozen counties which sent rescue delegations to assist after the earthquake.
Newsweek's Tom O'Connor gives ample space to Syrian/Iranian/Russian claims that Israel is "terrorizing" Syria and endangering civilians, while treating Iran's military entrenchment in Syria as nothing more than an Israeli accusation about Iran "mak[ing] life a bit uncomfortable."
