The opposition is lauded as democratic and reformist, while incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters are portrayed as virtual fascists. One would scarcely imagine that the two men represent rival factions within the same ruling establishment.
Responsibility for the violence in the streets of Tehran is attributed entirely to the government and its security forces.
seven years ago, a very similar media campaign
was carried out against the government of President Hugo Chávez
Chávez was vilified and his opponents
were portrayed as crusaders for democracy.
There was the question of violence.
blamed all of the carnage on Chávez.
It subsequently emerged that a number of the dead were among the crowd that had gathered to defend Chávez and that much of the fire had come from the Caracas metropolitan police force, loyal to the city’s mayor
In Iran, the New York Times is following essentially the same script, albeit it on a grander scale.
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