The FAIR Report: Iran—This Is What Propaganda Looks Like

by Peter Hart, FAIR


Presidents of Venezuela and Iran meet: Mortal threat to peace, no doubt.

particularly surprising. Clapper pointed to the alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C. as evidence that Iran seems more eager to assert itself, perhaps even inside the United States. But there were many people who raised serious questions about that rather implausible scenario (which involved hiring a Mexican drug gang to carry out the assassination).

As the Wall Street Journal reported (one of the few corporate outlets I saw pushing back against the official alarmism):

There is still widespread doubt that an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador was authorized at the highest levels in Tehran, said Karim Sadjadpour, a Middle East analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

That kind of caution was in short supply on the network newscasts. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams (1/31/12) announced:

Andrea Mitchell explained,  “Experts warn that the U.S. is even more vulnerable than Israel if Iran retaliates or launches a pre-emptive bomb plot…. Soft U.S. targets like embassies throughout the Persian Gulf, and 90,000 American troops in Afghanistan, next door to Iran.”

January 31 broadcast would be tough to top.

First, start with alarming graphic:

Match that with threatening B-roll footage from the enemy country. Weapons  on display at a military parade, for instance:

close approximation) meeting with other Official Enemies. Like this:

latest repetition of that apocalyptic threat got a standing ovation from Congress.

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