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  • Can You Keep a Secret? The media silence on Iran.

    08/07/2002 9:24:36 AM PDT · by xsysmgr · 91 replies · 305+ views
    National Review Online ^ | August 7, 2002 | Michael Ledeen
    When I first came to Washington I met what I took for a hopelessly cynical man who asked me to define a secret. I stumbled, and he said that a secret was when you called a press conference and nobody reported what you said. Apparently the media of the entire Western world have applied this standard to the dramatic events in Iran, because on Monday massive demonstrations were held in the country's major cities, from Tehran to Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashad, and others. The regime responded with unprecedented violence. There was widespread street fighting. More than 1,000 people were arrested....