Showing posts with label Fars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fars. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Fars News Agency get the prize for the most delusional version of "The Russians Are Coming"
I don't have much respect for the corporate media and, for that matter, very little for most of the alternative media. But the prize for stupid, delusional, or even outright psychotic reporting goes to the Iranian Fars news agency which managed to print the following:
"Russian atomic submarines" and "1000" tanks will soon come to Syria. Right. I don't know what the hell the folks at Fars are smoking, but they all should be fired and get a job at the National Enquirer or DEBKAfile.
Just to be absolutely clear, let me repeat:
==>>The Russians are NOT, repeat, NOT coming<<==
The Saker
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Israel Arrests Iranian TV Correspondent
Fars News Agency reports: Israeli forces have arrested Iran's Al-Alam News Network's correspondent reporting from the occupied Palestinian territory.
The man's lawyer said the Palestinian was also suspected of passing confidential information to unauthorized persons - "a very harsh security offense" - but gave no further details.
Khadr Shahine, who reported for Iran's state-owned Arabic language Al-Alam television station, violated the censorship rules when he reported the beginning of Israel's ground offensive against the Gaza Strip before it was permitted by military censors, Israeli authorities claimed.
Shahine turned himself in Tuesday after hearing police wanted to question him, his lawyer said.
Shahine's lawyer, Mohammed Dakhleh, said his client was being held on suspicion of passing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
"This is a very harsh security offense," he said, adding that it was the first time it had been used against a journalist.
Dakhleh said Shahine has long worked as a journalist, including during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
"It's basically persecution because the guy has been giving TV items for years now," Dakhleh said.
Israel's military censor has broad powers to shut down media outlets or imprison journalists to prevent the release of information deemed threatening to the Zionist regime's security.
"A guy who supplies information for Iranian television is being questioned by police for suspected censorship violation," said Daniel Seaman, the head of Israel's Government Press Office.
Israel waged war on the Gaza Strip on December 27 and began a "long-term" ground offensive on the Palestinian territory last Saturday.
Thus far, the Israeli aggression has killed 763 Palestinians and injured thousands of others - a large number of the casualties are civilians
The man's lawyer said the Palestinian was also suspected of passing confidential information to unauthorized persons - "a very harsh security offense" - but gave no further details.
Khadr Shahine, who reported for Iran's state-owned Arabic language Al-Alam television station, violated the censorship rules when he reported the beginning of Israel's ground offensive against the Gaza Strip before it was permitted by military censors, Israeli authorities claimed.
Shahine turned himself in Tuesday after hearing police wanted to question him, his lawyer said.
Shahine's lawyer, Mohammed Dakhleh, said his client was being held on suspicion of passing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
"This is a very harsh security offense," he said, adding that it was the first time it had been used against a journalist.
Dakhleh said Shahine has long worked as a journalist, including during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
"It's basically persecution because the guy has been giving TV items for years now," Dakhleh said.
Israel's military censor has broad powers to shut down media outlets or imprison journalists to prevent the release of information deemed threatening to the Zionist regime's security.
"A guy who supplies information for Iranian television is being questioned by police for suspected censorship violation," said Daniel Seaman, the head of Israel's Government Press Office.
Israel waged war on the Gaza Strip on December 27 and began a "long-term" ground offensive on the Palestinian territory last Saturday.
Thus far, the Israeli aggression has killed 763 Palestinians and injured thousands of others - a large number of the casualties are civilians
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