It’s been a week since Iran and the P5+1 sat for their latest round of jaw-jaw. The hundreds of journalists who attended the Swiss event are only now recovering from their sensory deprivation inside the wood-paneled and windowless cellar that served as a press center. Woe be the media which tried breaking the compartment in… Read More Sweeping up from Geneva
The western media has its own preoccupations and biases; here’s a selection of articles with a view through the eyes of Tehran filed by reporters in Iran’s news media covering the Geneva negotiations: Fars News Agency Fars reported on an Iran-US bilateral that was NOT a bilateral as both sides agreed primary complaint (and /… Read More The View from Tehran
Syria Welcome back to all our readers! Another week, another digest. First, we return to one of last week’s more prominent stories; on Russia’s concerns that a US led air offensive could lead to the catastrophic destruction of the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor near Damascus. Well, the Anadolu Agency reports that the Stockholm International Peace… Read More In the news (10 to 17 September 2013)