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![Iranian Press: Reading between the Lines](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Iranian-media-different-newspapers.jpg)
Iranian Press: Reading between the Lines
Shortly after the “liberation” of Iraq in 2003, the CIA set up a “listening post” in Dubai with the mission to monitor radio and TV broadcasts from the Islamic Republic and read newspapers published in Iran. To that end they hired a number of young journalists from...Caption:
Newspapers in Iran are heavily censored and often closed down
![Iran’s Oldest Daily Blows out 90 Candles](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/iran-newspaper.jpg)
Iran’s Oldest Daily Blows out 90 Candles
In a speech at the Press Expo in Tehran earlier this month, President Hassan Rouhani expressed regret that Iranians have not succeeded in creating a “lasting newspaper.” He wondered why it was that the Times of London was now in the third century of its existence...Caption:
British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond (L) and his Saudi counterpart Adel Al-Jubeir hold a press conference in Riyadh on Wednesday, October 28, 2015. (AFP Photo)
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Opinion: The Media Campaign against Saudi Arabia
The past weeks have seen frenzied competition among the British press to see who can take better aim at Saudi Arabia. The anti-Saudi media campaign has, by turns, concentrated on the notion that the Kingdom supports terrorism, and called for amnesty for a young Saudi...Caption:
A copy of the London-based Sunday Times newspaper rests under a computer keyboard and mouse, on August 7, 2009, in London, United Kingdom. (Getty Images/Peter Macdiarmid)
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