CNN Blames Reagan, Bush, and Trump for ‘Why Iran Hates America’
28th February 2024
Under Clinton, of course, Iran and America were Great Friends.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria hosted a Sunday special documentary entitled Why Iran Hates America where he ultimately homed in on three Republican presidents: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. There is a fine line between explaining Iran’s position and uncritically regurgitating it and Zakaria failed to appreciate the difference as he omitted key information and contradicted himself during relevant portions of the program.
Intermixing his own narration with achieved news reports of the Iran-Iraq War, Zakaria explained that “Iran was utterly isolated,” while author Robin Wright added that, “it was really Iran standing alone against the rest of the world. And it has defined its security strategy ever since.”