If you like keeping track of these things, Bloomberg News managed to note that recent attacks on Israeli diplomats came chronologically after the assassination of several Iranian scientists, while the Guardian couldn’t be bothered by such details. Here’s the Guardian:
But in other parts of the administration, the assumption is that sanctions will fail, and so calculations are being made about what follows, including how serious Israel is in its threat to launch a unilateral attack on Iran’s nuclear installations, and how the US responds.
But Iran’s increasingly belligerent moves – such as the botched attempts, laid at Tehran’s door, to attack Israeli diplomats in Thailand, India and Georgia – are compounding the sense that Iran is far from ready to negotiate.
And here’s Bloomberg:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government blames Iran for this week’s car bombings of Israeli diplomatic vehicles in New Delhi and the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The attacks come after the deaths of several Iranian nuclear scientists, the most recent in a Jan. 11 car bombing in Tehran that Iran said Israel had orchestrated.
The facts surrounding Iran and their nuclear program are complicated and contentious. But you can still discern which news outlets are reporting the news and which are serving as organs of the state. You might expect the left-leaning Guardian to be a straighter shooter than Bloomberg. You’d be wrong.
I mention this, not because I want to assign blame to Israel or absolve Iran of anything. I mention it because a paper that can’t acknowledge that Israel has been murdering Iranian civilians on the streets of Tehran can’t be trusted to give you good information about the conflict. Iran retaliated against attacks on their citizens. You can’t report that as an indication that they’re not serious about negotiations.
