Help me out understand this, DU! Why are we still allies with Saudi Arabia??

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54. Looks like the HuffPost writer has a long history of putting out Pro-Iranian propaganda...

Such as this: http://mic.com/articles/89913/the-media-claims-iranian-actress-leila-hatami-is-about-to-be-flogged-but-here-s-the-real-story where she repeatedly bashes "Western Media" for reporting on the fact that an Iranian actress was threatened with punishment for kissing a man on the cheek at the Cannes Film Festival.

She ended the article by saying this:

Hatami has already paid her penance. She apologized, and thereby righted the tainted image of the regime. And that's what this entire scandal was about.

and this

http://mic.com/articles/78597/why-every-american-should-take-their-next-vacation-in-iran

and this

http://mic.com/articles/74599/what-the-media-is-getting-wrong-about-the-iranian-rockers-murdered-in-brooklyn

The Guardian's Paul Farrell, in an article titled, "The Yellow Dogs: the Dissident Rockers Who Made History in Tehran," described a band of rock n' roll deviants who made music against all odds. "They survived Iran," he wrote.

The media framed this story as the tragic loss of aspiring Iranian rockers who escaped oppression and persecution in an effort to pursue their dreams in a free society.

But there were two serious flaws with this narrative. Firstly, the notion that Iran is a tyrannical regime, that the only way to live in Iran is to survive it, as Farrell suggests, is blatantly false. Though there are rules in place that deny artists full freedom of expression, there is also a strong network of support for artists in Iran — galleries and private spaces that back artists and musicians while circumnavigating the rules of the regime. And in fact, there are thousands of musicians in Iran, not just performing underground, but also in public, and the art scene is not only present, but thriving.

The individual using the pen name or nom de plume of "Sasha von Oldershausen" is clearly putting out Iranian propaganda in various American publications such as PolicyMic, The Huffington Post, The New York Times and New York Magazine. Since 2012 shes rotated though so many well known publications spreading pro-regime propaganda.



Mrs "Oldershausen" who is of Iranian descent, attended the University of Tehran a year before she began her mission of writing articles that put the tyrannical regime in a positive light.

No where in any of her articles that I've seen will you find any mention of Iran's ill-treatment for religious minorities, gays, etc.

I apologize for posting an article that was authored by what appears to be a mouth piece for the Iranian regime, I am clearly ignorant on the issue of how the LGBT community are treated in that region, I only posted out that article because it gave the appearance that Iran was the only nation that was mildly progressive.