[news] Why Iranian Women Don't Need Rescuing by the U.S.

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

...[T]he ground work is being prepared for yet another rescue story similar to that used to justify the Afghan war. The rescue story has two components: a brutal or “evil” dictator and an oppressed population. Not so coincidentally, two images of Iran have dominated the media landscape over the last few weeks. One is that of the “new Hitler” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has been represented as personifying pure “evil.” The other is of an emaciated Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian American scholar, who was detained by the Iranian government and recently released.

  


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