Meanwhile, On Another Planet...
...the Iranians have announced that they are initiating human rights reporting about conditions in the West.
Published by The Lawfare Institute
in Cooperation With
...the Iranians have announced that they are initiating human rights reporting about conditions in the West. As this report on the English-language Press TV web site helpfully notes:
A senior Iranian lawmaker says the country will soon launch an English-language news agency to report on human rights conditions in the West.Member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Parliament (Majlis), Mohammad Karim Abedi, told Fars News Agency on Monday that the new news agency would seek to assert human rights in the US and Britain.Called The Human Rights News Agency, Abedi said that the new agency would report on instances of rights violation in Europe and the US. He said such abuses have gone unnoticed over the years by the world media.
Yes, without apparent irony, a country that still stones people to death--and arrests and tortures their lawyers--is preparing to do human rights reporting on American capital punishment and, you guessed it, Guantanamo detentions. You can't make this stuff up.
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
