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March 8, 2026
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CNN has a fetish for doing propaganda for regimes at war with the United States. 

You may recall that CNN was the one news outlet that had a bureau in Baghdad during the more than a decade-long conflict with Iraq under Saddam Hussein. 





After the Iraq war, CNN’s Eason Jordan admitted that CNN was required to run everything they reported by the Iraqi regime, presenting what amounted to propaganda from Saddam to the West as if it were “news.” 

Now they are doing it again, reporting from Tehran under the watchful eyes of the Iranian regime, and putting out the most ridiculous stories to make the mullahs look good and the US look bad. 

Jordan wrote a piece for The New York Times doing a “now it can be told” piece, and excusing the fact that CNN presented an entirely false impression of what Iraq was like, because the alternative was not reporting at all. 

Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN’s Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.

For example, in the mid-1990’s one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he was beaten and subjected to electroshock torture in the basement of a secret police headquarters because he refused to confirm the government’s ludicrous suspicion that I was the Central Intelligence Agency’s Iraq station chief. CNN had been in Baghdad long enough to know that telling the world about the torture of one of its employees would almost certainly have gotten him killed and put his family and co-workers at grave risk.

Working for a foreign news organization provided Iraqi citizens no protection. The secret police terrorized Iraqis working for international press services who were courageous enough to try to provide accurate reporting. Some vanished, never to be heard from again. Others disappeared and then surfaced later with whispered tales of being hauled off and tortured in unimaginable ways. Obviously, other news organizations were in the same bind we were when it came to reporting on their own workers.

We also had to worry that our reporting might endanger Iraqis not on our payroll. I knew that CNN could not report that Saddam Hussein’s eldest son, Uday, told me in 1995 that he intended to assassinate two of his brothers-in-law who had defected and also the man giving them asylum, King Hussein of Jordan. If we had gone with the story, I was sure he would have responded by killing the Iraqi translator who was the only other participant in the meeting. After all, secret police thugs brutalized even senior officials of the Information Ministry, just to keep them in line (one such official has long been missing all his fingernails).





CNN’s reporting from Tehran is almost as ridiculous as any random episode from The View. Pure propaganda. 

If Pravda has outdone itself in recent weeks, amping up the anti-American/anti-Israel “reporting,” CNN has taken things to a whole new level. Reporting, as if we should be appalled, that Israel is NOT hitting schools, but that bomb blasts aimed at regime targets are breaking windows around Tehran, is bizarre.

 Then again, this is CNN. 

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