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Originally Posted by hiredgun
Minister of a terrorist group... that's an interesting label.
Jafarzadeh is no better and no worse than any other guy who tries to pick up US support in pursuit of his own narrow political agenda. The MEK is a pseudo-Marxist militant group that takes a hard stance against the current government in Tehran. This quality has led a number of American hardliners to put Jafarzadeh front and center as a 'good guy' sounding the alarm about Iranian nukes and other topics. But as was the case with Iraqi exiles, you cannot understand any information that comes from this group without making a serious attempt to understand why they might be saying what they say.
Do I think he should be on Fox? It wouldn't bother me overmuch so long as his appearance was framed accurately and put into its proper context. When a news network (even Fox) brings a lobbyist on-camera to discuss the very issue on which he lobbies, everything he says is put through the lens of why he is appearing on-air in the first place. If we're lucky, the journalists even ask some hard-hitting questions. Jafarzadeh should get the same treatment.
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hiredgun, isn't it astounding that the man joined Foxnews because he became available because his 12 year "gig" as spokesperson and Washington lobbyist for NCRI ended when the State Dept. ordered his DC office shut down on the grounds that it was the DC office of a terrorist organization that has killed Americans and worked closely on repression in Iraq, with Saddam, yet Foxnews with no complete disclaimer permits him to quote the current NCRI spokesperson's views in an article he is permitted to publish on Fox's website?
In a long, long, war on terror, are spokesman/lobbyist/collaborators with a terrorist organization, journalist, sought after foreign affairs expert, or clandestine terrorist inflitrator, worthy of a one way trip to Guantonomo?
I am confused!