Dominic Lawson on Iran’s UK stooges

Dominic Lawson writes at The Times on the interrogation techniques used by the Iranian government’s thugs to obtain confessions from protesters. The depiction is quite upsetting.

He goes on to identify the British journalists and activists who front the Iranian Government’s UK media operation.

Amongst those espousing the Iranian line are George Galloway, surprise, surprise and Lauren Booth, half-sister of Cherie Blair. Another is one Andrew Gilligan who was involved in the Dr David Kelly affair.

Take a look at the column.

Lawson in his concluding paragraphs notes:-

I wouldn’t dream of suggesting that Gilligan and co sympathise with the Iranian president’s enthusiasm for Holocaust denial. The London “stars” of Press TV would presumably argue that they are just journalists plying their trade to the best of their ability, selling their talents to anyone who is prepared to bid for them. Indeed, several said last week that they will continue with their shows, because they were “not subject to any political interference” from the Iranian authorities.

How delightful for them; but it should also occur to Gilligan, Ridley and Booth that they are being paid to lend credibility to the propaganda arm of a regime that subjects its own journalists to the most brutal “political interference” – Bahari is one of 24 local reporters or bloggers who have recently been seized by the Iranian authorities – and which is now inciting violence against British reporters in Tehran, by declaring that they are the cause of riots and bloodshed.

Quite.