Mainstream media, Twitter slammed for promoting Iran’s hardline leaders as ‘moderates’

Twitter restricted the account of a prominent London-based dissident who has been sending a steady stream of video images of protests across Iran. The blocking of some viewership for Potkin Azarmehr comes as U.S. conservatives charge that the New York Times and other Western media are siding with the hardline Islamic rule in Tehran. U.S. main media regularly refers to Iranian rulers as “moderates.” -- More...