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and Militarism</A> </SPAN><BR><SPAN class=cat-date-line4>By Peter Hart, <A
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width=400 height=1441></A>What’s Missing From TIME’s Iran Timeline</H2>
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<H4>TIME focuses on the trivial while ignoring the big US caused conflicts
between the US and Iran</H4>
<DIV>You learn a lot about the corporate media when they try to give you a
history lesson–since what’s left unmentioned can say so much.</DIV>
<P>In the October 7 issue of <STRONG>Time </STRONG>magazine–the one
with the headline “Iran’s Dubious Charms” on the cover–a <A
href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2153110,00.html">long
piece</A> about Iran includes the graphic pictured to the right.</P>
<P>Now, anyone who might want to understand US/Iran relations is not going to
find out very much from this. It’s not easy to summarize a half century or more
of history, but the items selected here are more than a little curious.</P>
<P>How important was it, really, that Bill Clinton <EM>almost but didn’t
quite</EM> meet the Iranian president in New York? It’s hard to think that
will go down in the history books as being an especially notable non-event.</P>
<P>Likewise, Barack Obama’s Persian New Year’s video greeting to Iran’s Supreme
Leader in 2009 is unlikely to be cited by many historians as one of the six most
important events in the history of US/Iranian relations.</P>
<P>We’re told that the “history of hostility” in those relations begins in 1979,
when Iran calls the US the Great Satan and takes American hostages. Of course,
anyone with some basic knowledge of Iranian history could choose a different
starting point–say, 1953, when the US helped orchestrate a coup that ousted
Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh. (Note to <STRONG>Time</STRONG>:
It’s OK now to talk about this publicly–the CIA<A
href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/politics/cia-iran-1953-coup/index.html">acknowledged
its role this summer</A>.)</P>
<P>Or one might point to the US support for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the
war with Iran that spanned most of the 1980s–which saw the US <A
href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/25/secret_cia_files_prove_america_helped_saddam_as_he_gassed_iran">offer
intelligence support</A> for Iraqi chemical weapons attacks on Iran.</P>
<P>Or one could recall that a United States cruiser shot down Iran Air Flight
665 in 1988, killing 290 passengers on board. The incident didn’t make a big
impression on <A
href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/kal-007-and-iran-air-655/">U.S.
media at the time</A>, which might help explain
why <STRONG>Time</STRONG>wouldn’t see fit to acknowledge that this
happened.</P>
<P>But there’s a good chance that Iranians <EM>do</EM> remember this
history. By excluding these incidents, <STRONG>Time</STRONG> offers a
clear lesson in how corporate media view history that is especially unflattering
to the United States. Why remember it at all, when it’s so much easier to
forget?</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>