Sunday, April 28, 2019

US embassy calls Iran corrupt, Iraq responds with a call for censorship, where's the US media?

A few hours ago, IANS reported:

 Iraq's Foreign Ministry on Sunday said that it has summoned the charge d'affaires of the US embassy in Baghdad over comments on social media considered offensive to the diplomatic norms.
Ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Sahaf told Xinhua news agency that the charge d'affaires was summoned on what was considered "a violation of diplomatic norms and international rules governing the operation of missions in host states".


Yes, we covered it yesterday in "Moqtada floats closing the US Embassy, the Iraqi government demands the US delete a FACEBOOK post."  IANS is reporting it but the US media still remains silent.   Eight hours ago, KURDISTAN 24 found the story:

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Saturday called on the US embassy in Baghdad to remove its recent social media post that was critical of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Written in both English and Arabic, the embassy’s post came on Thursday, alleging widespread corruption in the Iranian government in general and its supreme leader specifically. “Corruption is rife in all parts of the Iranian Regime,” the post read.
“The possessions of the current supreme leader Ali Khamenei alone are estimated at $200 billion, while many people languish in poverty because of the dire economic situation in Iran after 40 years of rule by the mullahs,” it continued.
Iran is yet to make an official comment on the US embassy’s statement but Iraqi factions and militias closely allied to Tehran made firm responses, calling for the post to be deleted. The Iraqi foreign ministry had a similar critical reaction, stating the mission’s action is in opposition to “the constitutional principles of Iraq.”

With two English language sources covering it, can the US media find it?  We reported it based on an Arabic language report and then we had to hunt down the statement in question -- which sounded like an Embassy statement and I was about to give up before I decided to check the FACEBOOK page.  So it's all there, in English.  Don't understand why the US media doesn't believe it's a story that the Iraqi government is demanding the US Embassy in Baghdad remove a FACEBOOK post.  It should be a story for the content of the post.  It should be a story for the censorship issue (the call to remove it).  And it should be a story because of the tensions between the governments of the US and Iraq.

So why isn't it a story in the US media?

Kat's "Kat's Korner: Rhiannon Giddens proves THERE IS NO OTHER" went up earlier tonight.

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