Smeared by Iran’s State-Run Media: A Journal Reporter’s Story

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

BY FARNAZ FASSIHI

Two Wednesday mornings ago, I got an email from a journalist friend in Tehran. The conservative Iranian newspaper Kayhan has targeted you, he warned.

I poured a cup of coffee, sat at my kitchen table in New York and googled my name in Persian. I had returned to the U.S. in 2014 after 11 years covering the Middle East for The Wall Street Journal from bases in Baghdad and Beirut.

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