Thursday, August 06, 2009

Dubai: A listening post for Iran, and other notes

Jason Rezaian wrote "Reporting from Dubai" http://tehranbureau.com/reporting-dubai/ for the Tehran Bureau. He gives an interesting perspective on where it is easiest to find news about Iran. There is regular travel between Iran and Dubai, and Iranians feel more free to speak in Dubai. He does give a sense that discontent runs very deep in Iran.

Rezaian wrote that Lara Setrakian has been using her network of Iranians to "help round out her reports on Iran. Unfortunately, I searched ABC and her last report on Iran was from July 9.

For a good feel on why Obama must tread carefully concerning Iran, see "Why Russian & China Love Iran's Hardliners" http://tehranbureau.com/russia-china-irans-violent-crackdown/

For a selection of T-shirt ideas, see "Ahmadinejad is President".

Otherwise, I'm finding regular updates from the streets of Iran hard to come buy. The Lede of the New York Times does not start on its promised schedule and Nico Pitney has not written a blog for the Huffington Post on Iran for almost two weeks.