The arrest and persecution of women in Iran under the Islamic regime for failure to cover their hair or for protesting the morality police, is a subject often ignored by U.S. networks – perhaps, one suspects, because of misguided leftist concerns about encouraging so-called Islamophobia.
But the recent conviction of two Russia mobsters in the attempted assassination of outspoken Iranian-American feminist Masih Alinejad, who escaped persecution in Iran and is now an American citizen, drew the attention of PBS News Weekend, which aired an interview with Alinejad on Sunday evening. A shame PBS had to inject the liberal media’s fight with Trump into the discussion.
PBS News White House reporter Lisa Desjardins, pulling substitute host duty on the Sunday evening show, set the table.
Alinejad laid out years of targeting of dissidents by the Islamic Republic of Iran, including several…
