PBS’s Christiane Amanpour sat down with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi on Tuesday to get his perspective on the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, but Amanpour’s usual mantra of being “truthful, not neutral” mostly took a back seat as she never challenged him on the regime’s anti-Semitic, eliminationist rhetoric or his rewriting of Iran-Iraq War history.
Amanpour put the ball on the tee when she asked Takht-Ravanchi to “Tell me what is going on, what has been damaged? How close to your headquarters? What can you tell me exactly about what's happening right now?”
Takht-Ravanchi spewed that, “We have been witnessing an act of aggression, a clear case of naked aggression against Iran and the Iranian people since five, six days ago. We were about to start new rounds—a new round of talks with Americans on Sunday, that was 15th of June, and two days before we were attacked by the Israelis in the middle of the night. They attacked residential areas. They attacked paramedics. They attacked, you know, citizens who are just sleeping in their homes. They attacked our university professors. So, this is a crime against humanity. Pure and simple.”
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