L'identité de la République islamique entame une lente métamorphose.
Les accords ont signé le glas d'une promesse de guerre.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/world/middleeast/iran-jewish-newspaper-is-granted-visa-in-rare-move.html?_r=0
Iran: Jewish Newspaper Was Granted Visa in Rare Move
Les accords ont signé le glas d'une promesse de guerre.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/world/middleeast/iran-jewish-newspaper-is-granted-visa-in-rare-move.html?_r=0
Iran: Jewish Newspaper Was Granted Visa in Rare Move
By THOMAS
ERDBRINK and RICK
GLADSTONEAUG. 6, 2015
The newspaper said on Thursday that the visa had
taken two years to secure and was issued on July 20. It appeared to be part of
an effort by Iran to influence American Jewish opinion on the Iranian nuclear
agreement reached on July 14, which will relax sanctions on the country in
exchange for verifiable guarantees that its nuclear work remains peaceful.
Iran granted
an unusual short-term reporting visa last month to the Jewish Daily Forward,
one of the most widely read and respected newspapers among American Jews.
The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic
Guidance, which accredits foreign journalists in the country, confirmed on
Tuesday that it had issued the visa to The Forward, which began life in New
York nearly a century ago as a Yiddish-language daily serving immigrant Jews.
Although
the ministry said the visa was valid for 30 days, the newspaper said that the
visa was valid for seven days and that the reporter who used it, whom the
newspaper did not identify, had returned to the United States.
The newspaper has often been critical of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who strongly opposes the nuclear accord
and considers Iran to be a top security threat to Israel.
While the newspaper has not taken a stand on the
accord, it has editorially
advocated a robust debate before a congressional vote next
month.
“The proposed deal with Iran is
of huge importance to American Jews, and we sent a reporter to Iran so that we
could provide our readers with an in-depth, objective look at what real
Iranians think of the proposed deal, the United States and Israel,”
Jane Eisner, the newspaper’s editor in chief, said in a statement on Thursday.
“It has taken two years of negotiations with the
Iranian government to win this opportunity, and we look forward to presenting
this objective reporting on our website and in our paper next week,” Ms. Eisner
said.
Correction: August 7, 2015
An earlier version of this article referred
incorrectly to the visa’s issue date and duration. According to The Jewish
Daily Forward, it was issued on July 20 and was good for seven days, not 30
days as the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance had said. The article also
referred incorrectly to the ministry’s action on Tuesday. That was when the
ministry confirmed it had issued a visa, not when the visa was issued.
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