After ignoring the slaughter of the innocents in Iran, BBC reporter Lyse Doucet reported from Tehran on the public holiday last week, “where it feels like a family festival”. How lovely.
Now – the lead item on the BBC website – she’s interviewing the Iranian deputy Foreign Minister:
Iran is ready to consider compromises to reach a nuclear deal with the US if the Americans are willing to discuss lifting sanctions, an Iranian minister has told the BBC.
US officials have repeatedly emphasised that Iran, not the US, is holding up progress in this protracted negotiating process.
On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Donald Trump preferred a deal but it was “very hard to do” one with Iran.
But in an interview with the BBC in Tehran, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said the ball was “in America’s court to prove that they want to do a deal”, adding: “If they are sincere, I’m sure we will be on the road to an agreement.”
This is a rogue regime. It’s busy slaughtering a whole generation of young Iranians. But for the BBC It’s just another country where leaders can be interviewed with the full solemnity and deference appropriate to a foreign dignitary. For them there’s only one rogue regime in the Middle East – and it’s not Iran.
Mick Hartley 
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