Secondly, it is simply WRONG to say that all Iranian religious minorities are persecuted simply, in and of itself, due to their religious identity. That’s not to say that there haven’t been serious problems for various individuals (and of course the Baha’i), especially leading “evangelical” figures who refused (back in 1989( to cut deals with the government. (Most religious minority groups have reached various accommodations with the IRI - that have mostly “held” even during the Ahmadinejad Presidency)

In short, the Taheri story was an utter, total fabrication, as even leading Jewish groups and Israeli scholars angrily disassociated themselves from it.

Fair play? Sportsmanship? Not when there are billions of dollars at stake, notes PJM columnist Rick Moran, taking a look at the multiple scandals in professional sports involving spies, lies and videotape…….

We don’t have to background him, because the other guys must have done their homework, so now we can just let him hit the ground running.

The art here is keeping the stories interesting enough to stay employed but not high profile enough to catch anbody’s attention.

In the flood of words in the worldwide media and the net, not really a hard row to hoe, except for gathering the initial cred.