CNN’s Stelter Gives Trump Credit for Telling Iran to Let Reporters Roam Free: ‘Clearly Hearing the Voices of the Protesters There’
RUSH EXCERPT:
STELTER: “Picking up where Fareed left off. Our top story. President Trump supporting press freedom, not in the United States but in Iran. Weighing in on Twitter about the recent protests. He’s tweeting this, among other things, turn your Internet back on in Iran. Let reporters roam free. Don’t kill and arrest the protesters that have taken to the street. All of these have been in response to Iran admitting to the accidental shootdown of Ukrainian flight 752. Of course Iran denied for days and days that it was responsible for the crash and then finally admitted it, it fessed up under the pressure. These are Sunday’s front pages. Many of them in shades of black trying to hold the government accountable describing the suspected coverup as unforgivable and a catastrophe, offering apologies and paying tribute to victims and telling senior officials to apologize and resign. This is all notable because Iran’s media is incredibly tightly controlled by the state.”
