Matters Of Fact

 To The Guardian: The episode "Inside Iran as the bombs fall" was one of the most misleading and factually nonsensical to which I've listened. Your "peace activist" made it sound as if the United States and Israel were repeatedly violating international law by targeting civilians, which we all know is not true; they are both targeting Iran's illicit nuclear and missile facilities along with the terrorist IRCG and police who murdered 30,000 Iranian civilians in a matter of days. Not one mention was made of the fact that almost all of Iran's missiles have been aimed at civilians, in blatant violation of international law, as well as using cluster bombs against civilians. She also offhandedly referred to Israel committing genocide, which says more about the way the ICC has become a tool of the worst elements in the world, including Iran, than about Israel, yet there was no pushback against that specious slander. The Guardian long ago abandoned any pretense ...

 Sent to: bpr@wgbh.org, info@wgbh.org, ooffice@npr.org and feedback@npr.org [Since this concerns the podcast hosted by Jim Braude and Margery Eagan, please share this letter with them.] To Boston Public Radio I was truly astounded when I listened to the portion of the podcast "BPR Full Show 3/04" Superintendent Priya Tahiliani Says Brockton Was 'A Perfect Match' having to do with the current battle with Iran. The podcasts contained an amazing amount of misleading statements, misguided statements and outright lies, something of which that the hosts kept falsely Trump Administration officials, particularly the Secretary of State. As one of the most prominent examples: "Secretary of State Marco Rubio seemingly let the truth out yesterday about the rationale for attack. It was actually two days ago for attacking Iran. But of course, he very quickly backtracked. Here are his original statements. We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that w...