>Generally speaking, excepting the best allies of the USA, coverage of
>any non-Western country is poor at best and hideous at worst.
All true, but the Iranian regime doesn't have to make it so easy for the western media to attack them and impossible for anyone to defend them. Stop wasting your time. As long as the Iranian state is dominated by hideous barbarians who publicly execute child rape victims, for the crime of being rape victims, while allowing the child rapists to walk free, you can only make things worse.
These are not people who can be publicly defended. If western coverage of them is hideous, its in large part because the Iranian regime provides excellent raw material for hideous coverage.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas