Journalists should start calling Iran an empire

Journalists should start calling Iran an empire

In the movie “Captain America,” a German dissident says: “People forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.”An even more extreme dynamic is at play in the American media. Journalists have forgotten that the Islamic Republic not only invaded Iran 47 years ago, but also subsequently invaded many other countries. The U.S. media’s blind spot on this point is all the more puzzling given the American intelligentsia’s anti-imperiali…