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With the nuclear negotiations possibly extending a few days past its June 30 deadline, Iranian media outlets are preparing for what they believe will be a historic deal. But this eagerness has concerned Iran’s leading hard-line newspaper, Kayhan, known for making veiled threats against Reformists and supporters of the Hassan Rouhani administration.
Kayhan’s editorial June 29, under the byline of Hossein Shamsian, said that “distorting reality and flipping upside down the truth is one of the most effective methods to deviating a society and influencing public opinion.” Shamsian called the nuclear negotiations “one of the most historic encounters with our nation's No. 1 enemy, meaning America.”
