Twitter Fight Over Iran
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From the Left
State Dept. spokeswoman sparks Twitter war with NYT reporter over IranA State Department spokeswoman battled a New York Times story on Iran's nuclear fuel stockpile on Wednesday with a line-by-line challenge of the article on Twitter.
State Department acting spokeswoman Marie Harf tweeted at David Sanger, one of two New York Times reporters who authored a story Tuesday about the stockpile, saying many central tenets of the story were "not true." The pair reported on an assessment from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a U.N. watchdog organization, that the stockpile had grown by 20%.
From the Left
The real reason the State Dept is Twitter fighting with the NY Times about IranTwitter brings out the best in nobody, and this week that includes two of the most prominent people in Washington's national security establishment: New York Times chief Washington correspondent David Sanger and State Department senior adviser Marie Harf.
Their Twitter fighting is ostensibly over a technical issue in the Iran negotiations; Sanger had published a story reporting Iran had developed new nuclear fuel, which he suggested was a m
From the Right
Kerry Adviser Marie Harf in Twitter Fight Over Iran NukesWith Western and Iranian negotiators racing toward a June 30 deadline to hammer out the final details of a nuclear deal, the mood is tense. Just take a look at Twitter TWTR +1.59%, where Secretary of State John Kerry’s senior communications adviser Marie Harf is feuding with a reporter.
David Sanger, a national security reporter at the New York Times NYT +1.06%, wrote a story earlier this week saying the growth of Tehran’s nuclear stockpile in the past 18 months of negotiations partially undercuts the Obama administration’s claim that Iran’s...
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