Robert Tait markets Rafsanjani to Americans

I'm glad to see The Guardian's Robert Tait now officially showing his Rafsanjanist side these days. Two of his recent pieces are particularly revealing:

"Iran hangs 30 over 'US plots'", a shameless piece of false reporting that tries to connect the execution of murderers, assassins and rapists to Iran's concerns over the real American plots to destabilise the government exploiting the capacities within the Iranian civil society.

The Observer editors -- who are equally to be blamed for that shameless piece of propaganda -- seem to even doubt that U.S. has any plots against Iran and therefore put it in quotation marks.

The other Robert Tait's piece (Khomeini 'sought to drop Death to America chant') in The Guardian is yet another clear pro-Rafsanjani report that we see these days from Tehran-based correspondents since Ahmadinejad came to power.

Tait, who I don't think is able to read Persian, exclusively reports on a new volume of Rafsanjani's endless and self-appreciating memoir that has just come out.

The new volume apparently includes a paragraphs on Rafsanjani's knowledge of Ayataollah Khomeini's disapproval of the popular "Death to America" and "death to the Soviet Union" slogans in Iran, Tait reports.

Even though in the following paragraphs Tait tries to balance his blunt bias toward Rafsanjani, the message of the article is too clear to hide: "Dear America, Rafsanjani will topple Khamanei and rules Iran they way you like. Please support him."

To use his own words, Robert Tait's reporting "comes at a sensitive time for Mr Rafsanjani as he prepares to seek election next month as head of a powerful clerical body, following the death of its sitting leader. Leadership of the assembly would put Mr Rafsanjani, an advocate of renewed ties with America, in a strong position to challenge Mr Khamenei."

Thank you Robert Tait to show us where exactly you stand these days.