Iranian news also reported a very different version of their country’s Tuesday response Online Cigarettes Store USA to Soleimani’s death, Assari said.
Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at two military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq, but U.S. news outlets reported Newport Cigarettes Shop that some missiles missed their target, while Iranian news sources reported the missiles struck as intended, he said.
Assari said Iranian news also poked fun at Trump’s initial tweeted response to the attack, saying “All is well!”
As of Wednesday evening – hours after Trump announced new economic sanctions on Iran’s capital of Tehran – some Iranian media sites still said there were 80 casualties in the previous night’s missile strikes, Assari said. The U.S. government has reported there were no casualties.
Though not unusual, the differences in news flowing in the two countries are troubling, Assari said. The younger generation may see both sides online, but some in Iran might not get reports other than those provided by the Iranian government, he said.
After earning a medical degree in Iran, Assari, his wife and daughter spent about seven years in Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes Michigan before moving to California two years ago. Assari now serves as an associate professor in the department of family medicine for Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles.