including jason rezaian a washington post writer iran disinfo went after him which was ironic because just 3 years ago the same state department that funds the project was lobbying to free resume on from prison in iran the authorities there are notorious for their treatment of journalists this past week they revoked the credentials of the new york times as bureau chief there without explanation tehran also invests in its own . online dissent from asian campaigns setting up fake news websites generating spurious articles and creating online personas that was what iran disinfo was created to fight against before it turned to trolling critics and lobbying for regime change and is just one of the many players in washington lobbying on one side of this story or the other some iranians accuse the d.c. based national iranian american council. of in fact being the unofficial lobbying arm of the iranian reformist movement. in the end make a pushes of their own political agenda by creating fictitious characters such as the. brands of people who do not agree but as of war mongers iran this info

. >> anthony: jason rezaian is the washington post correspondent for iran. ks for the uae-based newspaper the national. jason is iranian-american. yeganeh is a full iranian citizen. this is their city, tehran. the official attitude towards fun in general seems to be ever shifting. how, is fun even a good idea? >> jason: um a lot of push and pull. a lot of give and take. when i first started coming here, you wouldn't hear pop music in a, in a restaurant, or a -- >> anthony: right. >> yeganeh: it's everywhere now. >> jason: now it's everywhere. >> yeganeh: we have police, they arrest girls, or women, for having bad hijab or not being covered enough. but, it's not that we live with the police in our head, you know? ♪ >> anthony: you know, one of the first things that people will say, when you say, "well, i'm going to iran." "oh you're - but don't they make women do this, this and this." >> jason: yeah. >> yeganeh: mmm. >> anthony: actually, not so much. >> jason: yeah. >> anthony: not as much as our -- >> jason: friends. >> anthony: friends. >> anthony: compare

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. >> just for the record, "washington post" correspondent in tehran, jason rezaian, who was held forst prison was given toothpaste and was given soap. so if we're treating children worse than the iranians treated an american prisoner in their worst facility. >> joy reid is standing by to talk to us. i wish he we had a cheerier topic to welcome you into this conversation. but we can't pick the backdrops against which this takes place. >> i think it's important to have this conversation before the debate. i'm hoping that the debate participants get a chance to answer that question that i think the panel just threw out, which is how do you restore a sense of the america that we've said we are for the longest time? because what donald trump has done is dismantle that america and replace it with this, with deliberate cruelty to children, with this hideous system that legitimately gets talked about as concentration camps. that's the debate we end up having, what to call it. what we see is horror, and the horror is deliberate. to quote adam serwer, his base wants to see this cruelty to prov