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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tells NBC's Ann Curry that Iran would never “seek weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons” and that he had “full power and complete authority” to make a nuclear deal with the West. (video) |
Ann Curry Beats Rivals to Interview New Iran President
"Ann Curry'sinterview with [Iranian] president Hassan Rouhani was undoubtedly the biggest moment in her career since she was ousted from the 'Today' show in 2012,"Jack Mirkinson reported Thursday for the Huffington Post.
"The interview was the first Rouhani has given to any Western journalist since he was elected. Speaking to Andrea Mitchell, Curry said it was his first interview of any kind for years. Moreover, Curry stole the limelight from CNN's Christiane Amanpour, who had trumpeted her upcoming talk with Rouhani the week before. Curry, it seems, got there first.
"In her interview, Mitchell praised her colleague. 'Quite the coup,' she told Curry.
"The interview later made the front page of the New York Times, among other outlets."
Thomas Erdbrink reported for the Times, "A series of good-will gestures and hints of new diplomatic flexibility from Iran's ruling establishment was capped on Wednesday by the highest-level statement yet that the country's new leaders are pushing for a compromise in negotiations over their disputed nuclear program."
He also reported, "Mr. Rouhani, asked in the NBC News interview if he thought [President] Obama looked weak when he backed off from a threat to conduct a missile strike against Syria over a deadly chemical weapons attack outside Damascus on Aug. 21, replied: 'We consider war a weakness. Any government or administration that decides to wage a war, we consider a weakness. And any government that decides on peace, we look on it with respect to peace.' . . . "
- Chris Ariens, TVNewser: Should the U.S. Media Give Equal Time to the Syrian Opposition?
- Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America: Syria And The Beltway Media Crackup
- Brendan Nyhan, Columbia Journalism Review: It's the second term, stupid!: Why journalists shouldn't blame all of Obama's problems on Syria