I spent a good part of yesterday tracking down and talking to some of the more respected Iran policy scholars here in the U.S., and their opinion was unanimous: Amir Taheri, most recently the author of the Iranian “Yellow Badge” fabrication, isn’t taken seriously by those who study mideast politics. I even had a reporting colleague familiar with Taheri’s oevre warn me off the guy.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=183223