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Via the Intercept (8:31):

Calling all sleuths who are intrigued by Media Brands!  Both versions I’ve linked below are far too long for me to read, rather than scan, although at least the NYT version doesn’t include the massive, eye-searing photos the Intercept version does. 

Here are a few questions readers and watchers might want to consider:  How were TI and the NYT able to verify these 700 pages of documents as ‘authentic’ (albetit Maz Hussain’s claim at DN! below)?  Is this simply more anti-Iranian (‘now “our new enemy” a Risen said) Imperial agitprop?  Given they’d allegedly been ‘leaked’ to TI anonymously, who had ‘leaked’ them?  Were they hacked or even created by enemies of Iran?  That would be a long list, yes?
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