Adieu, Ayatollah
The New York Times Has Been Wrong About Iran for More Than a Century The New York Times has spent more than a century getting Iran wrong—sometimes through outright distortion, more often through a stubborn refusal to see the board as it actually is. Pull up a chair, maybe grab a good cigar if that's your thing, and let's walk through the record. It starts in 1979 and lands right here in late February 2026, with the paper once again sounding the alarm over decisive action while ignoring the century-old machinery that made that action inevitable. 1979: “Trusting Khomeini” – The…