Iran is targeting Shane Harris … to write a paper that criticizes the US. In the Daily Beast he describes the effort:

So a state-sponsored propaganda jamboree propped up by Iranian diplomats and spies wanted me to publicly criticize U.S. foreign policy and maybe even come to Tehran for their anti-West hate fest. In my line of work, we call that a story. Of course I wrote back.

At the same time though, it flabbergasts him.

…to the interlocutor who thought it was worth the time to try to recruit me, I have to ask: Seriously?!

Read the whole exchange and the contextual breakdown over at the Daily Beast.

Does this look like the face of an Iranian propaganda machine?