By Jeff Rossen, NBC News Correspondent
VANCOUVER – When NBC News asked me to join the team in Vancouver, I was honored. Now, I’m here and quickly trying to learn the ropes.
Our workspace is incredibly large. Usually I’m huddled in the back of a satellite truck, so anything bigger than a closet would have [...]
By msnbc.com staffEyewitness reports vetted by reliable groups are now coming out of Iran, indicating that the government response specifically targeted opposition leaders to demoralize the protesters.
Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi was ambushed as he descended from his vehicle at Sadeghiyeh Square, his son Hossein said in an interview with Tehran Bureau, an independent Western news [...]
By Dawna Friesen, NBC News Correspondent
VANCOUVER – The joke in Vancouver these days is that it’s literally not possible to give the world a warmer welcome. As one local newspaper headline put it: “Welcome to paradise. Sorry about the weather.”It is a bit strange to come for the Winter Olympics and realize it’s possible [...]
By msnbc.com staffPiecing together and interpreting the events taking place Thursday in Iran on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution is an exercise in electronic tea-leaf reading.
Because of the hard-line Islamic government’s restrictions on foreign media coverage, news organizations around the world are forced to largely rely on what appear to be first-person accounts [...]
