Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Hazhir Teimourian was born in Iranian Kurdistan, but has spent his adult life in Britain. He is a commentator on the Middle East and is currently working on a biography of the eleventh century Persian astronomer and freethinker Omar Khayyam.
It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st...