The full article can be seen here :
Frequent New York Times Opinion Writer Was Secret Iranian Agent, Federal Prosecutors Charge
The NYT has lots of form in supporting evil dictatorships, from Stalin to Castro.
A journal which these days is categorised as ‘far right’; The New American, published a well researched article about the demonic Holodomor denier and NYT hack Walter Duranty back in 2003. Duranty’s lethal lies:
https://thenewamerican.com/duranty-s-lethal-lies/
As far as I know, The New American got the ‘far right’ sobriquet because it is owned by the John Birch Society. It seems to me to be Conservative and not alt-right or far right.
For example, it has a good piece today about Pelosi’s world class hypocrisy here:
https://thenewamerican.com/party-of-riots-and-crime-leader-nancy-pelosi-accuses-trump-of-murder/
Please click ‘view site’ to see the full article, which includes a link to a very good piece about Walter Duranty.
Not much has changed in the last 80+ years there and they never learned from Duranty either. That’s the working model of Marxists is to do the same thing time and time again hoping for their desired outcome and acceptance of their embraced dictators.