Expo Iran 2008

Article Analysis
By: Gabriel Ayala

“How to end the U.S.-Iran standoff”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/03/opinion/edluers.php?page=1

This opinioned news article is about how to end the stalemate between the United States and Iran about Iran’s nuclear program. The article is written cooperatively by three different people, William Luers, Thomas Pickering and James Walsh, all of whom are US politicians. Their primary source of information about the US’ policy would be first hand, since they all have knowledge in the subject. But their opinion and views on Iran’s side of the debate would have to be from second hand sources, such as news articles and reports since they are not in any relations with the country. From the content and language of the article it is apparent that the target audience would be mostly mature and educated people, people who are interested in world affairs. It is an opinioned article which while informing the reader briefly about the situation is at the same time stating how to resolve it. This articles objective is to give an opinion and try to persuade the reader that the suggestions are plausible and practical. Because the article is written by US statement, the argument is heavily favored on the US’ side; this perspective causes a fair amount of bias about the issue. This can be seen in the choice of details which are used in the article; most details the US’ argument, while the details included about Iran’s side are very minimal and don’t show the positive side of Iran’s argument, thus causing the reader to agree with the US. And with the article being ones own opinion, their feelings and emotions in the article are very strong. There are a lot of propositions and suggests made in the article which show how the writers feel about the matter and how they think that it is the best way to solve the problem with details and facts to support their proposals. The date which the commentary is written ( March 3, 2008) is fairly recent, this means that the arguments are based on up-to-date facts and events. This makes the opinions much more believable and the writers would have had the ability to look upon the issue with hindsight instead of just relying on raw information and emotion.

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