CNN's Lou Dobbs expressed incredulity that Pelosi would "give the Iranians the credit," but her comments echoed CNN's own reporting
On Lou Dobbs Tonight, Lou Dobbs and Michael Goodwin cited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's comments about Iran negotiating an end to fighting in Basra, Iraq, to accuse her of being unwilling to give credit to U.S. troops and being "invested in failure" when, in fact, CNN itself reported that Iran had played an integral role in brokering a cease-fire in Basra, as did numerous other media outlets.
[ ]...Notwithstanding Dobbs' and Goodwin's incredulity that Pelosi would "giv[e] the Iranians the credit," during the March 31 edition of CNN Newsroom, senior international correspondent Nic Robertson reported, "Well, it does appear as if a huge amount of pressure was put on the Shia cleric Moktada al-Sadr to get his militia, the Mehdi Militia, to stand down and cooperate with government forces." Robertson continued:
A group of Iraqi politicians from the Shia United Iraqi Alliance -- that is the bloc of the main Shia political parties here, the prime minister's political party, his allies, Moktada al-Sadr's political party -- all went to Iran over the weekend, with the help of Iranian officials negotiated an end to the fighting.
