BBC Persian

February 19, 2026

Why recent BBC reporting from Iran should not surprise

Recent multi-platform reporting produced by the BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Douce...

June 22, 2025

BBC promotes Iranian disinformation and then loses interest

On the morning of June 19th the BBC News website opened a live page with the first entry telling aud...

June 15, 2025

Initial BBC News website coverage of events in Iran and Israel

On the morning of June 13th the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page had little to offer its ...

August 15, 2024

BBC News website coverage of strike on Hizballah commander

Previously we discussed the BBC News website’s coverage of the July 27th Hizballah rocket attack o...

April 11, 2024

BBC reporting on the strike on IRCG officers in Damascus

Following the April 1st strike on a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus the BBC New...

December 7, 2023

BBC News once again erases UNSC resolution 1701 from a Lebanon story

On November 27th the BBC News website published a report by Nafiseh Kohnavard of BBC Persian which r...

March 1, 2022

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – FEBRUARY 2022

Throughout the month of February 2022, sixteen written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or t...

February 25, 2022

A Corona vaccines story the BBC did not consider newsworthy in English

The BBC News website has a dedicated ‘Coronavirus pandemic’ page, a ‘health’ page, a ‘vacc...

February 7, 2022

BBC Persian again employs context-free quote to ‘support’ speculation

On the morning of February 6th an article headlined “Israel’s Mossad suspected of high-level...

April 20, 2021

Reviewing BBC News website coverage of the Natanz incident

In the week following the April 11th incident at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran the BBC News we...