BBC Persian

December 3, 2020

BBC Persian service journalist fabricates Netanyahu quote

On November 27th the BBC News Channel aired a “breaking news” item concerning the assassination ...

July 13, 2020

BBC World Service radio airs speculation presented as ‘analysis’

The BBC has shown significant interest in a number of recent incidents at various sites in Iran and ...

February 2, 2020

Former BBC Persian journalist mourns Qasem Soleimani

BBC Persian’s former correspondent in Jerusalem and Gaza 'cherishes' the memory of Qasem Soleimani...

November 11, 2019

BBC WS radio framing of anti-Iran protests

World Service listeners get a blatantly one-sided view of Middle East events. ...

July 26, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading. ...

July 16, 2019

The BBC and media freedom – theory and practice

On Thursday - a BBC hub at a conference on media freedom. On Saturday, acquiescence to the demands o...

February 27, 2019

BBC News’ Iranian ‘hardliners’ and ‘moderates’ myth on view again

The notion of Iranian ‘hardliners’ and ‘moderates’ continues to be promoted in BBC content....

January 30, 2019

Antisemitic smear in BBC employee’s HMD tweet

A BBC employee's comment in Persian on Holocaust Memorial Day survey....

January 8, 2018

BBC’s Iran protests backgrounders fail to ameliorate years of omission

For years the BBC has avoided the topic of Iranian terror financing, so what happened when protester...

May 30, 2017

BBC News coverage of Iranian election touts ‘moderate’ Rouhani yet again

The BBC's portrayal of the Iranian presidential election puts inconvenient facts out of the frame....