Iran

April 23, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At WINEP Ali Alfoneh provides a portrait of the new deputy commander of Iran’s Qods Force. “F...

April 23, 2021

Patchy challenges to Iranian propagandist on BBC World Service radio

Long-time readers may remember the Iranian regime apologist and English Literature professor Mohamma...

April 21, 2021

Natanz narratives on BBC Radio 4’s ‘PM’

BBC Radio 4’s coverage of the April 11th incident at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran included...

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...

April 19, 2021

Revisiting the redundancy of BBC reservations on Syrian reactor

On April 14th Kazem Gharibabadi, who describes himself as “Ambassador and Permanent Representative...

April 18, 2021

An idea so stupid that only a Guardian columnist can believe it

To paraphrase George Orwell, some arguments are so self-evidently stupid that only Guardian columnis...

April 9, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At WINEP Ghaith al-Omari and Robert Satloff discuss the ‘Context and Implications of Jordan’s...

March 21, 2021

Reviewing a decade of BBC reporting on Syria

A decade of BBC reporting on the civil war in Syria has produced some memorable moments such as the ...

March 19, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At WINEP Michael Milstein discusses the scheduled Palestinian elections. “An unusual convergenc...

March 16, 2021

Predictable messaging in BBC’s Syrian civil war feature

On March 12th a feature article titled “Why has the Syrian war lasted 10 years?” appeared on the...