Iran

June 27, 2025

BBC portrayals of IRGC-QF commanders fail to fully inform

Two reports which appeared in the ‘updates’ section of the BBC News website’s ‘Middle Eastâ€...

June 25, 2025

Guardian defends Iran from ‘accusations’ it has attacked Americans

A Guardian op-ed by Rajan Menon, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Saltzman Insti...

June 24, 2025

BBC Verify demonstrates selective use of ‘evidence and assessments’

On the evening of June 18th the BBC News website published a 2:38 minute-long filmed item titled “...

June 23, 2025

Financial Times and Guardian push ‘tail wagging the dog’ trope

On June 22, 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the US Air Force to deploy a group of B-2 bombers ...

June 23, 2025

Inaccuracy and omission in BBC report on Geneva talks

On the evening of June 20th the BBC News website published a report credited to freelancer Rachel Mu...

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 20, 2025

Weekend long read

1) At the FDD, Bridget Toomey and Andrea Stricker profile ‘The 9 Iranian Nuclear Scientists Israel...

June 19, 2025

Telegraph’s Beirut reporter promotes ‘Axis of Resistance’ talking points

The Telegraph is something of an outlier in the UK in its commitment to accurate and morally clear r...

June 18, 2025

Financial Times legitimises Iranian regime’s propaganda arm

The Financial Times, which fancies itself as “recognised internationally for its authority, in...

June 18, 2025

Omissions in BBC report about strike on Iran state TV building

In the early hours of June 17th the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten headlined â...