Iranian nuclear programme

February 24, 2015

BBC News website parrots Guardian’s leaked cable spin

One really would think that by now the BBC should have learned to take the serial Israel-related jou...

November 28, 2014

BBC’s Bowen dumbs down and distorts the Iranian nuclear issue

h/t S BBC coverage of the latest P5+1 talks with Iran in Vienna on November 24th included both filme...

March 20, 2014

A soft view of Iran through the BBC’s Doucet filter

The BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet recently accompanied the EU’s Ca...

March 7, 2014

BBC News website self-conscripts to ‘Mini Me’ role on Klos-C weapons interception

Consider this: on March 6th the foreign minister of Iran, Javad Zarif, put out the following chronol...

December 12, 2013

Does BBC coverage of the P5+1 deal with Iran adequately promote audience understanding of the issue?

When the P5+1 signed the interim agreement with Iran on November 24th the BBC’s coverage of th...

November 30, 2013

What have BBC audiences been told about the P5+1 deal with Iran?

Some of the groundwork for the prevalent themes used in the BBC’s later coverage of the news t...

October 16, 2013

New BBC backgrounder on Iranian nuclear programme

For months now the BBC News website has been making do with a pro-forma statement (or versions of it...