Iranian nuclear programme

March 30, 2016

BBC Two’s ‘Inside Obama’s White House’: unchallenging and uncritical

BBC Two has been showing a series titled ‘Inside Obama’s White House’ and the thir...

March 10, 2016

BBC News promotes Iranian missile ‘deterrent’ propaganda

In the past couple of days the BBC News website has produced two articles on the topic of Iranian ba...

December 17, 2015

BBC continues to promote ‘peaceful’ Iranian nuclear programme theme

December 15th saw the appearance of an article titled “Global nuclear watchdog IAEA ends Iran ...

December 9, 2015

More superficial BBC reporting on Iranian nuclear programme PMDs

December 2nd saw the appearance of an article titled “IAEA: Iran worked on developing nuclear ...

September 25, 2015

Weekend long read

Back in July, BBC coverage of the P5+1 deal with Iran included assurances from some of the corporati...

September 3, 2015

More BBC downplaying of Iranian destabilisation of the Middle East

An article by the BBC’s diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus which appeared in the ‘...

August 31, 2015

BBC amplification of Iranian regime charm offensive misleads audiences

BBC audiences could not have failed to notice the dominant theme promoted in the headlines of the pl...

August 21, 2015

Superficial and inaccurate BBC reporting on cross-border incident in northern Israel

At around 5:30 pm on the afternoon of August 20th, four missiles fired from Syria hit areas on the l...

August 18, 2015

BBC WS airbrushing of the Iranian regime – part two

A segment heard in a BBC World Service radio programme on August 15th displays similar issues to tho...

August 9, 2015

An Iranian story the BBC chose not to translate

Last week IranWire reported a story which opens as follows: “Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcas...