Operation Rising Lion

July 8, 2025

BBC News website amplification of unsubstantiated leaked claims

Two days after the US had conducted strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran, a BBC News website ...

July 2, 2025

BBC News can’t tell the difference between Israel and Iran

On June 27th the BBC News website published reporting by Lyse Doucet in Iran under the headline “T...

June 30, 2025

BBC News reports on ‘protests’ but fails to provide background

On June 23rd the BBC News website published two filmed reports on the topic of protests against the ...

June 29, 2025

Guardian corrects false Iranian death toll claim

An entry at the Guardian’s June 29 Middle East Live page, edited by Yohannes Lowe, erred in r...

June 27, 2025

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS Raz Zimmt discusses ‘The Israel–Iran War: Concluded but not Resolved’. “The f...

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...