Tehran

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...

August 2, 2024

Weekend long read

1) At WINEP, Matthew Levitt analyses ‘The Death of a Hezbollah Lifer’. “Born in 1961 or 1962, ...

August 1, 2024

BBC News website live page framing of Haniyeh assassination

When the news broke of the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran early on July 31st...

March 20, 2016

The Independent plays a willing part in the Ayatollahs’ Purim spiel

It is an astonishing phenomenon that western journalists leave their critical faculties at the door ...

July 15, 2015

Guardian omits Rouhani’s swipe at the “Zionist usurper regime”.

A Guardian editorial praising the Iranian nuclear deal (Guardian view on Iran nuclear deal: a triump...

July 14, 2015

Financial Times gives ‘three cheers’ to Iran nuclear deal, calls Bibi ‘delusional’

World powers today announced a final agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, a 100 plus page d...

December 20, 2013

Guardian editor struggles with Jewish Geography, but puts ‘Israeli hawks’ back in Jerusalem

On Nov. 18 we reminded readers that until the summer of 2012 the Guardian’s Style Guide stated ...

December 3, 2013

Execution, Inc.: Quick tutorial for Peter Beaumont on an Iranian moderate’s first 100 days

A guest post by Gidon Ben-Zvi Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor for the Guardian and Observer, ...

November 18, 2013

The Guardian AGAIN falsely suggests that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital

As absurd as it may seem to those unfamiliar with the ideological bias which colors most Israel rela...

September 8, 2013

Guardian report on Iranian president’s ‘Jewish New Year Tweet’ appears to be untrue

Jews who were online on the first day of Rosh Hashanah were treated to the following ‘good new...