Western media

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  • Iran 2025-04-26 17:42

    Security, kindness, and ancient history: what Western media don’t tell about Iran

    TEHRAN -- Iran, a country whose vivid image is mainly tarnished by mainstream Western media, offers a different world to its visitors. It is a country with rich history, hospitable people as well as unique natural and cultural attractions.

  • Mojtaba Khamenei 2025-01-11 22:12

    By Soheila Zarfam

    Why is Western media constantly lying about Mojtaba Khamenei?

    Washington Post becomes the latest outlet to spread blatant lies about the Leader’s son

    TEHRAN – The Western media's gaze, it seems, is perpetually fixed on Iran, with a particular fascination for the country's most important official, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution.  

  • iRAN SHIELD 2025/01/08

    By Mohammad Khatibi

    Turkey's foreign policy: anti-Israel posturing, Western alignment, and neo-Ottoman ambitions

    TEHRAN – Following the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad government in Damascus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's supporters and fervent loyalists have been boasting about a major victory for Turkey.

  • Nabih Berri 2024-11-04 22:01

    Lebanon Parliament Speaker rejects remarks attributed to him about Iran

    TEHRAN – The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament has denied remarks an American reporter attributed to him in a Washington Post article that attempts to paint the picture of a fragmented Lebanon with widespread opposition to the Hezbollah Resistance movement. 

  • Qaani's final shot at Western rumors 2024-10-15 21:25

    By Mona Hojat Ansari

    Qaani's final shot at Western rumors

    Quds Force chief undercuts Western media psychological war with appearance at public event

    TEHRAN – Impartiality and truthfulness are the cornerstones of responsible journalism, or so we're told. Yet, for the Western media, the blatant bias in favor of Israel and their unwavering commitment to serving the regime's interests, no matter the cost, has never been more obvious. 

  • presidnet 2024-09-23 21:26

    Pezeshkian calls for end to misrepresentation of Iran in meeting with top U.S. media figures

    TEHRAN – In a Monday meeting with senior managers of American media outlets in New York, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the false and negative image that Western media has often projected about Iran.

  • Haniyeh 2024-08-04 22:33

    By Mona Hojat Ansari

    Covering an assassination

    How Western media lies to protect Israel from the consequences of Haniyeh’s killing

    TEHRAN – The specter of an imminent Iranian retaliation hangs heavy over Israel as the regime scrambles to contain the fallout from the assassination of Hamas Political Chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. With that, Western media has returned to its familiar playbook, spreading unfounded claims like wildfire to protect Israel from facing the consequences of its actions. 

  • Pulp Fiction 2024-07-20 22:11

    By Mona Hojat Ansari

    Pulp Fiction

    Why and how has Reuters become a company of lies against Iran?

    TEHRAN – Western media has an old habit of oversimplifying and misrepresenting governments and political systems in other parts of the world, especially in Iran.

  • Economist 2024-05-21 22:30

    By Alireza Akbari

    Pipe Dream

    Economist's unrealistic analysis

    TEHRAN – In a recent article, The Economist delved into what it described as a "power struggle" following the martyrdom of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. However, the analysis appears more like wishful thinking than a grounded assessment.

  • Nika Shakarami 2024-04-30 21:49

    By Alireza Akbari

    BBC's sensational media campaign against Iran

    TEHRAN- The BBC has fabricated a groundless report surrounding the tragic death of Iranian teenager Nika Shakarami with a twofold motive: to inflame public sentiment and to deflect attention away from the intensifying crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrations within American university campuses.

  • media 2024-03-06 20:00

    By Alireza Akbari

    The West's media mirage

    TEHRAN- Western media outlets have consistently employed a rhetoric of double standards when it comes to portraying Iran's foreign policy initiatives. 

  • Jerusalem post 2024-02-28 21:59

    By Alireza Akbari

    Israel's electoral dream

    TEHRAN- In a recent editorial piece published by The Jerusalem Post, a concerted effort was made to sow seeds of hopelessness within the Iranian populace, casting doubt on the democratic processes in Iran.

  • Human right 2023-12-04 22:59

    By Ardalan Mohammadzadeh 

    Human rights, a tool to cover up Israel's crimes in Gaza 

    TEHRAN - Some Western think tanks, providing invalid information about the issue of human rights in Iran, make bids to deflect public opinion from the realities in the Gaza Strip.

  • Truth “beheaded” 2023-10-16 22:13

    By Mona Hojat Ansari

    Truth “beheaded”

    Parallel to killing of journalists in Gaza, Western media has become part of Israeli war machine

    TEHRAN - Children with burnt skin from head to toe, lifeless newborns with fractured skulls, and deceased unborn fetuses are the haunting images that remain unseen on Western media platforms. Instead, the focus of the West seems to be fixated on discussing the unsubstantiated claims of Hamas allegedly beheading 40 babies, which we now know to be false.

  • western 2023-10-10 22:22

    By Mona Hojat Ansari

    Western media: A tentacle of Israel

    TEHRAN – Palestinians are “dead” while Israelis are “getting killed”. That’s how the London-based BBC likes to refer to the casualties of the current military conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip. 

  • Shahab Esfandiary 2023-02-25 22:02

    By Shahab Esfandiary

    Stoning Iran: Examining western media's disinformation campaigns against Iran

    TEHRAN- A few years ago, I co-authored a chapter titled 'Stoning Iran: Strategic Narratives, Moral Authority and the Reporting of a Stoning Sentence' in a collection of essays published by I.B Tauris with the title 'Reporting the Middle East' (2017).

  • Dina Yulianti is Assistant Professor at Department of International Relations Universitas Padjadjaran Indonesia 2023-02-13 14:34

    By Professor Dina Yulianti

    The cognitive war against Iran and geopolitical shift

    It was freezing when I arrived in Tehran in December last year. I came to attend the third edition of the Tehran Dialogue Forum. The pollution of Tehran made the morning sun feel very gloomy, but the Christmas tree in the hotel lobby with colorful decorations brought back the mood.

  • کنعانی 2023-01-22 23:28

    The West’s media war on Iran doomed to die, official says

    TEHRAN- The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has criticized the Western media for applying different standards while reporting on the violence in the West and the rallies that fizzled out in Iran, highlighting how the hybrid and cognitive warfare against Iran is bound to fail.

  • Mohammad Shojaeian, Managing Director of Mehr Media Group 2022-10-25 00:17

    By Mohammad Shojaeian

    Unity against fake news

    TEHRAN-The 18th meeting of the general assembly of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) is underway in Tehran.

  • OANA great opportunity to end Western media monopoly 2022-10-24 19:22

    By Afshin Majlesi

    OANA great opportunity to end Western media monopoly

    60 media directors and editors-in-chief from 35 countries attend the OANA meeting in Tehran

    TEHRAN—Media experts from Asia and Oceania discussed threats and opportunities for journalism at the 18th Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies General Assembly, which began on Monday in Tehran.

  • Israeli PM 2022-06-14 21:34

    Israel resorts to bluffing amid ongoing talks 

    TEHRAN – Over the last few weeks, Israeli media outlets have magnified some deaths in Iran in such a way that suggests Israel's long arm inside Iran.