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2025-06-25 23:14
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
How global citizens challenge the official story on Israeli strikes in Iran
TEHRAN - On June 13, 2025, Israeli airstrikes against Iran sparked a powerful wave of public reaction worldwide. Across continents, ordinary people expressed solidarity with Iran, mourning the loss of innocent lives and condemning what many view as unwarranted aggression.
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2025-06-20 01:53
How Western media is helping Israel engineer consensus to act against Iran
In the wake of Iran’s missile response on Israeli military centers, a wave of media and diplomatic reactions has started in the West and Israel seeking to pave the way for intensifying strikes and engineering a global consensus against Tehran through resorting to playing blame game and highlighting civilian casualties.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.