News media coverage has often failed to note the complex relationship between Shi'ite-ruled Iran and the Sunni terror group calling itself the Islamic State. Hint: They haven't always been enemies.
Jason Rezaian makes an odd target for Iranian leaders. Washington Post editors have appealed to U. N. officials to help free the paper's imprisoned Iran correspondent.
As news coverage focused on nuclear talks with Tehran, CAMERA's Op-Ed in The Hill newspaper focused on a media mirage: a “moderating” Iran.
Coverage of new sanctions against Iran for its presumed nuclear weapons program often omits context of Iran’s repeated anti-America attacks. A CAMERA Op-Ed supplies it. 
CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, has prompted a correction on an Independent Op-Ed by Robert Fisk in which he had falsely claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu called Hassan Rouhani an "anti-Semite." As news organizations blatantly mischaracterize statements recently made by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, a number of Farsi-speakers challenge CNN's account of his supposed "acknowledgment" of the Holocaust. .jpg)
News reports about Twitter posts by Iranian officials caused a stir in the media. But context and skepticism are important in journalism, even when reporters really want to believe. 
Early news reporting about Iranian president-elect Hassan Rouhani tossed around "moderate," "pragmatist" and "centrist." It was left too often to opinion writers and think tank analysts to supply journalistic details.