Within two weeks, the Islamic Regime of Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi sat down with Fox News and CNN and repeated the claim that the brutal killings of protesters were somehow an “Israeli plot.” On Fox, Bret Baier didn’t just nod along. He pressed and challenged Aragchi. On CNN, however, Frederik Pleitgen just let the claim float...and carried on.
Walter Lippmann warned that journalism’s highest duty is to tell the truth and shame the devil—yet CNN did neither. Instead, its interview with Tehran’s top propagandist aired conspiracy, threats, and historical revisionism without challenge.
Iran's regime took to the Wall Street Journal to promote its narrative that the protesters it has slaughtered in the thousands were terrorists. Western audiences must not allow themselves to be fooled.
In his Jan. 20 Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Iran’s Government Defends Its Crackdown,” Iranian Foreign Minister Sayed Abbas Araghchi advanced a familiar regime narrative in which domestic dissent is recast as a security threat to justify brutal repression. It is a narrative specifically concocted to appeal to Western audiences, and one frequently employed against Iranian women’s rights activists.
CNN has been quick to note it can’t independently verify death tolls in Iran. But when it comes to Gaza, the network has no problem reporting casualty figures from Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.
While the Guardian won’t go all the way toward celebrating Khamenei, his country’s role as an enemy of the Jewish state they loathe means that its editors will never bring themselves to encouraging the downfall of the totalitarian regime and "axis of resistance" he built.
By leaving out the coordination between Iran and Venezuela the BBC turns a story about two deeply connected allies engaged in long-standing cooperation against US interests into a story about random American aggression, and it turns Iran and Hezbollah from internationally connected, savvy geopolitical actors with sophisticated financial networks into isolated and purely reactive characters in a Western-centric world.
Six years after The Times’ notorious publication of a vile antisemitic cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as a guide dog wearing a Jewish star collar leading a blind, kippah-clad President Trump, antisemitic tropes take firm root in countless media outlets globally.
More terror tunnels were found hiding behind Gaza's hospitals. Sanctions are crippling the Iranian regime. After over two years, the hostages are finally coming home.
