Dozens of Armenians held a demonstration in front of the UN mission in Tehran on 16 April 2014. They were protesting against alleged massacres committed by Syrian rebels against the Armenian residents of the northern town of Kasab in March 2014. [1] Similar protests had been held […]
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Do they really exist? Several Iranian state-controlled media last week circulated a story, originally published by Bultan News [1], about a young Saudi woman who allegedly travelled to Syria a few months ago to carry out ‘sex jihad’, where she became pregnant with an Islamist fighter’s child. […]
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Iranian president Hassan Rohani claimed on Wednesday that his government “is resolved to fight terrorism and has the necessary political will to bring peace and stability to the region.” “Free elections in Syria would work to eliminate the concerns,” he added. “It is highly important for Iran […]
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Hezbollah Lebanon’s leader Hasan Nasrallah made a televised speech on 16 February 2014, in which he elaborated on the supposed reasons for the group’s involvement in the Syria war. But what he had to say can only be described as scare-mongering and justifying one crime with another. […]
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As Hezbollah Lebanon started its military campaign in Yabroud, Syria, the group’s official TV channel, Al-Manar, surprised its audience with a war-mongering song entitled “The Victory of Yabroud”. Ali Barakat’s song was broadcast by Al-Manar TV on 16 February 2014, three days after the little-known Lebanese Shia […]
Read more →Iranian state-controlled media were filled with an extensive coverage of the ‘failure’ of the Geneva II international conference on Syria. Many Iranian news agencies implied that Iran’s absence was a reason for this ‘failure’, arguing that the only ‘hope’ for the world that the negotiations may bring […]
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Hezbollah Lebanon seems to have found a justification for its new military campaign against the Syrian town of Yabroud, and the wider Qalamon region on the Lebanese border. “Yabroud is the main source of the explosive-rigged cars” that have targeted civilian areas in Lebanon (mainly Hezbollah strongholds) […]
Read more →During an official ceremony for the 35th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, which took place in Teheran’s Azadi Square on 11 February 2014, President Hassan Rouhani claimed Iran did not interfere in the affairs of other countries. The official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted Rouhani saying […]
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It depends on who is reporting. If it’s Fars News and other Iranian state-controlled media, then it’s obviously “the terrorists”. No need to check or verify. We all know it, don’t we? Well, let’s have a proper look. As part of a truce agreed on at the […]
Read more →If you watch Iranian mainstream TV or read official Iranian newspapers, the impression you often get from their coverage of what’s happening in Syria is that the country is going through a ‘civil war’ between al-Assad’s government, allegedly so beloved and supported by ‘Syrian people’, and various […]
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