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The Ayatollahs Are Tottering. Only the BBC Hasn't Noticed

(Telegraph-UK) Charles Moore - Reporting on Gaza, the BBC repeatedly complains that journalists are forbidden entry to the area by Israel. This then becomes an excuse for repeating uncritically every line of Hamas and the UN agencies. In the case of Iran, the BBC reminds audiences that it is not allowed there, but does not criticize Iran for this. Instead, it concentrates on reporting from Israel, where it tries to make as much of the war damage as possible. In global power politics, this is arguably the biggest news story since the end of the Cold War. Yet the BBC muffles the plight of Iran and sets up a sort of moral equivalence in which the two countries "trade blows." It does not remind us that Israel attacked because it is the policy of Iran to destroy it and it has nearly reached the nuclear capacity to do so. Nor does it mention that most of the Iranian attacks target civilians, whereas none of the Israeli ones do. Its reporting also gives the impression that the effect of Iranian bombing of Israel is devastating. It is horrible all right but, so far at least, largely ineffective. Signing off from the scene of an Iranian raid on Bat Yam on the "Today" program, Anna Foster complained not about the Iranian raids whose effects she had just seen with her own eyes, but about "what has been a dangerous and provocative raid on Iran." The writer, a member of the House of Lords, is a former editor of the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, and the Sunday Telegraph.
2025-06-17 00:00:00
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