“Reuters, AP, AFP published 2 million words against Iran in 20 years”
TEHRAN (Basirat) :A former Iranian lawmaker and journalist says the Western media, particularly the AFP, Reuters, and the Associated Press, are fixated on tarnishing the image of the Islamic Republic and weakening the resolve of the Iranian people who resist against the bullying western powers.
Bijan Nobaveh, a former correspondent for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
at UN headquarters in New York who later became a member of Iran’s parliament,
said the Western governments are fairly wary of the revolutionary Iran and have
established dozens of media outlets tasked with influencing the attitude of the
Iranian people.
"To advance their agenda regarding the communists [Soviet Union], arrogant
powers established a radio channel called ‘superior life’. But after the Islamic
Revolution, they have created over 100 television and radio channels that
publish anti-Islamic Republic content in Persian. This indicates the importance
of the Islamic Republic, which is a source of fear for arrogant powers,” he
said.
Speaking in a recent meeting on history of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in
Tehran, Nobaveh said the Western governments have also employed western media
giants to fight Iran.
According to my research, over the past 20 years, the three big news agencies
of Reuters, AFP and AP have published two million words against the Islamic
Republic, most of which were aimed at changing the Iranian peoples’ lifestyle
and beliefs, Tasnim News Agency quoted him as saying.
Source:IFP
