BBC Persia: Mouthpiece of the Mullahs?
The movie Iranium premiered on February 8, and has made a lot of noise since then. First, the Iranian Embassy in Canada tried to prevent it from being shown. Then Islamic thugs threatened the organizers. Then the Iranian Foreign Ministry released a statement saying the documentary shows Western countries will do anything to hurt Iran’s nuclear activities. Quite clearly, the Islamic regime is fearful of this documentary, which vividly reveals the truth of Iran’s three decades of terrorism, human rights violations, and the dangers of nuclear arms in the hands of the radicals ruling Iran.
However, BBC Persia, in its recent coverage of the movie, has topped Iran’s own PR attempts.
BBC Persia began their coverage by introducing Iranium’s director, Alex Traiman, as an Israeli who resides in a Jewish city in the West Bank — rather than refer to the state of Israel. Then, BBC described the production company, Clarion, as the one that previously produced Radical Islam’s War Against the West, and subsequently was accused of “Islamophobia.”
BBC Persia then described two of the film’s interviewees — John Bolton and Kenneth Timmerman — as men famous for promoting war against Iran. BBC Persia then interviewed people known for their activities promoting appeasement of the mullahs in Iran. These subjects further trashed the movie, claiming it is a product of warmongers and neocons who only want war with Iran.
The BBC Persia narrator claimed that those criticizing the movie say it is full of exaggerations, and further say it has rewritten history to include claims of Iran’s connection to the 9/11 attack, wrong translations of Ayatollah Khomeini’s statements (it is quite clear that Khomeini has said to shed blood for Islam), and claims that over one hundred thousand political prisoners have been killed by the Iranian regime since the Revolution.
The BBC then interviewed someone who claimed to be one of the leaders of Green Movement. He objected to the movie and invited the public to join him on his Facebook page — this Facebook page’s members attack America and Israel, and voice the same slogans that are often heard coming from Islamic thugs.
The narrator concludes that the screening of Iranium and the warm reception it has received from Republicans could be a sign of strong actions against the Iranian regime in the coming months.
It is quite strange that BBC Persia has provided such biased coverage, which can only be interpreted as appeasement of the Islamic regime in Iran — it carried the same line of criticism and allegations that the regime itself voices! It is also strange that the BBC reporter introduces the film by making sure that the audience knows the director is an Israeli, and a Jew.
Why did the BBC avoid mentioning the human rights violations of the savage regime in Iran or its terrorist activities over the last thirty years, which have been vividly shown in this documentary and documented in history? Why did it not address the consequences of a nuclear bomb in the hands of a messianic regime which has no respect for humanity, freedom, and democracy? And why would anyone play down the potential dangers of such a regime acquiring the ultimate weapon of mass destruction?
Is BBC Persia a mouthpiece of the Islamic regime in Iran?
Not surprising whatsoever. Britain is a Muslim nation now. The British government pays Muslims to go to Afghanistan and fight against the US and Britain. There are articles pointing to the absolute insanity of this and nothing is done.
Go to Afghanistan for a few months and fight and then go back home to Britain and rest up for a while, all the while getting money and lodging from the British government.
Insanity!
Not exactly true. I admit that it’s bad here, but let’s stick to the truth, which I have depicted below.
“It is quite strange…”
Unfortunately, as one who is obliged by law to pay for the BBC’s existence, I no longer find this very strange at all. It represents two worrying trends in the BBC: its relentless bias against Israel and its curious favouritism towards Muslims. You don’t need to listen to BBC Persia to detect either of these; they are staples of the main output of the BBC.
Any Middle Eastern news story will be given an anti-Israeli slant by the BBC somehow, while a discussion topic about religion is ten times more likely to feature a Muslim than a Hindu, Sikh, or Jew. The BBC routinely sneers at Christianity and (obliquely, via Israel) at Judaeism, but never mouths even the most gentle criticism of Islam. Making jokes about Baptists, the Chief Rabbi, or the Pope? Go ahead! You want to make a joke about Muslims? Racist!
If the BBC reports so-called “honour killings” at all, you can be sure that it won’t feel any need to mention the religion of the perpetrators. Muslim terrorists are only ever described as “militants”. We in Britain are pretty offended by President Obama’s unfailing ability to disregard the efforts of British soldiers in Afghanistan, but, to be fair, he is probably taking his cue from the BBC.
You have to remember that the “Guardian” paper in Britain has been aptly described as the “house magazine” of the BBC, which advertises its job vacancies only in the Guardian (a scandal which many hoped the present government in Westminster would have made some attempt to stop). I hope it’s OK to post URLs here, because the great Melanie Phillips, with the help of Ron Prosor, Israel’s Ambassador to London, eviscerated the Guardian brilliantly just the other day, far better than I ever could:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6672569/beyond-the-pale.thtml
I’m surprised you feel this kind of reporting from the BBC is strange. If you’d like to know more I suggest you go to one of the many sites reporting on their manipulations. Here’s a link to Honest Reporting. This particular page is dated July, 2007 and gives a convenient 6-month analysis.
http://honestreporting.com/6-month-analysis-of-the-bbc-the-subtle-bias-2/
Don’t worry, every Iranian listens to and hates the BBC. That’s why the BBC dares not to allow us to post anything on their site.
Well, it’s fairly obvious that it is!
When there is such a consistent pattern of playing down faults and playing up virtues with certain people and regimes, as against playing up faults and playing down virtues of other people and regimes, one can clearly see there is an agenda at work.
It is so simple and yet it fools enough people enough of the time to do the dirty work.
I wonder what the final objective is? Total totalitarianism?
“It is quite strange that BBC Persia has provided such biased coverage,”…
Why? The BBC itself is virulently anti-Israel so by default are pro-Islamic. Almost any international news outlet makes Fox News sound like Air America. Solve biased media coverage and suddenly the world will be a much more peaceful place.
The BBC has been a shill for islamists,and very anti-semitic for a long time. You don’t have to look hard to find any evidence of their leanings in most of their news stories.
The Arabic beneath BBC in the above logo is pronounced “farce”. Coincidence?
OK, on second look it’s Farsi.
But I think my first interpretation makes sense too
BBC has always been the mouthpiece of Islam, Arabs who have the strongest anti West and Islamic values and all that is anti West, anti Israel and anti Persian. They destroyed Persia in 1978 by becoming the most fervent propaganda machine for Khomeini and his thugs.
They even produced cassette tapes of Khomeini’s ranting speeches and distributed for free to people!!!
This nice article is just a little example of BBC’s long history of anti West, anti Persians and Pro Islam bias.
One doesn’t need to watch the Persian version of the BBC to know that it is a PC addled outfit, and laughably so. BBC America is in the same category; its take on the truth—supposedly modified to make it somewhat more palatable to Americans—is only slightly less biased than its World version, which I have viewed many time while overseas. The people that run the BBC, and maybe their reporters too, have never met an Islamic thug they could easily condemn. One has to give the BBC the benefit of the doubt as to whether or not they actually like these Islamic psychopaths.
I think that Bill Lawrence is right – it has to be farce because even Google Translate does not have a language called farsi. It has Persian, Persian language, not farsi.
As for the mouthpiece of mullahs – I have heard from some Iranians that BBC is quite sympathetic to IRI and sometimes its programs in Persian are even more pro-IRI and pro-mullahs than its programs in English.
On the plus side, the BBC World Service is getting pruned pretty vigorously. Last I heard, however, BBC Khomeini wasn’t on the receiving end. I’m investigating how best to complain about this outrageously biased report. I don’t expect any meaningful results right now, but it will provide more ammunition, come the day when we finally get to kill the BBC.
“Is BBC Persia a mouthpiece of the Islamic regime in Iran?”
The BBC itself is a mouthpiece for all Islamists, not just those in Iran.
It is an anti-Western news organization that leeches off
the public dole, a public it despises.
The BBC is responsible for the huge increase in antisemitism in the UK.
Rather than repeat what is well known to many who listen to the BBC News desk, let us ask why this should be.
The BBC doesn’t hesitate to criticize their own country, or most other western countries. Why bend over backwards to coddle these people? Have they forgotten who funds their salaries?
Gork
But you don’t answer your question.
Yes, BBC is funded by taxpayers but because taxpayers do not -en masse- complain, BBC has carte blanche to air the views their journalists have. And majority of BBC journalists have leftist views. They may even actually believe that propagation of their views will help UK and the West to became closer to what the ideal state should be like. However their ideal is the Orwell world and they, themselves, are useful idiots – at best and the bitter enemies of the West – at worst.
It is like you just described our US government!
The islamic terrorist own Britain, the Brit`s are so afraid of the muslims, that parts of Britain have already been conceded to the muslims. Do not laugh American`s because the same thing is happening here in the states, just do a little investigation on your own. The muslims have no fear of America and operate openly here in America to our own down fall!
It’s not a question that those of us who are blackmailed into having to pay for the BBC don’t complain. When we do, we are routinely ignored or fobbed off. The Balen Report, an independent report into the BBC’s anti-Israel agenda, has been hidden away from sight by the BBC powers-that-be, after having spent over £200,000 to stop it from being published. It’s remarkable how many ‘Jews’ work for the BBC and I have heard of normal Jewish kids working for the organisation who were once pro-Israel and Zionist having been brainwashed into uttering the most anti-Semitic sentiments.