To be shocked that the BBC is silent on Iran?

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posting for traffic here because I know that I’m not BU but I want to hear what others think.

Isn it a bit strange that the Islamic Republic is about to be toppled, Trump is threatening action if Khomeini attacks Iranian citizens en mass… and all the BBC can report on is the fire in Switzerland??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JEe96RBX2QM

It’s literally the second story on the BBC news app and website.

Can you explain how that is ‘silent’? You’re making yourself look quite ridiculous OP, and you got the same replies to your thread yesterday too, do you think a new thread makes your unfounded claims any stronger because I don’t.

Quick screen grab of that in case OP can’t be bothered to actually check that.

And the BBC have reported on it for some time now - maybe you don't bother to seek out verified news from legitimate news websites like the BBC and just rely on squawking on social media. About a week ago, when the squawking of 'why aren't the BBC reporting this?' started, there was, indeed, news articles on their website regarding the rising protests and there have been ever since...

Well MNers, guess what?

The OP has liked both my posts disagreeing with her.

OP, if you wanted a thread about Iran you could have just started one in good faith.

This stupid reverse-type shit to create click-bait and get the word "Iran" into the Active or Trending lists is deeply tedious. It's manipulative. And it's sneering at ordinary MNers.

You seem to think we're just here for you to toy with.

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Most extraordinary.

Presumably you know a news source that is reporting more extensively, perhaps you could flag it up for us. If there is stuff going on not being covered by the BBC I'd really like to read about it. Thank you.

Just been first item on midday BBC R4 news.

A good sign of the BBC taking an international situation seriously is Lyse Doucet on R4. She was on this morning. Not sure if it was the first coverage with her or if it was early enough.

But I’m glad they’ve got onto it now.

In OPs last thread they claimed it wasn’t being reported on any MSM, which was proved wrong with tonnes of links to a variety of articles from across multiple sources, I guess if nothing else they’re unwittingly spreading this information to anyone on MN who may have missed this situation in the news?

Christ's sake, stop talking crap. They've been covering / leading with it for at least the last two days. Possibly more but I was busy earlier in the week.

Paltry article? They were running a live feed with constant updates. Not a solitary report.

I swear we need a war section on here.

How much more coverage could there be?

Yanbu. I am Iranian and have no idea why they are not showing the true extent of what is going on over there. Please please everyone pray for our country.

If Iran doesn’t interest you, not sure why, but there’s a hide the thread option

There is and I'll use it.

It's weird to put them in here 'for traffic'. It flushes out the war ghouls. I'd like a section where it was contained and not forced on anyone.

Second one on my active convos which is funny because I've read a lot more than two stories about this today in the 'main stream media'.

More astroturfing/ai botting on mumsnet.

Chocolatey, is there anywhere where we can find out more? I hope your family and friends are safe.

I was watching it on GBnews live last night.

The thing is that it's taken weeks for the BBC to report this , it's been simmering for months, and when the riots and protests really got going all the BBC reported for two weeks was about a fire o Switzerland. They are at least a month late with reporting on Iran

It’s being reported but they have no reporters there so cannot verify information. They are careful not to report rumour that isn’t substantiated by reputable news sources. They are telling us what is verified

It was just on the Radio 2 news headlines.

Exactly, this is what people who think they’re getting their news from X and the like need to recognise, anyone can write anything on a social media platform, it doesn’t mean it’s accurately being reported.

Somehow this is some kind of astroturfing claim, right ?

I mean, BBC have been covering this since late December.

What’s the goal here OP ? Who’s interests are you trying to foist on us ?

What do you mean by “silent”? It’s not on the Radio 2 breakfast show?

It’s covered on all serious news outlets they have.