With domestic politics settling after last weekends Presidential election, the spotlight in the Iranian media has turned to Syria and the promotion of Tehrans ally Bashar al-Assad.
OnPress TVs website, five of the six most-read stories concern Syria, led by the report that the US State Department pressed for strikes on the Syrian regimes airstrips. Other leading articles including a Russian red line against foreign intervention translated as Western, not Iranian involvement and the spurious claim that the insurgent faction Jabhat al-Nusra has been assassinating officers from the Free Syrian Army, even as both fight the regime.
Three of four headline article onFars Englishlook to Syria, including a recycling of the allegation that the Syrian military seized Israeli weapons from insurgents and the portrayal of US Senators stunned by the advance of Assad forces. The top feature is the exaggeration that a statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed a detailed report by [Fars] last month which said former Baath regime officials are involved in the production and procurement of [chemical] weapons to the Syrian terrorists.