With domestic politics settling after last weekend’s Presidential election, the spotlight in the Iranian media has turned to Syria and the promotion of Tehran’s ally Bashar al-Assad.
On Press TV’s 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 regime’s 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 on Fars English look 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 Ba’ath regime officials are involved in the production and procurement of [chemical] weapons to the Syrian terrorists”.

By Enduring America

 

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