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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's your source that the NY Times is using Iranian propaganda and that what you say is fact?  Bellingcat.com is not a legitimate news source.  Sorry that your education was so poor that you can't see that.[/quote]

Bellingcat's already been addressed.  They are definitely legitimate.

As for NYT, there are indeed several examples where the New York Times repeated claims originating from Iranian state media without clearly signaling how unverified or politically curated those claims were. The clearest case is the Minab school strike: early NYT reporting relied strictly on Iranian state‑media narrative and casualty numbers, without any independent corroboration or verification and completely left out that the obvious intended target was the adjacent IRGC naval facility.  The NYT’s initial framing gave the Iranian narrative a veneer of factual certainty it hadn’t earned.

There have been many other similar issues with NYT’s reporting on nationwide casualty figures and alleged strikes on civilian infrastructure. The paper often cited Iranian state media as the source but didn’t bother noting that foreign journalists cannot freely operate in Iran, that the government tightly controls information, or that Tehran has a long, documented history of exaggerating, inflating or outright fabricating wartime claims for propaganda. As a result, a number of unverified and untrue Iranian assertions were presented by NYT as though they were factual baseline data rather than contested or unconfirmed reports.[/quote]

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