You’re welcome to your own opinions but some of your arguments here are trivial to debunk.
Literally the first article on the BBC News homepage is an about Iran with accounts from doctors and others critical of the regime.
This is the exact opposite of what you claimed we’d find.
My recommendation here is: if your research is this sloppy for your most trivial to check argument, then maybe you should spend a little time reviewing your other assumptions and whether you believe them out of faith or through research.
The first pieces of coverage from the BBC were on day >10, after internet blackout and hundreds of deaths, and to copy-paste a statement from Khamenei.
> A BBC spokesperson said: "These criticisms are factually incorrect; we have been covering the protests in Iran daily across all of our platforms, including our main news bulletins, in English and via BBC News Persian."
I’m sure you’ll then respond with some opinion piece about how you perceive the quality of reporting, but that’s a more nuanced, subjective, argument. One which I don’t see any value discussing given the clear biases and agendas behind your arguments (ie it wouldn’t be fair, rational, and balanced discussion)
However for the “facts” of your comment, they’re clearly and easily disproven.
Coverage is not the mere existence of an article. Coverage is what's visible. Anyone concerned about Iran was clearly seeing for the whole first week of Jan that there were 0 visible article on the BBC and a few others, this has been turned into memes, captured on screenshots, etc, there is ample evidence, just type "Iran bbc" on X.
But this probably a collective hallucination I get it.
Literally the first article on the BBC News homepage is an about Iran with accounts from doctors and others critical of the regime.
This is the exact opposite of what you claimed we’d find.
My recommendation here is: if your research is this sloppy for your most trivial to check argument, then maybe you should spend a little time reviewing your other assumptions and whether you believe them out of faith or through research.