US-Iran debates: Fake writers and state-funded trolling | The Listening Post On The Listening Post this week: Taxpayer-funded smears and a well-published but fake activist – worrying twists in the…
7 Reasons to Doubt US Version of Gulf-of-Oman Incident Given Pompeo’s regime-change agenda for Iran, Caitlin Johnstone pours cold water over his version of events.In a move that surprised exactly…
Backing Pompeo’s ‘Gulf of Tonkin’ incident is a massive anti-Iran online propaganda campaign Twitter has announced that it is removing 4,779 accounts associated or backed by Tehran, the latest strike…
Fake Iranian activist ‘Heshmat Alavi’ exposed The White House has used a completely made-up Iranian journalist to justify sanctions.
Fake Newsman: Anti-Iran Forbes “Writer” is a People’s Jihadi Front “Heshmat Alavi” who has published anti-Iran screeds in Forbes, the Daily Caller and other substandard rightwing venues, does not, according…
Outrage on Capitol Hill over ‘completely unacceptable’ US-funded scheme to shape Iran debate ‘This is something that happens in authoritarian regimes, not democracies’ United States officials say they are outraged…
Why does the U.S. need trolls to make its Iran case? This weekend, a new wrinkle was added to the ongoing saga about the information war over Iran policy: the…
Murtaza Hussain has reported an important story on the ongoing propaganda campaign sponsored by the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) cult. This is the group of discredited Iranian exiles that has been…
An Iranian Activist Wrote Dozens of Articles for Right-Wing Outlets. But Is He a Real Person? In 2018, President Donald Trump was seeking to jettison the landmark nuclear deal that…
Anti-Iran Terrorists Making Inroads into US Lobby Groups The MKO terrorist organisation is spreading Iranophobia by making inroads on certain lobby groups inside the US administration, an Iranian newspaper says,…