Tehran Times: Iran’s Media Guerrillas on the Global Stage

Tehran Times: Iran’s Media Guerrillas on the Global Stage

U.S. laws and its unprecedented sanctions against the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic have created a massive gap between the narratives promoted by Western media and social platforms and the actual realities inside Iran. For example, despite the immense popularity of General Qassem Soleimani in Iran, content about this national figure is often removed from social media platforms. Meanwhile, false and misleading narratives about Iran are amplified, and unethical, anti-Islamic content is produced and promoted with direct support from these platforms. This is an unfair and imbalanced media war that undermines all journalistic principles.

Yet, one of Iran’s key media tools in this asymmetric battle has been the Tehran Times, a daily English-language newspaper. Especially in the past two years, it has exposed many of the falsehoods spread by mainstream Western media about Iran and the Resistance Front. Its reports have triggered angry reactions from Zionist officials and U.S. senators—one senator even complained that an Iranian newspaper published congressional news before American outlets!

Among its notable actions: revealing Netanyahu’s illness, exposing documents related to Robert Malley’s dismissal from the Iran file, supporting student movements against Zionist aggression in Gaza, and publishing the viral “Angels of Gaza” report. These efforts have broken the silence of global media and forced them to respond.