A review of what US President Donald Trump and US media have said just over the past few days reveals a massive wave of lies—lies that are fully verifiable and can also help recognize other media biases of the enemy.
For example, three days ago Trump said that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were on their way to Islamabad, Pakistan. He then said that US Vice President JD Vance would not be present in Islamabad due to security issues.
If Trump’s statement is taken at face value, then several meetings of the second round of Iran-US talks should already have been held. Witkoff and Kushner should also have returned to the United States! It is obvious that this news was false, and more importantly, its falsity became clear within a few hours.
Such dishonesty was not limited to Trump. Almost all American media outlets, and even some non-American ones, are involved in and even competing in this misinformation; from Axios, which is known as a “corporation of lies”, to the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, CBS, ABC, CNN, and others. To test this claim, it is enough to review the news these media outlets have published over the past three days regarding the Iranian delegation’s arrival in Pakistan’s Islamabad. According to them, by now six rounds of talks should have already taken place, Iran should have accepted the US dictates, and Iranians should now be in Tehran!
However, the crux of the matter is that many of the lies spread by US and British media, as well as Israeli media (from Hebrew-language outlets to Persian-language ones such as Iran International), about Iran are not so easily exposed. In confronting them, above all, media literacy among the public must be improved.
For example, Western officials and media—and most recently Bloomberg—after observing the Iranian negotiating team’s resistance to US demands, are once again spreading new illusions. For instance, promoting the idea of disagreement between the administration, the IRGC, and Qalibaf as speaker of the Parliament has become a consistent narrative line.
These media outlets have no real evidence for such claims. On the contrary, all official and public positions of these groups confirm a strong unity and cohesion. Therefore, they are forced to rely on imaginary informed sources or their own fabricated narratives, repeatedly claiming that there are differences within Iran’s political structure.
The reality is that so far there has been an unprecedented level of cohesion between the Iranian administration, Parliament, IRGC, and Qalibaf, and all components of Iran’s political system agree on standing firm against US’ excessive demands.
The Americans’ hope of creating divisions in this area is similar to their reliance on foolish calculations that dragged them into war. Now, after 40 days of full-scale war, not only have they achieved none of their objectives, but they are struggling to reopen a strait that was open before the war and has been closed because of it.