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TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – An advisor to the commander of IRGC Ground Forces has said that the equations of power have been changed in the region in favor of the Resistance Front.

Anti-Muslim bias in British media is off the charts. Will anyone step in? Faisal Hanif on Wed, 03/11/2026 - 23:04 In a study examining more than 40,000 articles, a stunning 70 percent framed Islam or its practitioners in a negative light GB News ranked among the worst across every bias indicator, according to a new study from the Centre for Media Monitoring (Screenshot/GB News) Off Let us dispense with the polite fiction that British journalism treats Muslims fairly. It does not. And the data, now more comprehensive than ever before, proves it beyond any reasonable doubt. The Centre for Media Monitoring has just published the findings of the most rigorous analysis of Muslim representation in the British media ever undertaken. The study examined 40,913 articles across 30 major news outlets - an entire year of coverage dissected, coded and measured against five clear indicators of bias.  The conclusion is damning: nearly half of all British media coverage of Muslims in 2025 was biased. Half: this does not point to fringe outliers, but rather a systemic problem. Seventy percent of all articles analysed associated Muslims or Islam with negative themes or behaviours. And here is the methodological point that makes this figure even harder to dismiss: the study did not restrict itself to articles where Muslims were the central subject.  A singular, passing mention was sufficient to enter the dataset. By that measure, the methodology was generous, even lenient. And yet nearly half still came back biased. The 50 percent figure might be a floor, not a ceiling. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Now place that alongside the historical record. Five years ago, the centre published an assessment of more than 48,000 articles published during a 12-month period spanning 2018-19 using the same parameters. The negative framing rate was then around 60 percent; it has now reached 70 percent. This is not a marginal drift, but structural deterioration.  Coverage of Muslims has not just become more hostile. It has become more obsessive. The British media is producing articles about Muslims with greater contempt than ever before. Commentator Peter Oborne was not being hyperbolic when he said it is getting worse - much worse. The data confirms it. Distorted terminology  The right-wing media is no longer reporting on Muslims. It is campaigning against them.  There is a difference between covering a community and targeting it; between scrutinising a religion and weaponising it. The outlets at the core of this crisis have made their choice: the Spectator, GB News, the Daily Telegraph, the Jewish Chronicle, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail and the Times.  These are not peripheral voices. These are the institutions that set the agenda. And they are, by the evidence of this report, systematically hostile towards British Muslims. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Look at the language. The report’s analysis of distorted terminology reads like a lexicon assembled by people who want Muslims gone: gangs of Muslim men, murderous ideology, hate march, death cult, Islamist Jew-haters, overthrowing modernity, rampaging.  The right-wing media is no longer reporting on Muslims. It is campaigning against them These are not descriptors. They are weapons. GB News, despite its recent launch, ranked among the worst across every bias indicator. One headline from 2025 captures the editorial culture perfectly: “Let me be impolite: Muslims are racist against Jews”. The writer’s contempt is framed as courage. When bigotry is marketed as bravery, you are no longer in journalism. You are in incitement. The Spectator recorded the highest concentration of severe bias, with more than one in four of its articles classified as “very biased”. This is not a publication that occasionally stumbles into prejudice; it is one for which anti-Muslim hostility appears consistently.  The Spectator also published a piece expressing apparent bewilderment that Prime Minister Keir Starmer would wish people Eid Mubarak. That a British leader acknowledging one of the most widely observed religious occasions in this country is treated as something requiring explanation, tells you everything you need to know about the terms on which Muslim presence in public life is still being contested. And the campaign has not paused for the new year. Into 2026 it continues, with Muslim democratic participation now in the crosshairs. The framing of Muslim voters exercising their rights as sectarian voting, as family voting blocs, as something suspect and coordinated, is the latest addition to the Islamophobic lexicon.  When a Muslim person votes, it is bloc voting. When a Muslim community organises, it is a threat to democracy. These are the terms of those who campaign against Muslims in print - and of those who, stripped of pretence, simply wish we were not here at all. 'Dangerous and poisonous' One finding implicates everyone, not just the right-wing media. Contextual omission, the failure to provide information that would allow a reader to understand a story properly, was found in 44 percent of biased articles. It is the single most prevalent media failure in the entire dataset. And it does not require malice.  Cover a story about extremism without contextualising the infinitesimal numbers involved. Quote a politician’s inflammatory remarks without a word of pushback. None of this requires hatred; it requires only negligence. But negligence, repeated across thousands of articles and dozens of outlets, becomes indistinguishable from malice in its effects. The BBC recorded the lowest rates of bias across all metrics. In a landscape this bleak, that matters. It demonstrates that it is possible to cover Muslims and Islam at scale, under commercial and political pressures, without resorting to dehumanising framing.  UK media revels in hate after Manchester synagogue attack  Read More » Public service obligations are not just regulatory bureaucracy. They are a meaningful check on the worst instincts of the industry - which makes the case for defending them, in the current political climate, more urgent than ever.  Kevin Maguire, one of British journalism’s most experienced voices, called the centre’s findings “shameful, dangerous and poisonous”. He is right. And the fact that a journalist of his standing felt compelled to say so publicly is itself a measure of how far things have deteriorated. The question is no longer whether this is happening. The data has settled that. The question is what happens next. Do editors read this report and make genuine changes to commissioning, to training, to the culture of their newsrooms? Do regulators, who have shown a spectacular appetite for looking the other way, finally act with the seriousness this evidence demands?  Do politicians, many of whom have fed off and amplified this hostility for electoral gain, reckon honestly with their own complicity? Or do we file this report alongside all the ones that came before it, express concern in the appropriate quarters, and wait for the next study to confirm what we already know? British Muslims are not asking for special treatment. They are asking for the same basic standards of accuracy and fairness extended to every other community. That is the minimum requirement of a functioning media in a democratic society. The minimum is not being met. The people failing to meet it know exactly who they are. And so, now, does everyone else. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye. 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TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – Speaker of Iran's Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has reacted to the crash of an American refueling aircraft in Iraq.

Thousands across Iran join rallies in solidarity with Palestine, chanting against Israel and the United States.

US-Israeli attack kills woman near Tehran rally, report says Shrapnel from US-Israeli strikes killed an Iranian woman attending Al-Quds march in Tehran, Press TV reported. Shrapnel from US-Israeli airstrikes kills an Iranian attending the International Quds rallies. https://t.co/mLGcUTS2ei pic.twitter.com/7pNre5kM4I March 13, 2026

A state visit is a connecting of people, not governments; of cultures, not commentators – our national bonds should be honoured Should King Charles’s state visit to the United States next month be cancelled? The case for doing so is powerful. America is waging an unprovoked war on Iran in which more than 1,000 innocent people have already been killed. The collateral damage to the global economy, including Britain’s, is becoming astronomical. All Donald Trump can do is insult Britain’s prime minister as a “loser” and “no Winston Churchill” for failing to join him. Should the monarch honour such a man by attending a Washington banquet? The call is close. The occasion is the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States with the declaration of independence. Of course this merits celebration. But now? British public opinion is emphatically opposed to the US war on Iran. Many more Britons think the royal visit should be abandoned (46%) than think it should go ahead (36%), with 18% undecided. Just as the war is staged by Trump for personal political gain, so he can be expected to exploit a royal visit. Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist and the author of A Short History of America: from Tea Party to Trump Continue reading...

Israeli defence minister threatens to raze Lebanese national infrastructure MEE staff on Fri, 03/13/2026 - 09:48 Israel Katz warns Lebanese government it will 'pay an increasing price' until Hezbollah is disarmed Off Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has threatened to destroy Lebanese national infrastructure used by Hezbollah until the group is disarmed. Katz said the Lebanese government had "misled and failed to uphold its commitment to disarm Hezbollah," warning that it will "therefore pay a price until it fulfils that obligation". His comments follow a statement by the Israeli military claiming it had struck a bridge on the Litani River, which it said had been used by Hezbollah fighters. “This is only the beginning, and the Lebanese government and the Lebanese state will pay an increasing price through damage to Lebanese national infrastructure that is used by Hezbollah terrorists,” Katz said. This is a developing story... Israel's war on Lebanon News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Israeli defence minister threatens Lebanon with territorial loss, infrastructure damage Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Friday threatened Lebanon with increasing territorial losses and damage to its national infrastructure until Hezbollah is disarmed, Haaretz reported on Friday. "The Lebanese government misled and failed to uphold its commitment to disarm Hezbollah, and will therefore pay a price until it fulfills that obligation," Katz said. The minister's comments came after the Israeli military said it had destroyed a bridge over the Litani River, claiming that it was "a key crossing" for Hezbollah operatives. A statement released by Katz's office said on Thursday that if the Lebanese government could not prevent Hezbollah from attacking Israel, Israel "would do it ourselves".

Larijani and top Iranian officials appear in Al-Quds Day march MEE staff on Fri, 03/13/2026 - 09:37 Iran's security chief along with head of judiciary take part in annual pro-Palestine protest despite ongoing US-Israeli war Off Iran's security chief Ali Larijani and top officials took part in the Al-Quds Day march in Tehran on Friday, videos from the protest have shown. The head of the judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, was also seen in pictures aired by state television. The officials marched despite the apparent risk of US-Israeli attacks, which have killed dozens of senior figures, including the supreme leader, since the war on Iran began on 28 February. In one video, Larijani gave an interview to the local ANA TV reacting to the war. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “It’s clear they’re running out of steam,” Larijani said while marching. "Trump’s problem is that he doesn’t understand that the Iranian nation is mature and determined," he added. More to follow...  War on Iran News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

COLOMBO, March 13 (Reuters) - The bodies of 84 Iranian sailors killed in a U.S. submarine attack on a warship off Sri Lanka's coast last week will be repatriated, a Iran embassy source and local media in Sri Lanka reported on Friday. (Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe, writing by Hritam Mukherjee; Editing by YP Rajesh)

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Sri Lanka is repatriating on Friday the remains of 84 Iranian sailors who perished when their frigate was sunk nine days ago by a US submarine, the Foreign Ministry said. The seamen were killed when IRIS Dena was torpedoed on March 4 just off the coast of Sri Lanka, in a move that extended the Middle East war to the Indian Ocean. "All domestic procedures have been completed, and the Iranians are bringing a chartered aircraft for the repatriation," spokesman Thushara Rodrigo told AFP. "The 32 sailors who were rescued by our navy will remain in Sri Lanka."

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – The commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters has said powerful Armed Forces will give a remorseful and regrettable response to enemies for their crimes committed against people of the country.

In photos: Al-Quds Day protests in Iran A woman holds a photo of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iranians take part in a protest marking the annual al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) in Tehran, Iran, 13 March, 2026. (Reuters/Alaa Al Marjani) Iranians take part in a protest marking the annual al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran, 13 March, 2026. (Reuters/Alaa Al Marjani) Iranians take part in a protest marking the annual al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, 13 March, 2026. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani has emphasized Iran’s inherent right to safeguard peace and security at the Strait of Hormuz.

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced that areas in the western Al-Quds, Tel Aviv and US bases in the region and Erbil of Iraq were targeted with missiles and drones.

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