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  • Iranian television broadcasts barrage of misinformation to present Ronaldo as pro-Palestine

    by Ershad Alijani

    With eight textbook examples of misinformation in just two minutes, the Iranian public television channel IRIB broadcast a report on the football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo on June 15. The report made it seem like Ronaldo is a champion of the Palestinian cause, while expressing his “hatred” for Israel. But in reality, the story was rife with disinformation and crudely edited. Television programs in Iran...

    30 June 2022
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    debunked, Iran
  • Shooting of former boxing champion highlights brutality of Iran’s ‘morality police’

    by Ershad Alijani

    It all started as a citation for an improperly worn headscarf, but the incident escalated when former Iranian boxing champion Reza Moradkhani was shot four times by Iran’s “morality police” on April 28, after they questioned his wife. The incident, which left him severely injured, adds to the long list of abuses by the morality police, known for their brutal enforcement of a strict...

    22 June 2022
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    Iran, Iran's women, Women
  • ‘Instead of rescue teams, they sent riot police’: Building collapse triggers outrage in Iran

    by Ershad Alijani

    The deadly collapse of a building under construction on May 23 in Abadan, a city in Iran’s Khuzestan province, has sparked a wave of outrage in the country. At least 41 people died in the tragedy and dozens are still missing. Two weeks after the collapse, hundreds of protestors blaming the authorities for negligence and corruption are still in the streets. Iran’s Supreme Leader,...

    3 June 2022
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    Iran
  • Iran’s failed Covid-19 vaccination campaign due to ‘political power struggle’

    by Ershad Alijani

    Iran’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign has been rife with complications: videos shared online show queues up to a hundred metres long as people wait for hours to be vaccinated, with doses sometimes running out long before everyone receives their jab. Others show thousands of people rushing to the border with Armenia in search of a dose. According to our Observer, an Iranian doctor, these predicaments...

    15 July 2021
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    Iran
  • Hiding a symbolic mass grave of political prisoners by forcing a persecuted minority to bury top of it

    by Ershad Alijani

    Members of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i community were shocked when, in April, the government announced that the only place they would be able to bury their loved ones was on top of mass graves containing political prisoners executed in the 1980s. Activists say this policy is an attempt by the government to erase any trace of the mass executions carried out by the Islamic Republic....

    13 May 2021
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    Iran

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30 June 2022

Iranian television broadcasts barrage of misinformation to present Ronaldo as ...

With eight textbook examples of misinformation in just two minutes, the Iranian public television channel IRIB broadcast a report...

by Ershad Alijani
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22 June 2022

Shooting of former boxing champion highlights brutality of Iran’s ‘morality ...

It all started as a citation for an improperly worn headscarf, but the incident escalated when former Iranian boxing...

by Ershad Alijani
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3 June 2022

‘Instead of rescue teams, they sent riot police’: Building collapse...

The deadly collapse of a building under construction on May 23 in Abadan, a city in Iran’s Khuzestan province,...

by Ershad Alijani
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25 May 2022

Taliban enforces burqa for female journalists: ‘We are the last ones resisting...

On May 19, female television hosts and journalists working in Afghan broadcasting received a new order from the Taliban:...

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Shooting of former boxing champion highlights brutality of Iran’s ‘morality police’

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It all started as a citation for an improperly worn headscarf, but the incident escalated when former Iranian boxing champion Reza Moradkhani was shot four times by Iran’s “morality...

22 June 2022
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Iran, Iran's women, Women

Taliban enforces burqa for female journalists: ‘We are the last ones resisting’

Published by Ershad Alijani

On May 19, female television hosts and journalists working in Afghan broadcasting received a new order from the Taliban: “Cover your face”. Our Observer, an Afghan TV presenter, explains...

25 May 2022
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Afghanistan, Women

Afghanistan: Since the return of the burqa, women are slowly disappearing from the streets

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On May 7, the Taliban ordered all Afghan women to wear the full-coverage burqa in public places. Since the decree was put in place, the difference in Afghanistan’s streets...

19 May 2022
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Afghanistan, Terrorism, Women

The real scam behind Iran’s underground female MMA fights

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On May 27, a video of what appears to be a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fight between two women began to make the rounds on Iranian social media....

17 May 2021
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Iran, Iran's women, Women
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Afghanistan: Since the return of the burqa, women are slowly disappearing from the streets

by Ershad Alijani

On May 7, the Taliban ordered all Afghan women to wear the full-coverage burqa in public places. Since the decree was put in place, the difference in Afghanistan’s streets is visible. Or rather it’s invisible: women have all but deserted public streets to remain cloistered in their homes. Although our Observer dared to leave home to protest with other women’s rights activists on May 10, she has no illusions about the future that awaits her. “Those women who are not too old or young must cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, in order to avoid provocation when meeting men who are not mahram (adult close male relatives),” says the decree, which came into force on May 7, announced by Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada. The images of daily life in Kabul, Herat or Mazar-e Sharif on social media show that the order has been followed: women seem to be absent from the streets, markets and parks. Akhundzada specified the consequences for breaking this decree on May 6: “First, the woman wearing...

19 May 2022
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Afghanistan, Terrorism, Women

Taliban tribunal gives woman 40 lashes for talking to a man on the phone

by Ershad Alijani

It only took 80 seconds for two men to rain down 40 lashes on the woman huddled on her knees as a large crowd looked on. The video of the brutal sentence carried out on an Afghan woman was filmed near Herat and posted on Facebook on April 13. It is a painful reminder of the continued operation of Taliban “courts”, even though they have been banned. For our Observer, it also symbolises the failure of the Afghan government. According to our Observers, this footage is from late 2020, though it hasn’t been possible to determine the precise date the incident occurred. This date range was confirmed by the governor of Herat on April 15. The video was first posted online on April 13, sparking widespread shock and outrage. The incident took place in Haftgola located near Herat in the Obe district. A man with a white beard leads the woman, who is covered by a burqa, into the center of a circle formed by local men who are there to witness the punishment...

27 April 2021
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Afghanistan, Terrorism, Women

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How do governments push false news about Covid-19?

by Ershad Alijani

In this episode of Misinfodemia, Seema Yasmin talks to me about how governments push false news and how social media platforms both help and hinder the fight to tackle misinformation and disinformation. I talked about how Iran’s government is hiding the real number of corona virus victimes and how we worked on it in France24.

3 September 2020
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debunked, Images talk, Iran

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