Iran’s News Anchors have been quitting left and right in wake of realizing that they have been lying to the public for years. Their wake up call came after the Regime was forced to admit that they had initially lied to the public about shooting down the Ukrainian Passenger plane killing 176 people. The anchors felt betrayed and realized that they had no way of knowing for how long they have been lying to the public, so they apologized on the air and resigned.
“At least two presenters working for the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB have announced they have quit their jobs, with a third saying she quit some time ago after having told lies on behalf of the state for 13 years.
Gelare Jabbari apologized in an Instagram post, writing: “It was very hard for me to believe that our people have been killed. Forgive me that I got to know this late. And forgive me for the 13 years I told you lies.”
Zahra Khatami quit her role at IRIB, saying: “Thank you for accepting me as anchor until today. I will never get back to TV. Forgive me.”
Her fellow anchor Saba Rad said: “Thank you for your support in all years of my career. I announce that after 21 years working in radio and tv, I cannot continue my work in the media. I cannot.”
The journalists’ statements are part of a crisis of confidence following the initial attempts by state officials to deny that Ukrainian jetliner 752 had been shot down by mistake by members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) air defense force.
The crisis is leading even some of the news agencies most closely associated with the regime to start reporting on the street protests, or a least to start addressing the allegations about a potential state cover-up.
The Tehran-based Association of Iranian Journalists said in a statement that the country was witnessing “a funeral for public trust” that was damaging the already shaky reputation of Iran’s official media.
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Speaking candidly on BBC Radio Today, Ghanbar Naderi, a commentator on Iran’s state-run Press TV, admitted: “There is little trust in the government and people want more freedom. The lies they said about the shooting down of the aeroplane [have] lost public trust. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps know it very well.”
Now if only we could get some of our MSM to follow suit. But our MSM doesn’t seem to care about being credible, just look at Rachel Maddow she was practically telling everyone the Steele Dossier was gospel and then when news broke that it was not, crickets… It’s nice to see some people have a shred of character.
Will the mainstream media in America have the decency to quit for lying everyday for the last three and a half years probably not being traitors to their country just like the democrat party which they biasedly represent
Swamp News, MSM=Fake News (CNN,FOX,MSNBC.etc)The Pravda/Racists Divisive Commie news and their propaganda HATE machine at full throttle! They are destroying the country within! Expose, Boycott, Sue, prosecute and bring to justice all these lying Fake News deep state treasonous Godless NAZI commie liberal demoncrats and RINOs post-haste,Patriots! Drain the rat infested swamp President Trump! Keep America great again and not let it become another liberal commie shit hole like the rest of the lib run cities! Prosecute these deep state traders now, President Trump!
I wish our “journalists and reporters” would do that
How interesting since these people are muslim and they accept lying as a way to further islam. God works in mysterious ways so maybe they are seeing the “light” of day!
The people will likely be dead soon since Islam rulers, like most dictators, do not like being embarrassed.
Iranian news have more intestinal fortitude than any of out MSM.
Hopefully, this is the start of something good.
This is amazing, news anchors who are expected to lie to their own people quitting because they are embarrassed while our own journalist who are expected to be truthful just keep lying nonstop and laugh all the way to the democrat funded bank!
All we have on network news are money whores with no morals!
American journalists (I use that term loosely) have been lying to the American public for the last 11 years at a minimum. I don’t see them resigning. I didn’t know there were journalists in the world who actually had integrity. Go figure.