Talk:Iranian.com

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Jeez. Wikipedia bow does political commentary and attempts to pass it off as fact. Iranian.com publishes mostly pro-Iran content. Silly to claim otherwise. Just go to the homepage and see for yourself. Lazy editors....

“ Iranian.com is a website that hosts controversial and often Zionist propaganda laced blogs, news, and commentaries by propagandists and syndicated anti-Iranian propaganda for manipulating the Iranian diaspora under a Western agenda.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.235.10.50 (talk) 21:23, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The entry references the website's creation with a motivation of "escaping journalistic persecution in Iran" by an individual who was never persecuted in Iran nor actually cites any sources to authenticate that motivation otherwise. Meanwhile, there are legitimate sources and self-admissions that the site was financed at one point by the US military (also cited within this WikiPedia article prior to any latter day edits). There are also PBS interviews referenced inline, which indicate state government absorption and acceptance in the context of political exercises in this foreign policy realm. PBS does not interview random sites that merely syndicate the content of known non-Iranian propagandists while claiming them to be Iranian diaspora contributors somehow. NY Times or Russia's Sputnik News, for example, are not venues run or managed by the Iranian diaspora, while the Iranian diaspora considers them to be extremely racist sources of anti-Iranian propaganda.

More information is needed to support this statement that the site was created to escape journalistic persecution in Iran. For example, in Iran, CNN and more fully operate without restrictions. These are Western media. WikiPedia should not be laced with war propaganda items.