this is insane. A day after their stealth edit removal of an "Iranian source" telling them that they want Iran to be "levelled" and nuked, the BBC has added a note admitting they removed it, and that the quote was fabricated

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this is insane. A day after their stealth edit removal of an "Iranian source" telling them that they want Iran to be "levelled" and nuked, the BBC has added a note admitting they removed it, and that the quote was fabricated. But they still kept the "source" in the piece. Ghoncheh Habibiazad is their Senior Reporter on Iran, and needs to be fired immediately for having fabricated a quote to justify and launder the nuking of Iran right as Trump is threatening it. Raffi Berg, who is the editor of their Middle-East coverage and approved this fabrication also needs to be fired. Minimal journalistic standards and ethics demand this.

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holy shit, the BBC just edited the passage from their anonymous "Iranian source" and removed the begging for being left without electricity, water and being nuked to death. So they admitted to fabricating the quote without any formal correction. This is utterly insane x.com/zei_squirrel/s…

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