In a meeting with a group of Iranian media people and officials of news agencies and newspapers, held in Tehran on Thursday, President Raisi decried the role of the Western media outlets in diverting the public opinion of the people of the world away from the events in Palestine and Gaza.
“Some media are mercenaries for the United States and the Zionist regime, while censoring the widespread and unprecedented demonstrations of the people of different parts of the world against the crimes of the Zionists,” Raisi said, his official website reported.
In a meeting with Iranian students on November 1, 2023, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said one of the many shameless actions of Western politicians and Western media is calling the Palestinian fighters “terrorists.”
When the Western media label the Palestinian fighters as terrorists, it is a sign of how truly disgraceful they are, the Leader stated.
“When a person defends their own home or country, does that make them a terrorist? When the French fought the Germans in Paris in World War II, did that make them terrorists? How come they were considered fighters and a source of pride for France, yet you consider the youth of the (Palestinian Islamic) Jihad and Hamas as terrorists?” Ayatollah Khamenei said.