The conflict in Iran is disturbing to all of us. We have been so encouraged by the overwhelming response of intercessors to pray about this. However, we have been disheartened by the false spin found in mainstream media. Here are three examples:

1. CNN features hostage-taker terrorist to speak about the Soleimani death as a credible source:

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CNN on Monday conducted a lengthy interview with an Iranian government official who once served as the spokeswoman for a group of students who held 52 American diplomats hostage for more than a year in 1979.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour did little to push back on Iranian official Massoumeh Ebtekar’s assertions that the U.S. carried out a “terrorist” action by killing Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike Jan. 2. Amanpour also failed to acknowledge that Ebtekar was chief spokeswoman for a group of Iranian students who held 52 American diplomats hostage at the U.S. embassy in Iran for 444 days, from 1979 to 1981.

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Ebtekar said in an interview in 1979 during the hostage crisis that she would personally be willing to put a gun to one of the hostages’ heads and pull the trigger. Ebtekar, 59, serves as vice president of Iran for women and family affairs. “The American president made a serious miscalculation, they made a serious mistake by assassinating, by taking this terrorist action, against Commander Soleimani, and I’m sure that they regret what they have done,” she said in her interview with Amanpour.

(Excerpt from the Daily Caller. Article by Chuck Ross.)

2. MSNBC airs fake news about casualties—takes info from Iran over US:

MSNBC gave airtime to baseless Iranian propaganda alleging the Islamic Republic had killed 30 American military members in missile attacks Tuesday night. Iran launched missile attacks on two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops Tuesday, in retaliation for the U.S. killing notorious Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani. At the time this article was published, there were no known American casualties in Tuesday night’s attacks, but that didn’t stop MSNBC from giving oxygen to Iranian propaganda claiming otherwise. MSNBC host Chris Matthews brought in NBC News Tehran bureau chief Ali Arouzi, who repeated the Iranian claims to MSNBC’s national audience.

“We’ve just getting reports now that a second wave of rocket attacks have been launched from Iran,” Arouzi said. “The IRGC was saying that Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of this country, was in the control center coordinating these attacks.”

“This is, uh, this bit I’m not sure about,” he continued, before sharing the unverified propaganda claim. “But Iran state media is claiming that 30 U.S. soldiers have been killed in this attack. Now, this is not confirmed, this is just coming from Iranian media, but we have just stepped over the precipice, Chris.”

(Excerpt from the Daily Caller. Article by Peter Hasson.)

3. Time Magazine – “How to Talk to your kids about the death of Soleimani”:

Time Magazine’s “Time for Kids” publication issued a guide Tuesday for parents on how to talk with their children about the situation unfolding in Iran riddled with biased omissions.

The legacy outlet first refers to Qasem Soleimani, the recently slain Iranian general responsible for hundreds of American deaths, as a “top military leader in Iran,” rather than a terrorist. In the next line, the guide explains that President Donald Trump took action on Soleimani simply because Trump said Soleimani was a terrorist.

The official position of the United States government however, declares the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which includes the Quds Force run by Soleimani, a terrorist organization.

In the same paragraph, the magazine for kids also notes that “an Iraqi leader was also killed,” minimizing the significance of their execution. The Iraqi leader? Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the founder of the terror group Kataeb Hezbollah, which killed an American contractor and injured four service members in Iraq late last month.

When describing the animosity between the two nations, Time’s guide mentions the 1979 hostage crisis where Iran took captive 52 Americans for 444 days, before focusing solely on Trump pulling out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reimplementing sanctions on the Middle East country. Never mind Iran killing hundreds of Americans, undermining the landmark nuclear deal by building weapons of mass destruction anyway, financing terror, and threatening U.S. allies.

(Excerpt from the Federalist. Article by Tristan Justice.)

One of the best sources for reliable international news that you may not know about already is watch.org. This news compilation by White House Correspondent William Koenig is one of our standard go-tos for news, especially involving the Mideast and Israel.