The Armed Forces of Iran have claimed that several international media outlets broadcasting in Farsi, including the service in this language of the British chain BBC, are part of "a list of military targets" due to their alleged links with the intelligence services of the United States and Israel.
"Media such as BBC Persian, Iran International, and Radio Farda are directly connected with Mossad, the CIA, and enemy intelligence organizations, receiving lines of work and support from them," said the spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces, Abolfazl Shekarchi.
The spokesman insisted that "hostile media are Zionist and American soldiers and are included in our list of military targets," before emphasizing that "the Iranian Armed Forces do not consider these media as media outlets," according to the Iranian public television IRIB.
In this line, he stated that "the spilling of blood and violence in the world takes place with the support of these pseudo-media," while defending that "media should be a source of security and their main priority should be the physical safety of people and societies."
"These pseudo-media not only do not seek the psychological safety of human society, but they are also the source of promotion, propagation, and dissemination of violence in the world and have disturbed the psyche of humanity," concluded Sekarchi, in a context marked by the conflict unleashed after the offensive launched on February 28 by the United States and Israel against Iran.
Iranian authorities have repeatedly reiterated their accusations against Farsi media for their alleged ties to Israeli intelligence and have even designated Iran International as a terrorist organization, warning that any collaboration with this channel is prosecutable in the Asian country.