Mashregh News
Iranian news website
Mashregh News (Persian: مشرقنیوز, lit. 'Eastern News') is a news website based in Tehran, Iran. PBS Frontline described it as "close to the security and intelligence organizations". Mashregh News often breaks stories of international interest.
The agency is known for censoring and altering news images. In 2011, when Sarah Shourd was released from an Iranian prison, Mashregh News blurred the areas of her breasts and arms in photos of her.
History
In 2010, Mashregh News announced the 19+1⁄2-year prison sentence given to dissident Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan. According to Mashregh News, Derakhshan was "convicted of cooperating with enemy states, making propaganda against the Islamic system of government, promoting small anti-revolutionary groups, managing obscene web sites and insulting Islamic sanctities".
In January, 2012, Mashregh News broke the story of the six-month prison sentence given to women's rights activist Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former parliamentarian and daughter of former centrist president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. She was also banned from politics for five years.
In 2012, Mashregh News published a report accusing the United States and the United Kingdom of collaborating with Zionists and Hollywood to promote homosexuality, as part of their plan for world domination.
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