TEHRAN: Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, has stated that the Iranian media has a "absolute and immediate duty" to resist what he calls the Western media's invasion.
According to Khamenei's website, the remarks were made during a meeting with Iranian Air Force Commanders on Tuesday. He went on to say that the Western media's clear goal against Islam and Iran is to distort reality by delivering "professional lies."
The senior Iranian official accused the Western media of attempting to misrepresent the facts of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution and its founder, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, by whatever means possible, while rejecting the revolution's achievements and good elements. He claims that media dictatorship is a form of despotism created and employed by Western powers, despite their claims to freedom of speech, as seen by the removal of Qassem Soleimani's name from key social media platforms.
On January 3, 2020, the US assassinated Soleimani, the former Commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, with a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport.
To fight the enemy's tactics, Khamenei urged all Iranians, particularly state media officials and media outlet owners, to report the country's true facts and achievements.
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