Iran-Israel war: Mehdi Hasan drops facts the Western media won’t tell you

Journalist Mehdi Hasan called out Western media for biased reporting on the Iran-Israel conflict, accusing it of unfairly blaming Tehran while exaggerating the country’s nuclear threat, despite the fact that Iran does not possess nuclear weapons.

In a video on X, Hasan critiqued the mainstream media's portrayal of Iran’s retaliatory strikes. He argued that the reporting conveniently overlooks Israel’s earlier attacks on civilian and military targets in several Iranian cities.

“If you're watching Western media coverage, you might come away with the impression that Iran attacked Israel out of the blue, and Israel is just responding, when in fact, it's the other way around,” he said.

 “We all saw on Thursday night that it was Israel that launched an illegal act of aggre$sion against Iran.”

"Iran doesn't have nukes. Israel does.
Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Israel isn't.
Iran has allowed IAEA inspectors into its country.
Israel doesn't."

But Israel's the victim?
My video for Zeteo on how the media's coverage of this crisis is abysmally biased. pic.twitter.com/lVSMKv4qCh

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) June 15, 2025

Hasan stressed that “Iran is the victim here, and Israel is the aggressor.” He criticised the consistent narrative that frames Israel as the victim while dismissing Iran’s perspective.

Highlighting the double standards, he said, “Iran doesn’t have nukes. Israel does. Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Israel isn’t. Iran has allowed IAEA inspectors into its country. Israel hasn’t.”

Hasan also shared a clip from a previous interview with Israel’s former deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, where he confronted the Israeli official on the country's undeclared nuclear arsenal and the international community’s silence over it.

“Israel violates UN Security Council resolutions regarding its nuclear stockpile. Yet Western media interviewers who have multiple Israelis on air, all the time, never really asked about Israel’s nukes?,” Hasan pointed out.