{"id":4417,"date":"2026-08-19T21:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehranbureau.com\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:02:19","slug":"press-tv-rings-in-nowruz-groundhog-day-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resanegar.com\/en\/press-tv-rings-in-nowruz-groundhog-day-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Press TV Rings in Nowruz, Groundhog Day\u2013Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-central-palette-1-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The 24\/7 ennui of Iran\u2019s English-language website and video streamer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFM Zarif: US economic terrorism, pressure failed to break Iranians\u2019 ironclad resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was the headline most often featured atop the website of Press TV, the Islamic Republic\u2019s international broadcast service, in the day-and-a-half leading up to Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/tehranbureau.com\/tb_profile\/mohammad-javad-zarif-diplomat-foreign-minister\/\">Mohammad Javad Zarif<\/a>, Iran\u2019s foreign minister, had made his comments\u2014\u201c[Iran is] standing up to [a] modern-day state terrorist who murdered the pioneers of our defense and scientific advancement\u201d\u2014in a video message intended to mark the holiday. Dedicated followers of the site might well have heard an echo. Eleven weeks earlier, Press TV had greeted the Western world\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve with a banner headline highlighting comments made on camera by Iran\u2019s president: \u201cRouhani: Iranians . . . will avenge assassination of <a href=\"https:\/\/tehranbureau.com\/the-quds-force-in-white-collars\/\">Gen. Soleimani<\/a>, his companions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tehranbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Khamenei-Nowruz-Address.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4430\"><figcaption>Lead image, Press TV website, Nowruz 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Nowruz itself, the Press TV celebration went into full swing with the headline \u201cIran begins \u2018year of production, support and elimination of obstacles,\u2019\u201d quoting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei\u2019s televised New Year\u2019s address above a photograph from the event. On Nowruz 2020, by contrast, the top headline on Press TV had read, \u201cLeader calls for \u2018jump in production\u2019 as Iran rings in new year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day later this year, Press TV led with yet another speech: \u201cAyatollah Khamenei: US must lift all sanctions before Iran returns to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/factsheets\/JCPOA-at-a-glance\">JCPOA<\/a> commitments.\u201d While the supreme leader again \u201cstressed that one of the most important steps to be taken for the promotion of domestic production was removal of the existing hurdles to production,\u201d don\u2019t overlook the What\u2019s Different in This Picture? challenge: the heavy drapes behind the leader, blue on Nowruz, were now green; not only was there an alternate photograph of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, it had moved from the drapery down to the table at Khamenei\u2019s side; and a smaller vase now held the bouquet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/tehranbureau\/2010\/07\/mahdi-slideshow.html\">Mahdi-honoring<\/a> narcissus there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tehranbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Khamenei-Day-after-Nowruz-Address1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4432\"><figcaption>Still image from lead video, Press TV website, the day after Nowruz 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas news involves the reporting of new and noteworthy information and propaganda involves communication meant to influence and persuade\u2014a line habitually blurred by many self-identified news networks\u2014Press TV seems most devoted to a third approach: boring its audience silly. This is Press Release TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the service does have a clear communicative mission, it involves promoting stories in some way embarrassing to the United States and, especially, whoever occupies the Oval Office. President Biden\u2019s recent struggles in mounting the stairs to Air Force One have come in for particular attention: \u201cVideos of the fall have been widely shared on social media, with hilarious memes poking fun at the president.\u201d Disappointingly, Press TV failed to share <em>which <\/em>memes it found \u201chilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early in March, the website awkwardly made much of the following: \u201cA new poll shows that over 40 percent of Americans are not willing to get vaccinated for the coronavirus vaccine.\u201d The figure was misleading\u2014a substantial share of that 40 percent had said only that vaccines should first go to those at greater risk\u2014but there was a hesitancy widespread enough to be worthy of note. Over Nowruz weekend, Press TV brought a heavier hand to the topic with a featured story in the section of the website devoted to Iran\u2019s \u201cterrorist\u201d adversary: \u201cFierce COVID shot resistance could derail mass vaccination in US.\u201d Where there are multiple items of COVID-19 coverage on a daily basis from the United States\u2014many of them copy-pasted from American sources\u2014in recent weeks, the top 30 stories in Press TV\u2019s Iran section, stretching over the better part of a week, have rarely included more than a single item on the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Branding itself as \u201cIran\u2019s first 24\/7 international television news network that broadcasts in English,\u201d Press TV has not had a traditional television presence in almost a decade, since it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2012\/jan\/20\/iran-press-tv-loses-uk-licence\">lost its UK broadcast license<\/a> in January 2012 for violating multiple communications rules\u2014including airing an interview with a journalist imprisoned in Iran that was given under duress. Never a significant on-air presence in North America, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2013\/2\/9\/irans-press-tv-taken-off-air-in-n-america\">lost its fringe satellite access to the US and Canadian markets<\/a> in early 2013. It still, however, streams programs 24\/7 on its website, accessible across most of the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shows range from BBC-style daily global news programs (always with a special emphasis on shaming the US and Great Britain) to more locally focused programs such as <em>Iran Today <\/em>and <em>Africa Today <\/em>to more overtly opinion-oriented series such as <em>The Communiqu\u00e9<\/em>, in which host <a href=\"https:\/\/richardmedhurst.com\/biography\/\">Richard Medhurst<\/a> invites on a different guest each week to bewail Western imperialism at epic length, and <em>The Debate<\/em>. In \u201cRacism in the US,\u201d the Nowruz episode of this daily<em> <\/em>debate-free zone, a political organizer with the Black Alliance for Peace (\u201cHands Off North Korea!\u201d) and a professor of \u201cRace, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender\u201d managed to come to the mutual conclusion that the \u201cUS capitalist settler colonialist system and imperialist government\u201d bears primary responsibility for the recent attacks against Asian Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tehranbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Lembit3crop-1024x521.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4434\"><figcaption>Lembit \u00d6pik signals his raucous crowd to bring it down a notch, airdate March 21, 2021 (<em>Press TV<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then there\u2019s Press TV\u2019s lone attempt at comic diversion, the painfully cringeworthy <em>Cats and Dogs<\/em>, which makes a quarter-hour feel like a life sentence. In this show, which streams new episodes most Thursdays, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/money\/meandmymoney\/article-8007233\/Lembit-Opik-tells-went-financial-hero-zero-ended-insolvent.html\">Lembit \u00d6pik<\/a>, former chief of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, savages Western leaders (and still, gruelingly, a certain orange-hued ex-leader) with incomprehensibly limp stabs at humor to canned laughs from an audience, however patently nonexistent, he is ever desperate to engage with (\u201cThank you, thank you, thank you <em>very <\/em>much\u201d)\u2014eternally forgiving of the fact that they\u2019re always invisibly, uproariously guffawing at <em>all <\/em>the wrong moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incredibly, his special Nowruz weekend episode, in which \u00d6pik purported to \u201cexplore the strange world of sexual misdemeanors from the Royal Air Force to distant relatives of the royal family,\u201d opened, uncommented, with <em>Cats and Dogs<\/em>\u2019 customary, inescapably catchy theme music of \u201cRock and Roll, Part 2\u201d\u2014composed and recorded by the \u201970s rock star born Paul Francis Gadd, currently serving a 16-year sentence for statutory rape, attempted rape, and multiple counts of sexual assault of girls as young as eight. Trust Press TV\u2019s version of the news or not, but trust it to stick with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2015\/feb\/27\/garry-glitter-jailed-for-16-years-for-sexual-assaults-on-three-schoolgirls\">Gary Glitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it news? Sort of. Is it propaganda? It wishes. 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