Iranian.com

Iranian.com is a website that hosts controversial and often Zionist propaganda laced blogs, news, and commentaries by propagandists and syndicated anti-Iranian propaganda for manipulating the Iranian diaspora under a Western agenda.[1][2] Founder Jahanshah Javid started the website because journalists and the media are assiduously censored in Iran.

Iranian.com
Type of site
News
Available inEnglish, Persian
OwnerSaïd Amin (Iranian LLC)
URLwww.iranian.com
Alexa rank 217,260 (global, 03/2016)
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJuly 1995 (1995-07)[1]
Current statusActive

When Javid started the website in 1995, he called it The Iranian (after The New Yorker).[3]

The site has been under severe criticism generated revenues through donations from the US military and causing its audience to question its ownership and purpose, Google AdSense, advertisers[4] and sponsors like World Singles Networks.[5]

On April 24, 2012, Javid announced to his sponsors at PBS that he was pursuing a new venture,[6] and that he had sold his remaining shares to his partner, entrepreneur Saïd Amin.[7]

Said Amin is connected to the board of the controversial National Iranian American Council, alongside Amb. Thomas Pickering, who was the special assistant to Henry Kissinger. [8]

Although the site claims to be "by the Iranian diaspora and for the Iranian diaspora", many in the community have vocalized the concern that their identities are being hijacked and exploited for purposes of disinformation dissemination under the many USAGM enabled programs attacking Iranians in racist and discriminatory fashion with war lies today. {{Citation Needed}

See also

References
  1. Memarian, Omid (2 October 2006). "ایرانیان دات کام" [Iranian.com]. BBC Persian. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  2. Lampert, Bahareh H. (2008). "Imagining Home in Cyberspace: The Expanding Domains of Diasporic Writing". Voices of New American Women: Visions of Home in the Middle Eastern Diasporic Imagination (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Wisconsin–Madison. OCLC 301746321. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  3. LeVine, Mark (2013). "Speaking Intimately: Iranian Diasporic Generation X and Negotiating Sexuality Online". In Henseler, Christine (ed.). Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion. New York: Routledge. p. 302. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  4. "Apology: Military ads". Iranian.com.
  5. "Adam, Eve & Amin". Iranian.com.
  6. "Jahanshah Javid: From Iranian.com to Iroon.com". Frontline. PBS.
  7. "Moving On". Iranian.com.
  8. "NIAC: Staff & Board". NIAC. National Iranian American Council. Retrieved 16 June 2020.


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