“A Man You Could Maybe Do Business With”

BBC Brands Iranian Regime Insider Ali Larijani a “Moderate” | WATCH

It's nothing new that BBC has totally lost the plot when it comes to accurate reporting. Thier vicious anti-Israel bent is clear for all to see.

Bianca Jones

MAR 18, 2026 19:39

2 min read

BBC coverage of Ali Larijani's assassination

In its on-air coverage of the Israeli strike that eliminated senior Iranian official Ali Larijani, the BBC repeatedly referred to him as a “moderate” while its International Editor Jeremy Bowen described the regime figure as “a man you could maybe do business with.”

Larijani, who served as Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and former long-time Speaker of Iran’s Parliament, was killed in the ongoing US-Israel war with Iran.

The comments aired as part of the BBC’s reporting on the deaths of multiple Iranian leaders in the war, now entering its third week.

The BBC has once again chosen to whitewash one of the Islamic Republic’s most loyal enforcers. Ali Larijani was no moderate: he was a hardcore regime apparatchik who spent decades advancing Iran’s nuclear weapons program, crushing domestic protests, and directing support for Hezbollah, Hamas, and other terror proxies that have spilled Jewish and American blood for years.

Calling this man “someone you could do business with” isn’t analysis, no matter what the BBC says.

It’s disgusting apologism for a regime that murders its own people, takes hostages, and vows to wipe Israel and America off the map.

While Iranian missiles rain down and the Strait of Hormuz lies crippled, the BBC’s elite commentators are busy polishing the tombstone of a terrorist enabler.

The BBC is nothing more than a dirty rag, and it's a shame.

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