Revisiting BBC reporting on Iranian ballistic missiles

Four years ago the BBC promoted Iran's claims that its ballistic missiles were 'solely a deterrent'.

Here is what the BBC News website told audiences about Iranian ballistic missiles on March 8th 2016:

And the following day:

This is a BBC News website report from January 8th 2020:

This is another BBC News website report from the same day:

Nevertheless, the BBC still does not appear to have grasped that repetition and amplification of the propaganda of totalitarian regimes does not “help people understand and engage with the world around them”.

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