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France24 is based in Paris with hundreds of journalists covering their stories. This article writes about a reporter that was arrested for covering the funeral of a woman killed while in the custody of Morality Police. With the size of this source it seems to be reliable and accurate without very much bias.

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Iran arrests reporter who covered Amini funeral: lawyer

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Iran on Thursday arrested a reporter who covered the funeral of Mahsa Amini, her lawyer said, the latest of a growing number of journalists to be detained since protests erupted over the young woman’s…

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CNN has been the main source recently reporting on Iranian protests. CNN is generally reliable with a slight left leaning bias on reporting. They have reported on the protests and violence as well as some worldwide responses to these events.

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Nationwide protests have gripped Iran for weeks following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was taken into custody by the government's morality police for apparently not wearing her hijab properly. Her death has sparked violent clashes between demonstrators and authorities, reportedly leaving scores dead.

The uprising has received considerable attention in the Western press, especially as the fundamentalist Islamic regime has cracked down on the demonstrations with brute force.

But as protesters surge through the streets of Iran, Western news organizations largely aren't filing stories from the authoritarian-led country that has curtailed the free press, jailed journalists, and shut down the Internet. NBC News does have a correspondent in Tehran (kudos to them), but because of logistical issues and security concerns, the vast majority of Western outlets do not maintain a presence in the country. Most datelines on stories are from the nearby region, outside Iran. The Associated Press and Reuters, for example, are filing stories about the unrest from Dubai.

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Western news organizations are largely relying on networks of contacts, groups like Amnesty International, a student-run news agency, as well as social media reports for information. CNN's stories notably state that the network has "not been able to independently verify the number of the dead and injured."

Pouria Mahrouyan, a senior editor at BBC News Persian who oversees the social media and interactive team, said that because the news organization has no reporters in Iran, they are "largely relying on social media and user-generated-content" each day.

But doing so doesn't come without risk. Of particular concern, Mahrouyan said, some videos posted to social media sites are part of a government disinformation campaign. "They have a cyber army and they massively produce social media videos, even fake interviews," Mahrouyan said of the Iranian regime. The government, he said, has also attempted to set traps to manipulate Western media into reporting falsehoods: "They can then say foreign media is reporting fake news."

While the Iranian government is seeking to manipulate the conversation outside its borders, it is simultaneously using its state-controlled television and radio apparatus to control the narrative inside the country.

Trita Parsi, a prominent Iran expert, said the outlets have worked to "downplay the protests, ignore the protests, or cast them as a conspiracy." Amir Hossein Mahdavi, another Iran expert, said state-controlled media is "depicting these events" in the same way the country's supreme leader has: "Initiated by the outside, by the CIA and Mossad."

Recent stories from Fars News Agency and Press TV, which both publish and broadcast in English, have breathlessly echoed the deceptions pushed by the country's government.

But the regime's attempts to control the narrative has faced setbacks. "There is a massive amount of people who have access to satellite dishes and getting their news from the outside," Parsi explained. "It's not like they are only relying only on Iranian news outlets, which they take with a grain of salt."

In fact, BBC Persian is one of the most influential sources of information for those inside Iran. Mahrouyan noted the outlet's Instagram account has one of the largest followings within Persian media, boasting 18.6 million followers.

"The ability of the state," Parsi said, "to be able to push their narrative has been significantly weakened."

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A young woman's death in Iran has sparked an uprising. News organizations are grappling with how to cover it | CNN Business

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Nationwide protests have gripped Iran for weeks following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was taken into custody by the government's morality police for apparently not wearing her hijab properly. Her death has sparked violent clashes between demonstrators and authorities, reportedly leaving scores dead.

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CBS News is generally not biased either left or right and has a higher reliability. They are fact based in their reporting instead of speaking mainly about their opinions. This article shows how afraid Iranians are to even go to hospitals out of fear for being detained so they seek help from US doctors.

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Iran protesters shot by police so afraid to go to hospitals they’re asking U.S. doctors for help online

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Doctors tell CBS News they can’t keep up with “SOS messages” from people suffering wounds that seem to corroborate reports of “excessive and lethal” force.

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This Instagram page has posted videos of the protests in Iran as a way to raise awareness for the issues. Most posts are videos while others may be calls to action or asking for people to at least be aware.

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This is my hometown's local news page. I did not see very much about international news on this site at least recently. A lot of the news has been about the hurricane passing through Florida, and events that happened locally. The news included arrests, approved legislation, or things happening in town over the coming weeks. These are good to raise awareness for the things happening most closely to you that can affect you or your neighborhood.

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Trusted news in Sebastian, Florida. Sebastian Daily offers hometown news in Indian River County, reviews, obituaries, and hurricane updates.

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This CNN article writes about what has been happening to students who try to protest in Iran. They are taken to reformation centers because they are seen as a social danger to everyone around them.

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As women burn headscarves and cut off their hair in nationwide protests, an Iranian official on Tuesday said that school students participating in street protests are being detained and taken to mental health institutions.

In an interview with an independent reformist Iranian newspaper, Iran's Education Minister Yousef Nouri confirmed that some school students have indeed been detained and referred to what he called "psychological institutions".

The establishments holding the students, he said, are meant to reform and reeducate the students to prevent "anti-social" behavior.

"It is possible these students have become 'anti-social characters' and we want to reform them," he told the Shargh newspaper, adding that the students "can return to class after they've been reformed."

Nearly a month ago, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being taken to a "reeducation center" by state "morality police" for not abiding by the state's conservative dress code. Amini's death has sparked weeks of anti-government protests that have spread across the country.

The education minister could not put an exact figure on the number of detained students, saying "the number is not a lot and there are not many."

Girls and women across Iran have played a vital role in the demonstrations, and in recent weeks have protested at schools, university campuses and out on the streets.

Footage circulated across social media has showed Iranian women and girls chanting "death to the dictator" as they take off their headscarves; on one occasion, CNN witnessed girls from a vocational high school in Tehran protesting on a street near their school and chanting, "woman, life, freedom."

On Tuesday, the United Nations' children's agency UNICEF called for the protection of children and adolescents amid public unrest in Iran, which is now in its third week.

"We are extremely concerned by continuing reports of children and adolescents being killed, injured and detained amid the ongoing public unrest in Iran," read the UNICEF statement.

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Iranian official admits that schoolgirl protesters are being taken to psychiatric institutions | CNN

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As women burn headscarves and cut off their hair in nationwide protests, an Iranian official on Tuesday said that school students participating in street protests are being detained and taken to mental health institutions. In an interview with an independent reformist Iranian newspaper, Iran's Education Minister Yousef Nouri confirmed that some school students have indeed been detained and referred to what he called "psychological institutions".

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Fox is a more right leaning news source. This article focused on the industry affects of the Iranian protests. Most other articles I have looked at talked about the protests themselves and the people involved in it. Fox has started to look at the companies that may start to get affected by the violence and unrest.

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Protests in Iran over woman's death reach key oil industry

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Workers at refineries crucial for Iran's oil and natural gas production protested Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos appeared to show, escalating the crisis faced by Tehran. The demonstrations in Abadan and Asaluyeh mark the first time the unrest surrounding the death of Mahsa Amini [...]