Hours after an article calling on Iran to develop nuclear weapons went viral, the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency issued a statement disavowing it. The agency said the piece was published by a user on its 'Fars Interactive' platform and does not necessarily reflect its official position, emphasizing that only content carrying its official reporter tag and logo represents the agency.
The IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency has disavowed an article published on its platform that called on Iran to develop nuclear weapons. In a statement issued Sunday evening, the agency said the text was not authored by its editorial staff but by a user on 'Fars Interactive' — a platform that allows users to post opinions and analyses. Fars stressed that only content bearing its official reporter tag and logo reflects its official stance, and that the article 'does not necessarily reflect the agency's position.'
The clarification followed hours of virality for the article, which argued that Iran has 'no choice but to achieve nuclear deterrence' — a stance that drew widespread international attention. As The Zioneer reported earlier Sunday (published 19:59 and 20:02 Jerusalem), Fars had initially run the piece, attributing to Iran's Supreme Leader an order to accelerate nuclear weapons development. The agency's retreat appears aimed at containing the fallout while preserving the deniability of its interactive platform, which amplifies regime-adjacent voices without official editorial vetting. The underlying article remains online; Fars has not removed it, only appended the disclaimer.
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