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The Guardian reports the conviction of two Iranian men for assisting Iran's intelligence service, and the body separates the verdicts from what the prosecution alleged. Its headline says both men were found guilty of helping Iran try to 'eliminate' journalists. In fact the jury convicted them of assisting a foreign intelligence service and cleared Manesh of preparatory conduct.
Headline goes beyond the article
Minor
“found guilty of helping Iran try to ‘eliminate’ UK-based journalists”
Why this matters
The headline says both men were 'found guilty of helping Iran try to ‘eliminate’' journalists. That turns a word from the prosecution case into the verdict itself.
The impression it gives
A jury convicted both men of helping a plot to kill journalists.
The context
The jury convicted both men of assisting a foreign intelligence service. Only Sepahvand was also convicted of preparatory conduct. Manesh was cleared of it, and a third man was acquitted. 'Eliminating' comes from the prosecutor's speech, not from the charges or the verdicts. Other outlets headline the conviction as spying for Iran.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“Manesh was convicted of assisting a foreign intelligence service, but cleared of preparatory conduct.”
Elsewhere in the article“Eliminating hostile, critical or dissident actors overseas is a staple policy of the Islamic republic.”