Iran targets US military base in Bahrain with drone attack
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The BBC reports an IRGC drone attack on a US base in Bahrain and keeps the Iranian, Bahraini and US claims attributed. It writes only of 'the outbreak of war in February' and never says the war began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran, which its own earlier reporting stated. Israel does not appear in the article.
Drops what it reported before
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“since the outbreak of war in February”
Why this matters
The words "the outbreak of war" tell the start of the war as something that simply happened, with no one starting it. Nowhere else does the article say who began it, and Israel is never mentioned.
The impression it gives
A reader of a story about Iranian drones fired at Bahrain, with Bahrain condemning "continued brutal Iranian attacks", comes away thinking the war has no named starter, or that Iran is the aggressor.
The context
The BBC's own reporting earlier this month said the conflict was triggered by joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February. Other outlets reporting the same attack say the war began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February.