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Spinmeisters Of Iran: Iranian State TV Story On Ilhan Omar Removal From Foreign Affairs Committee

Even as Iran has violently suppressed women's rights protests within its own borders, state television channel IRINN ran a story today on Representative Ilhan Omar's removal from the Foreign Affairs Committee, emphasizing her identity as both a woman of color and Muslim and framing the vote as undermining the concept of democracy in the US.

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This analysis is part of an ongoing collaboration between the Internet Archive and its TV News Archive, the multi-party Media-Data Research Consortium and GDELT.