Looks like the BBC is at it again with another "mistake" in their reporting about President Donald Trump and his team.
BBC Persian broadcasts into Iran, so their broadcast would be seen by the Iranian people.
They "mistranslated" a speech from the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. They translated it Hegseth saying that the U.S. was bringing death to the Iranian "people," when, in fact, Hegseth specifically used the term "regime," which is not the same thing.
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/2030079244550688865
“It turns out the regime that chanted ‘death to America and death to Israel’ was gifted death from America and death from Israel. This is not a so-called regime-change war, but the regime sure did change and the world is better off for it," Hegseth said.
The BBC, which carried Mr Hegseth’s Pentagon address live on Monday, translated the word “regime” as “mardom”, the Persian word for “people”. It later issued a correction.
The error drew condemnation from Iranians online, who accused the BBC of conflating ordinary civilians with the brutality of the regime and altering the meaning of Mr Hegseth’s speech.
That's a pretty significant difference, especially when it's going out to the Iranian people, many of whom are rebelling against the regime.
A BBC spokesman said: “This mistranslated word was a mistake, as a result of human error, during the live simultaneous translation of a speech. We issued a correction to Persian audiences on air and on social media.”
The BBC was already in trouble because of prior incidents against the Trump administration.
As RedState reported, the BBC was involved in a scandal where they edited parts of what President Donald Trump said on Jan. 6, 2021, in a Panorama documentary, making it look as though Trump was encouraging people to be violent at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump threatened a $1 billion lawsuit if they didn't retract their "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements."
They already had a similar edit to a BBC Newsnight report in 2022 about Trump and Jan. 6, which could indicate a pattern of behavior.
President Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC. I don't think they helped themselves with this latest incident with Hegseth's remarks.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/03/07/bbc-mistranslation-of-pete-hegseths-remarks-about-iran-n2199957
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