World news outlets focused on the persistent military clash between Israel and Iran on Monday, with Israel experiencing fresh missile barrages from Tehran and Israeli forces responding by striking multiple locations in western and central Iran.
Headlines varied from the alarming, such as “World Crisis” boldly displayed across the front page of Britain’s Daily Mirror, to the straightforward, like Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News, which opted for “Israel and Iran trade strikes once more amidst ongoing conflict.
Intense exchanges of fire over the past four days have nearly reached a tragic milestone of 250 fatalities, with Iranian news sources claiming over 200 lives lost since Israel initiated its aerial assault on Friday. The Israeli casualty count has now surpassed 20 deaths.
The conflict was extensively covered by news outlets worldwide, such as BBC Worldwide, Sky News in the UK, France 24, and Deutsche Welle TV in Germany, offering continuous updates and reports from journalists on location. However, the level of coverage is significantly less than the comprehensive, round-the-clock approach taken during the October 7 attacks on Israel two years ago.
Two notable exceptions to this rule are CNN and Al Jazeera, a Middle East-based news network. Since last Friday, these channels have been giving extensive coverage to the ongoing conflict. With their wide range of correspondents in the region and a focus on continuous crisis coverage, they excel at this type of 24/7 reporting. For CNN, whose fate is currently uncertain following last week’s announcement that Warner Bros. Discovery will be splitting into two separate entities, with CNN and other cable brands being moved to a new Global Networks division, the conflict represents an opportunity to showcase its unique selling proposition (USP) to both its corporate leaders and potential future buyers.
International news organizations have faced difficulties in gaining access to Iran and providing unbiased reports, as most of the coverage on the conflict is being generated from Israel. Some other sources, like Germany’s ARD, are reporting from Turkey, which shares a border with Iran. The majority of information coming from within Iran has been restricted to official videos of regions targeted by Israeli missiles, along with reports from state-run media and the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
International media has mainly discussed the reasons behind Israel’s surprise attack last Friday, which they claim was a preventative measure intended to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities before the country could build an atomic bomb, posing a threat to Israel’s survival. However, Iran asserts that the attacks were unwarranted, insisting that its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes. On Monday, an Iranian foreign ministry representative stated that although the Iranian parliament is drafting a bill to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Tehran remains adamantly against the development of weapons of mass destruction.
As a follower, I’ve noticed that global media has been shedding light on the rifts among Western nations. U.S. President Donald Trump has praised Israel’s offensive, yet dismissed Iranian claims that the U.S. was involved in the attacks. He suggested that Iran could bring an end to this conflict by agreeing to stringent limitations on its nuclear program. In a conversation with ABC News last weekend, Trump expressed his willingness for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who shares an alliance with Iran, to serve as a mediator to broker a truce. Contrarily, French President Emmanuel Macron has turned down the idea of Putin acting as a peacekeeper, as reported by Reuters.
Macron stated that given Russia’s current involvement in an intense conflict and its disregard for the United Nations Charter over several years, it seems unlikely for Russia to act as a mediator.
As the Gaza war entered its second year, global news reports showed a marked change in stance towards Israel’s actions. In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 that resulted in over 1,100 fatalities and more than 200 hostages being taken captive, many media outlets supported Israel’s military response. However, as Israel continued to bomb civilian areas in Gaza and impose restrictions on food and humanitarian aid delivery, these same outlets became increasingly critical of Israel’s actions.
During a 20-month conflict between Israel and Hamas, the number of Palestinian fatalities surpassed 55,000, as stated by the Gaza Health Ministry on June 11. Last week, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, for instigating violence against Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza, due to their inflammatory actions.
In other news, the Israel-Iran conflict competed for focus alongside various other headlines. CBC News Network, Canada’s all-news channel managed by the public broadcaster, provided a mix of reports from Tel Aviv and Tehran while also covering the G7 summit happening in the Canadian Rockies between June 16 and 17. However, the political turmoil in Spain, where a corruption scandal endangers Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government, pushed the Middle East down the list of top stories.
Several networks devoted airtime to reporting on the “No Kings” mass protest oppososing U.S. President Donald Trump and the military parade held in Washington D.C. over the weekend, which coincided with both the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and Trump’s birthday.
The daily newspaper “The Herald Sun” based in Melbourne, Australia, with conservative leanings, opted for a Trump-related front page titled “Steel & Fury,” covering both the parade and protests. News about Israel and Iran were placed on a small banner at the top of the paper. On the other hand, the Hong Kong-based English newspaper “South China Morning Post” owned by Alibaba Group, chose to highlight Beijing’s state media reports instead, suggesting that the “Parade, Protests demonstrate US in decline.
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2025-06-16 15:24