RUSSIA PERSPECTIVE

RT headlines without filter: 'Iran threatens to bomb homes of US and Israeli officials.' The homes of officials — not military bases, not embassies, family houses. RT gives maximum visibility to the Iranian message with a factual tone that normalizes the threat as an ordinary diplomatic statement.

Yet RT is also the only outlet in the panel to cite information from the New York Times that others hesitate to run: the US used an untested missile in a strike on an Iranian school. 'The US used an untested missile in a strike on an Iranian school.' This is a fact RT uses to turn the narrative around: who is the true aggressor against civilians? Iran threatening universities, or the US bombing schools with untested weapons?

RT's non-judgment is its most sophisticated form of propaganda. The agency does not say 'Iran crosses a red line' — it accumulates facts (homes threatened, untested missile on a school) and lets readers conclude that Washington and Tehran are equivalent. Moral equivalence is the finished product — the factual is the raw material.