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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

How Fox News helped champion Trump’s attacks on Iran: ‘I agree with the president’

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Damage from Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran, on 26 June 2025. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

The US bombing of Iran last weekend prompted sober reporting from the mainstream US media, along with considered discussion of whether the US had violated international law in attacking a foreign country.

Fox News, however, took a different tack, championing a war that, according to reports, it had helped convince Donald Trump to start.

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