SAEDNEWS: As the battle for narrative supremacy intensified alongside the military confrontation between Iran and Israel, nine Iranian media professionals lost their lives in what has been described as deliberate and coordinated attacks by the Israeli regime.
According to Saed News, the Media Basij Organization announced in a formal statement that nine members of Iran’s press corps were killed during the recent 12-day conflict. These individuals, working across various state and independent outlets, were reportedly targeted while fulfilling their journalistic duties in the midst of a high-stakes hybrid war.
Dr. Morteza Karamozyan, head of the Media Basij Organization, paid tribute to the fallen reporters and media staff, identifying the strikes as a direct assault on the voice of truth and a calculated effort to silence Iran’s media resistance. Among the dead were two employees of the national broadcaster, IRIB—Masoumeh Azimi and Nima Rajabpour—who were killed in a direct strike on the network’s iconic glass-walled headquarters.
Other casualties included:
Fereshteh Bagheri, affiliated with the Sacred Defense News Agency,
Ehsan Zakeri, a correspondent for both IQNA and the Sacred Defense News Agency,
Ali Tahmasbi, Moein Nazari, and Ramazan-Ali Choubdari, media officers connected to the Basij public relations corps and IRGC’s Imam Hassan Mojtaba unit in Alborz Province,
Amirhossein Tavousi, a prominent cultural figure and director of the Roshana media channel,
Mohammadjavad Alvandi, representing the Bayan Media Foundation.
Karamozyan described these individuals as the “vanguard of the Jihad of Clarification,” characterizing their deaths not just as tragic losses, but as sacrifices in a broader information war being waged alongside the military conflict. “Their pure blood,” he said, “will remain a beacon for all who continue the fight against the enemy’s manufactured narratives.”
Their deaths underscore the increasingly perilous role of journalists in modern conflict zones—particularly where information itself becomes a battlefield. The media figures targeted in this conflict, many of whom were involved in countering what Tehran views as disinformation campaigns, are now held up as national symbols of resistance and defiance.
This incident also marks a grim chapter in the evolving doctrine of hybrid warfare, where missile strikes, drone attacks, and cyber-operations are increasingly fused with psychological operations and information control. As the Iranian state positions its fallen media workers as martyrs in the “war of narratives,” their legacy is already being used to galvanize a new generation of information warriors.
In this age of weaponized narratives, their fate offers a stark reminder: truth-telling has become a dangerous frontline.
