I have said before and will say it again: you can't trust Western media when it comes to foes of the US and Israel. They established a tradition of lies and fabrications during the Cold War against communist regimes and continue to this very day. Take this saying falsely attributed to Lenin: ""A lie told often enough becomes the truth." This was clearly invented (probably by J Edgar Hoover) and now is widely cited as not only a saying but as a call by Lenin. I am not a Leninist anymore but Lenin had more integrity than all Western politicians combined.