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BBC Trust rejects complaint of ‘one sided view’ of Iran

By Neil Vowles

BBC Trust has cleared the corporation’s news division of breaching editorial guidelines after an accusation that an online Q&A about Iran’s nuclear programme gave a one-sided and inaccurate view.

In a report published today, the trust’s editorial standards committee rejected a complaint which alleged the article, from October last year, implied Iran had a nuclear weapons programme.

The Trust found the Q&A article had been accurate and that all opinions within it had been properly attributed.

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