林德宜：西方媒体要伊朗战争继续下去

随著美国特朗普总统的支持者与反对者持续猛烈抨击他签署有关伊朗与中东冲突停火60天的协议，西方媒体的报导与评论中最引人注目的现象，是一场由媒体推动的舆论攻势。其批评者将此描述为美国的“投降”，并主张应继续“痛击伊朗”及“推翻伊朗政府”，直到他们所认定的美国与西方胜利得以实现为止。

这场灾难性的战争是由美国与以色列发动的。如今战事暂时停止，并可能出现达成持久和平与安全的协议时，理应受到全球所有利益相关者、区域参与者以及媒体的欢迎。然而，我们却看到主战派势力重新抬头。这些人过去对美国军事优势及其维护霸权的角色或保持沉默，或暗中支持，如今则与特朗普总统任内的国内政敌与批评者联手。这些鼓吹战争的人当中，也包括亚洲一些被亲美思想洗脑的支持者。

他们无意揭露特朗普政府与内塔尼亚胡政府发动一场在毫无挑衅下，且毫无正当性的战争中所犯下之错误；也不关心鼓励美国与伊朗透过谈判寻求和平解决方案。相反地，他们都希望借由贬低这份协议的可信度而获利。

事实上，这两个原本对立的阵营——即使是其中较温和的派系——都拥有共同目标，即依照特朗普早期战争言论中所描绘的方向，寻求摧毁现有的伊朗“政权”及其文明。这种言论曾经深深吸引他们。

对于未能达成“彻底消灭伊朗政府”的目标所产生的失望、痛苦与愤怒，这一目标如今也被特朗普放弃，却成为支持犹太复国主义、反对停火协议人士的主要动力，促使他们不惜一切代价破坏和平进程。

在亚洲，支持犹太复国主义种族灭绝行为的人数依然相当可观，尤其是在那些长期接受好莱坞电影、西方文化以及其他西方宣传影响的年轻人之中。

这种政治结盟在媒体界获得最响亮的共鸣。2026年6月美伊停火协议框架在主要西方媒体中的敌意性报导——包括《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》以及英国广播公司（BBC）等建制派或所谓“进步派”媒体，其实并不令人意外。这些报导为媒体意识形态偏见、制度性犬儒主义，甚至更严重问题，提供了一个教科书式的案例研究。

媒体并未把焦点放在避免区域灾难、缓和毁灭性战争，或重新开放霍尔木兹海峡所带来的经济效益上；相反地，主流论述转向怀疑主义、鹰派框架以及战术层面的焦虑，试图煽动新一轮冲突。

这种披著批判外衣、实则隐藏好战冲动的报导视角，凸显出西方媒体在报导全球外交与西方军事干预时长期存在的双重标准。

1。验证标准的不对称：外交与武力

主流西方媒体最根本的偏见之一，是将军事行动视为理所当然且“必要”的措施，而将和平协议视为高风险且先天存在缺陷的博弈。

军事标准：当战争于2月底爆发，美国与以色列对伊朗展开大规模空袭时，媒体报导主要聚焦于战术效率、威慑效果及地缘政治必要性，将局势升级描绘成不可避免的发展，同时淡化人员伤亡与财物破坏所造成的影响。

外交双重标准：然而，一旦出现突破，例如由巴基斯坦及区域伙伴斡旋下达成的6月14日协议，媒体论述立刻转向讨论西方“让出了什么”。

媒体分析迅速聚焦于有条件解除制裁、解冻伊朗资产，或协议未对伊朗弹道飞弹计画等周边议题提供明确保证。透过将和平协议主要描绘为“向敌人让步”，媒体实际上是在暗示，恢复敌对关系、持续海上封锁，甚至进一步轰炸，才是更安全、更正确的选择。

2。进步派媒体与“建制派剧本”

《纽约时报》与《华盛顿邮报》等媒体经常以独立或细腻编辑立场自豪。然而，一旦涉及“华盛顿共识”外交政策核心原则，这种独立性以及新闻专业操守便消失无踪。

这种制度性偏见透过数种结构性策略运作。

犬儒主义的武器化：进步派媒体经常以“冷静务实”的姿态出现，但实际上却有著倾向主战派及“爱国安全派”鹰派势力。标题往往聚焦于协议如何“让美国与以色列处于脆弱状态”，或如何“未能彻底瓦解伊朗核野心”。这种报导方式创造了一种心理框架，使得不完美的和平看起来比正在进行中的战争更加危险。

平衡的幻象：透过给予鹰派智库分析员、不满的国防官员，以及反对协议的区域批评者（包括内塔尼亚胡总理及其他支持犹太复国主义者）过多版面，这些媒体将“为追求和平而进行外交妥协是一种软弱与投降”的观念正常化。

3。去脉络化与淡化人道及经济代价

当前媒体批评中最令人震惊的一点，是刻意抹去2026年冲突已经造成的全球与区域性沉重代价。这场战争严重冲击全球能源通道、贸易路线及人道救援供应链，造成数千名军人与大量伊朗平民伤亡。其附带损害同样波及亚洲。

然而，主流媒体却将停火视为一场有缺陷的政治操作，而非拯救生命的重要突破。这种做法反映出深刻而持续的虚伪。其潜在逻辑是，即使强硬对抗有可能引发全面、灾难性的区域战争，但维持对抗立场仍然优于透过谈判达成和解。

结构性现实：在西方外交政策报导中，和平永远必须承担举证责任。战争被报导为一连串经官方确认的战术事实；外交则被报导为一连串可能造成生存危机的风险。核查和平协议的执行情况，当然是新闻工作的必要任务。然而，自伊朗战争爆发以来，西方媒体显然早已超越客观报导，转向意识形态敌意。

这种持续性的框架，揭示出一套根本上被驯化来维护西方全球霸权与冲突逻辑，而非真正促进国际和解的媒体体系。

结论

当伦理新闻学与和平新闻学强调应立即减少人类苦难、避免军事升级之际，西方外交政策报导却往往将停火视为一种交易性的暂停。他们衡量成功的标准，不是协议是否签署，而是最终结构性验证是否符合西方定义下的胜利。

虽然保持怀疑精神与独立性新闻十分重要，但那些自称致力于促进和平与安全的国际及亚洲媒体，应该摒弃机会主义与交易式报导模式，转而鼓励对话与和解。唯有如此，它们才能履行自身促进和平与国际理解的责任，并有效对抗战争宣传。

林德宜《西方媒体要伊朗战争继续下去》原文：Western Media Wants War Against Iran To Continue

With political supporters and opponents of President Trump continuing to excoriate him for signing the Memorandum of Understanding enabling a 60 day pause to the conflict in Iran and the Middle East, what is standing out in the coverage and analysis in the West is a media fuelled campaign focusing on what its critics describe as America’s surrender, and the need to continue “pounding Iran” and “collapsing its government” until their version of an American and Western victory is accomplished.

This calamitous war was begun by the US and Israel. Its temporary cessation and potential for a durable peace and security agreement should be welcomed by all global stakeholders and regional actors, including the media. Instead we are seeing the resurgence of warmongers - previously quiet or concealed in their support of America's military superiority to reinforce hegemony - now combine forces with the domestic enemies and critics of Trump’s presidency. These war mongers include brainwashed pro American supporters in Asia, 

Both are less intent on exposing Trump's and Netanyahu’s administrations folly in unleashing an unprovoked and unjustifiable conflict. Both are not interested in encouraging the US and Iran to negotiate a peaceful settlement. Both see gain in running denigrating the credibility of the MOU. In fact, the two often opposed groupings - even amongst their more moderate
wings - share a common objective in seeking the destruction and demise of the current Iranian 'regime' and civilization, according to Trump’s initial battle rhetoric which had earlier enthralled them.

Disappointment, anguish and anger over the failure to accomplish the “obliteration of the Iranian government”, an outcome now abandoned by Trump, appears the stimulus for pro Zionist opponents of the MOU especially to derail the peace process by all means possible.

Asian supporters of Zionist genocide continues to be very strong especially amongst the young fed on a diet of Hollywood movies, Western culture and other Western propaganda.

This political alignment finds its loudest echo chamber in the press. The antagonistic framing of the June 2026 US-Iran framework agreement across major Western media outlets - including establishment or ‘progressive’ organizations like The New York Times,
Washington Post and British Broadcasting Corporation - should surprise no one. It offers a textbook study in media ideological bias, structural cynicism and worse.

Rather than centering the discourse on the prevention of regional catastrophe, the de-escalation of a devastating war, or the economic relief brought by reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the dominant narrative has veered into skepticism, hawkish framing, and tactical hand-wringing to instigate another round of conflict.

This critical lens, masking underlying warmongering impulses, highlights a persistent double standard in how Western media covers global diplomacy versus Western military intervention.

1. The Asymmetry of Validation: Diplomacy vs. Force

A foundational bias in mainstream Western reporting is the treating of military actions as default, "necessary" measures, while peace agreements are treated as high-risk, inherently flawed gambles.

The Military Standard: When the war broke out in late February with major US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran, media coverage largely trumpeted on tactical efficiency, deterrence, and geopolitical necessity, propagating the escalation as an inevitability and downplaying the impact in human and material damage.

The Diplomatic Double Standard: The moment a breakthrough was achieved—such as the June 14 agreement mediated by Pakistan and regional partners—the narrative has shifted to what the West is "giving up."

Media analysis has immediately hyper-focused on conditional sanctions relief, the unfreezing of Iranian assets, or the lack of explicit guarantees on peripheral issues like Iran's ballistic missile programs. By framing peace primarily as a "concession to an adversary," the media implicitly has positioned a return to hostility or a continuation of the naval blockade, and more bombing attacks as the safer, more correct stance.

2. Progressive Media and the "Establishment Playbook" 

Outlets like The New York Times or The Washington Post often pride themselves on independent values or editorial nuance. However, when it comes to the core tenets of the "Washington Consensus" on foreign policy, that independence - and journalistic integrity -
disappears.

The mechanism of this institutional bias relies on distinct structural tactics.

The Weaponization of Cynicism: Progressive outlets routinely adopt a posture of "tough-minded realism" that favors war mongers and ‘patriotic security’ hawks. Headlines focus on how the deal "leaves the US and Israel vulnerable" or "fails to fully dismantle" Iran’s nuclear ambitions. This creates a psychological framing where an imperfect peace is treated as more dangerous than an active war.

The Illusion of Balance: By allocating disproportionate space to hawkish think-tank analysts, disgruntled defense officials, and regional critics (Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Zionist cheer leaders who oppose the deal), these papers normalize the idea that diplomatic compromise in the pursuit of peace is a form of weakness and surrender.

3. De-contextualizing and Downplaying the Human and Economic Costs

A striking aspect of the current media critique is the erasure of the severe global and regional toll the 2026 conflict has already exacted. The war caused devastating disruptions to global energy corridors, trade routes, and humanitarian supply lines, alongside thousands of military and primarily Iranian civilian casualties. The collateral damage is also found in Asia.

By dismissing the ceasefire as a flawed political maneuver rather than applauding it as a life-saving breakthrough, mainstream reporting demonstrates a profound and continuing hypocrisy. The underlying implication is that maintaining a hardline, confrontational stance is preferable to a negotiated settlement, even if that confrontation risks leading towards full-scale, catastrophic regional warfare.

The Structural Reality: In Western foreign policy reporting, the burden of proof is always placed on peace. War is reported as a series of tactical officially verified ‘facts’; diplomacy is reported as a series of existential liabilities. Verifying compliance in an arms of peace agreement is a vital journalistic task. But Western media has clearly gone beyond objective reporting into ideological hostility since the beginning of the Iran war.

This persistent framing reveals a media apparatus that is fundamentally house-trained to defend Western global hegemony and conflict over genuine international reconciliation.

Conclusion

While ethical and peace journalism prioritizes the immediate reduction of human suffering and the avoidance of kinetic escalation, Western foreign policy reporting tends to view ceasefires as transactional pauses.They measure success not by the signing of an MOU, but by the structural verifiability of the final bargain which must ensure victory by Western standards.

Whilst skeptical and independent journalism is necessary, international and Asian media that purport to foster peace and security should abandon opportunistic and transactional reporting in favour of one that encourages dialogue and reconciliation. By doing so, they will live up to their responsibility to strengthen peace and international understanding, and counter war propaganda.

本文观点，不代表《东方日报》立场。