President Raeisi made the remarks in a meeting with a group of Iranian media people and officials of news agencies and newspapers held in Tehran on Thursday where he decried the role of the Western media outlets in diverting the public opinion of the people of the world away from the events in Palestine and Gaza.

“Some media are mercenaries for the United States and the Zionist regime, while censoring the widespread and unprecedented demonstrations of the people of different parts of the world against the crimes of the Zionists,” Raeisi said, according ti his official website president.ir.