Al-Monitor, a pro-Tehran website in Washington.
Al-Monitor is a Washington based website launched in January 2012 that calls itself “the pulse of the Middle East.” The main site, which is in English is divided by region, or “pulses”—like “Iran Pulse,” “Turkey Pulse,” and others.
The Washington Post has called Al-“an invaluable Web-only publication following the Middle East,” and The Huffington Post said that Al-Monitor is “increasingly a daily must-read for insightful commentary on the Middle East.”
The investigative journalist Lee Smith has written a detailed story about Al-Monitor and explains how the website's articles and reports are in large majority in favor of the Syrian regime and its terrorist ally Hezbollah. He writes:
"Observers assert that the arguments and positions of the Assad government receive heavy coverage in the site’s “Lebanon Pulse” section, with an emphasis on translated material from pro-Hezbollah, pro-Assad media outlets as well as original content produced for Al-Monitor by writers who also work for pro-Hezbollah, pro-Assad media.
Until Al-Monitor was founded, pro-Hezbollah journalists could only publish in resistance media outlets. In Al-Monitor, by contrast, their work is printed alongside reporting and analysis that falls within the mainstream of public policy discourse. Several of Al-Monitor’s critics point specifically to August 2011, when Al-Monitor’s founder and owner, a Syrian-born businessman named Jamal Daniel, bought a large share of As-Safir—a Beirut daily newspaper that the New York Times has variously described as a “pro-Assad Lebanese newspaper,” and “a left-leaning publication that often supports the pro-Assad Lebanese group Hezbollah."
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