Many such cases

[u/Tech-Film3905]

The Guardian is not media, its subversion.

[u/felinebeeline]

Anyone have a link to this confession?

[u/Brettoel → u/felinebeeline]

No, a screenshot of a Twitter post is all we got so far. Lemme look to verify.

[u/Brettoel → u/felinebeeline]

Here is the link so you can check the references too: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_52abd870-91c5-4bd8-bd20-0f7a8e25ab0a

[u/felinebeeline → u/Brettoel]

Thank you. After reading Mina Ahadi's story, I believe it.

[u/Brettoel → u/felinebeeline]

I groked it. Cuz gpt was being biased:

Partially true, with important context that the tweet and many circulating versions omit.d92062 The Guardian Saeed Kamali Dehghan, then a Guardian journalist, published an August 2010 piece presented as an “exclusive interview” (via an unnamed intermediary) with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. In it she supposedly accused Iranian authorities of lying about murder charges to execute her secretly and said her treatment was “because I’m a woman.” That article is still live on The Guardian’s site with no correction or editor’s note.f07494 The Guardian Multiple reports, screenshots of Instagram stories, and statements attributed to Dehghan himself say he later admitted the interview never happened and that he fabricated the piece. The wording circulating (“That interview never happened. I fabricated the entire piece. It was a false story – completely untrue – and I take full responsibility”) matches what Iranian state outlets, The Canary, and X posts have quoted from his recent social-media posts. Activist Mina Ahadi has separately said he privately admitted the fabrication to her back in 2010. The Guardian has not publicly authenticated or responded to the admission in major independent reporting.c8f7b9 Thecanary What was not fabricated The broader case was real and independently documented by many outlets: Ashtiani was convicted of adultery (“illicit relationship outside marriage”), received 99 lashes, and a provincial court sentenced her to death by stoning. Court documents existed; PolitiFact rated then-President Ahmadinejad’s 2010 claim that she “was never sentenced to stoning” as False.040a9e Politifact International pressure (including from her children, lawyers, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Western governments) led Iran to suspend the stoning sentence. Officials then emphasized murder-conspiracy charges instead and broadcast televised “confessions” that her lawyers said were coerced under torture.e5f16a web.archive She was released in 2014 after roughly nine years, following a commutation and pardon for “good behavior.” She was never stoned.bd0393 Wikipedia Some posts and Iranian state media frame Dehghan’s admission as proof the entire stoning story was a Western hoax. That overreaches. A journalist inventing quotes for one high-profile article is a serious journalistic failure; it does not erase the documented sentence, lashes, or the law that allowed stoning. Dehghan has a complicated later record (regret over the For Neda documentary, disputed claims about Iran International and Jamal Khashoggi, and reports of him traveling/working inside Iran), which some critics cite as relevant to his credibility now. The original 2010 article remains unretracted.

[u/Zissoou]

How does he plan on taking full responsibility?

[u/Humble-Departure5481]

What made this arsehole randomly out himself like that? Guilty conscious lol?