ABSTRACT
The Islamic Republic’s claim of the creation of a culture of human rights awareness in Iranian media could only be substantiated through an in-depth study. This chapter offers analysis of the data collected using the first of two methods, as part of a mixed method, applied to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’s news programs to ascertain quantitatively what principles of international human rights law are utilized by the Islamic Republic and to what extent. Content analysis (CA) was used to do this, but since no such study has ever been done before, an exploratory approach was taken prior to the administration of CA to design the research better, optimize data collection, and select variables.
