Corrections Policy

Use a verified route on the Official Contact page and begin the message with “Correction request”. A useful submission lets the exact claim be found and tested without guesswork.

• The full URL of the page.
• The exact sentence, figure, caption, translation or attribution you dispute.
• What you believe is wrong or materially misleading, and the precise replacement you propose.
• Primary documents, original links or other reliable evidence supporting the request.
• Your relationship to the issue and a safe way to ask follow-up questions.
• Any confidentiality, privacy or immediate-safety concern that must be considered before using the material.

Requests may concern factual inaccuracies, misquotation, mistranslation, incorrect identity or date, numerical error, broken or misleading attribution, a caption that changes the meaning of an image, a material omission that makes a factual account deceptive, or publication of unnecessarily private information.

A clearly identified opinion, prediction or first-person recollection is not corrected merely because another person disagrees. It may still be clarified, relabelled or updated if the presentation wrongly implies objective fact or if reliable evidence shows the underlying factual premise is false.

The disputed passage is checked against the source cited on the page, the material submitted, the date and context of publication and any relevant independent evidence. The requester may be asked for the original file, provenance, permission or information needed to verify authenticity.

Where fairness requires it, other materially affected people may be asked for comment. Confidential material is not promised automatic publication, and unverifiable material is not treated as fact merely because it was sent privately.

The site may decline unsupported, repetitive, abusive, unlawfully obtained or manifestly bad-faith demands. That does not prevent a later review if credible new evidence is provided.

A correction replaces or withdraws a factual error. A clarification improves wording that was technically defensible but materially ambiguous. An update adds information that became available after publication. A removal or redaction may be appropriate for legal, privacy, safety, copyright or evidentiary reasons.

• Minor: spelling, punctuation, layout, formatting, accessibility or broken-link fixes that do not change meaning may be made without a formal note.
• Substantive: a factual or translation change that affects understanding receives a dated note on the relevant page describing the correction.
• Major: an error central to the title, conclusion or treatment of a person receives prominent correction wording and may require a revised title, standfirst, social metadata or linked-page update.
• Update: new evidence is dated and labelled so that it is not mistaken for information available at the original publication time.
• Removal or redaction: where explaining the detail would repeat harmful or private information, the public note may be necessarily limited.

Requests are reviewed as promptly as the seriousness, evidence and complexity allow. Immediate safety, identity exposure, active fraud, serious defamation risk and errors likely to cause continuing harm receive priority.

No fixed outcome is promised before the evidence is checked. Complex records, old archives, translations or disputed documents may take longer. If a final decision cannot be made quickly, an interim note may be added when leaving the original wording unchanged would itself be materially misleading.

A person or organisation materially criticised may submit a concise, relevant and evidence-based response. Depending on the issue, the response may be quoted, summarised, linked or reflected in a correction or update.

A response will not be published automatically or in full if it is unlawful, threatening, irrelevant, needlessly private, commercially promotional or unsupported. Editing for length and clarity must not distort its substantive position.

Material corrections should state what changed and the date of the change. The purpose is not to preserve every typo, but to prevent a significant error from disappearing without accountability.

Where the same content exists in Persian and English, a substantive correction is applied to both versions as soon as reasonably possible. The note should identify any translation-specific issue.

Search engines, archives, social platforms and screenshots may retain an earlier version outside this site’s control. Updating the live page does not guarantee immediate removal of cached copies.

Send only material you are entitled to share. Do not submit passwords, recovery codes, full identity documents, private addresses, unnecessary information about children or raw personal data unrelated to the disputed claim.

If public disclosure could endanger a person or reveal a confidential source, say so before sending the material. Confidentiality can be considered but cannot be guaranteed against every legal obligation or platform risk.

You may ask for one further review by identifying the overlooked evidence or explaining a specific error in the reasoning. Repeating the same demand without new grounds does not require a new review.

This policy does not limit any legal right, data-protection request or remedy available under applicable law.