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Dubious Unsourced Chatter
The opening section is too long and filled with false and unsourced claims.

The first claim says that there is "an estimated 95% viewership when he is on-air" when in reality there is no source to prove it. In fact there is not much reliable information available about his overall viewership but the closest claim about his viewership is a poll conducted by IRIB and published by Mehr News that says one of his films has 82.8% viewership. (Source: Mehr News)

A couple of sources do mention him being a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War, but they all use Wikipedia's exact wording("....in a number of concerts. He is also a veteran of the Iran–Iraq War. In 2009 Modiri was named...."), more investigation is required to tell weather they copied Wikipedia or not.

There is one source that claims to be from Newsweek; It's link leads to a dead article from The Daily Beast instead, which we might be able to find in archive.org. (the likely original: https://www.newsweek.com/20-most-powerful-people-iran-80061)

An here is the most libelous claim:

In the last paragraph of the opening section it says that Mehran Modiri took a firm standing in favour of the Mahsa Amini protestors, and it further claims that the Iranian Government banned him from leaving the country but he somehow managed to leave Iran for the UAE; the article alleges that an Iranian Twitter user said it. Some of this might be correct but given in an unorderly manner to falsely allege that he has actually willingly and successfully defected.

Well, what Iranian news agencies DO in fact say and display by video evidence, is that he published a lengthy apology to the Iranian Government in another video, and that he completely withdrew from his former claims of support for the protests. (Sources: Shahrekhabar, Hamshahri, Rashedoon, Ghatreh News)

Iranian news agencies further conclude that an actress, Pardis Ahmadieh, who supported the protests, condemned Mehran for his apology; Pardis Ahmadieh later apologized to Mehran. (Sources: Eghtesad News, 55 Online, Shaya News)

The sources I presented are not the most reliable in the world, but they are the only available secondary sources on this subject, and they might be considered quite nice for Iran's internal issues; Farsi Wikipedia trust's them. Viral weirdo (talk) 16:28, 12 February 2024 (UTC)