Is iranintl.com legit or a scam?
Iran International is a well-established, high-traffic news portal with a decade-long history and valid UK business registration.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The page is a fully-rendered, professional news website for Iran International with no visual indicators of scamming, phishing, or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional news portal layout with consistent Iran International branding
Standard navigation menu with categories like World, Iran, and Sports
Functional cookie consent modal in Persian language
Live broadcast indicators and news carousels with high-quality imagery
Sidebar featuring newsletter subscription and social media links
Content consists of standard journalistic reporting on international politics
MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for over 10 years and is operated by a registered UK company, Volant Media UK Ltd. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists show no security threats or phishing indicators. The site maintains a professional journalistic layout with high-quality content and active social media presence across multiple platforms. While the network has been the target of external cyberattacks, the website itself is a legitimate news source. We found no evidence of scamming, malware, or fraudulent behavior during our technical inspection.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for iranintl.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered May 2016 (over 10 years old); official site of Iran International, a London-based Persian satellite TV and digital news outlet launched in 2017 (iranintl.com).
- Owned by Volant Media UK Ltd (UK company 09918100, active); significant control by Adel Abdulkarim Alabdulkarim (British national); previously reported Saudi funding links (~$250M in 2018).
- Wikipedia and Media Bias Fact Check describe it as anti-Islamic Republic with Right-Center bias and Mixed factual reporting due to one-sided coverage favoring opposition voices and inconsistent sourcing.
- Iran International has repeatedly warned about cyber campaigns impersonating its staff on WhatsApp/Telegram for phishing and malware distribution; it was itself targeted in a 2025 hack by Iran-linked Handala group leaking >2TB data.
- No scam reports, malware flags, or user complaints found against the domain itself; one scanner explicitly rates it legitimate with no fraud signals.
- High visibility: active on X (@IranIntl, @IranIntl_En), YouTube, Telegram (1.3M+ subscribers), with millions of followers; cited by Western media.
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"www.iranintl.com is a high-traffic website (ranked #18357 globally on the Tranco list). No fraud signals, brand impersonation, or suspicious activity were..."
Operated by Volant Media UK Ltd (company 09918100, incorporated Dec 2015, active per Companies House; owned by Adel Abdulkarim Alabdulkarim). Licensed in UK to Global Media Circulating Ltd as news service.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://iranintl.com/
- 2308https://iranintl.com/
- 3200https://www.iranintl.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on iranintl.com and not a lookalike like i-ranintl.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on iranintl.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- iranintl.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. iranintl.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 78 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- iranintl.com is 10.1 years old, registered on 5/9/2016 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report iranintl.com as clean.
- No. iranintl.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- iranintl.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. iranintl.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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