12.000 number came first from JerusalemPost/TimeofIsrael side so its not reliable.
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CBS is currently beholden to the Nazi's and I don't know if I trust their reporting. It would be in the US' best interest to show Iranian instability as well as how violent "real" protesting is to try and dissuade domestic ideas.
That said. If Iran is murdering 10k citizens a week, their government won't last through the end of the month. One can only hope.
20,000 soldiers were killed on the first day of the Somme in WWI which involved literally mowing down rows of soldiers with machine gun. We would see plenty of evidence if this was happening to civilians in cities even without internet.
Yup. Whatever's coming out of CBS on topics where Israel has vested interest, there's a good chance of hasbara. Could still be true but a bucket of salt is recommended.
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12,000 and 20,000 protesters
Dawg Pakistan wasn't even able to arrest that many people in the past 2 years worth of protests against an army with actual firepower that has been working overtime to get people killed.
It even took Gaza a solid month to reach those numbers under constant bombing campaigns and a wall of IFVs.
Iran's internet has only been complete blackout for 4 days, so unless they decided to unload several war days worth of ammunition in a purge killing spree, this isn't possible. AP is reporting 2.7k.
News orgs are getting orders from ellison getting orders from the administration. Apparently they do not feel they need people in reality to be on board with iran war 2 so they just supply obviously obscenely inflated figures.
Its atrocity propaganda
2.7k is most likely a big overestimate.
Jesus, I wish there was some kind of standard for freedom of speech and freedom of the press that could be applied globally...
But that would be inherently "evil" because global governments are supposed to be bad? Unless it's corporate globalism. Then it's ok, and we don't need standards or regulations because the values are just baked in since it's a private company...?
Still it does seems a bit hypocritical to point out how evil Iran is while Trump is threatening to invoke the insurrection act in Minnesota against protestors who are upset about Trump invading their home, tear gassing a high school, shooting one man, and murdering one woman (so far), and even though it hasn't gotten much press, for some reason the FBI just raided a journalists home yesterday and nobody really seems to know why.
Not trying to downplay Iran murdering so many citizens or give Trump brownie points just because he's pointing at the guy he's got a lot of catching up to do with when comparing violent crack downs on critics and the press.
Let's just focus on the guy in Iran bc Trump's mad at him, not the guy in Saudi Arabia bc we're frenz now... And maybe not the guy in Russia? Because I can't even keep up with what we're all supposed to believe re: Trump, Putin, and oil right now.
Tldr: Authoritarian dictators all suck no matter who they are, where they are, or how many innocent people they've murdered (so far)
Literally atrocity propaganda.
This is the Iran equivalent of the beheaded babies.
CBS is owned by Larry Ellison and run by Bari Weiss. Zionist fanatics who are Israel first.
Bombshell report is right. This report was literally made to precede bombs.
Western media always gets played by the cia, state department, israel, et al.
There might be protests, they are associated with the west, on issues the west exacerbated the problems of for this purpose, helped in Iran, but also agent provokateurs to stir up violence.
Protesters are pawns, media is a bishop perhaps, in fomenting another iran war. If we can use a chess analogy when one player lacks major pieces.
If you think the us and israel are going to make anything better, it explains how we got into our own political position.
I really, really hope the protesters succeed. Iran has such a glorious history and wonderful people - they deserve so much more. It could retake its place as the shining example of countries in the region, as it was for most of the last 5000 years.
It doesn't happen to have anything to do with America overthrowing their government and the creation of Israel, does it?
Hey now, don't leave out the UK. (And the real power, oil money)
We're we also destabilizing the region to harm Russia during the cold war? I forget.
they deserve so much more.
Without the sanctions they already would have so much more.
As long as the US doesn't march in and say "We'll help you with your oil and write your laws for you."
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ITT: lemmites jumping through hopes to be contrarians
Or the admin is doing the Iraq WMD stuff to go to war. Something that the current admin did for months with Venezuela. Of course news agencies with goldfish memory will just repeat a whole lie. So whether its the boy crying wolf again or not its clearly a tragedy whether its 1% of a Gaza or 5% of a Gaza.
With the Trump admin looking who to attack next around the world I don't trust any of these numbers.
The regime admitted to 2,000.
And while 12,000 is the highest number I've seen so far, it's got to be somewhere between those figures.
Us media is not credible here either. They are being tooled for iran war 2.
Reminds me of the girl who testified for Kuwait before congress telling all sorts of horror stories about the Iraqi occupation. It turned out she was the daughter of a Kuwaiti official and had made it all up to get the US to get involved.
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This is the new CBS. Is this true or is it giving Trump what he needs to go in there?
From what I was told. We can’t trust info coming out of Iran right now. We don’t know if these are the Iranian government trying see who repeats info. But because internet is so limited. We don’t have our normal sources.
These numbers are bullshit, they exceed even war casualty numbers where artillery and air power are used. Obvious propaganda.
Systematic killings of civilian population is far more "efficient" than shelling. Any genocide will tell you that.
holy shit, that’s awful.
Tr*mp: "How soon can we do that here?"
Everything doesn't have to be about the US.
This is what a mass protest would look like in the US.
Oi, that's more then most tiananmen square massacre estimates. Must be crazy to be there right now.
Fucking monsters, I hope the Iranian people string up their opressors.
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