Posted on 12/31/2017 1:44:40 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Some in the media are actually suggesting the Iranian protesters are the terrorists. The mainstream media is siding with Iran. The MSM is protecting the terror nation of Iran as best they can.
Toby Young Extraordinarily one-sided report on the Iranian protests in the @guardian, essentially siding with the regime. Has the left ever been more morally bankrupt? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/31/protesters-who-spread-fear-and-violence-will-be-confronted-says-iran?CMP=share_btn_tw …
The guardian posted Iranian propaganda in their one-sided article.
Then there is this lie:
Many senior figures within the reformist camp and the opposition Green movement remain perplexed as to how to respond to the current wave of unrest. The sharp nature of some of the slogans, which have challenged the foundations of the Islamic republic, have left them mute.
CNN Quotes Iranian Front Groups
CNN is also doing their part, quoting Iranian front groups like the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), and claiming it’s not a revolution, just a civil rights movement or some angst over economic concerns.
That is similar to the lie coming out of the International Crisis Group as well. They’re funded by George Soros. It’s nothing, not a movement, not a revolution, it’s nothing.
They made it about Trump and his tweet warning Iran. Quoting Trita Parsi of the front group NIAC, “This is not about Trump, and Trump stepping into this is not necessarily helpful, because he doesn’t carry any credibility in Iran.”
Yesterday, CNN quoted the propaganda of the Iranian state news agency Tasmin, even using their cover photo, while they equated pro-government supporters in the streets to the many thousands tearing down Khamenei posters and marching through the streets of cities throughout Iran.
“Crowds of pro-government supporters demonstrated Saturday in Iran after two days of rare anti-government protests which spread to a number of cities,” CNN reported.
“Nearly 2,000 people gathered peacefully in the capital, Tehran, in support of the government’s policies, an eyewitness there said. State-run Iranian broadcasters showed demonstrators waving the Iranian flag at the pro-government rally, which had been scheduled before the anti-government protests broke out. Meanwhile, coverage of the anti-government protests was very limited on state-run media, which referenced them only in passing,” it continued.
They made no mention of the thousands Iran has jailed and the three who have been murdered nor of the ominous threats by Iran officials to anyone who protests.
NY Times Tells Trump to Shut Up
The NY Times also made it about Trump, telling him in a headline to basically shut up – they actually said, “Be Quiet”. Their paragraph minimizing Obama’s support for the regime was particularly deceitful.
They wrote:
Even if Mr. Obama’s support might have somehow been helpful to the Iranian opposition, Mr. Trump’s almost certainly will not be. Whatever Iranians think of their own government, they are unlikely to want as a voice for their grievances an American president who has relentlessly opposed economic relief for their country and banned them from traveling to the United States.
Obama gave them billions in cash and promoted business in Iran. The money is being used for terrorism which is why the people are protesting. They’re suffering while the Mullahs build the bomb, develop their ICBM program and sponsor terrorism throughout the world. They have ignored the Hezbollah story.
The entire article minimized Iran’s guilt and projected fear at the possibility of the President cancelling the absolutely awful Iran nuke deal.
The Rwanda media ginned up, encouraged, and facilitated the Rwandan Genocide.
If we are ever in the minority in this country, the MSM will do the same against us. There’s no doubt at that.
It would be anti-Islamic bigotry to condemn the Iranian government!! ;p
Certainly the Guardian has never been more morally bankrupt.
It’s probably the worst publication I’ve ever read.
If other reports are to be believed, the Iranians are also protesting Islam.
“...and they will continue to be on the side of evil until they cease to exist. They’re killing themselves every day.”
Not that I would object, but how are media people killing themselves? They seem more entrenched than ever, act openly as a branch of the Democrat party, publicly condemn ordinary citizens who disagree, side with America’s enemies, and daily connive to destroy a duly elected President.
Suicidal....? I’m not so sure.
The media supports protests against the Trump US government and then supports the Iranian Muslim government against their protesters....
Tells exactly what kind of media the USA has allowed to exist....
The left sides with Satan. That’s all you need to know. Then it all makes sense.
Iranians who call themselves Persians regard Islam as an invasive Arab disease, much as did Kemal Ataturk (who must be spinning in his mausoleum right about now).
The way I am reading this is that at least the CIA is not involved.
Totalitarianism is the Viagra of mediots. They haven’t had a decent SCHWING!! since Mullah Baraq decamped from the formerly White House....
They prove themselves on the side of Satan every. Damn. Day.
I was under the impression that Persian considered Arabs and anything Arab, including Islam, invasive, a plague.
More? No. But 100% morally bankrupt from its inception, yes.
Completely morally bankrupt is completely morally bankrupt.
They “arrived” at that a long time ago.
It’s the reason they had to invent political correctness, the new morality.
***They thought 1979 in Iran was ‘populist.’***
It was. Carter caved the people got Kohmeni in power, threw out the Shah.
I always figured that in 20-25 years a new generation would rise to throw out the Mullahs. Unfortunately they had no help from Obama.
Exactly? how is this a surprise for anyone who has been paying attention to the left the last 10 years. They are apologist for Islamic terrorism. They’ve embraced ISLAM and promote it.
The reality is that these protests are being mischaracterized and wildly exaggerated by the usual interventionists. The Iranian government is not in any danger at all and most Iranians will support it against any protest that is being cheered by hostile governments.
The way this story is being treated here is exactly like the hysteria that swept movement conservatism in the run up to the Iraq war.
Meanwhile, 2017 had the highest level of immigration of any year since 1999.
Why are we surprised? The media covers for muslim terrorists here and in Europe, why would they want to see their benefactors thrown out?
Wow they actually applied Obama’s support for the regime and Trump’s opposition to the regime as if those actions applied to the protesters! When it’s the exact opposite. Obama screwed the protesters, Trump is supporting them. What evil insanity.
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