• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Yeah let’s not forget who they are, the people in power in Iran. Worst scum on earth.

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    9 months ago

    Does anyone else see a suspicious disconnect here? The actual legislation cited is a prohibition about “any intelligence cooperation with the Mossad”. And what’s more, this complaint is coming from Euronews, a news agency which is likely hostile to the regime. Whatever you think about the regime, I am pretty sure that cooperation with the enemy in wartime is maximally punishable in any country.

    So my takeaway when I read this piece was that it sounded like a fox complaining that teeth and claws are forbidden in the chicken coop.

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      9 months ago

      Funny how you equate the Iranian regime with chickens. You know, yhay same regime that murders people slowly by slowly Hanging them from a crane, just and only just because they loved the wrong person. I believe the handmaid’s tale has a good example scene of this.

      Yes, Israel is committing a genocide, USA is evil, but do you really want to apologize for yet another evil, then?

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    9 months ago

    Israel attacks Iran. Iran which was tolerable to media a few months ago is now the root of all evil.

    Talk of manufacturing consent in an unprovoked attack on another country. The scrambling to justify these attacks on Iran is real interesting.

    See you tomorrow and the next day for an Iran did this bad thing story. Keep drip feeding that narrative.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      When was Iran tolerable? They’re still as much of a fucked up theocracy with a terrible record on human rights as they’ve been since the revolution.

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        9 months ago

        I recall seeing a lot of posts on here praising the leadership whenever they said anything negative about Trump

        But that’s about the only stuff positive about Iran I’ve seen on here.

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        9 months ago

        I said tolerable to the media. Been barely discussed in UK media until Israel attacked them, now they’re scrambling to justify it based on how bad Iran is…

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          9 months ago

          I’m not in the UK, but I recall Iran being in the media a lot in China and the US. Back when Trump assassinated one of their generals during his first term, the recurring abductions and rapes of women and young girls by the morality police that sparked nationwide protests, the arms they are providing for Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, and now Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iranian infrastructure and citizens.

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            Basically nothing for 2 years (the protests ended), and the first term for Trump ended in 2021, so 4 years ago. The only thing I have seen is about arms sales, occasionally and it doesn’t express any opinion other than an Iran drone was used.

            In the last few days since the attack, it’s quite a lot about nuclear weapons that may be 2 months, 2 years or a 20 years away, and now about journalists. Basically, the strategy has changed to bumping them up the enemies list to justify the attacks.

            We don’t see much about the Syrian leader, as he’s not much of a terrorist now he’s working with the West.

            It’s interesting how media can pivot their narratives about who the heroes and villains are at any time, and it’s always in line with government foreign policy.

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        9 months ago

        Welp, you convinced me, I now support killing as many Iranians, men women and children, as it takes to save Iranians from the yoke of the Islamic Republic. /s

        Waging war on Iran will not improve the situation of any Iranian, even the worst off. Do not use the name of the people who will be slaughtered by the millions for your warmongering propaganda.

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          Not sure how you got any of that from what I was saying. Feel free to take your black and white worldview somewhere else.

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            Oh, I just assumed that your parroting of the mainstream media justifications of this war of aggression to be an assent of this war. Sorry, my bad.

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      9 months ago

      Iran which was tolerable to media a few months ago

      In what parallel reality do you live in ? It has been classified as one of the worse country for press freedom since years by RSF, they shutdown internet when things get out of hand and banned a lot of social medias.

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        9 months ago

        If you read your sources, you’ll realise Palestine is the worst. “Palestine has become the world’s most dangerous state for journalists, as almost 200 reporters were killed in Gaza by the Israeli army over the first 18 months of war, at least 42 of whom were likely killed due to their work. In the West Bank, where journalists were already the victims of abuses by both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli occupying forces, Israeli pressure has intensified since 7 October 2023, with an increase in arrests of reporters and obstructions to their work.”

        2 bad guys are fighting it out here. One was an aggressor who started this conflict…

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      This is textbook manufacturing consent. Maybe these people could benefit from a little history on how these people got into power, and what helps keep them in power. Big surprise, the same people that loves to bring up how terrible they are as they attack them.