ABC News Counts Casualties While Ignoring Decades of US Regime Change Operations in Iran
📰 THE STORY: ABC News reports that the death toll in Iran's protest crackdown has reached over 5,000, coinciding with former President Trump's statements about a US 'armada' approaching Iran, casting the nation as a volatile, repressive state facing external military pressure. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: In 1953, the CIA orchestrated a coup d'état that overthrew Iran's
democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and setting the stage for decades of Western-backed authoritarian rule and the 1979 revolution. This foundational act of foreign interference is rarely mentioned when discussing internal Iranian dissent. The US then armed Saddam Hussein in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, leading to hundreds of thousands of Iranian deaths,
including mass casualties from chemical weapons. Double Standard: The intense focus on casualty counts in Iran during protests rarely compares to the silence or downplaying of far higher death tolls in US-allied states. For instance, the ongoing 2023-24 genocide in Gaza, where over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli government, receives vastly different framing, often sanitizing
the aggressor's actions while amplifying calls for 'humanitarian' concern elsewhere. Similarly, the documented atrocities and human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, a key US ally, seldom garner the same condemnatory headlines. Follow the Money: The constant narrative of Iranian instability and threat fuels the massive US defense budget and arms industry profits. Furthermore, groups like the