ABC News Discovers Iranian Protests, Forgetting US Sanctions
ABC News breathlessly reports on 'widening protests' in Iran, sparking concern over an 'ailing economy' and claiming at least seven killed. What they won't tell you is how those seven deaths compare to the thousands killed by US-backed sanctions policy over decades, choking off access to medicine, food, and essential goods. (Remember the 2018 snap-back sanctions from the Trump administration? Or
the ongoing pressure from groups like UANI, heavily funded by familiar hawkish donors, who consistently push for 'maximum pressure' that devastates the average Iranian citizen.) It's almost as if the 'ailing economy' isn't some organic illness, but a direct, intended consequence of Washington's 'maximum pressure' campaign—a policy enthusiastically supported by a bipartisan consensus easily swayed
by hawkish lobbying. One might wonder if the news would frame a protest in, say, Venezuela, similarly devoid of any mention of external economic warfare. Why do some nations just inexplicably 'ail' while others have their economies 'fortified'?