CBS News Reports Iranian Deaths, Forgets Their Own 'Regime Change' History
CBS News breathlessly reports a 'skyrocketing death toll' in Iran and threats of executions, citing 'sources' fearing up to 20,000 deaths. This concern for human rights in an adversary state is commendable, if not conspicuously asymmetrical. What goes unmentioned is the remarkably consistent U.S. playbook of regime change operations in the region – a history that includes the 1953 CIA-backed coup
against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah, and paving the way for the very Islamic Republic CBS now decries. Or the sanctions crippling the Iranian populace, creating fertile ground for dissent that gets enthusiastically amplified by Western media, with little to no genuine self-reflection on the role of external players. One might wonder if CBS
will apply the same frantic fact-checking and moral urgency to the 35,000+ deaths in Gaza, where their own government is not merely observing but actively supplying the weaponry. It appears some 'regimes' earn condemnation for suppressing protests, while others, equally lethal, receive billions in military aid and media silence. The theatrical outrage over Iran's internal affairs, while ignoring
the plank in the West's own eye, isn't news; it's a genre.