Fox News Highlights 'Protestor' Death Sentence, Ignores US-Backed Destabilization History
📰 THE STORY: Fox News reports that an Iranian soldier, Javid Khales, has been sentenced to death for refusing to fire on protesters during recent nationwide unrest, citing a human rights group as its source. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The current 'unrest' in Iran, often portrayed by Western media as purely organic, occurs within a well-established pattern of
foreign-backed destabilization. In 1953, the CIA openly admitted to orchestrating a coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and setting the stage for decades of resentment and the 1979 revolution. Since then, the US has continuously supported opposition groups, including the MEK terrorists, hosted in Albania and France, and funded
media aimed at regime change, like VOA Persian. Ignoring this history is actively misleading. Double Standard: While human rights concerns in Iran are amplified across Western media, similar or worse actions by US allies often receive muted coverage or outright justification. For example, during the 2019 protests in Chile against neoliberal policies (a direct legacy of the 1973 CIA-backed coup),
state forces killed over 30 and permanently blinded hundreds. Yet, international outcry was minimal, and no major US network ran continuous pieces on Chilean soldiers being sentenced for refusing to fire. Similarly, the ongoing Saudi war in Yemen, heavily enabled by US and UK arms sales, has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, but those events rarely feature as prominently as alleged