France 24's 'Varying Death Tolls' Narrative Misses the Real Conflict
📰 THE STORY: France 24 meticulously compares death toll figures from various human rights groups and Iranian state media concerning recent protests, highlighting discrepancies and challenges in verification, without delving into the drivers of said unrest or the vested interests reporting them. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: In 1953, the CIA openly admitted to orchestrating
a coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and fostering deep-seated anti-Western sentiment that fueled the 1979 revolution. This foundational act of regime change is crucial to understanding any subsequent unrest. The US later armed Saddam Hussein for his 1980-88 war with Iran, which resulted in over a million casualties. Double Standard:
While Western media outlets scrutinize Iranian death tolls in protests—often relying on foreign-funded NGOs—they consistently downplay or ignore far higher death tolls from Western-backed interventions. For instance, the destruction of Libya in 2011, a NATO intervention, led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and destabilized the entire region, creating modern slave markets, yet receives
comparatively little 'human rights' outrage from these same outlets. The 40,000+ deaths in Gaza since October 2023, largely at the hands of a US-backed military, are routinely described in passive terms like 'conflict' or 'war' rather than a 'massacre' or 'genocide,' which the ICJ is now investigating. Follow the Money: Organizations like the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq), a designated terrorist group