Internet Restored: Mirrored Lies and Amplified Narratives
📰 THE STORY: France 24 reports that the partial restoration of internet access in Iran is 'revealing a wider scale of killing' by the state, implying that the internet shutdown was designed to hide mass atrocities. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The narrative that Iran is a closed society brutalizing its own people, only for truth to trickle out via Western channels, mirrors
propaganda efforts going back to the 1953 CIA coup against democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. That coup, orchestrated to regain control of Iran's oil, set the stage for decades of Western interference and demonization of any independent Iranian government. More recently, the *Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK)*, a designated terrorist organization by the U.S. until 2012, has been
lavishly funded and promoted by Western politicians and media to destabilize Iran, often providing 'intelligence' on Iranian atrocities. Double Standard: Western media quick to highlight alleged killings in Iran, often based on unverified social media reports, stands in stark contrast to the near-total silence or downplaying of the over 40,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli government
since October 7, 2023. While Iran's actions are presented as state-sponsored murder, Israel's are consistently framed as 'self-defense' or 'responding to aggression,' even when hospitals and refugee camps are deliberately targeted. Follow the Money: Organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and USAID, which receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. government,