Iran Protests 'Spread': Conveniently Ignoring Decades of US Meddling
France 24 reports on Iranian 'student protests' on their 'third day,' framing the events as organic, spontaneous uprising. What's consistently absent from such breathless coverage? The decades of sanctions, destabilization efforts, and regime change rhetoric emanating from Washington and its allies. This isn't ancient history; a 2021 report from the Quincy Institute detailed how the U.S. has
invested hundreds of millions in 'democracy promotion' in Iran, often fueling dissent. We're expected to believe Iran's internal issues sprung forth from a vacuum, unrelated to economic strangulation or external covert operations. One might wonder why, when Iran faces internal challenges, Western media so readily amplifies dissent, but when similar protests emerge in nations allied with the West,
the narrative shifts to 'maintaining order.' How many times have we seen this script, conveniently ignoring the foreign policy fingerprints all over the 'spontaneous' unrest?