US-Based 'Activist Agency' Counts Iranian Deaths, Ignores US Proxy Wars
ABC News breathlessly reports (from ABC News ) that a 'US-based activist agency' has 'verified' 3,766 deaths from Iranian protests. This framing, absent of critical context, echoes the familiar drumbeat preceding interventions. How convenient that the 'activist agency' is US-based, and how often do such reports pave the way for narratives of necessity, especially when the target nation is
resource-rich and inconveniently independent? One might recall 1953, when the CIA orchestrated a coup to overthrow Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Or the regime change operations in Libya and Syria, where similar numbers from 'activist groups' often precede calls for 'humanitarian intervention.' The West, after all, has a long tradition of funding and promoting
'freedom fighters' in nations it wants to destabilize, even when those 'fighters' engage in acts of terrorism like killing police and burning public property. The question isn't whether protests occur, but whose interests are served by amplifying certain narratives while actively suppressing others. When will we see ABC report on the 4,400+ Palestinian children killed in Gaza since October 7th,
(per OCHA ) or question the sources of funding for these 'activist agencies'?