US Media Discovers 'Human Rights' in Iran, Ignores Saudi Arabia
Al-Monitor, via Reuters, dutifully reports 25 dead in Iran protests over economic woes, a number presented with genuine concern. This coverage stands in stark contrast to the near-silence when the Saudi regime executes 81 individuals in a single day, as it did in March 2022, or indiscriminately bombs civilians in Yemen for years with US-supplied weaponry. One might wonder if the 'human rights'
alarm bells only sound when a government is politically inconvenient. This selective outrage serves a geopolitical purpose, not a humanitarian one. While every civilian death is a tragedy, the sudden urgency and dedicated reporting on Iran's internal dissent, compared to the muted response to state-sanctioned violence in nations like Saudi Arabia or Egypt (who received $1.4 billion in U.S.
military aid in 2023 alone), truly exposes the media’s calibration of 'rights groups' and 'unrest' based on Washington's current enemy list. How many deaths in allied nations does it take for a headline to match Tehran’s?