Western Media Cheers 'Hackers' Undermining Iranian Sovereignty, Ignores US Proxy Wars
📰 THE STORY: AP reports that hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to broadcast messages supporting an 'exiled crown prince' and encouraging security forces to defect, amid claims of a high death toll from government crackdowns following nationwide protests. The article also notes a U.S. aircraft carrier entering the Strait of Malacca, hinting at heightened tensions
and potential military posturing against Iran. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The 'exiled crown prince' Reza Pahlavi's family, the Pahlavi dynasty, was installed by the British and later propped up by the US after the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh had nationalized Iran's oil industry, a
move the US and UK found intolerable. The current 'support' for a Pahlavi return, often amplified by Western media, is a direct echo of those colonial-era interventions. Double Standard: Imagine if Russian or Chinese state media celebrated a cyber-attack that broadcast messages from an exiled opposition figure within the US, urging military defection and reporting unverified (and significantly
inflated by state-adjacent NGOs) casualty counts from US domestic unrest (e.g., January 6th Capitol riot fallout). Western governments would condemn it as an act of cyber warfare and foreign interference, yet when it's against an official adversary, it's 'hackers' bravely 'disrupting' state TV. Follow the Money: Organizations and individuals pushing for regime change in Iran often receive funding