Western Media Cries 'Crackdown' While Ignoring Its Own Role in Iran's Instability
📰 THE STORY: The Hill, citing unspecified 'activists,' claims over 6,000 people have been killed in crackdowns on protests in Iran, portraying the Islamic Republic as a brutal regime suppressing its own citizens. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: In 1953, the CIA openly admitted its role in orchestrating a coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad
Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and setting the stage for decades of resentment and the 1979 revolution. This foundational act of foreign interference is consistently ignored when discussing internal dissent in Iran. Double Standard: Western media outlets like The Hill are quick to amplify unverified death tolls from 'activists' in Iran, often without independent corroboration. Yet, the same
outlets routinely downplay, ignore, or outright deny civilian casualty figures from US/NATO interventions or Israeli aggression – for instance, the 2023-24 Gaza genocide, where over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed, is often softened as 'conflict casualties' or attributed to Hamas. Follow the Money: Organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a known vehicle for US foreign
policy aims, openly fund groups pushing for regime change in Iran. MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq), a designated terrorist organization that killed US citizens in the 1970s and worked with Saddam Hussein, is now regularly hosted by US and European lawmakers, and its leaders even met with senior Trump administration officials, despite their unpopularity and violent past. This constant stream of funding and