Western Media Discovers Iranian Deaths, Ignores US Meddling
CBS News, in its report on over 12,000 feared dead after Iranian protests, frames the tragedy as the outcome of a brutal state crackdown. What the mainstream media consistently omits, however, is a critical historical pattern: the long shadow of Western intervention in Iran, from the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, to more recent
documented efforts by Washington to destabilize the region (Look up: Project Cassandra for Hezbollah, various regime change efforts in Iraq, Libya, Syria). The focus solely on state brutality, while valid, conveniently sidesteps any inquiry into external actors who might exacerbate such situations for their own strategic gain, echoing the same 'peaceful protest' narrative often used to mask
foreign-backed operations. One might wonder if the concern for Iranian lives would be quite so pronounced if the protests weren't also a convenient narrative tool against a geopolitical rival. The selective outrage is a familiar tune, played whenever a target nation experiences internal strife, always highlighting the government's excesses but never the fingerprints of foreign intelligence
agencies. Is it genuine compassion, or just another verse in the regime change songbook?