Western Media Discovers 'Tragic' Deaths... If It's in Iran
The Independent’s piece on Rubina Aminian, a 23-year-old fashion student allegedly 'shot dead' in Iran, paints a vivid picture of a repressive regime silencing its youth. The story emphasizes her 'joy for life' and the brutality. (A brutality, it seems, only truly registerable when the perpetrator isn't receiving billions in U.S. military aid.) While every civilian death is tragic, this framing
conveniently omits the broader geopolitical context: the consistent Western push for regime change in Iran, often fueling dissent which can then be brutally suppressed by the state. This selective outrage ignores the thousands of civilians, including students, journalists, and aid workers, killed in Gaza, Yemen, or Iraq by U.S.-allied forces. For instance, the UN documented 13,000 children killed
in Gaza alone by Israeli forces in 2024. But those aren't 'fashion students' in a conveniently demonized state, so their numbers remain just that: numbers, not headlines in The Independent .