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Trump confirms Iran’s claim that protesters were US-armed
(www.aljazeera.com)
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In all the videos I saw of the Iranian regime killing protesters, the protesters were all unarmed.
This smells like progranda to me.
Both can be true:
The US tried to arm protesters via the Kurds to provoke a civil war paving the way for destabilization of Iran in the long run and possible intervention (with the Kurds not being willing to pass on the weapons as they got betrayed by Trump not that long ago).
And at the same time the peaceful protesters in Iran were murdered by the theocracy fearing for its power... possibly enhanced should the regime have gained knowledge of the planned US weapon deliveries.
Sure, but that's not what the article seems to be claiming and that's what I'm calling out here.
If it's propaganda, it's the dumbest least effective kind, since Trump would only be making the people he's at war at look better.
Which, saying it sounds like something he would do.
I'm not sure how it qualifies as propaganda though because it doesn't accomplish anything propaganda would, considering the source
A tactic that can sometimes be used is to use a smoke screen. To muddy the waters and flood the zone with disinformation, making people unsure about the truth.
I'm no propaganda expert but I think they might just be trying to make it seem like the US isn't as stupid as everyone can plainly see, while also trying to justify a stronger barage of attacks.
I'm not sure if you noticed, but the number of civilians Trump claimed on Easter that the Iranian regime has killed more than doubled without a source, from 30,000 to hundreds of thousands. And while any number of unarmed protesters being gunned down in the street is bad (see ICE), Increasing the number seems to be a useful justification for a preventive strike against a school.
I don't think Trump is smart enough for that
For sure, but a regime is more than one person.
Yeah, this wasn't some civil war scenario. Iran was simply mass-murdering the people.
Yes, but it's left-wing propaganda, so you're supposed to let it slide.
...which of these two governments is left wing, exactly?
The propaganda that the Iranian government was only being protested because western colonial powers were prompting it is left-wing propaganda. That it also happens to serve the interests of right-wing religious fascists in Iran doesn't mean it doesn't also serve the interests of the left.
You may be surprised to learn that the far left support any government, no matter how repressive, if it stands up to the US and "westerners" in general.
I'm very left. We don't support Iran's regime. They are murderous monsters. And are against everything we stand for like feminism and LGBTIQ rights
That doesn't mean it's ok to unilaterally and in contravention to international law start bombing the shit out of Iran. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Also it's not an actual solution. The US destroyed Iraq's pretty bad regime, then left a power vacuum that made things even worse for their people and created ISIS.
In Afghanistan they created just a temporary relief until they gave up and things returned back to how they were.
This time it caused a lot shit for the whole world and there isn't even a plan for after.
Libya is an even better example of a situation of were Western attacks claiming to be meant to "Overthrow a murderous dictator and bring in Democratic values" made things vastly worse.
The fact that you think the US has any form of "far left" presence beyond fringe college clubs and CIA honeypots says everything
Not that I necessarily disagree with your first point, I just don't see it as evidence of the existence of a far left. The Iranian people have been protesting the Iranian government on their own for ages.
I'm not talking specifically about the US far left. I'm talking about Lemmy / Mbin / Fediverse leftists who celebrate Iran as an opponent to the US and then retcon that the government of Iran must not have legitimate internal opposition. Some of them are probably based in the US as well. I'm not clear on where technocrit is from.
The term you're looking for is "tankies"
I think there's more nuance. Tankies love Russia and North Korea. If you don't like those two but you think Venezuela, Iran, and Iran's proxies are just fine, you may not be a tankie, but you are leaning that way.
Is technocrit a tankie? If so, he or she hides enough of it to get lots of support from lemmy.world leftists. The same people who are happy to bitch about hexbear and lemmy.ml seem to find little wrong with technocrit and tropicaldingdong.
Venezuela, Iran, and Iran’s proxies are ...
... better than genocidal fake Democracies like the US and Israel.
Which is not at all the same as being fine.
They're spoiled food to the US and Israel's shit sandwishes.
Everytime I put myself out on a limb with a comment, someone comes along to show I wasn't blowing smoke.
What is left wing about that? Sounds like Russian propaganda. I wouldn't be surprised to hear something like that from AfD or FPÖ ... and they hate Muslims but they also repeat everything Sputnik writes.
My Iranian American friends tell me they don't trust aljazeera as a source because they are anti-Iranian. I'm not sure how true that is, but I do know the contents of the videos I saw. And only the Iranian regime had guns.
And how does that relate to my post? Aljazeera is not left-wing.
I took your comment to mean that you were talking about journalism having political bias in general. I was adding context to that idea since the post features an article from Aljazeera.