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The Iranian government cut off internet and satellite connections nationwide during the massacres. And some videos did still manage to leak out.
The internet has been back for a while now, and there's no chance nobody could have leaked anything. Israel cut off internet power and was actively bombing every neighborhood of Gaza and footage still got out.
Don't be silly.
Footage did get out of Iran, you just haven't looked for it because then you'd have to reconsider your belief in the mullah's moral pedestal
Go ahead and share that footage.
I don't believe the Iranian government is moral or good, I just know American imperialism and genocidal war is worse.
Again, go ahead and share that footage. I find it highly unlikely that the western media reporting obscene casualty numbers in the tens of thousands isn't sharing any of that footage and instead just quoting a random first name, but I'm open to being wrong. Go ahead and share the footage you've seen that I haven't been able to find...
Why would I put effort into finding videos that I've already seen, just to show you when you're already sealioning?
You can be confidently wrong, I don't care.
Because you're a lying piece of shit...
The people that would benefit most of showing this footage are for some mysterious reason censoring it, and you're so concerned about the supposed crimes the Iranian government committed that you're unwilling to share this supposed evidence you've seen to spread awareness while you beat your war drum and encourage a war of total destruction on millions of people and incredible devastation on the whole region.
Really, you think I'm fucking bluffing? Then how do you explain this?
Or these articles from Amnesty International, Associated Press, BBC, and Independent?
Go ahead. What BS are you gonna come up with to try to justify this authoritarian brutality?
When/where did I do that? Point to the thing I said that fits that description.
You can't, because I didn't. That's just a pathetic strawman, because you can't handle the truth that you're wrong.
You showed 40,000 deaths ha? You showed what you think justifies starting a war that will kill hundred of thousands, displace hundreds of thousands, and effect the lives of millions?
Again, I don't justify it, if you look at my comment history I've said before they I have no doubt they killed a lot of civilians, and I don't align with the authoritarian government, but I don't justify imperialism and even more destructive and deadly wars as a response. You're not helping Iranians.
While you're watching protest videos, go ahead and watch the videos of counter protesters burning Israeli and US flags. Don't just cherry pick footage that justifies your war lust.
They didn't kill 40k+ people, and you will not provide footage that demonstrates they did anything near that because it's a made up lie.
Should Iran develop nukes and attack the US because ICE is shooting civilians in the street? Same justification, but you can't wrap your head around the fact that you're not the heroes of the world and America doesn't have an obligation to interfere with every country however it deems fit.
We're gonna pretend like your comment is in a vacuum and the context where you made it is irrelevant? Okay then...
Where did I say anything about 40K deaths? The highest estimate I saw in any of those links was 20K, and the highest confirmed body count was less than 10K. Are you just making shit up to make it sound easier to discredit?
Then what the fuck are you even arguing? Because you seem to keep calling me an imperialist propagandist for stating facts like the iranian regime viciously suppressing protesters.
I never said anything even close to any of that. You're fucking psychotic, dude.
Those aren't counter-protesters. It's all the same protest. I know you find this impossible to comprehend, but it's entirely possible to oppose the mullah and US/Israeli colonialism.
That's not how satellite connection works, though? The US smuggled 6000 starlink terminals into Iran.
Frequencies can be jammed, you know...
Not country-wide...
But in all the cities where it matters
You cannot frequency jam an entire city either bruv, the way they were preventing Starlink usage was by detecting emitted radio signals of that frequency and going in person to arrest the users and confiscate the equipment.
Okay... so you admit they were heavily censoring it?
Obviously, I never doubted it, but you can't jam 6000 starlinks, so it was still possible for videos to come out of Iran.
Some did, but the reason the videos aren't pasted all over the place is because there was a concerted effort by the Iranian regime to suppress it.
The Iranian government doesn't have the power to suppress western media, and western media would publish every single of these videos like wildfire.
Well, the western media did publish videos. That's why I and others have seen them. You don't have to take my word for it, just follow the link in my previous comment.
The reason it isn't all over your social media feed probably has something to do with tankies not wanting to promote content that proves the Iranian regime is a violent dictatorship. That kind of flies in the face of their carefully constructed alternative reality in which only the west is evil and anti-western governments can do no wrong.
It would be harder for them to deny the atrocities if they were posting the videos themselves, so that's why you don't see as much as you do from Gaza.
Oh, it's tankies controlling social media feeds, thats why I'm literally reacting on .world to this post with 650 upvotes by an account that literally only reposts western propaganda
I didn't say they control all the social media feeds, but if your social media feeds are mostly tankie content then you're not gonna see the stuff they aren't posting.
The guardian isn't western propaganda, ffs. It's independent journalism. You're here peddling pro-mullah propaganda, because the facts are the regime murdered thousands of protesters in the span of a couple weeks and you're trying to say "nuh uh, western lies!"
God forbid there is 1 space in my life not plastered with western imperialist propaganda
If you're going out of your way to avoid any information that conflicts with your preferred narrative, don't act like contrary evidence doesn't exist just because you haven't seen it.
Hey I'm the one with both Hexbear and Reddthat accounts, not dodging anything. I'm just calling atrocity propaganda in the eve of invasion by its name.
The protests and their coverage started before the US admin leapt on it as an opportunity to justify military action. You're discounting a people's movement against an authoritarian regime just because some other authoritarian regime is trying to use them opportunistically.
The protests and their coverage famously happened months after Iran was literally bombed by the US, have you forgotten about that? The whole Iran throwing missiles to Israel thing?
Two different stories, dude...
Sure buddy
Well, now the Zionists are bombing Iran. Do you admit you've been running Zionist propaganda?
It's not zionist propaganda. It's news about current events. Just because zionists latched onto it opportunistically doesn't mean the whole thing is their doing, and it doesn't discredit the New Iran movement either.
And you're a really shitty person for not being able to see the difference.
From the start, as I've stated multiple times, my support is for the Iranian people in their struggle for autonomy and self-determination. You're the one who's been constantly desperate to insert Israel and the US into that narrative, even when the article in this post isn't about them.
Let's see if the US succeeds what happens to Iranian self determination
Okay, but that's a different argument to make on a different post about a different argument, not this one because it's irrelevant here. Literally no one here is arguing in favor of US/Israeli military action.
Why don't you go argue with people on a post about the invasion? Spoiler: you won't see me there supporting it because that's not what I'm doing.
Then stop spreading the same news as the US/Israeli propaganda apparatus
That's not what I was doing. This post is an article from The Guardian, an independent journal, about Iranian student protesters.
But now that we're clearly arguing in circles, I'm blocking you. Enjoy those rials while they last.
Death to Khamenei. The New Iran will rise from the ashes of the regime.
The Guardian is a Zionist mouthpiece, if you refuse to see that after 3 years of genocide the fault is on you.