Tr*mp: "How soon can we do that here?"
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Everything doesn't have to be about the US.
These numbers are bullshit, they exceed even war casualty numbers where artillery and air power are used. Obvious propaganda.
Systematic killings of civilian population is far more "efficient" than shelling. Any genocide will tell you that.
Literally atrocity propaganda.
This is the Iran equivalent of the beheaded babies.
CBS is owned by Larry Ellison and run by Bari Weiss. Zionist fanatics who are Israel first.
Bombshell report is right. This report was literally made to precede bombs.
Western media always gets played by the cia, state department, israel, et al.
There might be protests, they are associated with the west, on issues the west exacerbated the problems of for this purpose, helped in Iran, but also agent provokateurs to stir up violence.
Protesters are pawns, media is a bishop perhaps, in fomenting another iran war. If we can use a chess analogy when one player lacks major pieces.
If you think the us and israel are going to make anything better, it explains how we got into our own political position.
Aaaand here we go, off to bomb Iran to "save" all those civilians and "spread democracy" and conveniently take Iran's natural resources. #propoganda
Well, gotta pay for the help with oil, right? /s
CBS News
12,000 and 20,000 protesters
Dawg Pakistan wasn't even able to arrest that many people in the past 2 years worth of protests against an army with actual firepower that has been working overtime to get people killed.
It even took Gaza a solid month to reach those numbers under constant bombing campaigns and a wall of IFVs.
Iran's internet has only been complete blackout for 4 days, so unless they decided to unload several war days worth of ammunition in a purge killing spree, this isn't possible. AP is reporting 2.7k.
2.7k is most likely a big overestimate.
News orgs are getting orders from ellison getting orders from the administration. Apparently they do not feel they need people in reality to be on board with iran war 2 so they just supply obviously obscenely inflated figures.
Its atrocity propaganda
This is the new CBS. Is this true or is it giving Trump what he needs to go in there?
With trumps approval rating at all time lows, he’s going to need to invade a country to try to boost his support.
This is what a mass protest would look like in the US.
With the Trump admin looking who to attack next around the world I don't trust any of these numbers.
The regime admitted to 2,000.
And while 12,000 is the highest number I've seen so far, it's got to be somewhere between those figures.
Us media is not credible here either. They are being tooled for iran war 2.
Reminds me of the girl who testified for Kuwait before congress telling all sorts of horror stories about the Iraqi occupation. It turned out she was the daughter of a Kuwaiti official and had made it all up to get the US to get involved.
Israel especially. They need war to forestall elections and accounting for blame that their politicians have refused to accept any of. And to forestall their own criminal prosecutions.
Israel's epstein blackmail seemingly gives them absolute power over the government here. This is their doing, Iran their long standing boogeyman they pretend is advanced enough to hurt them.
CBS is currently beholden to the Nazi's and I don't know if I trust their reporting. It would be in the US' best interest to show Iranian instability as well as how violent "real" protesting is to try and dissuade domestic ideas.
That said. If Iran is murdering 10k citizens a week, their government won't last through the end of the month. One can only hope.
20,000 soldiers were killed on the first day of the Somme in WWI which involved literally mowing down rows of soldiers with machine gun. We would see plenty of evidence if this was happening to civilians in cities even without internet.
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AP seems to point towards ~2000
Closer to The MEK report of 3k.
I really, really hope the protesters succeed. Iran has such a glorious history and wonderful people - they deserve so much more. It could retake its place as the shining example of countries in the region, as it was for most of the last 5000 years.
they deserve so much more.
Without the sanctions they already would have so much more.
As long as the US doesn't march in and say "We'll help you with your oil and write your laws for you."
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Not in the cards now I am afraid, only iran war 2 is in this hand.
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