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The US, which is bombing Iran, is famously known for its security forces never killing anyone /s

The only reason US has never killed that many protestors is that USians are the most obedient population on the planet. Perhaps in human history.

What our news calls 'protests' in their country would be called 'violent riots' by the same media if it happened here. They would blame the protesters and everyone currently parroting this line against Iran would gobble it up because their entire worldview is based upon the infallibility of liberal institutions

there were protests about money crash which were infiltrated by mossad/cia local operatives, who did pre bombing campaign preparations: burning police stations and first responders. iran has liquidated them and i assume hurt nearby protestors, the consensus number is around 3000-5000 dead, with unknown amount of them being bystanders. (they claim around 500 in those are people hurt by those operatives, i believe)

USAID was running through their greatest hits a month or two ago and shortly after some protests there was a social media campaign of people suddenly saying Iran had killed millions of people in like an overnight genocide or something. It didn't take off so they promptly moved on to their next banger. A few weeks later and Trump was bombing Iran. They basically did a speed run through the manufacturing consent checklist for it.

I don't have evidence organized, but I wouldn't be quicjnto dismiss this as a compete lie.

There were protests against the government, there was repression, there was an internet blackout.

The protests were not calling for American intervention, but they certainly took the opportunity to use the situation for atrocity propaganda.

Any death toll in the tens of thousands was made up by CBS/ Bari Weiss. My impression is that it was in the thousands at most, but I haven't seen enough information about the sequence of events to feel confident in that number.

I am interested in learning more about the protest situation, but I think it would be a leap to suggest that there were no protests or repression in recent weeks leading up to the conflict.

I may return with better sources later to start putting a picture together.

Edit: started looking up some reporting like this AJ Article

Iran claims 3700 killed, US NGO claims they can account for 7000 dead with more to investigate. Details about who when and where remain unavailable (last month when the article was written, but I imagine we won't see more information for quite some time bow that the war is going on).

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