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Pulled out of a certain personal orifice?!
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I have a friend in Iran, his cousin died in the protests and his body was tagged in the 10,000's, and he was far from the last to die. Most Iranians hate their, in my friends words, fascist and theocratic government and they absolutely did massacre the protesters.
All of you morons saying its just western propaganda without speaking to actual Iranians need to shut the fuck up. You trying to deny what happened to the protesters is just like fucking zionists trying to deny what is happening to Palestine.
Does that make the war against them just? Fuck no, America invaded to create a smokescreen for the Epstein files. But you trying to wave away what happened to the protesters is spitting on their graves.
Maybe he is a pahlavist who lied to you? 15k in a day that's hitlerian numbers, only idiots believe the 30k in 2 days numbers
Channel 14’s Tamir Morag says arms from ‘foreign actors’ let protesters kill hundreds of officers; Iranian FM: ‘Trump should now know exactly where to go to stop killings’
I actually have a friend from elementary school who was killed by an Iraqi IED. Really sad, but also... he should have been going to college, not getting in shootouts with ex-Ba'athist insurgents on the other side of the planet.
Sure mate, I believe you. Also, I'm the queen of Sheeba, trust me. (On the internet anybody can "be" whatever they want)
That said, I misread the comments I replied to as being about the number of dead in the war, which doesn't make sense for Iran to hide hence my reply.
If the poster I replied to meant it as "have you really thought about where the 'information' you think you know originally came from", then they made a good point - for Iran, just like for China, Iraq before that and countless others, the information space is so heavilly polluted at all levels (from Social Media to traditional Press) by American propaganda that it's hard to really know the extent of what has and is happening, unless one has direct connections inside Iran (which you claim to, but again for exactly the reason I gave about Propaganda, I can't just directly trust "claims from random poster who for all I know might not even be a human" as being true).
For example, for what happened to the Uyghurs in China the best and most trustworthy info that we have is indirect and comes from Chinese Official numbers: the fall in birth rates in the region they're the majority by comparison with other Chinese regions, which doesn't tell us exactly what's happened by does tell us that something bad enough happened that people refrained from having children there from 2017 and for a number of years.
Unfortunatly the slimy and excessive propaganda pushed out by America and American actors means that the information space in the West is very poluted so you can't just take at face values any claims about bad things done by states which the US sees as adversaries.