They are manufacturing consent for war.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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That is 3x the high end of the estimates even in the NYTimes which is Israel's fairy godmother and bitch and as such pumping their bullshit, which includes inflaming protests and inflating numbers like this.
Whomever wrote this article is a tool. Working to build up more cause for war, and playing the left into supporting it under the auspices of throwing off a regime, when they are in the middle of a war with Israel and the US that they are powerless to hit back effectively in. They are still in rally around the flag, you dumbshits think a protest is going to overthrow them now?
The ones playing you know better, they know they will get protesters killed right now, to justify bombing them again, killing leadership, the aftermath of which would give them neverending manufacturies for more strikes given their dishonesty and media's craven acquiescance.
Iran is a brutal theocracy that uses rape and murder as state policy to terrorize their citizens.
The government was shooting protesters in the eyes to mutilate them for life, for the "crime" of protesting.
They cut the internet so they could do it in the dark.
A journalist reporting on how many humans the Iranian government murdered isn't being "a tool".
And here you are wholeheartedly shilling for murder and tyranny.
Inflating casualties to justify war is very toolish. You speak of government oppression as if this was in a vacume, and not during a one sided war israel has waged against them with impunity.
Those figures inflated by israel of all people. But you what, celebrate civil wars our government starts for them and causes because their governments are bad, nevermind yours is worse in causing these problems, and also in attacking them cause more brutal oppression.
The only thing Israel's tools are accomplishing is getting protesters associated with the enemy in war, to sacrifice to kill more Iranians in more war.
Have you tried looking past your hand?
The Iranian government is a repressive band of authoritarians, and to claim so isn't American propaganda or inflated bullshit. Iranians have repeatedly stood up against them because they're being oppressed as they had been under the shah. Now, the exact number is infinitely hard to pinpoint because of limited information trickling out of the country like @perestroika@slrpnk.net said, but that's a separate issue. The Iranian authorities themselves admit to a few thousand, and it's not far-fetched that they underestimate the number.
Your numbers suggest inflated bullshit. More than suggest, what did you say, you assumed tens of thousands of eye injuries based on an account of hundreds in one place. In a country in effect still at war with Israel and the US.
You may want to check if you're replying to the right person.
I remind of a news article back then, telling of an eye doctor in one hospital counting 400 gunshot eye injuries.
Back when it was happening, I extrapolated that to 2000 gunshot eye injuries per city, and wondered how many cities to multiply the result by. In the end, I gave up with logic and guessed 36 000 gunshot eye injuries per Iran. And that's strictly only gunshot eye injuries. Not neck, chest, stomach, arm or leg injuries.
In situations were the flow of information is impaired - like by an internet blackout, which is still in force - information about the scale of events trickles out.
I remind of the earthquake in Turkey a few years ago. At first, 50 dead were reported. As hours and days passed, communications were restored and victims counted, it became... over 50 000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey%E2%80%93Syria_earthquakes
This is how infromation arrives.
As for the rest of your post - it is not for me, so I won't adress it.
I am sorry, so you took the clearly false numbers at face value and ran with them? 400 eye injuries, so says the worst people in the world that ultimately fed you that information?
i don't think you are very good at judging the reliability of sources frankly.
i don’t think you are very good at judging the reliability of sources frankly.
The Guardian is a bit better than you or me at this task.
Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on protests
You may think that but here we are.
funny thing how trump largely forgotten about iran, since the minnesota protest/killings happened as with many distractions to the EPF.
Are you unaware that the US have moved aircraft carriers to the middle east and stationed f35s and f15s in bases across the middle east in preparation for a full out war with Iran literally any second now?
Are you unaware that Israel and the US MSM are running a huge progranda campaign to manufacture consent for attacking Iran?
Are you unaware that Israel is in a state of "maximum alert" for potential retaliation or even preemptive attacks from Iran?
Are you unaware that Israel's government both pressuring Trump to attack Iran and is worried Trump wants an easy Venezuela style "regime change" and what it means if the US gives up and Trump calls Iranians brave like he did with the Houthis after they didn't buckle to US show of force?
Are you unaware that Israel is incompetently lying about Iran killing Jews? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUAUHXgCF1S/
Yeah... He didn't forget about Iran, he just wants you to be onboard with the intervention. Israel and the US are preparing to bomb the fuck out of Iran, and they're selling it rescuing Iranians.
Holy fucking shit.
HRANA is CIA, fwiw. Don't listen to this bullshit.
It is, HRANA is funded by the National Endowment of Democracy [https://www.en-hrana.org/articles/inner-view-human-rights-activists-iran/].
In 1991 the founding president of NED Alan Weinstein gave an interview with the Washington Post where he stated "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." [https://archive.ph/n47Dp].
In 1995, former CIA officer Philip Agee gave an interview on the public access program Alternative Views: "Nowadays, instead of having just the CIA going around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process secretly... they have now a sidekick, which is this National Endowment for Democracy, NED". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXFuB6QkeJY]
The CIA is engaged in attempting regime change in Iran.
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