Reporting Iran
October 24, 2006 at 1:21 pm | Posted in Human Rights, Iran, Media, Monafiqeen-e-Khalq | 6 CommentsMost of what is reported in the Western media about Iran is negative – how much of that do you suppose to be true? How much racist, how much propaganda and how much analysis from those who have never so much as visited Iran?
For instance, lets look at Human Rights: the British media heavily quotes Amnesty International’s and Human Rights Watch’s plethora of reports on the country.
Yet ask the authors of these reports, how many Iranian jails and cities they visited in the course of their research. You might be surprised to find that the answer is none!!!
A fact normally obscured in a small footnote, as it is on the USA State Dept report on Iran. All these stories on Iran cite dissidents. In other words, individuals like former SAVAK agent, Amir Taheri or dubious characters like Shirin Ebadi and Akbar Ganji, who are not above sharing a platform the MeK and the KDPI, who are erronously described as “opposition groups”. Although neither of these terror cults has any political support in Iran. They are no more an “opposition” in Iran than the 7th July bombers are in Britain.
Thus AI and HRW reports are awash with factually inaccruate stories about terrorists, murderer, rapists and traitors, who have been sentenced to death. You might have seen petitions on the net.
Would the British government release Ian Huntley because of a petition signed by a million Iranians?
The purpose of the petition is not to get the convicted criminal reprieved; it is a propaganda exercise, the purpose of which, is to manipualte those who sign the petition into developing an emotional involvement, so they will be less likely to question the facts, and more suspectible to anti Iranian propaganda.
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Zadehamin 
When I was in the United States in late August I actually saw news footage (not from Fox News!) of goosestepping masses of Iranian soldiers, and of parades of missiles through the streets of Tehran.
These were obviously designed to draw mental associations with the Nazi Third Reich, and the Soviet Union respectively.
I remember e-mailing an American blogger who I have a frequent correspondence with, asking why I didn’t see such scenes in the British news media – he replied that “The British media is mostly controlled by ‘old money’: the American media is mostly controlled by Jews.”
Comment by George Carty— October 25, 2006 #
George the swastika is the fire wheel of Mithra. Before the the brown shirts, the black shirts and the yellow shirts, there were Babak’s red shirts in Iran. We were using the straight arm salute before the Romans. The Word Aryan comes from Iran.
The Nazi’s tried to steal our heritage not the other way around. If other people don’t like it too bad. There is no comparison between Iran and the Nazis, we’re not imperialists. The USA and Israel are more like the Nazis.
Comment by Zhale— October 26, 2006 #
Many of those scenes do appear in the British media but they do not draw false parallels with the Nazi over something as irrelevant and widespread as this.
Moreover, Jews certainly dominate the media in this country.
Comment by Babak— October 26, 2006 #
The US is a fascist state, the American media portray anything Iran does as hostility towards America or Israel (American Jewish Colony), they don’t say, this is military parade, like most countries which is no different from most countries in the World.
The us media wanted you to draw a mental association with the Third Reich and the Soviet Union and they succeeded.
Israel, is the most militaristic state in the Middle East but that imagery isn’t shown on the British or American media.
Comment by Steph— October 26, 2006 #
I would certainly agree that the United States is fascist, obviously this is not an exact facsimile of fascism in the 1930s and 40s; no diachronic example would be.
The United States is overtly Zionist, and Zionism is the model of fascism that Nazism most closely resembles.
It is interesting that John Reid is seeking with other European secretaries of the interior to target terrorist bloggers, broadly defined as those using the web to disseminate terrorism. Although, I rater suspect he does not have in mind the propagandists writing for the BBC and the Murdoch empire. mind.
Comment by Babak— October 29, 2006 #
George the swastika is the fire wheel of Mithra. Before the the brown shirts, the black shirts and the yellow shirts, there were Babak’s red shirts in Iran. We were using the straight arm salute before the Romans. The Word Aryan comes from Iran.
I was talking about the goosestep (which I believed originated with the Prussians) not the swastika or the straight-arm salute. As for Iranians not being imperialists, tell that to the Ancient Greeks!
I would certainly agree that the United States is fascist, obviously this is not an exact facsimile of fascism in the 1930s and 40s; no diachronic example would be.
The US is not fascist – fascist states are dictatorships. However some of Bush’s followers do have fascistic tendencies – see “The Rise of Pseudo Fascism” by David Neiwert.
The United States is overtly Zionist, and Zionism is the model of fascism that Nazism most closely resembles.
Zionism is simply Jewish nationalism – some Zionists are fascistic in orientation (eg Jabotinsky, Molodet and to some extent Likud) but Zionism as a whole is not fascist.
Comment by George Carty— November 17, 2006 #