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"terror state". I would have hoped that HN users would be smarter than to parrot FOX news propaganda.

TacticalCoder an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> "terror state". I would have hoped that HN users would be smarter than to parrot FOX news propaganda.

Even the most leftist publications in the west acknowledged that the iranian regime has been slaughtering 30 000+ of its own, unarmed, civilians in january this year. They went as far as following the, still unarmed, wounded into hospitals to finish the job.

Iran also then, once they came back to Iran, publicly hung iranian athletes who spoke against the islamist regime while competing abroad.

Now of course the leftist propaganda machine being what it is in the left, here's a documentary I saw on "Arte" (a heavily left-slanting TV channel producing movies and documentaries): as they couldn't not mention the 30 000+ deaths the iranian regime made, they made a documentary about it...

But the entirety of the documentary was about the "hurt feelings" of a poor islamist guard of the iranian regime who was forced, poor him, to kill innocents.

That movie channel, Arte, literally managed to make a documentary turning the thing on its head and presenting the killers as the victims because it was "so hard" to kill unarmed civilians.

So enlighten me a bit a propaganda please.

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myko 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I agree with your perspective on the US and Israel but the Iranian regime has been far worse _to their own people_ and the world would be better off if moderates were in charge there.

Too bad trump and Hegseth killed them all as they were wantonly blasting targets in Iran and now there is nobody in a good position to take over.

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isr 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I echo your sentiments. Much of the 'Murika 'Murika bluster even on this thread is so childishly unreal (as if from a MAGA wet dream parallel universe) that it almost doesn't rankle anymore. One feels that even they don't believe their own propaganda anymore, and are still shouting it to somehow "will" it into existence ...

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CommanderData 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Terror state, for them doesn't include genocidal colonialist invaders like Israel.

These descriptions are from objective scholars including Jewish ones btw.

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LorenPechtel 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Genocide? Iran has unquestionably killed at least 10x as many as Israel.

And that declaration of "genocide"--by an organization whose sole membership qualification is paying the membership fee. And at that by a small portion of said organization.

(And I'm no Faux Noise sheep. The "mainstream" news is bad, Faux is worse. The quest for eyeballs means all news is slanted towards what the viewer wants to see.)

	▲	CommanderData a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		Israel has killed many in Iran during the recent war, hasbara trolls hang out on forums to tell people otherwise. Israel doesn't care in the slightest for Iranians and wish utter turmoil in the country, we have seen it's treatment to Arabs clear as day.

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948382828528 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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Jensson 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> "terror state". I would have hoped that HN users would be smarter than to parrot FOX news propaganda.

Europe also designated them as a terrorist organization, happened right before the war started. It is a terror state, its just left wing propaganda that they aren't. Or is EU also too influenced by foxnews propaganda? Many countries recognizes them as terrorists, including US, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia etc.

"EU terrorist list: Council designates the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation"

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026...

	▲	delecti an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Iran is no more or less a "terror state" than the US or Israel. The fact that only Iran gets labeled as such is where the propaganda comes in. If anything, in the current war, Iran has suffered far more civilian casualties than it has inflicted.