• mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    21 hours ago

    Criticizing a media that weaponize the opposing of a bad regime to spread propaganda helping the enemies who want Iran to be destroyed as a functional state is not defending a bad regime. Just look at Syria and Venezuela for example human right abuses still exists but because the new regimes are more subservient most people no longer talk about it. The site did not even bother write a whole article about the crime of bombing the minab school. Instead in a 4rd day overview of the war, they frame it as an iranian allegation with no evidence .

    The site promote MEK as a resistance group when MEK are a group of traitors who sided with Saddam Hussein during the Iraq Iran war

    https://irannewswire.org/irans-resistance-units/

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/05/17/iran-exiled-armed-group-abuses-dissident-members

    • unpossum@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      4 hours ago

      As far as I can tell, the situation in Syria is better than before Assad got kicked out. If it’ll stay that way is anybody’s guess, I’m admittedly not too hopeful myself. Venezuela, I think we agree on.

      As for Iran, your comments consistently come off as supportive of the current regime. It’s impossible to tell if that’s just because you really dislike Iran news wire, or if you actually do support the IRGC, hence my initial comment.

      I haven’t read other stories from Iran news wire than some of those that have been posted here, so I can’t really comment on your examples, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if an outlet dedicated to fighting the Iranian regime let their hope for change overshadow the need for source criticism.

      (eta: paragraphs…)

      • mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        20 hours ago

        The current situation in Syria should be compared to pre-revolt Syria not during the 10 years of civil war. Syria is divided between areas controlled by the government, by the Turkish and Israel. The situation therefore is worse

        https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/syria

        As evidence show this is an outlet that defend a terrorist group the MEQ who are traitors who sided with the Iraqis occupation forces. Users history is public, you could have see that I acknowledge the regime atrocities while pushing back about propaganda like the 30k in two day massacre bullshit or the idea that

        • unpossum@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          4 hours ago

          I don’t agree that the pre-civil war state should be the comparison. The civil war started due to peaceful protests against the government, which were then brutally repressed.

          I also don’t usually look through comment history before commenting. That being said, I’ll retract my “fuck off tankie” statement (and will read articles from iran news wire with MEQ in mind). I don’t really believe the 30k killed is propaganda, but there’s little chance we’ll agree on that.

          • mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            2 hours ago

            15k in a day is Nazi level of daily murder. It took years of logistics to do it. I don’t understand how people get fooled by this.

            ​Yes, the revolt started peacefully and genuinely in Syria, and Bashar the butcher did respond by killing protesters. But the war quickly turned into a civil war and stopped being about freedom against a brutal dictator. The foreign-backed rebel forces started retaliating on the Alawites. ​Yes, Bashar is responsible for starting the mess in the first place, but the foreign interference is the reason for that mess, which not only includes the West but also Russia. Look at Egypt: thanks to the non-interference, only 800 protesters were killed, which is still terrible—it could have been another Syria or Libya.