Comment section is doing everything to defend Iran regime I see...
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____DEADPOOL_______1 day ago
+14
It's heavy brigading again. Expect to see it over the coming few days.
Edit: To the IRGC bootlickers out there: KIRAM TO DAHANETOON JENDEHA!
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Important-Key-17361 day ago
+5
Don't let the useful idiots of listnook off that easily.
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abasoglu1 day ago
+77
Jerusalem Post ... not the most credible / neutral source for Iran news.
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praisethefallen1 day ago
+62
But they know a lot about sexual abuse of prisoners.
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SnooOnions33691 day ago
Or Americans? like who actually has a good track record with this
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Tattletail_Media1 day ago
+17
Like Al Jezarra?
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Hawk-and-piper1 day ago
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Yes. Like al jezarra. Both are extremely biased sources that should not be trusted on face value. This is a great comparison, thanks.
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CricketJamSession1 day ago
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You have anything to back this claim?
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lyth1 day ago
+16
Backing for which claim? That the Jerusalem Post is a newspaper based in Israel? That Israel is at war with Iran? Or the claim that an article published by a newspaper about the country their government is at war with should be taken with some measure of skepticism?
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FYoCouchEddie1 day ago
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Do you have examples of them reporting falsely about Iran? Or are you just making it up?
Edit: guess that’s a no, but y’all don’t want to admit it.
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itspronouncedbolonya2 days ago
+144
And not a word will be sounded from western "progressives"
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marqjone7062 days ago
+56
My boy was like “where are the progressives to care about this??” lol. Acknowledging the disregard and lack of care from right wingers as the default.
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Choice_Past73991 day ago
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That's not the point.
The point is that "progressives" soapbox for \*selective\* issues like "free palestine", but for far graver issues they are silent. It just shows that they don't actually care. They are either bots, shills, brainwashed, sheep, or virtue signalers.
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JimBobDwayne1 day ago
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>The point is that "progressives" soapbox for *selective* issues like "free palestine", but for far graver issues they are silent. It just shows that they don't actually care. They are either bots, shills, brainwashed, sheep, or virtue signalers.
Or maybe... Just maybe... you've failed to grasp that protests are about domestic politics. Americans protest against Israel's apartheid regime because Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid over the last 50 years. Whereas, Iran, is already heavily sanctioned, diplomatically isolated, intermittently bombed, and now possibly at war with the US.
What US foreign policy change should we protest for in your view? A ground war in Iran with US troops going house to house in Tehran? For the US to bomb Iran into failed state and a years long civil war? From a humanitarian prospective attempting to put additional pressure on the regime only hurts the people of Iran more.
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trollsong1 day ago
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To add if the us does succeed in overthrowing the original what next place a conservative military dictator in their place lole last time?
They were overthrown and replaced with a theocracy.
America interfering is why Iran is the way it is.
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toggiz_the_elder1 day ago
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Does our government fund the Iranian government or the Israeli government?
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MissPandaSloth1 day ago
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So, to clarify, is US did no funding to Israel and things would be exactly the same regarding Palestine, you wouldn't say a word about it? All the care is purely because of US involvement, not because, idk, people are dying?
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UnexaminedLifeOfMine1 day ago
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I just assume right wingers are pro fascism so I don’t expect any empathy from them. But when “human rights activists” and “feminists” and “progressives” so easily turn a blind eye and focus on the Hormuz strait and oil and Israel instead I lose all hope for humanity
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007meow1 day ago
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I’m sorry what are exactly are you expecting progressives to do?
Do you see any progressives cheering this on? If not, why do are you assuming de facto support?
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MissPandaSloth1 day ago
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I see excuses 24/7. Literally every time it comes up it's "but America, but Israel".
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FYoCouchEddie1 day ago
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I would expect them to have large scale protests against mass r*** of protesters. Is that a weird expectation?
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007meow1 day ago
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Why do you expect that of progressives but not conservatives?
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FYoCouchEddie1 day ago
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Because progressives have more large scale protests in general.
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Snotmyrealname1 day ago
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itspronouncedbolonya1 day ago
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Snotmyrealname1 day ago
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An argument for napoleon if I ever saw one
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Professional-One9722 days ago
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What the hell are you reading? Progressives in the West have been screaming against SA for decades!
They yell about it when Iranians do it, or when Israelis do it, or when Western countries do it.
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Emotional-Bronco2 days ago
+81
What progressives stood out when 40,000 Iranians were murdered in 2 days for protesting?
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thecloakofignorance2 days ago
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also there was lots of coverage of the uprising and the murders.
We live in tragic times, the reason people dropped coverage so soon was because we are in a world where evil shit is now happening on the daily
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Uzul1 day ago
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Evil on that scale is not happening on the daily, no. The god damn school the US military hit by mistake got 10 times more coverage than tens of thousands of Iranians getting intentionally murdered by their own government.
Even today, despite what's left of the Islamic regime continuing to commit war crimes and other atrocities on the daily, there's still an obvious push in the media, left leaning especially, to try to paint the US as the bad guy in all of this. It's sickening honestly.
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trollsong1 day ago
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>The god damn school the US military hit by mistake got 10 times more coverage than tens of thousands of Iranians getting intentionally murdered by their own government.
Because thats something we can actually do something about.
Go on tell me how us killing their children will free then from the Iranian regime?
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TheNewGildedAge1 day ago
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A ton of people on social media are sharing Iranian propaganda and having a good time about it. Probably the first time I've seen a positive reaction to AI generated shit from the social media crowd.
That helps the Iranian regime and these people could make the choice not to do that. They are not.
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Palomino_mare1 day ago
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What planet are you on? Trump doesn’t give a shit about the Iranian people, and he’s not helping them. He won’t help them. There isn’t left leaning media in the US. What a goddam weird post.
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Traditional_Tea_18791 day ago
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There is coverage, there was very little support shown to the Iranians who suffers from the regime on the street level, where the organisations that raised their voices, marchws and protested, sometimes violently, were largely absent.
There were few demonstration in support of the Iranians, but these lacked the volume and mobilisation that have been so impressive and disruptive in the pro Palestine demos. To make things worse, it looked like at least some of the left chose to actually support the Iranian regime in counter demos instead. So no. The left has largely ignored what was happening in Iran and when it did, it was few and inconsistent support.
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MissPandaSloth1 day ago
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Not only there was little coverage, there was constant downplaying and mocking, I always saw "Israeli propaganda, Mossad operation" and shit like that.
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xmuskorx1 day ago
+2
Names. Provide names of progressive politicians and organizations that spoke out and acted?
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thecloakofignorance2 days ago
+11
It is possible to recognize more than one evil.
It is entirely possible for two evil powers to be at war with each other
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noir_lord2 days ago
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Couldn't agree more but that's nuance and we can't have that online anymore.
Iran, Israel and the US aren't football teams where supporting one means you are against the other or whatever, you can think and accept they are all fucked up in their own ways and you know what, your head won't explode.
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Olddirtybelgium1 day ago
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There were massive protests in Western cities. Do you just bury your head in the sand or something? You're being deliberately ignorant.
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xmuskorx1 day ago
+13
By progressives? Or by Iranian community?
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Academic_Net62981 day ago
+8
There were progressive COUNTER protests against Iranian diaspora. What a shamefully transparent rewriting of current events.
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Emotional-Bronco1 day ago
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I'm curious what you define as "massive". As big as the people who came out jubiliantly on October 8th?
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Olddirtybelgium1 day ago
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Thousands of people. Yes, obviously more than the October 8 people as that was a loud minority. People in general are unhappy when civilians die by the thousands.
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klemmdog1 day ago
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Can you guys at least get your made up numbers aligned 🤣
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greenskinmarch1 day ago
+15
The Guardian is a left wing British newspaper and even they quote doctors saying at least 30,000 murdered by the Iranian regime https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/iran-protests-death-toll-disappeared-bodies-mass-burials-30000-dead
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Emotional-Bronco1 day ago
+5
Estimates go from 30 to 40k depending on your source. I trust the number is higher because verification of the dead is impossible in iran.
But for the sake of arguing with people like you, I will defer to the numbers closer to being cited by the health ministry.
Unless we don't trust health ministries anymore.
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jimthewanderer1 day ago
+1
All of them. grow up.
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ActualFondant1 day ago
+8
but not when Hamas does it.
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marqjone7062 days ago
+12
These conservatives don’t care at all about sexual assault, these people in Iran, nor anything else. This is just part of their latest attempts to run diversion from their cult leader. He is losing the PR war on every platform and the only thing they can do to try and quell criticism is to post how everyone is some secret Iran lover simply because “orange man bad.” Go to any post on Iran and you will find this.
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Professional-One9721 day ago
+14
Conservatives are finding out that the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” defense is only useful when it isn’t clear that you yourself aren’t deranged.
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damik1 day ago
+5
It's halrious watching them to pretend to give a shit about Iranian protesters when Trump dropped a bomb on a school killing 150-175 Iranian children and not a word from them about that.
They retell what ever right wing talking points are convenient at the moment. Conservatives don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.
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itspronouncedbolonya2 days ago
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They yell like 500 times less when iranians do it, 1000 times less if it's africans or south americans
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DuskOfANewAge2 days ago
+10
Way to make up absolute nonsense. So you have a Scream-O-Meter in your household that you monitor daily whenever someone around the world is assaulted to measure the reaction from various people? How can anyone take a comment like yours seriously? As if people walk around their daily lives thinking sexual assault is perfectly okay as long as it happens "over there".
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itspronouncedbolonya2 days ago
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Yes, i do, it's next to my Complain-O-Meter and weighting scale
Seriously though i'm talking about the numbers of articles and news stories and social media posts
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DuskOfANewAge2 days ago
+10
So you just make up random thoughts in your head that you want to believe are true, and then decide to tell the rest of the world that they ARE true, without recognizing any fault whatsoever in your logic? It's not like western reporters are able to interview Iranian women and girls about their sexual assaults any more than they can go to remote villages in Africa that are uncontrolled by any stable government.
That doesn't automagically mean people don't f****** care. That fact that you imagined it in your head is part of the problem. You just jumped to the assumption that because we don't have resources in the world to cover every single story that somehow we're all apathetic to what is going on.
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GENERALVONDEATH1 day ago
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Because it's not "Israel' or what they really hate
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GENERALVONDEATH1 day ago
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And u prove the point. So what it doesn't matter because it's not who you were hoping for
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TheMCM801 day ago
+6
Progressive here… this is horrific and a perfect example of why authoritarian governments are a threat to humanity on every level.
Whether it be in Iran, immigration detention centers in the US, prisons in Israel, prisons in Russia, the UK, China, Argentina, and everywhere else… we must end these horrific abuses.
Only someone living in an US/Israel-brain broken conservative bubble would think progressives - the people who have been fighting the hardest for decades to improve human rights - would be silent because it’s Iran.
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TastySpermDispenser71 day ago
+8
You got the war you wanted and this is still happening. You spent $1 trillion of my money and didn't solve the problem you complain about.
Ethiopia, sudan, drc, china, north korea, Saudi Arabia, Israel and many others have larger scale state sponsored sexual violence. When do we bomb them? Team america! Always the world police, for free!
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TastySpermDispenser71 day ago
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Okay. What about the others? Bombs away, right?
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Rezboy2091 day ago
+6
And here you are more worried about what Progressives are doing and not actually caring about the atrocities the article is talking about.
Typical mindless right wing bull shit.
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Palomino_mare1 day ago
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[The UN has condemned it.](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/24/iran-rejects-un-rights-resolution-condemning-protest-killings#:~:text=A%2520prosecutor%2520said%2520at%2520least,compared%2520with%2520the%2520Srebrenica%2520genocide.&text=Tehran%252C%2520Iran%2520%E2%80%93%2520The%2520Iranian%2520state,favour%2520of%2520the%2520censure%2520resolution.) [The International Committee of Jurists has condemned it.](https://www.icj.org/iran-immediately-stop-mass-killings-of-protestors-and-other-atrocities-and-end-impunity/#:~:text=19%2520Jan%25202026%2520%257C%2520Advocacy%252C%2520News,crimes%2520and%2520to%2520ensure%2520accountability.%E2%80%9D). AI overview of ICJ: The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) of 60 eminent judges and lawyers working globally to advance the rule of law and protect human rights through legal expertise. Based in Geneva, it promotes international legal standards, holds governments accountable, and supports independent judiciaries worldwide.
I found this in 2 seconds of googling.
I don’t know where you’ve been but the murder of Iranians by the government has been all over the news.
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inotparanoid1 day ago
+1
Amazing strawmanning here. Do you own fields of Hay?
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itspronouncedbolonya1 day ago
+2
My uncle does if that counts
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itotally_CAN_even1 day ago
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So the solution is bomb Iranian schoolgirls?
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omniuni1 day ago
+3
Different goals. Trump wants oil. The Iranian people, and countries in the middle east want the Iranian Regime and associated terrorists gone.
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dshamz_1 day ago
+39
Every accusation is truly a confession.
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DiscipleOfYeshua1 day ago
+19
Are you confessing anything specific?
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FYoCouchEddie1 day ago
+11
Nice deflection. Why are you trying to draw attention away from Iran’s mass r*** of protesters?
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gayphilantropist1 day ago
+10
Stop vagueposting. Say it with your chest. Be brave.
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dshamz_1 day ago
+10
What’s vague about it? It’s clear - Israel is accusing Iran of what it, itself, actually does to Palestinian prisoners.
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texascannonball1 day ago
+1
Weird that you support this
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FudgeAtron2 days ago
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>I'll give you a hint: The Jerusalem Post is based there.
Just fyi, JPost didn't write this story, they just published it.
OMID HABIBINIA/THE MEDIA LINE is the author/company.
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Concave56212 days ago
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Does that make it any better?
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-media-line-bias-and-credibility/
They’re biased in favor of Israel and often don’t show sources.
> Media Bias/Fact Check found that The Media Line focuses primarily on Israeli perspectives while frequently omitting Palestinian viewpoints. Their articles tend to use emotionally loaded language centered on the challenges faced by Israelis — such as farmers working despite tensions or rescue efforts during attacks — while often leaving out coverage of the Palestinian experience or the broader impacts on other populations in the region. MBFC characterized this as “bias through omission,” resulting in a narrative that centers Israeli stories.
In short, it leans pro-Israel in its framing — not necessarily through overt editorializing, but by consistently choosing which stories to tell and whose hardships to highlight. If you’re using it for research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict specifically, it’s worth supplementing with outlets that give more weight to Palestinian perspectives.
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FudgeAtron2 days ago
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>Does that make it any better?
I'm just pointing it out, because most people don't seem to have the media literacy to understand when a newspaper is just publishing a story versus when it's producing the story. It's not just this post, there are many posts where people make the same mistake.
>and often don’t show sources.
This is a little bit funny. Could you name me a newspaper that does list it's sources? As far as I'm aware, that's not standard media practice, I don't believe the New York times, the BBC, or any other newspaper do that on the regular.
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nowandlater2 days ago
+22
"but whatabout"
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Efficient_Dark19772 days ago
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Because anything that happens in Iran has to be in contrast with what happens in Israel, right?
We just can't talk about our problems without someone like you jumping in to tell us how Israel is evil too. Interestingly, that's exactly how the Islamist regime likes to frame things too.
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winterhascome22 days ago
+14
You people Iran no matter what even though this sort of behavior has been documented many times before.
Stop acting like Israel is the only one to call them out.
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ShermansFieldOrder662 days ago
+35
Iran has carried out direct and proxy war against the entire peninsula and elsewhere in the world for 45 years.
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PriestofAlvis2 days ago
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If a man came up to you and claimed another man was a woman beater but you've seen both men beating women before,, you might question why he's mentioning it to you in the first place.
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Efficient_Dark19772 days ago
+27
If the original woman beater has his woman gagged and hidden under a nation-wide internet blackout, I'd trust the latter woman beater much more than the former.
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qTp_Meteor2 days ago
+3
Can you give an example of an Israeli citizen politically imprisoned in Israel being sexually abused? Iran routinely does it to their own citizens, i don't think that this sort of thing is common in Israel
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babybirdingURgrandma2 days ago
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>They make me wonder: Are any people born within the borders of Israel, subject to its government's laws, with family histories going back thousands of years, who are somehow not considered Israeli citizens?
Within the borders that Israel controls? That's like half the population that aren't citizens and don't have rights. If only there was a word for that.
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bitchstolemywaffles2 days ago
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https://www.un.org/unispal/document/report-of-the-commission-of-inquiry-israel-gender-based-violence-13march2025/
there are many, many more. it is systemic, purposeful sexual violence on a specific group of people. try looking into literally anything yourself
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Affectionate-Law28452 days ago
+11
Have you read the text on that page? There are is no evidence, just baseless accusations against Israel. As per usual for the UN.
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SpicyChanged1 day ago
+22
The Jerusalem Time? Right…
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Tattletail_Media1 day ago
+11
Such as Al Jezarra?
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____DEADPOOL_______1 day ago
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Just because the Jerusalem Post wrote the article doesn't mean that the suffering of the Iranian people under this horrible regime isn't true.
It looks like we're getting brigaded by the Persian regime again with the anti-Israel propaganda that make it look like the IRGC are the good guys again.
Please do not fall for this. The people of Iran are under siege by a minority who holds strong to power.
I highly suspect brigading based on how the comments are going right now. I also expect heavy downvotes. It wasn't happening a few days ago but it's happening again now. The b****** IRGC goons are at it again.
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nonquitt1 day ago
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Call might be coming from inside the house…
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Old-Guidance67441 day ago
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Jerusalem post
Nuff said
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CassieFace1031 day ago
I'm sure bombing Iran will fix this.
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Conscious-Map69571 day ago
Good thing the west came and are helping liberate them.
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