For the uninitiated: Western propaganda about Iranian women all forcibly wearing headscarves is exaggerated into oblivion.

It is so blatantly fake that it’s debunked by a few seconds on Youtube:

Go to any random point in this video, which after the intro is one continuous long shot: https://youtu.be/HpCMThYr8WU?t=212

Or any other video on this channel. Or search the words “Iran walk” on youtube and go to some other channel and you can see a woman without headscarf every 20 seconds in busy areas.

  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    I’ve seen plenty of these videos, that are obviously so concerned about women, will contradict their own claims and include footage of unaccompanied women without a scarf on

    do you remember a few years ago when there was a video of a woman being arrested who had stripped down to her underwear? How western media and commentators were almost salivating over it

    I can’t take these people seriously

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    I get that the media narrative may be one sided but is the info about arrests not true?

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      We cannot trust the info our news is fed. Even the well intentioned ones. The ones with the wherewithall to call out such campaigns for war, like the nytimes, gave up already. I think israel broke their brain, they had an identity crises and realized they are fascist cunts.

      Iran’s government being bad like every govt is beside the point. This instability was fomented by the west after a war on false pretexts by the west, now propagandizing for more bad faith military action. The protesters are pawns of the west, iran will assiciate them with the enemy and rally around the flag.

      If the west cared to help they would keep their fucking mouths shut. Nothing good will come from this. People cheering this as democracy coming are removed from reality to say the least. To celebrate the shaw to boot is just ignorance.

      • nytimes

        It’s spelled The New YorKKK War Crimeϟϟ because they’ve supported every imperialist war.  I remember them manufacturing consent toremoved Iraq.  They’ve never not been an imperialist rag.  May as well drop the pretense and change their name to Der Stürmer

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          They have supported every war that is true, from the spanish american war on. They have always been partisan. Iraq though their editorials did call out lies, while articles did the classic fairness bias and reported on manufactured causes for war like they were credible.

          But they still broke stories, they still had guts to cross politicians where others would not. They lost that by 2025, like Reek in game of thrones. They have done nothing of note yet this term. Nothing good that is. Too busy accusimg the left of being anti salmon I guess.

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      From what I understand, after the uprising a few years ago there has been an (unspoken?) consensus that women won’t get arrested for not covering their hair.

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      Amazing how many people come in here to completely ignore the post and start spouting about Iran’s internet being shutdown. They don’t host Youtube did you know that?

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    Yeah. Internet is down, no flights in or out the country, but everything is fine guys! Trust the Iranian media!!!

    /s

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    8 days ago

    here in the united states of america where ice agents are going from door to door raiding homes, abducting people, even murdering citizens in cold blood, it would be exceedingly easy to send a film crew to Miami Florida, clear the streets of anyone who isn’t a “true red-blooded MAGA patriot”, and tell them to party and have a great time. Then they can publish that video and say “Hey look everything’s going great in the united states, nobody is being brutalized by gestapo agents, you won’t find a single incident of that kind here in our heavily curated video”

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    8 days ago

    Gosh. Interesting. What’s the motivation behind making those videos, I wonder?