Does anyone else see a suspicious disconnect here? The actual legislation cited is a prohibition about “any intelligence cooperation with the Mossad”. And what’s more, this complaint is coming from Euronews, a news agency which is likely hostile to the regime. Whatever you think about the regime, I am pretty sure that cooperation with the enemy in wartime is maximally punishable in any country.
So my takeaway when I read this piece was that it sounded like a fox complaining that teeth and claws are forbidden in the chicken coop.
Funny how you equate the Iranian regime with chickens. You know, yhay same regime that murders people slowly by slowly Hanging them from a crane, just and only just because they loved the wrong person. I believe the handmaid’s tale has a good example scene of this.
Yes, Israel is committing a genocide, USA is evil, but do you really want to apologize for yet another evil, then?
Funny how the west is friends with saudis which is an as bloody regime
I believe the handmaid’s tale
No, that’s a work of fiction
USA has the Espionage Act. A violation of this law can be punishable by death, and whistleblowers and journalists have been targeted under this law in the past.
Roy Cohn, the guy who mentored Trump and was McCarthy’s second AND had his own Lavender Scare (while he himself was gay) got his claim to fame when he sent a Jewish couple to death over this exact thing
Israel attacks Iran. Iran which was tolerable to media a few months ago is now the root of all evil.
Talk of manufacturing consent in an unprovoked attack on another country. The scrambling to justify these attacks on Iran is real interesting.
See you tomorrow and the next day for an Iran did this bad thing story. Keep drip feeding that narrative.
When was Iran tolerable? They’re still as much of a fucked up theocracy with a terrible record on human rights as they’ve been since the revolution.
I said tolerable to the media. Been barely discussed in UK media until Israel attacked them, now they’re scrambling to justify it based on how bad Iran is…
I’m not in the UK, but I recall Iran being in the media a lot in China and the US. Back when Trump assassinated one of their generals during his first term, the recurring abductions and rapes of women and young girls by the morality police that sparked nationwide protests, the arms they are providing for Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, and now Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iranian infrastructure and citizens.
What do you expect iran to do want the whole west is imposing severe sanctions harming regular citizens. Iran as no choice but to work with russia. Iran could have been an neutral country if americans, israelis and britosh didn’t support the shah coup
I expect them to stop harming their own civilians, too.
We don’t need to cheer on an oppressive, totalitarian regime just because they’re at odds with another oppressive, totalitarian regime.
I am cheering iran right to self defence not the regime harming their own civilians.
Do you condemn israel starting the war and killing civilians ?
Yes I condemn Israel, this isn’t an either/or type of situation. Both countries are shitty.
Funny, I’ve been saying this for the last three years and liberals have been telling me that that makes me a tankie Putin simp.
And they’re less terrible than any country that is supporting Israel’s Holocaust in Gaza.
I don’t want to be mean but did you live under a rock in 2022-2023?
I said a few months ago. I’m pretty sure 24+ months doesn’t fall under the categorisation of “a few”. Iran has been barely touched upon for years, and now the headlines are rolling about how horrible they are now there is a war to justify.
It has been touched upon for years, then fell off the news wagon because of other events.
The attacks are unjustified, but this narrative of “the media had no problem with Iran” when again, in the past years, executions and state violence carried out by Iran have been reported, is false.
I didn’t say no problem, I said tolerable. You really need to read the dictionary and understand words. You cannot just interpret things how you feel, rather than what the words mean.
Did you not see how quick policy and media narratives switch. Recently they tried to rehabilitate the Syrian leader, who’s group was allied to American enemies, and all of a sudden, he wasn’t that bad, let’s drop sanctions.
You have to realise that, what is good and bad, and what the media tells you is good and bad are two different things. You have to critically challenge the narratives you’re fed.
Mate, I don’t rely on mainstream media to tell me what to think about Iran. I have in-laws there. My partner regularly talks to them.
Iran was always shite and during the protests, the media said as much. When they executed protestors, It got reported upon. There was never a time in which Iran was like anywhere close tolerable. Did UK media not pounce on the Shahed drones to Russia? Come on, mate.
Iran which was tolerable to media a few months ago
Why are people upvoting you when you’re wrong?
This is textbook manufacturing consent. Maybe these people could benefit from a little history on how these people got into power, and what helps keep them in power. Big surprise, the same people that loves to bring up how terrible they are as they attack them.
Sadly, Iran has not been “tolerable to the media” in recent times.
(Example: a few months ago, their courts were discussing whether to sentence a rapper named Tataloo to death for “corruption on earth” - singing about the wrong things.)
Since they are now in war, media freedom in Iran is probably under the table.
In the UK they were not a problem. Not even discussed until Israel attacked and now they’re scrambling to paint them as the biggest evil to retroactively justify the attacks.
Media freedom is rubbish in Iran. They’re not good guys. However, media is silent on the number of journalists Israel has killed recently, and no, they’re not allowed in Gaza, so the threat of death and lack of freedom seems to apply to the aggressors also.
In reality, they should be clearly communicating this is 2 bad guys fighting this out. It’s obvious who the aggressor is who kicked off another front though.
they should be clearly communicating this is 2 bad guys fighting this out.
Would you say they should teach World War 2 was just bad guys fighting it out? Or are you a hypocrite?
What?
It’s a simple question
You’re going to have to elaborate. I need to understand the logical contortion you went through to muster that question…
Lol. The fact that your evading the question and bringing out the reddit smarm suggests that the answer is that you’re a hypocrite.
Iran which was tolerable to media a few months ago
In what parallel reality do you live in ? It has been classified as one of the worse country for press freedom since years by RSF, they shutdown internet when things get out of hand and banned a lot of social medias.
Yeah let’s not forget who they are, the people in power in Iran. Worst scum on earth.
Is it normal to allow people to send military information to your enemy?
I’m not a huge fan of either of the two belligerent, but this is not exactly an unreasonable position to take. And they are at least putting reporters on notice.
If it’s a dictatorship I’d say yes because they are (also) the enemy.
I’m also against the death penalty in general, but especially for scaring your own citizens into obedience.
Yeah, apparently murder is supposed to be used for scaring foreign citizens into obedience, based on what liberals say
I mean if they really just wanted to make sure military information doesn’t reach Israel they wouldn’t impose the death penalty; the excessive punishment makes it clear this is going to be used to suppress unrelated dissent.
it’s a shame that when scum fights scum there are so many innocent civilians who will suffer. there are no good guys in this. A little bully with rich parents picked a fight with a big bully and everything that can come out of this will suck.
there are no good guys in this.
There were no “good guys” in World War 2 either, and yet you don’t see people going around squealing “both sides were scum!” At anyone who supported the allied
As bad as israeli and united snake leaders
Whataboutism is for blaming USA when the Russians have done something bad, not the iranians or Israelis 🤷🏼♀️.
They is no whataboutism. You just have double standard
Not the worst scum, that honour goes to the leadership of Israel and the Western leaders supporting their genocide.
And if you think Iran is the only country that executes people who send information to the enemy, you need to crack a history book
Yeah, this is why I’m not on Iran’s side.
I still want them to hurt Israel as much as possible. My heart goes out to the innocent people of Iran.
What about iranians who don’t want to get murdered by israel
My heart goes out to the innocent people of Iran.
Ukraine also does this, by the way, are you going to assert that you’re not on Ukraine’s side?
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