Western media ignore the expanding amount of video material showing terrorist tactics utilized across Iran by protesters, referred to by Amnesty global and Human Rights Watch as "to a large degree peaceful." fresh recordings published by both Iran's state media and anti-government forces show public lynchings of unarmed guards, arson of mosques, arson of urban buildings, markets and firehouses, as well as crowds of armed gunmen beginning fire in the heart of Iranian cities.

Instead, Western media focused almost exclusively on the force attributed to the Government of Iran. In this respect, they were mainly based on deaths from Iranian diaspora groups financed by National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an arm of government change in the U.S. government, whose board of directors consists of active neoconservatives.

NED assigns I'm sorry. for promoting protests "Woman, Life, Freedom" that filled Iranian cities throughout 2023 – and included macabre violence ignored by Western media and human rights organisations. Today, NED is not the only 1 among the actors associated with the interview who want to fuel the chaos in Iran.

Israeli spy and killer agency known as Mossad released a message from her authoritative Persian account on Twitter/X, calling on the Iranians to escalate actions to change the regime, promising support on the ground.

"Go out on the streets together. The time has come," he instructed the Mossad Iranians. "We're with you. Not just from a distance and verbally. We're in the field with you."

The overthrow of Tehran by terror

Protests in Iran began in early January 2026 erstwhile merchants took to the streets to show against rising inflation caused by Western sanctions. Government of Iran he answered sympathetically At protests in the bazaar, providing police protection. However, these demonstrations rapidly dissolved erstwhile an obscure mass of anti-government elements took advantage of the chance to launch a violent uprising encouraged by governments from Israel to the US – and by the self-appointed "requestor of the throne" Reza Pahlavi, who called State officials and state media "legal targets".

On January 9, the city of Mashhad became 1 of the most intense riots erstwhile anti-government forces They set fire to fire stations., burning firefighters alive, torching buses, attacking city workers, destroying subway stations and causing harm worth over $18 million, according to local municipal authorities.

In Kermanshah, where anti-government rioters shot three-year-old Melina Asadi, militant groups remained filmed While firing from automatic weapons to police. In cities from Hamedan to Lorestan, riots filmed How they beat each other au death unarmed bodyguards for trying to halt their rampage.

From the center of Iran's city there were recordings on which on January 10 a public bus strikes and ignites it in riots.

Meanwhile, in Tehran, crowds of residents attacked historic mosque Abazar, burning its inside while others carried out arsons and burned copies of the Quran inside Grand Mosque Sarableh and Muhammad ibn temple Musy al-Kadhima In Kuzestan.

Rebels They set fire. a large city building in the heart of the Karaj, and market They burned it down in downtown Rasht. In Borujen, anti-government hooligans reportedly set fire to an historical library full of ancient texts during the night of plunder and destruction.

None of these incidents have caused Western media or governments to react, even after with, as the Iranian abroad Ministry obliged ambassadors from large Britain, France, Germany and Italy to straight watch the force recordings made by rioters.

According to the Iranian government, over 100 police and safety officers were killed during the unrest. However, 2 Iranian non-governmental organizations based in Washington, D.C., funded by the U.S. government, acknowledged the number of deaths on the government's side to a much lower level. These groups have become the main origin of Western media information on protests.

The lobbyists of government change set an agenda

In assessing the number of deaths in Iran, media in the US and Europe consisted of 2 non-governmental organizations based in Washington, funded by the government's National Endowment for Democracy USA: Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Activists in Iran.

W NED press release of 2024 year clearly described Abdorrahman Boroumand Human Rights Center in Iran as "a partner of the National Fund for Democracy (NED)".

In another place statement of 2021 from Human Rights Activists in Iran states that the group "expanded its network and decided to start receiving financial assistance from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a non-governmental organization and non-profit based in the United States" after the Iranian government accused her of being affiliated with the CIA in 2010.

NED was created under the supervision of the manager of the CIA administration Reagan, William Casey, to let the government to further interfere abroad despite widespread distrust of American intelligence services. 1 of its founders, Allen Weinstein, has famously acknowledged, "many of what we are doing present was secretly done 25 years ago by the CIA."

Although it does not admit to backing a non-governmental organization by NED, The Washington Post and ABC News listed the Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre in their coverage of protests in Iran. W Management Board of the Centre sits Francis Fukuyama, the ideologist who signed founding letter A task for the fresh American Age – possibly the most crucial manifestation of modern neoconservativeism.

Data from suggestively named "Human Rights activists in Iran" have spread even more – a fresh estimated number of deaths of 544 people has been reported by tens American and Israeli major media with different political views as well as by Dropsite. Stratfor intelligence company, operating in the shadow of the CIA, besides quotes this organization in an article entitled "Protests in Iran give window for U.S. intervention and/or Israel."

With difficulties in identifying the exact number of victims of protests, a diverse group of online influencers filled the information gap with overstated, dubiously documented claims. Among these propagandaists is the celebrated supremacy trusted Trump Laura Loomer, who She praised it is said that "the number of Iranian protesters killed by muslim government forces already exceeds 6,000!", citing the alleged "source from the intelligence community".

Polymarket's digital casino has besides inflated the number of fatalities, saying without providing sources that "more than 10,000" people were killed by "Iranian forces [using] automatic rifles on protesters", and falsely claiming that Iran "lost almost all control" over 3 of the 5 largest cities."

In fresh months, Polymarket has become known for allowing insiders to abuse advanced cognition of political events – specified as the fresh American military attack on Caracas or the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro – to earning hundreds of thousands of dollars. Self-determining as the "biggest forecast marketplace in the world" was created thanks to large investment from warlord AI Peter Thiel, and now his The advisor is Donald Trump Jr.

Distributing the clearly inflated numbers of victims, activists for government change and Trump associates seemingly provoke the famously gullible president to carry out another military attack on Tehran.

W evaluation The protests of January 7, Stratfor described the chaos on the Iranian streets as an enticing chance for war, writing: "Although it is improbable to overthrow the regime, ongoing unrest may open the door to Israel or the United States to carry out secret or public actions to further destabilise the Iranian government, indirectly by encouraging protests or straight through military action against Iranian leaders."

However, the CIA contractor admitted that "resumed military strikes on Iran would likely have ended the current protest movement, leading alternatively to a wider demonstration of Iranian nationalism and unity, which is simply a pattern observed after the attacks of the US and Israel in 2025."

'Insecure and loaded'

The latest wave of anti-government protests in Iran met with the enthusiastic support of many Western leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US president Donald Trump.

"If Iran shoots and brutally kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their aid," Trump announced. "We are secured, loaded and ready to launch."

A fewer days later Trump again threatened Iran: "You better not start shooting [protesters] – due to the fact that we besides will start shooting." Then, January 12, Trump announcedthat any country caught in the trade with Iran will gotta impose a 25% work on goods exchanged from the US.

Trump is now reportedly considering the attack, considering options from cyberwar to raids. However, the pace of anti-government protests seems to slow down, and comparative calm has returned to large cities.

As the dust settles, millions of Iranian citizens sails into the streets of cities from Tehran to Mashhad to express your outrage for riots, condemn abroad elementswhich have contributed to triggering the madness of the regime's change and announcing support for the government. However, in editorial offices throughout the West, giving voice to these masses of Iranian demonstrators seems prohibited.

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