The coverage of the western media on the Iranian "revolution" has been so extensive that some outlets have dedicated a minute by minute coverage webpage to follow what is happening there. This meant that whatever is happening anywhere else in the world goes unnoticed. For example what happened in Peru during the demonstrations by the poor and native of that country against the government that had planned to introduce new laws allowing foreign companies to exploit the rainforest which those people lived by. Atleast 60 people have been killed during the demonstrations and many more missing. But this is not important because Peru unlike Iran is not hindering the West and their multinational companies from exploiting their natural resources and allowing them to dominate over the area.
The independent has writen an article about it, yes one article is all that it gets. And the only reason why they did is because it somehow is related to the UK...
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Very interesting to point out. American media outlets have made it seem as if these protests are a revolution against the Ayatollah implying the Islamic revoltion. Little does the western media know that Mousavi, during the Iran-iraq war, initiated the Baseej to go and sacrifice themselves to clear the Iraqi mines placed by the Iraqi army. I doubt the US public would take that positively.
True. The western media has been completely biased in regards to this issue.
Very interesting stuff. Didnt know much about mousavi's past except that he was very close with Khamenie (which The Independent wrote about)
But I don't think the media cares much about mousavi, its more about instigating further what is going on in Iran.
i think the the West also committed a mistake by endorsing the protesters. To iran, it now looks like western backed-Moussavi vs Ahmedinijad and given US interference in Iranian affairs in the past (1973 media coup) that's not a good sign.
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