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.

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    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.

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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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    Removed by mod

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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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    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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      You might have had a point if it was just a handful of 5-10 min videos. But hundreds of 30-50 min videos across hundreds of channels in each of which appear hundreds of random passerby all being staged? That’s some “the moon landing is fake, look the shadows are wrong!” levels of conspiracy theory thinking.

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      That’s being done IN THE WEST, not everywhere you want to project the west’s crimes on.

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    9 days ago

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

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        Is that the motivation? To brainwash me? Because yeah, ad revenue seems unlikely indeed.

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          I can tell you haven’t watched a single of the hundreds of videos while you confidently type your comments about how smart and right you are.

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            I’m the last person to call myself smart and right. I’m asking why someone would create hundreds of videos of uneventful street scenes where nothing in particular happens. Seems counterintuitive to me.

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      The only way to find out is to go to the channel and ask the people who made them. Why you start a huge comment chain instead? (Let me guess: “Noo my thought terminating othersbaderinos”)