What they said

Glenn Diesen

@Glenn_Diesen

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3h

The US is giving Tehran the Gaza treatment. Only a few days ago, the US political-media establishment was shedding crocodile tears over Iranian protesters

“The Iranian head of state was not only liquidated by a precision strike — this act was also hailed as a triumphant achievement and a blessing for future conflict resolution. Ali Khamenei was, according to his country’s laws, the legitimate supreme authority of a UN member state that is internationally recognised almost universally and participates as a full-fledged actor in world affairs — including political negotiations with the very states that brought about his death.

  "The fact that one state deliberately assassinates the head of another state and does so according to the same scheme used to eliminate leaders of terrorist cells or drug cartels gives world politics a completely new, dangerous dimension. "This is true even in comparison to previous regime changes and their violent endpoints, such as the lynching of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya or the execution of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Although both events resulted from external military interventions, Gaddafi died at the hands of Libyan adversaries amid internal unrest. Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, came to an end through a ruling by an Iraqi court — despite legitimate doubts about the objectivity of this procedure. "The case of Iran marks the transition to a method that Israel has so far practiced primarily against the leadership of Hezbollah and Hamas. The United States now fully supports this approach." 

Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the magazine

Alan MacLeod

@AlanRMacLeod

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2h

This is just one trick media use to manufacture consent for war.