Richard Sudan – Press TV Jan 19, 2026
Before Iran had even hit the headlines, you could already see the script being loaded into the teleprompter by the power-hungry war-mongers.
First came the soft focus, usual Western media framing: “Peaceful protesters” versus “the regime.” Then the numbers start doing backflips.
Then the experts arrived, usually the same conveyor belt of exiled political operators, Washington think-tanks, and so-called “human rights monitors” offering figures that can’t be independently verified during an internet blackout.
I’m old enough to have seen this narrative play out with Iraq, Libya, Syria and also Venezuela.
And finally, once the emotional temperature is high enough, the policy conclusion is offered. The Iranian people are suffering, say Western media, and therefore force is justified.
At this point, we cross into truly insane logic. The Iranian people, dealing with an economic stranglehold created by sanctions, must be bombed by the same people imposing the sanctions.
This is the unspoken but unmistakable conclusion always lurking at the centre of so-called impartial Western coverage. Because if the West really cared about the Iranian people, they’d have lifted the sanctions long ago. It’s not rocket science.
Hardship is not treated by the West, however, as a reason to lift sanctions or use diplomacy. It’s framed as proof that a country is broken unless external powers intervene. Economic pain becomes evidence. Civil unrest becomes permission.
The irony, of course, is that Iran is home to a rich civilization, thousands of years old, which has made immeasurable contributions to the world, predating the birth of Western nations.
The idea that the same powers in the West that have always undermined Iran’s sovereignty, now suddenly care about the human rights of Iranians, is utterly absurd.
And it isn’t analysis. It’s not even poor analysis. It’s narrative engineering.
Perhaps the most powerful example of this was by the BBC. During its flagship show, Newsnight, the BBC rolled footage of protestors rallying in support of the Islamic Republic and the government while suggesting they were opposition.
From “let’s help the protesters” to “this is a religious war”
Lindsey Graham can’t keep his story straight — too busy advancing an Israeli-assigned mission: Regime change in Iran.
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There were protests initially in Iran. That much is not in dispute. Some of them are rooted in real economic concerns. But even Western business reporting acknowledges that sanctions are a major accelerator of that pressure, especially since the US reimposed sweeping measures after unilaterally leaving the nuclear deal in 2018.
Inflation, currency collapse, and shortages are not occurring in a vacuum. They are the outcomes of sustained economic warfare. We’ve seen this tactic repeated so many times in the past.
But here’s what also got buried under the peaceful protest headlines. When the unrest turned into arson, armed clashes, attacks on police stations, destruction of infrastructure, or killings of civilians, those details became background noise, if mentioned at all. And that’s because in large part the unrest was fueled by outside actors, including Israel. Israeli media even admitted it.
American activist Shaun King, author at the North Star, is one of the journalists who documented Israeli media openly talking up Israel’s role in attempting to destabilise Iran.
Therefore, it doesn’t take a genius to know that the mosques torched in different cities of Iran were not done by Iranians.
As Ali Abunimah posted on X, referring to the mystery of how some of the “activists” received outside help, he observed that “truth hides in plain sight”.
Everything we have seen over the last few weeks has been a deliberate attempt to turn what began as protests about the economy into a so-called “regime change” operation. And it failed, like so many times in the past, including in June last year.
Information warfare thrives on numbers. Big numbers. Shocking numbers. Numbers that travel faster than context ever could.
Unverifiable claims, tens of thousands killed, mass executions imminent, circulate freely in moments where verification is hardest.
Internet shutdowns, communication blackouts, and information fog are not treated as reasons for caution. They are treated as opportunities. The absence of certainty essentially becomes a blank canvas.
Big numbers are not always the truth. Sometimes they are leverage.
And once those numbers are established in the public imagination, the next stage follows naturally. This time, however, it failed.
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And I would say the majority of the public did not fall for it.
Amid the violent unrest, large pro-government rallies were held in Tehran and other cities. Millions of people marched in support of the state and against what they described as American and Israeli interference in Iran’s internal matters.
This vital context, however, is always dropped by the likes of the BBC.
These rallies were real, documented events. Yet images and footage from such gatherings circulated widely online and in commentary spaces, presenting them as evidence of “anti-regime” rebellion.
The images became evidence for a narrative they did not belong to. That sleight of hand matters more than it might appear.
Western audiences are conditioned to associate foreign interference with elections in Europe or North America. Elsewhere, it is treated as paranoia. But the infrastructure for external influence is openly documented: funding streams, training programmes, media amplification networks, and political lobbying all operate across borders.
During the unrest, Israeli-linked accounts associated with Mossad published Farsi-language messages directly addressing Iranian rioters, claiming solidarity and signalling involvement.
An Israeli minister later publicly stated that agents were operating inside Iran. Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also confirmed it. These were not Iranian accusations or state media claims. They were admissions.
Yet this dimension rarely appears in mainstream Western reporting. When it does, it is downplayed or framed as Hollywood bravado. The idea that foreign intelligence services might exploit unrest is treated as implausible even when foreign officials say it outright.
Audiences are taught consistently that some populations can only be helped through force. That their suffering is evidence of moral failure rather than policy consequence. That bombs can arrive wearing the mask of concern.
The question is not whether protests happened. They did.
The question is whether we will continue to accept being fed a pack of lies by a system that cares nothing for the human rights of the Global South, and is motivated only by a lust for oil, natural resources, and geopolitical control.
Richard Sudan is a London-based journalist and writer.
“American activist Shaun King, author at the North Star, is one of the journalists who documented Israeli media openly talking up Israel’s role in attempting to destabilise Iran.”
It seems to me that the SATT ( scum at the top ) actually WANT Iran to totally destroy isra-hell. One can’t blame the Iranians, after all the jews in Occupied Palestine would happily destroy Iran.
youngsters beware of conscription
when ww 2 was in the opening stages
German folk were shocked as we had been pretending
to stay out of it, then began the bombing raids
young men aged between 18 and 22 were among the first batch with some pressure for younger men.
These men some no more than boys were told the war would be over by christmas and those who signed up after the war would get priority for jobs
But as the men were being demobbed, some thing called
” protected occupations” came in, this meant the jobs were protected
for west indians not our men, they opened the prisons and sent them all to the UK.
Jobs on the buses railways under ground and hospitals, were kept open for the new arrivals.
British folk had never seen Black people before, they kept together in places like Notting HIll where crime escalated.
A group of unemployed ex service men rioted, government crushed it held a black carnival there each year as a snub to the ex service men
These became known as Teddy Boys for their slightly edwardian style of clothes. As time went on many got job a and were a able to buy a motor bike, these lads were called Ton Up Boys.
Police hada field day, just seeing a lad ona fast machinemeanta sure nick for something.
So then we had the Rockers, short for Rock N Rollers,
The fashion industry Carnaby st and jewish run news papers
fostered the Mods, these were unisex styles, men wore feminine clothes and hair cuts and even make up, you would see these gay looking men on little motor scooters.
After this the Punks, this was very sad to see these kids dressed in a state and people would laugh at them.
The situation now for our youth is dire.
Lord Scarman saw to that out kids were dumbed down
pressure to go to uni meant they did not get an education but an indoctrination, LBGT poofsterisms, socialist ideas and drugs
and migrants flooding in and taking the jobs, while our lads sit on the dole.
As have been here before just like after w w 2
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Josef Veselsky, Holocaust survivor who played table tennis for Czechoslovakia and Ireland
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Young Joe was working in a bank when Hitler annexed Czechoslovakia in 1939, he joined the Jewish Resistance, blowing up vehicles and using his language skills as an interpreter and evading the authorities with the help of friends, but one of them sold him out
In the death camp he beat every single camp guard and even the SS men at table tennis
over a 3 year period he was said to have played over 120 german men
THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA
All walt disney cartoons carry pedophile images
and have done for years
The homosexual agenda came to light with Lord Victor Rothschild choosing his followers called apostles
among the most sexually depraved, many had convictions against kids, these were promised great wealth and position
if they worked against the UK in w w 2.
Rothschild claimed that by the year 2000 Britain would be communist, it may not be called that but thats what it will be
and he said the great NWO will be brought in with homosexuality, most western leaders are now this way.
One of the most heterophobic governments was that of New Labour.
Tony Blair a teenage cross dressing rent boy
was like churchill a 33rd degree mason
The cut out man between him and Rothschild was his lover lord levy, this included David Abrahams
Tony Blair had 2 remits to follow
1 a war on the people of iraq
2 to grow the homosexual community by at least 5% per year.
The taxpayer funded homosexual marches gay parades
and 6 extremist porn magazines featuring young boys
The BBC ran secret sibliminals to foster interest in child sex as did the LBGT movement.
The UKcolumn exposed homosexuals abusing boys in 16 london area boys homes, on an ” industrial scale ”
The Nene report looked into this and linked homosexuality directly to pedophilia
this is why Tony Blair had the report shredded and burnt
Grevile janner told of the plan, over time to give every man a little bumboy of his own, like the jews did in ancient Rome.
Phew! It’s all so Byzantine. An absolute cluster phuck.
Trump hates Khamenei. Netanyahu hates Trump. The entire world hates Netanyahu. Kushner and Kissinger (rest in hell) hate Trump as does Murdoch. Let’s face it … we all hate Trump!
It appears that at some level … the hatreds are real. I think we can be sure of that. But if the Trumpeter is just an actor playing a role, why do they all hate him so much? If Putin is an actor playing a role, why do they appear to hate him? Are they all acting? Are they all duped?
And there was The Gipper, boldly and naively demanding an end to Communism and The Soviet Union. And, just like Kennedy, he was just as naive as to the roll he was playing. Or not playing. As was … or was not Roosevelt.
There is no doubt in my mind at least, that the primary instrument of control of the central banksterin’ cabal is DEBT. And its favorite instrument of DEBT is WAR. Perpetual war. To drain the nations of their treasure and their blood. And keep them in a state of perpetual DEBT servitude.
Seems reasonable, doesn’t it.
But does the same RotShite Cabal have control of Rusklandia and China? Do they kontrol their central banks as well?
Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that’s turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!
Shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone with a brain cell. The imbecilic BBC was instrumental in bringing about the current Iranian regime with a similar misinformation campaign 60-odd years ago. It’s a deep-state propaganda machine, pure and simple, obvious to anyone paying attention.
@ dilambert@live.com bury st edmonds
Exactly right, we’ve been here before
Rumbled this site
sometimes the Americans have a brilliant way with words.
For example, there is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition
of a contemporary term. This year’s term was: “Political Correctness.”
The winner wrote: “Political correctness is a leftist doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Michael Obama: “It’s Time To Boycott ALL White-Owned Businesses”
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Former presidents boy friend Michael Obama has urged Black Americans to boycott all white-owned businesses in the U.S. in order to “redress racial inequity.”
Poofter Michael Obama has urged Black Americans to boycott all white-owned businesses in the U.S.
imagine the outrage if a white woman was telling other white women to only buy white brands.
The irony was not lost on X users, who pointed out Obama’s hypocrisy and racist double standards
US casino owner Sheldon Adelson won a 5 milion dollar bet
because he was able to puta man in the white house who was-
Non american born
a black man
a communist
a raving poofter, with a criminal record against boys
“…the BBC rolled footage of protestors rallying in SUPPORT of the Islamic Republic and the government while suggesting they were opposition.”
Oh dear… the BBC just can’t help itself! 🤣😆😂