Is "Russia Today" blocked in your part of the world?

Thank you. I'm going to order a copy.

 

I've heard that it's mainly American-iranians that are agitating in this circumstance, is that correct or are there are nations involved?

 

You can berate the Muslim world all you like for their treatment of women but are you the same with western treatment of women? Modern day slavery basically means sex slavery in the west, with thousands of Eastern European women sold into slavery in London, Paris etc by Eastern European crime gangs. Have you ever in your life raised this very homegrown issue to our board members?

 

Knowledge is power

 

I'm not talking about the women's rights protest, which have dissident groups (many receiving financial support from the US and various other foreign states) both cheerleading and helping organize the protests and steer them in radical directions. These groups are mostly annoying because they perpetuate a lot of fantastic lies. The foreign state actors I was alluding to, especially Israel and Saudi Arabia et al, however have financed and supported terrorist acts and have been involved in trying to smuggle weapons to stir ethnic separatist movements in Iran's periphery under the cover of these protests. And Iran has attacked some of their bases in Erbil Iraq while the Saudis recently got worried Iran might take action against them directly.

 

Ah ok, so the recent protests are being used as a shield for other "interest groups" to hide behind, one which seek to over throw the regime...

USA hostility in the region (mesopotamia??) began with Iran in the 70's didn't it. Do you have a modern name for this region or is it merely individual countries now, perhaps due to disunity?

 

Its banned in the EU since the invasion started.
I use croxyproxy to read it.
I usually check it weekly, i think its good to view an alternative spin.

 

Someone just posted a link, I hadn't been able to read RT since the operation began due to EU banning it.

It's bizarre, exactly like BBC but the opposite spin. I think it just goes to show that all sides are very bias and why we really need both sides of the story in order to come to our own conclusion. The BBC monopoly (all uk news outlets post the exact same story/narrative, which the BBC underpins )in Britain is shameful

 

Re:

I would guess that "Middle East" or "Central Asia" would be as close as any name for the area that includes Iraq / Iran

 

Idont like the term middle East as it is purely a reference point to the UK. It's a Eurocentric term created by the Brits, it's east of GMT (UK). Far East is also Eurocentric as it denotes GMT (greenwhich mean time) as the reference point.

West Asia is more appropriate, the Muslim side. India is central, China east but again, it's all pretty Eurocentric terminology.

The western map puts Europe as central for example, plus it apparently makes Africa look tiny.

 

Africa is bigger than China, India, the contiguous U.S. and most of Europe—combined! -scientificamerican.com

 

So, are you saying that if a woman wants to be equal to a man and not wear a head scarf, she should be branded a radical and a terrorist just because she has seen how the rest of the world allows women these freedoms?

 

If you want non-Eurocentric designations, you have to go back in time. In Iranian historiography, the world was divided between IRAN and non-Iran. All of Iran and those parts of non-Iran (which included modern day Iraq) which were also part of the empire were together called Eranshar.

A 3rd-Century Rock Relief

 

???
Where and how did you get that?
p.s.
No one in my family, not my wife and nor my teenage daughter, and no one in my extended family, wears the headscarf unless they have to. When in Iran, my wife does loosely cover her hair in public with a scarf to comply with the law. My teenage daughter often simply has a scarf around her neck in case she is told to cover her hair. And I don't consider them 'radical' much less 'terrorists'.

 

You think modern day slavery (eastern European sex trade) in the west is freedom?

 

Since we're talking about Iran, I'm going to post this in case there are still a few Americans who haven't heard about how the US and England were stealing Iranian oil before the 1979 revolution.

https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Zepezauer_Mark/Iran_Boomerang.html
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The history of America's relationship with Iran illustrates the distance between the claim that we stand for democracy and freedom throughout the world and what the U.S. actually does when that principle is stacked up against another interest: controlling the spigot of the world's oil supply. In 1953 the U.S. toppled Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, putting the Shah of Iran firmly in control. By 1979 our support of the Shah had turned most Iranians into bitter enemies of the United States. They chased him out of power and installed a fundamentalist Muslim regime that bedevils us to this day.
The reason the U.S. toppled the Mossadegh regime boils down to one word, the same word that governs most of our policy in the region: oil. When Mossadegh became prime minister, Iran had one-quarter of the world's proven oil reserves. And yet his country received more income from the sale of its carpets abroad than from its petroleum. The British Empire held a controlling interest in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), and they were not shy about exerting that control.
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This is consistent with what several Iranians have told me.


Back in 1993 I saw a group of Iranians handing out anti-Khomeini pamphlets in Madrid. I talked to them for a few minutes. They were also anti-Shah.

 

Hi, Scott, it still works for me. You don't live in Canada?
Here is today's news about China/Ukraine...

https://www.rt.com/news/566199-chinese-investors-motor-sich/

 

Your link doesn't work here in Madrid. This one works though.
https://swentr.site/tags/op-ed/

I get a lot of my info from here.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/

 

How would you know? You have no educational skills about any of the subject matter so how can you determine the accuracy of anything from that junk website!? You repeatedly make reference to the "scientific method" which very early on in the process makes some attempt to disprove the premise. Nowhere do you do this.

See batshit, believe batshit, post batshit. Not impressive.

 

Hey Iranian Monitor...

Do you know the inside story of this?

Western disinformation about Iran is the kind that starts wars
A baseless claim that Tehran ordered the execution of 15,000 protesters was repeated by politicians and celebrities
Western disinformation about Iran is the kind that starts wars — RT World News (swentr.site)
swentr (dot) site/news/566693-iran-disinformation-trudeau-tehran/


Iran Votes to Execute Protesters, Says Rebels Need 'Hard Lesson'
Iran Votes to Execute Protesters, Says Rebels Need 'Hard Lesson' (archive.org)
web (dot) archive. (dot) org/web/20221114192724/https://www.newsweek.com/iran-votes-execute-protesters-says-rebels-need-hard-lesson-1757931


It's hard to figure out what the truth is if you don't know someone from that part of the world.