An Iranian voice for change, and the son of the last Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi is regarded as the positive force to lead to regime change in Iran. Exiled in the U.S. decades ago, he is the face of bringing Iran back to a more diplomatic prominence globally. So, of course, he is largely ignored here in the U.S.
It is just that the press needs to be apprised of such. As we will see, the media in Europe is not much different than the news outlets here in the States, where the cheering against the Trump administration is significant enough that it led Jake Tapper to come out against voices pointing out this reality, and suggesting that all the journalists he knows want America to succeed. (We take this to mean Jake has few friends in the media.)
It was a sobering moment early on in the Epic Fury conflict. One day, the nation of Iran fired off a pair of long-range missiles, with the intended target the island of Diego Garcia. This is a crucial military staging area for the U.S. and British military, and Iran was seeking to strike there to impede operations.
Neither of these missiles came close to accomplishing the intent, as this effort had about as much chance of success as trying to hit a moving car with a shot from a flare gun, while riding in a speedboat traveling at 30 knots, at night. (I may have been watching Bruce Willis in “Striking Distance recently…) But what was jarring about this launched attempt by Iran was the ordnance.
Diego Garcia is a remote location in the Indian Ocean, and Iran having the ability to reach such a distance of about 4,000km got people running for the maps. If they possessed the tech to go that far south, that would mean a northerly trajectory would put several European cities in the crosshairs. One would think this would have been enough to get our unmotivated allies to take part in tamping down the surly leadership, but they were not compelled to engage until their fuel prices shot up.
Even now, France and Britain are loath to join in and play Whack-A-Mullah; they just want to police the Strait of Hormuz and get the tankers moving again. But even this is an effort that feels compulsory for them, and we see that the European press is also recalcitrant, if not actually supportive of the Iranian authority.
Reza Pahlavi recently held some news conferences in Europe to address the activity in his former homeland. He explains how he spoke at length to around 150 members of the European press, and what he described is both disturbing and expected.
"In the past two weeks I have had two press conferences, one in Stockholm, and one yesterday in Berlin — between them more than 150 journalists. We spent more than two hours together. And in those two hours, not a single one of the 150 journalists asked me a question about the 40,000 Iranians slaughtered on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th. Not a single one of the 150 journalists asked me about the 19 political prisoners executed in the past two weeks. When I told them there were 20 political prisoners currently sentenced to death, not a single one asked me about them."
At some point, it needs to be explored why it is that the media members are so apathetic about delivering a free and democratic leadership to a nation under the iron rule of extremists. After all, in the States, and possibly more so in Europe, religious liberties are routinely challenged. The devout are vilified and deemed to be either infringing upon the rights of others or considered outright dangerous.
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Yet here they are supporting an authoritarian and aggressive regime that has been slaughtering its own recently. One of my prevailing questions about the engagement of Epic Fury has been why our press is dismissing the slaughter of tens of thousands the past few months, and why we want that same authority to have nuclear capabilities, while it pledges hatred for Israel and ourselves? The dispassionate approach to those killed is a mystery, and it seems to exist in European press circles as well.
As for Pahlavi, he is not given much of an audience stateside. In fact, we see him becoming diminished as, of all things, a MAGA figure, by The Atlantic. This, because he wants to align with the U.S. and Israel in transferring the leadership of Iran. Apparently, having a once-hostile nation established as an ally is considered…wrong…?
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The challenge faced right now with the Iranian conflict is that we are facing headwinds generated domestically. The press does not want success because that will reflect favorably on President Trump, and the resistance to him receiving any type of positive result means they root against us militarily.
Look at how frequently we have seen it reported that failure is taking place, Iran is dominating, and we have lost this ponderous war. The conflict has barely been active for two months. We have shut down that nation on a number of levels — militarily, commercially, and financially. The leadership is in complete disarray, and on the global stage, they have made themselves a pariah.
About the only ones left favoring Iran are…the media.
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