Did You Know There’s an Uprising?

Did you know there’s an uprising in Iran? Well, unless you closely follow X, chances are you don’t. Until recently, there has been a near-total media blackout – nothing on New Zealand media and nothing on the BBC. 

So why has the BBC been so quiet about this? 

Reason One: We want to cover it but we’re too scared. 

So what happened to fearless journalism? Scared of what, exactly – offending Islam or having their offices firebombed? 

Reason Two: We want to but we need to get our facts narrative straight. 

Here the BBC is purportedly taking the high ground. And to be fair a lot of the stuff being posted on X is unreliable and just plain wrong. We’ve be told on X that the Ayatollah fled to Moscow. Next minute he’s still in Iran giving speeches. Everything on X should be taken with a big grain of salt. But we already know that. 

Yet while the BBC claims to take the high ground, it is willing to repeat Hamas statements, using phrases like ‘According to the Hamas Ministry of…’ And let’s not forget that the BBC has famously refused to label Hamas a terrorist organisation. 

I don’t see the BBC saying ‘According to reports on X…’ or even ‘According to unverified reports on X…’ 

Reason Three: We don’t want to. 

We don’t want to because it’d harm the current regime. 
We don’t want to harm the current regime because we support the current regime.
We support the current regime because we support Islamism.
We support Islamism because it is anti-Jew, anti-Israel and anti-West.
We are anti-Jew, anti-Israel and anti-West. 

I admit this is crazy conspiracy stuff. But what else is there? 

Even the BBC wouldn’t be so willing to risk its reputation unless there was something much bigger. 

At the time of writing, on the BBC we see headlines like “Huge anti-government protest in Tehran and other Iranian cities, videos show”, “More demonstrations erupt in Iran as rights groups say at least 48 protesters killed” (the number is most likely much higher) and “Iran protests: People are more angry and determined now”. 

Let’s address the underlying media lie.

What is happening in Iran is not protesting – the people aren’t protesting anything. They’re not protesting something the regime has done or hasn’t done. And they’re certainly not protesting the economy. 

The people of Iran are on the street because they want the regime gone. At the time of writing, millions of Iranian are out there and the numbers keep growing. That’s more than just ‘huge’ numbers. The momentum keeps increasing. 

That isn’t a protest – it’s an uprising. 

And now, just because, here’s a totally unrelated YouTube video.