Autonomarx [he/him]
Fair enough, but wouldn’t people in coastal cities see them considering this attack was in the middle of the country? Most reports have corrected to saying it was a few drones that air defenses blew up, but there’s still a lot of confusion. A supposed “US official” said it was an Israeli attack before the zionists even claimed it, and the media reported missiles for some reason in the first place.
Iranian sources tell #AlMayadeen that no external aggression against Iran was launched on Friday. What is being circulated about an Israeli attack on #Iran are lies and are part of a misinformation war, according to our sources. Sources also added that complicit #US media outlets are waging a proxy war of disinformation on behalf of the Israeli occupation. This comes after #Iran’s Space Agency confirmed that several drones, of unspecified origin, were downed over Iranian airspace. The agency said that no missile attack on Iran occurred on Friday.
https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1781165195382927748
It’s a nothingburger. How would Israel even launch missiles at Iran with no one in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, etc seeing it? From a stealth fighter? It’s probably a failed attack from the MEK or ISIS-K or some other terrorist proxy.
Ervand Abrahamian’s works are the best scholarship on Iran, he contextualizes the revolution and Khomeini in its historical and ideological context as a synthesis of Islam, Marxism, and political structures of Gaullist France. He deconstructs the idea of Iran as a totalitarian theocracy and shows it’s much closer to like, Sukarno’s Indonesia than any other country. I’d recommend A Modern History of Iran and also Essays on the Islamic Republic .
I think media and basic history education focuses expressly on Nazi Germany as an example of fascism rather than Italy at the same period, because they have essentially the same symbols (in terms of the US stealing the Roman’s aesthetic and national myth) and methods for controlling the ballot.