A recent article in TIME magazine made a huge claim that the Iranian government killed 30,000 people on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, which the magazine claimed was supported by “two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health,” which “TIME has been unable to independently verify”.
However, the only named source for the shocking claim is a German-Iranian eye surgeon named Amir Parasta, who claimed that the “surreptitious tally of deaths recorded by hospitals stood at 30,304 as of Friday”.
Amir Parasta was apparently behind the report being published in Time Magazine, given that he shared the report on Instagram and referred to it as “our report”.
Amir Parasta has also been cited as an authority on the death toll of Iranian protestors in other mainstream outlets, including DW, Times of Israel, New York Post , Haaretz, and the Times of London.
However, a closer look into Amir Parasta shows that he is not a neutral doctor, but a lobbyist for the Israeli-backed son of the deposed Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, and for an American/Israeli regime change operation in Iran.
Amir Parasta serves as a “subject matter advisor” at NUFDIran, a lobbying group for the Israeli/U.S. backed puppet Reza Pahlavi and for regime change in Iran.
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It is very normal to use anonymous sources in journalism in these kinds of situations. Even for reports from inside western governments where the potential worst co sequence might “just” be the source losing their job.
Meanwhile, what’s going on in Iran is a full scale democide where every single person speaking to foreign media is risking not just their own lives, but those of their families and friends.
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Ok…so, how about we apply some critical thinking to this narrative, instead of simply believing everything they’re saying…
They are claiming that the Iranian government has killed over 30,000 people over the last few weeks, using nothing more than bullets and knives? You know that it took Israel over 5 months to kill that many people in Gaza…and they were using bombs, missiles and tanks, in one of the most densely populated regions on the planet. The sheer scale of what they are claiming here, is absolutely off the charts.
I’m not saying it isn’t “possible” to kill that many people in such a short amount of time…but it would be impossible to hide it, as they are claiming the Iranian government is somehow doing. You wouldn’t be hearing about this from just one source. Every Human rights group that is monitoring the situation in Iran would ALL be reporting the same numbers…plus or minus some margin of error. But that’s not what’s happening. The only group claiming to back these numbers up, is also conveniently funded by the US government. And you cannot take what the Trump administration is saying, at face value, even if they are speaking through an intermediary.
And then you have to listen to what they are saying abou the way these people are being killed. That article reads just like Israeli propaganda. They aren’t just indiscriminately shooting protesters…they’re being shot “execution style”. People aren’t just coming into the hospital with stab wounds…they’re being stabbed in the eyes, the neck and the genitals. That last bit is a hallmark of Israeli intelligence, just so you know. It isn’t enough to simply kill someone. They always have to add a layer of sexual mutilation to the crime, just to make it more monsterous. They used all these embelishments after October 7th, too.
This whole story is going for maximum impact, to the point of total absurdity.
Israel is trying to (or at least trying to give the appearance of) avoiding civilian casualties. The Islamic regime in Iran has no qualms against mass murdering civilians, nor anyone but their own populace to keep them accountable (and they absolutely do not want to be held accountable, they would probably be executed like the tyrants they are).
These are two entirely different situations.
Wow. No offense, but that was probably the most brain-dead analysis I’ve ever heard. Are you seriously suggesting that bombs, missiles and tank shells are Israel’s way of “avoiding civilian casualties”?
Wow. Just…wow. I have no response to that. That’s so dumb, there’s no point in even making a counter argument.
That strawman right there is a product of your own imagination. Try again and maybe add a dash of critical thinking this time around if you actually are interested in having a conversation.
It’s not a strawman. The fiction that Israel was ever trying to avoid civilian casualties, has been demonstrably debunked by literally years of intentionally targeting them.
The fact that you are defaulting to this tired, and entirely false narrative in order to hand-wave off the sheer magnitude of the death toll they achieved in 5 months…as if they could have easily done more…is disgusting.