The truck also says “No Mullah”. Meaning it is against the current Iranian government but also opposes replacing it with a Shah.
Edit: Additional context: Pro-Israel/Shah rioters ATTACKED the truck and it had to flee from them. Start of the event can be seen here https://files.catbox.moe/x63p08.mp4
Why the hell does the old Shah’s son think he should be the countries head of state if the current government crumbles? This nepo thing is going too far. Even Canada does that shit. When the liberals were licking their wounds over the “sponsorship scandal” they brought in Pierre Eliot Trudeau’s son Justin and, at least for a while, nostalgia won the day.
Haaretz has a good article: The Israeli Influence Operation Aiming to Install Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Iran
Thanks, but it was a paywall site. The article title says a lot though.
Here is a link to bypass it https://archive.is/QvqFh#selection-1311.25-1617.0
And a lot of text from the article
Article concent
According to the sources who spoke with TheMarker and Haaretz, since the outbreak of the war in Gaza and after Pahlavi’s visit, an online operation began operating as part of an even broader Israeli campaign to influence the social media discourse, which also includes campaigns in English and German.
According to five sources with direct knowledge of the project, native Persian speakers were recruited for the operation. Three of the sources confirmed the connection between the project and this specific campaign, and said they witnessed the network advancing pro-Pahlavi messaging.
According to the sources, the campaign included fake accounts on platforms such as X and Instagram and used artificial intelligence tools to help disseminate key narratives, craft its messages and generate content. According to two of the sources, there were also efforts to amplify the posts of Pahlavi’s ally in Israel, Gamliel, a minister from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party…
According to the investigation by TheMarker and Haaretz, the operation involved the commissioning of services from external suppliers, private actors free to sell their services to clients beyond the Israeli state. And these aren’t the only accounts active in this space as part of an organized campaign. TheMarker and Haaretz launched their investigation into Israeli Persian-language campaigns after they were approached by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which studies digital threats, among them spyware and disinformation.
Alongside the network found by the Israeli reporters, Citizen Lab has discovered another pro-Israel, Persian-language influence campaign, being revealed Friday in a report published in tandem with the investigation by TheMarker and Haaretz.
This campaign included dozens of fake accounts pushing out AI-generated content, which Citizen Lab researchers assess is very likely operated by the Israeli government or by a contractor acting on its behalf.
Their report’s conclusions are based on what the institute found to be signs of synchronization between the online campaign’s content and Israeli military actions during the 12-day war with Iran. This includes signs that the operators had prior knowledge of Israel’s attack on Iran’s infamous Evin Prison and even seemed to have prepared content in advance.
Some more context:
The Truck drove through a demonstration that opposed the Regime and injured several people. Luckly no one was seriously hurt. So this is not supporters of the Iranian Government attacking someone opposed to the Regime. The background and motivations of the driver are unclear atm.
Wow I had not seen that yet. This is an amazing propaganda piece by ABC7 “news”.
It frames the event as “Chaos erupts as U-Haul drives into crowd during anti-Iranian regime rally in Westwood”. ABC7 also avoids any angle of the anti-Mullah on the truck and tries to frame this as an “attack by a pro-Iranian terrorist” by extremely selective choice of angle and words.
ABC7 shows people screaming loudly while the truck very clearly stops for them. ABC7 also leaves out crucial information on the motivation of the truck, and also does show the pro-Shah mob attacking the truck.
It is fairly obvious why nobody was hurt, because the truck did not try to hurt anybody.
I found a video of the start of the event, the pro-Shah crowd which apparently had many Israeli flags started attacking the u-Haul and the driver had to flee https://files.catbox.moe/x63p08.mp4
How dare he drive away when we are attacking him? /s
They are all lucky this wasn’t WAY worse!
Going through the videos online what was astounding is that almost every video cuts out the pro-Shah crowd attacking the man and starts the video at the moment he starts driving away, most frequently right after he accelerates to make it look like he never stopped and was driving into the crowd on purpose.
These are fascists, not freedom fighters.
