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Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised source. But a zealously pro-war Guardian reporter is doing her best to legitimize it.
That quote was attributed by The Guardian to an alleged doctor whose real name the newspaper refused to publish, but whose identity it claimed to have verified.
The author of The Guardian’s article is a former fashion blogger named Deepa Parent, who has become the paper’s go-to source for Iran war propaganda, churning out over a dozen pieces for The Guardian driving the regime change narrative against the Islamic Republic since violent riots engulfed the country on January 8 and 9.
Parent has emerged as the face of The Guardian’s attacks on Iran despite having no apparent ties to the country and not appearing to speak its language. Farsi is not listed among the half-dozen languages in which she claims to be bilingual or speak in some functional professional capacity.
Before adopting the surname Parent around 2019, The Guardian’s go-to Iran reporter wrote under the name Deepa Kalukuri. Her journalistic output was largely limited to fashion reviews in Indian media. A typical piece published in India’s Just For Women magazine in 2016 was headlined: “Samantha Is Setting Some Serious Fashion Goals! Check Them Out!”
Much of Parent’s work at The Guardian’s so-called “Rights and Freedom” section has been funded by an NGO called Humanity United, which was founded by tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam.
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"5. A defensible reading of the evidence to date
The most credible baseline supported by named, documentable evidence is in the low thousands: multiple NGOs and vetting efforts have confirmed roughly 6,000–7,000 deaths with many more cases under review — a conservative, replicable floor [6] [1]. Simultaneously, independent hospital tallies and leaked internal documents provide a plausible but less verifiable counterfactual that the toll could be an order of magnitude larger — 20,000–36,500 — especially for the intense 8–9 January period; these higher figures cannot yet be treated as equally verified because they depend on sources and methods that remain partially opaque [3] [5] [4]. Rigorous accounting will require wider access to hospital records, unimpeded forensic work, and independent international investigation; until those are possible, the accepted range will remain a contested field between a documented multi‑thousand minimum and plausible claims of tens of thousands [2] [11]."
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CIA funded think tanks through the National Endowment Funds program are not “NGO’s”
Nice source buddy, hope you’re getting paid for posting this crap
Coverage of The Grayzone has focused on its misleading[25][26][27] reporting, its criticism of American foreign policy,[1][9] and its sympathetic coverage of the Russian, Chinese and former Syrian governments.[32] The Grayzone has been accused of downplaying and defending the persecution of Uyghurs in China,[33][37] of publishing conspiracy theories about Xinjiang, Syria and other regions,[38][39][40][1] and of publishing pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation, especially during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[36][40][31][1][41]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone
edit: my bad, I forgot you’re a lemmy.ml tard
Anything to say about the article which is all factually correct?
Yeah i did, i started typing out a response critiquing individual parts of it but the more I read the more issues stacked up
Then I realised the whole article is dogshit, I was like this is SO BAD there has to be an ulterior motive and that’s when I went to wikipedia and was like oh, makes sense, it’s written by a bunch of anti-western cucks grasping at conspiracies, character assassinations, strawmans, and just making shit up
Yes yes we know 40 beheaded raped babies in ovens. Reported by a food blogger who suddenly got to work for NYT. Exposed by TheGrayZone.
Now please type out your “critique”. Everything they say is factually accurate. TheGuardian is not doing journalism it is doing propaganda. You are grasping at straws here.
Just block .ml users on sight and block the whole instance.
