Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack Imagine your favorite app encouraging you to surrender during a war. That's happening right now in Iran. With the onset of open warfare, Israel reportedly hacked the popular prayer calendar app BadeSaba to distribute messages that, in another era, might have taken the form of pamphlets dropped from planes. According to …
"Think of the children" moralization was quite prominent during recent Gaza events. But I have not seen much compassion when Iranians killed thousands of protestors. Many of them young.
Pain is real. Be it of a child or an adult. Every death is a tragedy. People should be cautions reacting to hysterical propaganda.
Besides, these regimes have repeatedly shown they do not care about own citizens. So they can kill their own children to be able to spread such propaganda.
What the Iranian regime did to its own citizens was a crime against humanity.
And we can only go by reports of the people there that were able to speak out during the regime imposed communications blackout but the reports seem very plausible and I for one believe them.
But since you brought up Gaza I can only go by what the death toll is by Hamas run agencies because for some odd reason Israel refused to allow reporters in to document the war and those that did dare to report were also killed.
But are you insinuating that the deaths of the Iranian schoolgirls is propaganda or that the regime killed these girls for a photo op?
Again I can only go by what's being reported and try to make a plausible decision but it does sound plausible that these girls were killed in an air strike on Saturday because the school in question is only 200 feet away from a targeted naval station and Iranian schools are open six days a week with only Fridays off so the school would have been open at the time of the initial strikes and the school has 170 students registered there so it does again sound plausible.
But I agree we have to be very careful about propaganda, especially now.
I'm sure the trolls and paid propagandists are very active on social media at this very moment, even on tech websites.
You think it's more plausible that the Iranian state murdered 153 school children? More plausibly than a missile that was launched during school opening hours, and pointed at a base that had a school near it, did, in fact, strike a school during opening hours when it was full of children?
This smells of "motivated reasoning".
Not giving in to this fetish to UPDATE NOW! Don't stop to check release notes, UPDATE NOW!! Doesn't matter if this version doesn't fix any bugs, let alone any CVEs, UPDATE NOW!!!
Too slow, we just changed the background colour, you must UPDATE AGAIN, NOW!!!!
To heck with opportunities for State Hackers to get in and change the app, if you follow that advice you are less likely to be caught out when a perfectly useful app, which you paid for and everything, is bought out by some random company who suddenly fills it with ads, removes half the features you were using and generally takes the piss.
BTW, v17.3.5 is out, UPDATE NOW!!!!!
On this morning’s radio, the (BBC) presenter just couldn’t get it through their head the Tehran University professor they were talking to wasn’t a member of the Iranian government and being a resident in Tehran was having to be very careful about the words they were using and what they were saying. However, despite the dickhead presenter, he did manage to convey a lot of information about the mindset behind the Iranian missed attacks and thus how they would be perceived differently by their allies to how the Americans and co. might perceive things: If US troops actually set foot in Iran, don’t be surprised if they are stoned and not welcomed as liberators, even by those who do not support the Ayatollah's…
And this is completely true; people may not be fans of the current regime; but they are even less supportive of a change being ‘imposed’ on them by a foreign power, especially if many civilians are killed as collateral damage.
I think it is really unlikely that US troops will set foot in Iran, once more and more body-bags start to be be returned to the US, and they will, the administration will find themselves under increasing pressure and loss of support. Especially if they fail to provide a convincing argument as to why these soldiers died, what did they die for? Was it in defence of the US? Because it is beginning to look a lot like they died in defence of Netanyahu.
Look, don't get me wrong, the current regime in Iran is disgusting, their treatment of dissidents, gay people, women, lack of basic human rights is appalling, and I would shed zero tears if the entire lot were killed.
But, that’s the easy part - what do you do next? Is there some opposition party waiting in the wings to take over? No there isn’t. Or is this a repeat of 1945, where the US and allied forces basically took over the running of Japan and Germany, set up proper democratic arrangements and then gradually withdrew? But that, again requires ‘boots on the ground’, and there will, absolutely will be US losses - is the US prepared to do this? Recent policy does seem to hint that they aren't
Is there a long-medium term plan? I’m not sure there is.
Your President (I’m British just in case my spelling didn’t give it away), is apparently 'disappointed ‘with the UK’s reluctance to get involved with offensive actions’.. The Prime Minister has referred to ‘regime change from the air’ as unlikely to work. And although not a supporter of his party, I do have to agree.
What is the plan, how does the US think this is going to play out?
Short termism; it gives us an (apparent) advantage now, in getting an immediate over adversaries; but long term it comes back to bite us, well that’s someone else’s problem.
See 'Operation Cyclone’, where the US (and admittedly the UK) provided weapons and training to the Afghan Mujahadden because they were fighting the USSR, and then were asupprised when those skills were turned against the west later on - who would have thought it?
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