The reporter won’t let him speak, and they literally just cut his responses whenever he correctly calls this a defensive war for Iran.

For once the YouTube comment section gives me hope. Everyone’s calling them propagandists and pointing out how collected and professional the FM is compared to literally everyone in the western power/media structure.

This is the end of liberalism. There is no mask left.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Not gonna waste my time watching it but I’m gonna assume this is missing the bit where the guy asks if they’re afraid of a ground invasion and the Iranian liasion says “we are not afraid we are waiting for them” and the guy just goes slack jawed for a second in response

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    I was losing my mind watching this. This “journalist” is such a miserable, deceptive piece of shit and generally the Iranian Foreign Minister did a pretty good job of trying to correct him (aside from the part about the Strait of Hormuz, where I think he was lying but I’m not going to fault him for it because his country is at war and the interviewer already demonstrated his unwillingness to let him speak).

    It was so funny how there was the cope talk with the correspondent afterward, so they could repeat the “attacking neighbors” lie yet again but without anyone there to contradict it this time, and the correspondent says “many diplomats have said so” without specifying who.

  • It’s sorta funny in a fucked up way that in this age of communications we can be blasting the fuck out of a country in an act of pure imperial aggression, and then call up representatives of said country to tell them off like they’ve been brought to the headmaster’s office or some shit.

    Imagine some Nazi newsanchor hitting up Molotov via telegraph like “DU IST ÜNTERMENSCHEN. STOP. DIE ÜBERSOLDATEN OF ZE ÖSTFRONT VILL MARCH ON MOSCOW BY VINTER. STOP.” whilst on radio broadcast.

    fundamentally unserious state of things.

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    It really scares me. They are just so obvious and blatant now, this would be considered “heavy handed” if the bad guy news media in a movie acted like this, but I haven’t seen anyone care. Libs just happily accept this new slop just like the old, 0 thoughts, head empty to make space for hate and fascism.

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    Actually really impressed with the comments. Usually YouTube comments are a cesspool, especially on the mainstream media posts. I know Reddit has been really bad right now, but to think YouTube is even better is impressive.