Time Magazine Made A Shocking Claim That Iran Killed 30,000 Protestors In Two Days, But The Claim Comes From A Single, Highly Questionable Source.

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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  • Archangel1313
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    16 days ago

    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.

    • Ice@lemmy.world
      21·
      15 days ago

      Are you seriously suggesting that bombs, missiles and tank shells are Israel’s way of “avoiding civilian casualties”?

      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.

      • Archangel1313
        2·
        15 days ago

        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.