Farhad

Instagram has “permanently disabled” the account of Tehran-based independent essayist and documentary photographer Kaveh Rostamkhani, days after he spoke to Drop Site News about the protests, riots, and violence he witnessed in Tehran, and just one day after he published an op-ed with Al Jazeera on disputed death tolls tied to Iran’s January unrest.

In his op-ed for Al Jazeera on January 31, Rostamkhani warned that unverified casualty figures were being used to “manufacture global consent for an attack on Iran” while helping to “downplay the official death toll of the genocide in Gaza.” He described the rush to circulate extreme figures as a “Death Toll Olympics.”

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@faab64

Yes, the wild death counts stuck me also as manufactured.
I mean, the #IRGCTerrorists have undoubtly killed many, many protesters and it will be difficult to know the real numbers. But how quick unverified numbers from non-independent sources with a huge stake in the situation were circulated was impressive.

I mean, it is even logistically a complex undertaking to kill 20 000 people or more.

It is difficult to maintain a clear position here, since I think we all wish the death of the Regime. But also everybody should know that it would be extremely cruel for the Iranians fighting for their freedom if they receive a Shaist government after an US-Israeli attack on Iran...