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Why lie about this when the first paragraph is explicit about its source? > As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 an

Why lie about this when the first paragraph is explicit about its source? > As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME

vogre 9mo ago
>two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health And their names are never called.
- johanyc 9mo ago
  It's pretty common practice if naming them will get the people who shared the info in trouble. Depends on whether you think Time is a trustworthy source I guess
  - vogre 9mo ago
    Time always was a propaganda leaflet. Remember "bomb serbs to heel" or "sinister world of saddam"
pydry 9mo ago
The US paid for similar information from Iraq about WMDs just before it kicked off the invasion. Meanwhile, the US is rearranging its forces in the middle east. What a coincidence.