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Legitimate question - why am I not seeing this in the news? This is horrifying but where is the coverage?

pandemic_region 9mo ago
I checked the reputable newspaper in my country. The only mention of it was on 23/1 where they reported 5000 casualties. EU is going to put together a range of (economic?) sanctions against the regime. US "armada" (quoted from the article) is underway. It was probably the headline article for a couple of hours on the site. I don't remember extended coverage either so I looked it up.
stefantalpalaru 9mo ago
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svl 9mo ago
FWIW, it's reported in Dutch news - https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/26/dertigduizend-doden-slachtpartij-iran-zou-gruwelijker-zijn-dan-gedacht-als-het-klopt-a4918655 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/26/dertigduizend-doden-sla... - with reference to this time.com article - https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/ https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-... - and a lot of caveats about how the figure can't be verified.
LightBug1 9mo ago
They're brown, unknown people. What did you expect?
luplex 9mo ago
because Iran's information control is working - the horrific images and numbers only arrived in the west once the protests were already mostly disbanded. It's not ongoing like e.g. the war in Gaza was, so it can only capture a moment of attention, not a sustained slot.
dist-epoch 9mo ago
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darrenf 9mo ago
The BBC have been covering it in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cjnwl8q4ggwt https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cjnwl8q4ggwt
- Kennel5527 9mo ago
  True, but the level of coverage from the BBC has been abysmal compared to other similar conflicts in the past years, Ukraine and Gaza obviously come to mind.
TacticalCoder 9mo ago
And there are many other legitimate questions: where are the celebrities speaking up to defend the cause of the iranian protesters? Where are the students in western universities protesting against what the iranian regime did? Where's the International Court of Justice's condemnation of iranian politicians? Where's the flotilla led by Greta Thumberg in support of the iranian people? There are, IMO, very grave and very serious double standards at play here because I don't think we're going to see any of those.
- Gareth321 9mo ago
  The last few years has made me extremely cynical. I am beginning to think we don't see the protests because the bad guys are brown and Muslim, and people in those circles are not allowed to criticise brown Muslims. I've seen a weak defense that "our government isn't funding this," but our governments aren't funding the Sudanese Civil War in which 150,000 have died to date, and there is still radio silence in those same circles.
  - apical_dendrite 9mo ago
    If you look at some of the most active groups in the pro-Palestinian left, like the PSL in the United States, you'll see that they have a very long history of praising horrific, oppressive regimes (even North Korea!) that oppose the United States, and dismissing accusations of crimes against humanity when perpetrated by those regimes. The PSL is a minuscule political party, but they're highly involved in organizing these protests.
  - dadoum 9mo ago
    Sorry, I don't understand your last argument. You are criticising protesters who claim to not talk about the Iranian exactions because their government is not funding it, by pointing out that they are not protesting against the Sudanese Civil War either? I may have misunderstood but their government is probably also not funding that war so it's consistent isn't it?
- watwut 9mo ago
  Basically no one is allowed to protest own government complicity in anything, especially not Palestinian kinda look like genocide situation, unless they protest literally every single atrocity everywhere.
apical_dendrite 9mo ago
The New York Times' The Daily podcast had a very good episode on it a couple weeks ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/podcasts/the-daily/iran-protests.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/podcasts/the-daily/iran-p...
roysting 9mo ago
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Maken 9mo ago
What news are you reading? This is featured in virtually every Western media outlet. Maybe it's not so prominent in public discourse because it's sharing screentime with ICE's raids and NATO's rapid collapse. There is also the issue of not being easy to confirm anything out of Iran right now, which is certainly concerning.
- Invictus0 9mo ago
  The NYT's top story is still focused on the killing of a single protestor in Minneapolis. They aren't highlighting Iran because a massacre of this scale will be seen as justifying Trump's imminent strike on Iran, and leftists are gearing up to protest that, just as they did the Maduro operation
  - Maken 9mo ago
    You seem to imply that bombing Iran to the ground is a good outcome.
    - hersko 9mo ago
      > bombing Iran to the ground In what world is that happening? Specific strikes against the regime is vastly different that carpet bombing the country.
- andrewchilds 9mo ago
  The word "iran" is currently mentioned exactly zero times on https://nytimes.com https://nytimes.com. Plenty of baking tips though.
tekla 9mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/world/middleeast/iran-how-crackdown-was-done.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.Jlmq.9igCspaiul7V&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/world/middleeast/iran-how...
kylehotchkiss 9mo ago
I barely see international coverage on NYtimes anymore. Just DC bullshit. I get more world news on the BBC pidgin instagram account. Almost 200 people were kidnapped in a village in Nigeria the other day, that type of thing used to be front page news around the world.

I checked the reputable newspaper in my country. The only mention of it was on 23/1 where they reported 5000 casualties. EU is going to put together a range of (economic?) sanctions against the regime. US "armada" (quoted from the article) is underway. It was probably the headline article for a couple of hours on the site. I don't remember extended coverage either so I looked it up.

stefantalpalaru 9mo ago

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svl 9mo ago

FWIW, it's reported in Dutch news - https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/26/dertigduizend-doden-slachtpartij-iran-zou-gruwelijker-zijn-dan-gedacht-als-het-klopt-a4918655 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/26/dertigduizend-doden-sla... - with reference to this time.com article - https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/ https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-... - and a lot of caveats about how the figure can't be verified.

LightBug1 9mo ago

They're brown, unknown people. What did you expect?

luplex 9mo ago

because Iran's information control is working - the horrific images and numbers only arrived in the west once the protests were already mostly disbanded. It's not ongoing like e.g. the war in Gaza was, so it can only capture a moment of attention, not a sustained slot.

dist-epoch 9mo ago

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darrenf 9mo ago

The BBC have been covering it in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cjnwl8q4ggwt https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cjnwl8q4ggwt

Kennel5527 9mo ago
True, but the level of coverage from the BBC has been abysmal compared to other similar conflicts in the past years, Ukraine and Gaza obviously come to mind.

TacticalCoder 9mo ago

And there are many other legitimate questions: where are the celebrities speaking up to defend the cause of the iranian protesters? Where are the students in western universities protesting against what the iranian regime did? Where's the International Court of Justice's condemnation of iranian politicians? Where's the flotilla led by Greta Thumberg in support of the iranian people? There are, IMO, very grave and very serious double standards at play here because I don't think we're going to see any of those.

Gareth321 9mo ago
The last few years has made me extremely cynical. I am beginning to think we don't see the protests because the bad guys are brown and Muslim, and people in those circles are not allowed to criticise brown Muslims. I've seen a weak defense that "our government isn't funding this," but our governments aren't funding the Sudanese Civil War in which 150,000 have died to date, and there is still radio silence in those same circles.
- apical_dendrite 9mo ago
  If you look at some of the most active groups in the pro-Palestinian left, like the PSL in the United States, you'll see that they have a very long history of praising horrific, oppressive regimes (even North Korea!) that oppose the United States, and dismissing accusations of crimes against humanity when perpetrated by those regimes. The PSL is a minuscule political party, but they're highly involved in organizing these protests.
- dadoum 9mo ago
  Sorry, I don't understand your last argument. You are criticising protesters who claim to not talk about the Iranian exactions because their government is not funding it, by pointing out that they are not protesting against the Sudanese Civil War either? I may have misunderstood but their government is probably also not funding that war so it's consistent isn't it?
watwut 9mo ago
Basically no one is allowed to protest own government complicity in anything, especially not Palestinian kinda look like genocide situation, unless they protest literally every single atrocity everywhere.

apical_dendrite 9mo ago

The New York Times' The Daily podcast had a very good episode on it a couple weeks ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/podcasts/the-daily/iran-protests.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/podcasts/the-daily/iran-p...

roysting 9mo ago

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Maken 9mo ago

What news are you reading? This is featured in virtually every Western media outlet. Maybe it's not so prominent in public discourse because it's sharing screentime with ICE's raids and NATO's rapid collapse. There is also the issue of not being easy to confirm anything out of Iran right now, which is certainly concerning.

Invictus0 9mo ago
The NYT's top story is still focused on the killing of a single protestor in Minneapolis. They aren't highlighting Iran because a massacre of this scale will be seen as justifying Trump's imminent strike on Iran, and leftists are gearing up to protest that, just as they did the Maduro operation
- Maken 9mo ago
  You seem to imply that bombing Iran to the ground is a good outcome.
  - hersko 9mo ago
    > bombing Iran to the ground In what world is that happening? Specific strikes against the regime is vastly different that carpet bombing the country.
andrewchilds 9mo ago
The word "iran" is currently mentioned exactly zero times on https://nytimes.com https://nytimes.com. Plenty of baking tips though.

tekla 9mo ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/world/middleeast/iran-how-crackdown-was-done.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.Jlmq.9igCspaiul7V&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/world/middleeast/iran-how...

kylehotchkiss 9mo ago

I barely see international coverage on NYtimes anymore. Just DC bullshit. I get more world news on the BBC pidgin instagram account. Almost 200 people were kidnapped in a village in Nigeria the other day, that type of thing used to be front page news around the world.