Topic last week, particularly on social media, welcome to espose, the show that leaves no stone unturned. Hundreds of headlines proceeding and following the parliamentary. In iran were portrayed on major western news outlets, but irony rested in relying on the opinion of just one or two citizens to adopt broad front page headlines talking about the absence of democracy in iran. Let us hear from fuad itayim, our broadcast expert and writer at the cradle, more about it in fake news expose. The electoral battle for the new parliament and the assembly of experts in iran which take place at the beginning of march revolved around the Younger Generation of conservatives who succeeded in tipping the scales in many electoral districts, fact that did not go down well with western media. Here is more about this with our broadcast expert foad itayim. Thanks very much for being with us, to talk about this. What do you have for us about this . So western broadcast media has addressed the 2024 parliamentary elections in iran, and the main message that was propagated by most of these outlets. That somehow the iranian people stayed away from the ballot in protest against the government. Okay, so lets start with the british media outlet channel 4 who sent its lead presenter, krishnan guru merthy to cover the news of the 2024 elections in iran, and he decided to basically not focus at all on the issue of the election and resort back to the same old western media narrative that rights are crushed in iran. So lets take a look. Lets see what krishnan had to say. Welcome to terran. In two days time, iranians will vote to renew their parliament in a key test for the countrys regime. The test being how many people will show up to the polls, but not necessarily who will win. They are the first elections since mass protest broke out two years ago following the death of young woman, massa amini under suspicious circumstances after she was arrested for not wearing a hijab. So krishna decides to open with the story of the late young masa amini who died. In september 2022 and according to uh coronary examinations after her death uh massa amini died from cerebral hypoxia basically disproving the claims that she was killed by Security Forces despite this fact he maintains that she died under suspicious circumstances typical western propaganda and he opens with it about feature report about iranian elections so this has nothing even to do with the protest that happened years ago exactly so making it worse uh krishnan then finds a young non hijabi woman on youre not covering your head, do you feel worried about being out when youre not covered . No, no, nobodys ever given me any trouble, no one has. Is that normal in terron, everywhere in tehran or is it just here . No, no, i havent had trouble anywhere. I dont think he liked what. He said, did he . Uh, not so much. He seems quite unsatisfied with the answer. So what he does now is he moves to a group of other ladies who the who they say oppose the policies of the iranian government. Instead of taking advantage of the situation and asking them in more detail why theyre opposed to the government, why theyd like to sit out the current election. He decides to ask them about the genocide in gaza. So lets take a look at what they have to say. Lets see that. The other thing were asking people about is is the situation in gaza. So do you think the. People feel the same way as the government when it comes to of course politics, are you kidding with me . Iranian people like peace, they want to live in peace, if you look at the our history. All of the time they wanted to be in peace, but the government is the opposite of that. Uh, i dont know how this relates to the iranian election, which were by the way, one in majority by the conservative side, but it seems that krishnan failed to find what he was looking for on the streets of tehran, which was widespread antigovernment sentiment, that seems to be what he thinks hes going to find, so he decides to ask about the situation in gaza, and resorts to the idea that iranians dont care about the palestinian struggle and only want peace, so his question is about gaza, so what peace exactly is he referring to, peace with israel, the illegal occupying state whose flag is painted on the streets of streets of tehran, basically people just stomp on while ill walking, and and this were talking about the same state that has openly supported resistance against scientis israel for the past at least four decades, so i think that question was some sort of a question that he wanted to get out of the peoples minds where they do not support any resistance. In the region, but i mean, 100 . And hes look, hes asking few people on the street instead of carrying out a widespread survey, its while talking about an election that the opposition lost, exactly, 100 . Um, so another mainstream outlet that propagated fake news and lies uh, was cbs news, so no uh, surprise there whatsoever, definitely not, so cbs news got a hold of kirim sajadpur, a senior fellow at the carnegy endowment for international peace, now karim. An americanborn iranian who studied at Johns Hopkins and resides in the United States here makes sure to spew as much hatred as possible against the Islamic Republic without any facts to back up his claims. Lets hear what what he had to say. Its good to see you again. This was the first parliamentary election in iran since the sustained mass protests over the death of massa amini. Um, does the turnout tell you anything . Its another reminder, john, that iranians know their living the. Religious dictatorship that cant be reformed via the valid box. I think whats particularly insulting for iranians is that all politicians lie everywhere, but when youre being ruled by a religious government that rules from moral pedestal and engages in this level of corruption and repression, i think its even more insulting than just being ruled by your run of the mill corrupt dictatorship. We have a. Enough trouble uh believing polls here in the United States, so i hesitate to put so much or read too much into those opinions expressed in that poll, but do the finding square with your understanding about public sentiment uh in the greater population of iran . Uh, definitely, i think everyone who has been following iran for a while or has visited the country has has noted these popular sentiments for many years now that you after. Half decades of living under religious government, people want to separate moskin state, so its quite audacious claiming that people live in a religious dictatorship in iran and that the people somehow want to separate mosk and state, even though the entire country revolted against an actual dictatorship in 1979, a dictatorship that was secular and backed by america and israel and suppressed the rights of the entire population, also none of the figures that hes using are based any of the. Recent election results, and i dont, i dont know where hes getting the facts from, i mean these analysts that go on western media, especially broadcast media who are supposedly americanborn uh iranians, but either have never visited iran or they visit iran to see family and then return, they dont even uh conduct any kind of surveys or try to get data from the people uh the from the public uh the least that they could do ask the communities that they uh visit and then go to v and say things like this claiming that if you are religious state then you are dictatorship, mean that literally applies to 70 of the states around the world and uh that still is not the fact, not the real story about iran, but anyways i want to thank you very much for explaining to us how the broadcast media was uh basically spewing all these lies uh about the elections in iran. Now ladies and gents we move to digital Mainstream Media. It wasnt easy for western nation media to accept a contrasting scene to what they had been promoting in the days leading up to the parliamentary elections in the Islamic Republic of iran. Most of the Opinion Pieces published by major western news outlets were struck by the public choice in iran that they practically recycled the same old stories and repeated the same old narrative when it comes to their regimes disapproval of democracy in iran. Our Mainstream Media expert joins us to tell us more about it. The floor is all yours, julia. Thanks, so despite the massive western campaign to against iran to basically boycott the elections. Uh for the islamic uh consultive assembly in the assembly of experts, citizens participated enthusiastically with noticeable lines that the polling stations continuing on until the very last moments of the 1st of march, so however the New York Times continued to spread lies by claiming that many ordinary iranians were fed up with the faltering economy and the socalled governments oppressive rules and violent crackdowns on peaceful protests instead of reporting the reality on the real reasons behind the economic hard. Trips inside iran represented by the aggressive es and eu sanctions illegally imposed on the iranian people. So a piece published on march 1st, 2024, written by Farnaz Fasihi and lieli nokazar, entitled many iranians boycott vote despite officials pleas and roses at polls. The New York Times claim that the residence across the range of locations, big cities like tehran, isfahan and shiraz, and smaller ones like sari and lahijan said in interviews at polling station. In their neighborhoods were mostly empty and only the most loyal supporters of the government had shown up to b, which many other iranians choosing not even leave their homes, but in reality marwa, a small search on the same cities mentioned in this article, and you can see that they lied about the turn out, especially in the capital tahran and shiraz and esfahan. So the New York Times piece was less chaotic than the Foreign Policy one published on february 29th, 2024, just one day before election day. The first suspicious part of this piece, writers themselves, where we have no evidence whatsoever if they were even iranian or not, wow uh, as the Foreign Policy claims they were, uh, saki nasiri, a pseudonym of a journalist in iran, and tuba moshiri, another pseudonym of a journalist in iran who wrote an article titled irans new even worse hijab era has become, wow, so the Foreign Policy here falsely claims that freedoms are increasingly under the threat for irans female citizens, according to womens rights advocates and United Nations experts who. Say that the hijab crackdown is creating a Chilling Effect on womens rights activism and legitimizing broader gender discrimination. Mind you, these womens rights advocates and un experts have no names and no positions which put such claims at the level of heresy. This peace by Foreign Policy continues to spread lives claiming that iranian women now cannot drive, cannot do their jobs and cant even have coffee without worrying about have their cars impounded, being fired or getting hit with fines if the hijab is not worn or tooo lo loosely, yet in reality, if you go on youtube and research these claims, look at the malls in tehran, look at the streets of tehnon, you can instantly see that these uh statements are completely false and that theyre nothing but fake news. Ive been there, ive seen it first hand, it is completely fake news, and as you said, people can just serve the internet and see what tehran and other cities in iran look like, yeah, ive been there twice too, and in the north of tahan women are wearing hats instead of and nobodys. Impounding them police is right there, nothings going on, so you dont even need to really ask people, just do a little bit of research uh on your own outside of these obviously biased uh sources, definitely. So lastly, the Foreign Policy peace claims that iran is regularly ranked as one of the worst countries to be woman in terms of gender parity for economic opportunities, education, health, concerns and political leadership. Guess according to whom marwa, according to research by the world bank and the World Economic forum, wef, so that was come. From an American News publication, the same america that does not only suppress women, but now has given the right for men to identify as women while knowing fully well that education and healthcare are completely free for all iranian citizens, unlike the usa, where they wrote these dishonest lines about iranian women. Wow, i mean the audacity, especially of these organizations who continue to control many sovereign states but have never been able to control the Iranian State for that matter claim that all these fake news. About iran just to uh play with words and brainwash the public . I mean, thats ridiculous. Yeah, and they want to begin with their control of iran by controlling women, which they havent been able to do. Despite the fact that women in iran have their rights met uh years ago, some rights that are not even found in the west, but i want to thank you very much, our Mainstream Media expert uh in this segment, miss julia qasim for joining us to talk about this pressing matter that we always see whenever theres something happening in iran, especially if its elections. Thank you for your contribution, dear julia, and now ladies and gents, we move to social media expos. Another topic that was center stage last week, especially on social media platforms, was the airdrop shurate of aid and expired food on gaza residents and the famin caused by the ongoing zinus israeli genocide. Here is sima ietme, our social media expert and editor at the cradle with more. Thank you, so air dropping aid, much like a placibo, it might make people feel better if theyre watching, people who are watching from afar, but at the end of the day its a showy pr exercise and its in ad. Inadequate, its pathetically inadequate. I hear you, its useless to the point where it becomes metaphor and not more for the object failure the International Community to muster up any kind of meaningful response to such a immense, unprecedented humanitarian tragedy. My second, that definitely, so for the first post, we have a post by big brother seven who criticizes these airdrops saying, reports from gaza say the airdrops of today werent enough for 100 people. Reference, there are hundreds of thousands of starving people in northern gaza with many children already dying due to hunger. The airdrops are just a cruel shared at this point. I seen this opinion, i mean people who see my twitter can see that i was very vocal about this, so im not going to stop you anymore, right . We knew, i mean we could tell from the beginning, and then the aid killed some civilians, yes exactly, it got even worse than what we had expected, for the second post we have by quts news network that quotes the Gaza Government Media Office report. That the situation of famine is deteriorating with 2. 4 Million People experiencing severe Food Shortages and air drops, which have proven to be futile. No, my god. So along with this post, qutz news network attaches a photo with a quotation from the Gaza Government Media Office saying that dropping aid from the air and avoiding its entry through the crossings circumvents the Root Solutions to the problem. Definitely. Mean, the border is there open the border for the love of god. Where there are thousands of trucks, not just hundreds waiting. We have another post by assaf md on x saying that not only is the amount of aid being airdropped completely insufficient, the most vulnerable of gazas civilian population will be unable to access the aid. So he attached a video where a care representative ramallah tells sky news that these airdrops make it impossible for people with disabilities to remain alive. Lets see what you said. Lets take a look. First of all, they are, there is the issue accure. See there is the issue of being so expensive, the limited number that they will have and the limited content, so its only meals while the needs are massive and most importantly you only those who can reach physically strong to reach to these aid will be getting them, so women, elderly, womanheaded household, people with unfortunately disabilities will not be among those that are going to access the aid, so even people with disabilities are finding it hard to get the least amount of aid in god. Yeah, the minimum. We have another post on x uh, from a gaza resident who is currently displaced to Southern Gaza with his family, mysara at whatever 2067, laying it out as it is, jordan complicity turns gaza into a hunger game where people have to fight and even get killed to get food. Israel wanted this and jordan airdrops did the job, sadly said by gazan who is a resident of gaza. Placed to rafah and i think the the people that we should hear the most are the Palestinian People in gaza and no one else outside that beseed area so now in response to the World Health Organizations report entitled gaza worst famon fears realized as 10th child reportedly starves to death. Michael fakhri who is the un special reporter on the right to food posted israel has been intentionally starving the Palestinian People in gaza since october 8th now. May very well be already occurring, the only way to end prevent this famin is immediate ceasefire, and the only way to get a cease fire is to sanction israel, so that was a first, i think, we see a Un Rapporteur calling for sanctioning the israeli entity, i dont think ive seen that before in order to reach seas f, this is kind of coming to terms with reality, finally realizing that there is other way around this, definitely even we are we were listening a bit uh from byden administration certain officials saying that they dont condone whats happening, yet they dont have the power to change it, which we really dont believe, but uh, listening to this, having this voice out in the open, especially on social media is something unprecedented indeed, and all for the sake of palestinians in gaza. Thank you very much sima for your contribution and telling us what happened on x, especially on x this time, because it was very heated discussion concerning whether aid was actually helping the palestinians or not. Thank you for being here and for your uh. Analysis now, ladies and chens, we move to figures expose. The overwhelming majority of civilians in gaza are dependent on direct assistance from the unrawa agency, which is also a critical lifeline for other aid organizations working inside gaza that rely its aid infrastructure to distribute support. However, a recent opinion poll shows that the majority of the israeli entity. Settlers opposed the transfer of humanitarian aid to Palestinian People in the besiecheged gaza strip where the occupying regime has been waiting a genocidal war since october 2023. The findings were published in a survey conducted by the socalled israel democracy institute, saying over two out of the three jewish israeli settlers, which accounted for 68 of respondents disapprove of the transfer of humanitarian aid to gaza residents at this time, while a large 85 majority of arab respondents in occupied palestine supported. Now, when asked, do you support or oppose the idea that zinist israel should. Allowed the transfer of humanitarian aid to gaza residence at this time with food and medicine being transferred by International Bodies that are not linked to hamas or to the unra, arab respondents gave an 85 approval to 13 disapproval rate. Left jews gave a 59 approval to 39 approval rate this approval rate now center jews gave a 44 approval to 51. 5 . Percent disapproval rate, and rightwing jews gave a 19 approval to swooping 80 disapproval rate. Now the results of the israeli entity survey came as the United Nations food and Agriculture Organization fao said in a recent report that 550,00 people in gaza are currently facing catastrophic Food Insecurity levels. Now let us move to the most notable expose voices. This week. Imagine you are at home with your wife and children. Its dinner time before you put your three children to sleep. The room is cold, the propane cooking cylinder is empty and there is no food, no electricity and no drinking water. This is gaza. Gaza is starving. Starvation in gaza is not due to a drought or natural disaster, but it is rather an israeli. Made catastrophe enabled by the us Biden Administration. Our first voice this week is from rana omes on instagram who shared a video by a palestinian displaced resident of gaza who wepped while telling us about the last meal he had. كيس الطحين حقه 500 دولار مش متوفر لا حقوق الانسان ولا حقوق المراه ولا حقوق الطفل ولا حقوق الدين ولا دوله عربيه قدرت تدخل على قطاع غزه مساعدات تحديدا مدينه غزه. بالاسابيع ما ياكلوش اسابيع اسابيع متخيلين اسبوع اخوك ما ياكلوش اسبوع امك اسبوع محاصره محاصره مدينه غزه محاصره قطاع غزه مدينه غزه حاليا ما فيش فيها اكل ولا فيها شرب ولا في حقوق المراه ولا انسان ولا طفل ولا حقوق الدين. Now for famin to be declared, at least 20 of the population must be suffering extreme Food Shortages with one and three children acutely malnourished, and two people out of every 10,00 dying daily from starvation or from malnutrition and disease, but in late december, the integrated Food Security phase classification ipc said that the situation in gaza has already exceeded the 20 threshold. Now, as the United States. Air dropped aid into the gaza strip, its parachutes, like those of the other participating countries, brought only a tiny fraction of the aid needed for the 2. 2 million palestinians trapped without food, water or medical supplies. However, never in a million years would have anyone thought that the us dropped food aid would be expired food. Yes, you heard that right. Lets hear bobbys voice on tiktok. 3800. Expired meals the Biden Administration just dropped 38,000 expired meals into gaza, i quite literally dont even know what to say about this, like to be that vile and foul of human being if you can even call yourself that to send people who are actively starving to death food that is actively dangerous that is expired that could poison them, you you are not on youre not being complicit in genocide at that point. You are actively taking part in it . Indeed they are. Now ladies and gents, with that we conclude our expose for tonight right here on press tv. 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