Report Arianna Publishing
Of Sebastiano Caputo

Source: The newspaper

How Western media covered up a social protest (predominantly male).

Seven years of proxy war on Syria they have taught foreign policy commentators nothing who once again blindly follow an anti-Iranian narrative spread across the board think tank neoconservativesand by more intellectuals progressives of the so-called "free world". In short, those who were considered Donald Trump's fiercest opponents during the election campaign quickly sided with him to blow on a small protest broke out in Khorasan, now spread across the country. To understand the approach of the Western media, it is necessary first of all to study electoral geography. The demonstrations did not begin in the capital Tehran (quasi 20 millions of inhabitants), stronghold of Rohani and the reformists (insider of theocracy as much as the others), but in deep Iran, where modernist mythology is not even touched upon by the collective imagination, so much so that conservatives are precisely in those areas (lay and religious) they get plenty of votes. The reasons that therefore pushed people to take to the streets were dictated by rejection of the current ruling class, accused of corruption and price increases, and not an entire system, Islamic government, as most commentators who ignore the complexity of this country want us to believe.

If on the one hand there is a total superficiality of journalists who, instead of cross-referencing local and international sources, copy-paste news from broadcasters that respond to political agendas or emphasize tweet individuals functional to the mainstream narrative, on the other there is a precise desire to transform normal and legitimate protests into something very different and dangerous. Like Libya and Syria, Iran is a non-aligned nation which, despite suffering on a national economic level due to the failure (and not through the fault of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei) nuclear agreement which was supposed to eliminate the sanctions imposed by Western chancelleries, it has recently gained a prominent geopolitical dimension in an ethnically Arab Middle East, Turkish and Kurdish, defeating Daesh alongside the Russians, of the Syrians and Lebanese of Hezbollah and opening the Shiite corridor that goes from Tehran to Beirut passing through Baghdad and Damascus. Those who want the head of the Ayatollahs know perfectly well today that Iran, real military power, you can't destabilize it from the outside but only from the inside, despite the popular support for the Islamic Republic it is at least undeniable (albeit not unanimous).

Here is any popular mobilization, even if isolated and without a leader, it becomes a pretext for some foreign pressure groups to interfere in the media (if not physically) e weaken Iran in the eyes of world public opinion in view of "regime change". The most striking case of recent days was the photograph circulated online and on television around the world of an Iranian woman with her head uncovered while holding a stick in her hand on which her white veil is placed., and used at the right moment to confuse the motives of the demonstrations and actually exploit them, for ideological purposes, those disinherited people who came down the street to ask bread even before freedom (a vague concept which means everything and its opposite!). The image was taken three days before the uprisings and had not caused any uproar (in the video people walk as if nothing had happened), but it was first posted on Facebook and Instagram a few days later by Masih Alinejad, attivista iraniana che guarda caso vive da anni in esilio tra Londra e New York, e prontamente ritoccata da un grafico professionista che l’ha fatta diventare un’icona – rilanciata anche da Roberto Saviano sui suoi canali – per gli “indignati a comando” di tutto il mondo. E’ il solito copione che segue più o meno le stesse dinamiche. Ma gli apprendisti stregoni non hanno fatto i conti con il popolo iraniano che conosce il senso del limite. Non per paura degli uomini col turbante, tantomeno per sottomissione ad Allah. Piuttosto perché esiste un proverbio persiano che dice “a poco a poco un filo di lana diventa un tappeto” e i tappeti, over there, si fanno ancora in casa.