This is the lie-by-omission moment of our time. The Iranian people are doing the one thing Western media refuses to name: they’re rejecting Islamic rule itself, not begging for a kinder version of it. That shatters the protected narrative, so the cameras turn away. Even worse, honest coverage would force an admission the press can’t stomach—Trump’s unapologetic use of power worked. The regime’s aura cracked. Fear shifted sides. When strength exposes tyranny, the moral preening collapses. So silence becomes policy. Not because journalists don’t know the truth—but because the truth detonates their worldview. This isn’t ignorance. It’s institutional self-preservation.
I see it more simply. From the viewpoint of most media, Christians and Jews vs. the Moslem world, and they must take their side, as they were historically mistreated by the West. If it seems they are losing, then pretend it is really just a temporary uprising of the mujahadin or whatnot, and should go away soon (2028?). More of what I call their wrongteousness. I'm with the other side, 100%, from the crusades till the present. I have not forgotten the embassy takeover at all.
"its population is now rising against an indigenous ideological regime, not a foreign imposition."
Islam is not indigenous to Persia. Previously Zoroastrian Persia was conquered by Arab Sunni Muslims in the mid-7th century, and became majority-Muslim only around the 9th–10th centuries, The conversion from Sunni to Shia didn't start until the 16th century.
One minor quibble, my Iranian friends considered themselves Persian and rejected the Arab imposition of Islam on their culture - to them, it was most definitely not indigenous.
"To acknowledge this would be to concede that centralized planning and state domination of markets fail catastrophically when accountability disappears"... and it always disappears.
It cannot be explained any better than this. “Western media often advocates softer versions of the same economic ideas: expanded state control, moralized redistribution, technocratic management insulated from democratic pressure. Iran demonstrates what happens when such systems harden into ideology and are shielded by theology. It is a case study in failure.”👏🏻 Excellent!
Legacy media is furiously ratcheting up its own irrelevance to a level from which it cannot possibly recover.
This is the lie-by-omission moment of our time. The Iranian people are doing the one thing Western media refuses to name: they’re rejecting Islamic rule itself, not begging for a kinder version of it. That shatters the protected narrative, so the cameras turn away. Even worse, honest coverage would force an admission the press can’t stomach—Trump’s unapologetic use of power worked. The regime’s aura cracked. Fear shifted sides. When strength exposes tyranny, the moral preening collapses. So silence becomes policy. Not because journalists don’t know the truth—but because the truth detonates their worldview. This isn’t ignorance. It’s institutional self-preservation.
I see it more simply. From the viewpoint of most media, Christians and Jews vs. the Moslem world, and they must take their side, as they were historically mistreated by the West. If it seems they are losing, then pretend it is really just a temporary uprising of the mujahadin or whatnot, and should go away soon (2028?). More of what I call their wrongteousness. I'm with the other side, 100%, from the crusades till the present. I have not forgotten the embassy takeover at all.
The people of Persia are reclaiming their culture and country.
Islam, socialism and communism are all collectivst ideologies that negate and oppress the individual
"its population is now rising against an indigenous ideological regime, not a foreign imposition."
Islam is not indigenous to Persia. Previously Zoroastrian Persia was conquered by Arab Sunni Muslims in the mid-7th century, and became majority-Muslim only around the 9th–10th centuries, The conversion from Sunni to Shia didn't start until the 16th century.
Good stuff. Very few can match the consistency, clarity and excellence of your writing.
Another trenchant essay, you nailed it again.
One minor quibble, my Iranian friends considered themselves Persian and rejected the Arab imposition of Islam on their culture - to them, it was most definitely not indigenous.
The way progressives treat Islam is like mirror image Orientalism à la Said.
"To acknowledge this would be to concede that centralized planning and state domination of markets fail catastrophically when accountability disappears"... and it always disappears.
It cannot be explained any better than this. “Western media often advocates softer versions of the same economic ideas: expanded state control, moralized redistribution, technocratic management insulated from democratic pressure. Iran demonstrates what happens when such systems harden into ideology and are shielded by theology. It is a case study in failure.”👏🏻 Excellent!
I couldn’t put my finger on why MSM was ignoring this story
Thanks for your perspective
Mark Levin on X: "I assume Qatar and Qartarlson are rooting for the Islamist-nazi regime in Iran. They've been awfully quiet".
Levin is ideologically compromised.
Cannot trust is motives, even when he manages to tell a truth or two.
On target with this article. 👏👏Clarifies exactly why the media is just a puppet of the DNC and not a true news source, only propaganda.