To wonder why the mainstream media is not reporting the massive anti-regime protests in Iran?

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There are currently massive anti-Islamic regime protests all over Iran by civilians, many of them chanting for the return of the Shah.

These protestors are incredibly brave, many of them have been killed, shot or taken away by the regime police.

The protests, some of them hundreds of thousands strong, all over Iran have been widely reported and documented by exiled Iranians on places like Twitter/X but the mainstream news has been strangely silent, especially the BBC that would normally have non-stop, headline reporting if this was about happening anywhere else.

AIBU to hope the regime falls and that the Iranians finally taste freedom after 47 years (and that the BBC should be reporting on this)?

I've seen it on BBC, C4 and Sky I'm not sure why you think it's being ignored

And you are speaking for all those posters, I assume? Give it a rest.

You have now but a week ago when the protests were already taking place, and had been since end of last month, it was barely mentioned and BBC News, our national TV broadcaster, ignored it for days.

Today a large demo supporting the Iranians was held first at the Iranian Embassy and then at 10 Downing Street. I've checked on both the BBC news website and the Guardian website and there is no mention of this Iranian support in London. Why is that not news?

So they are. It's been all over The Guardian every day. I think they're pretty mainstream.

People earlier in the thread have already linked to earlier reports, the fact you keep repeating the same thing doesn’t make it true.

Demonstrations in general rarely get news coverage, irrespective of the issue.

Its not just me disagreeing with you, no 🤣

I’d gladly give it a rest if you’d stop parroting the same thing over and over like a broken record.

It was news, I literally read about it on the BBC app. What are you on about?

I have relatives in Iran, who we have not been able to contact for five days, because the internet was closed down last week and we cannot use mobiles or landlines to contact them. I agree that the mainstream press were slow off the mark - BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 4 etc., but a lot of journalists inside Iran have been arrested. We were watching the news yesterday and most of it is being regurgitated from the past few days. The rumour mill is in full swing, so we don't know the real number of casualties, or if certain reports of mullahs flying out of Tehran to Moscow are true. There are certainly still flights from the two major airports in Tehran. I use the following source, which has been reporting on this since January 3rd.

kayhanlife.com/

@oldtiredcyclist

I’m so sorry, what a worry for you and your family. I hope you hear from them soon.

Those earlier reports were not mainstream news e.g. BBC TV news. The never ending pro Palestinian matches and demos in central London have always been reported.

As you do too.

It was not on BBC TV news. Not everyone reads an app you know. And it certainly wasn't headline news.

What would you do if posters were on one side with some of those and on the other side on others? As many posters are.

Criticisism of the BBC - with all due respect has the BBC not recently admitting to editing a video to give a completely different version of the Capitol Hill speech than what actually happened? And are people allowed to notice that how reporting is done has changed over the last decade or so?

And are posters allowed to agree with some things Trump does and not others? I agreed with the DOGE investigations. But I do not think Trump's position over Greenland "just in case someone else tries to take it first" is reasonable. What would you do with people who judge the situation rather than typecast the leader?

I don't think regime change or the US or Israel taking over will benefit the people in Iran, to be honest, no. I think offering help in relation to specific discrete issues and using international pressure via UN over specific concerns is okay, and that applies to Iran, the US, the UK as well as most other countries.

Are you aware of what happened in 1953, 1979, etc?

Some people think that what becomes news is driven by political interests and how news is reported is affected by (and gives an indication of) the UK's official foreign policy. If this is true (I couldn't comment one way or another) the way this happens and the degree of control becomes more extreme in a pre-war period. Which we may be in. This is what history tells us, too, though whether it is actually happening now, as some people say, i couldn't comment.

If you look the meanings of proselytism and evangelism (or acting as missionaries) you will find distinctions between the meanings and there are also shades of grey and different degrees in relation to each in relation to how things are done in practice. From personal experience I would definitely say there is as much encouragement from Buddhists for new people who are interested to join them as there is from Churchgoers. The paragraph you quote suggest that Buddhism is part missionary (travelling to other lands) and part not (at higher levels respecting other belief systems)? Which makes sense too.

Incidentally, wiki isn't an amazingly reliable source as I am sure you will agree and you will find opposing or nearly opposing views on the same point in different pages - so you and i could quote from wiki endlessly to try to prove opposite points (no idea why we'd want to, though).

And incidentally I would say that most (but not all) the posters here are firmly on one "side" of the debate, so their comments towards you are going to be more strongly worded than comments from someone who is neutral?

They are. it's been headlining BBC news for days since the protests and the violence in response got so bad, and it was reported before that too.

I think the protests started on the 28th of dec. happy to be corrected.

By the 30th BBC had it as a news item and also had a podcast.

It’s been slowly ramping up.

Now it’s absolutely massive news everywhere.

I can’t believe we are even arguing about this.

Its literally the headline news on the BBC app, plus I have been reading about it for a week on the BBC which is where I choose to get news. I have Iranian relatives so its of interest to me.

Now 43,000+ dead (including 30,000+ massacred in the space of two days) and 350,000+ injured in Iran and barely a peep from the mainstream media. Absolutely shocking and appalling!

x.com/omid9/status/2014697076810997799

Mainstream media are reporting 5,000 deaths. Which is covering this but prehaps not at the level you want?

It will be headline news if the US goes in!

I've seen limited coverage in msm but none of the images of the hundreds of body bags and horrific injuries or stories of torture and disappearance have been published (as far as I've seen).

From what I've seen from people like Omid Djalili, people are still fighting back but the regime has brought in armed militias from Iraq (which I somehow didn't really know was a thing despite our long history/actions there).

Khamenei has apparently gone into hiding in his bunker, which was reported, and there have been big rallies around the world by the Iranian diaspora and their allies (though didn't see much coverage of that).

For the last week, the BBC and other MSM UK sources seems to have dropped this like a hot potato. Meanwhile, apart from one very brief phone call from a relative in Isfahan, we have heard nothing from Iran and the internet is still down. I hate to think what is really going on there.

For me, anyone complaining about "MSM" immediately delegitimises whatever they go on to say. I presume the desire to complain about MSM (ie, the world doesn't seem to share my priorities) is the same desire that leads people down conspiracy theory rabbit holes).