SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op
Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised source. But a zealously pro-war Guardian reporter is doing her best to legitimize it.
This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The claim of “30,000 killed” during two days of protests and rioting across Iran appears to be based largely on a single anonymous source, who admitted extrapolating that figure by assuming without evidence that “officially registered deaths related to the crackdown likely represent less than 10% of the real number of fatalities.” That quote was attributed by The Guardian to an alleged doctor whose real name the newspaper refused to publish, but whose identity it claimed to have verified. Originating in TIME Magazine on January 25th, the dubious “30,000” claim was quickly amplified by The Guardian, a key…Open
AI:A dubious death toll claiming 30,000 protesters were killed in Iran is being exposed as a massive psy-op designed to manufacture consent for military intervention and regime change. This inflammatory figure originated from a single source—an Iranian monarchist lobbyist associated with the deposed Shah’s family—and has been aggressively amplified by The Guardian's Deepa Parent, a former Indian fashion blogger turned pro-war operative funded by billionaire Pierre Omidyar. While Western officials and media outlets use this unverified "big lie" to justify designating Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist organization, evidence suggests the numbers are being manipulated to pressure European leaders into sanctions and military action against the…Open