How the BBC covers Iran:
New York Times, BBC, Sky News, I see you have trouble finding videos of Iranians protesting the Islamic Republic.
Here is one. Can you please explain why you refuse to report it?
Awkward moment for the BBC: having spent two years pumping out Hamas propaganda, they now must face Iranians bravely opposing the regime that funds it.
STARLINK VS. IRAN’S INTERNET BLACKOUT
Iran cut the internet on Thursday, plunging 90M people into digital darkness as protests hit all 31 provinces, the regime even cut landlines in some areas, but then Starlink pushed through.
Starlink's low-Earth-orbit satellites can't be blocked like traditional internet, so videos are now leaking out showing continued protests.
People would still need ground terminals that Iran's actively policing, so only a small number have access and it's degrading, but even degraded connectivity beats total blackout.
When governments shut down the internet to silence protests, Starlink becomes the lifeline that keeps the truth alive.The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.
Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime.
Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.
Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.
This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased.
By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely.
There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues.
As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises.
Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically.
This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language.
Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape.
That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored.
So the silence continues.
I can't overstate how monumental tonight is, as someone who has followed every major uprising since 2009.
The islamic regime has always fallen back on two things when pressured into a corner:
1) Communication blackout
2) Mass murder
This has always worked in the past, silencing Iranians into going home battered, scared and traumatised.
This time however, Iranians responded to both 1 and 2 by coming out in even greater numbers. This has NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. I tell you this as someone who saw the images of Neda Agha-Soltan's dying breaths in 2009, who saw the 2017 uprising crushed, who saw the 2019 November blackout and massacre, who saw the 2022 uprising fizzle into nothing after relentless oppression.
Not only has this movement not died out - for the first time there is a commanding leader and a guiding voice who makes calls and decisions for his people. He is the Shah of Iran, and the vast majority of Iran has proven to want him back on the throne. Nobody can deny this any longer.
And now, we have a unified Iran defying regime blackouts AND regime massacres, organising and fighting back, inflicting real and devastating casualties. There has been nothing like this ever. The regime did not expect people to come back out.
I repeat: This wasn't supposed to happen. This is a living nightmare for the mullahs and all their cheerleaders.
I don't know what happens next. All I know is this has moved from an uprising to a revolution.
1/ I was held hostage in Iran for 444 days. Forty‑six years later, I can say this with absolute clarity: what is happening in Iran right now is unlike anything I have seen since.
2/ This is not a moment of unrest — it is a breaking point. The Iranian people are acting with the resolve of a nation that has been pushed past its limits.
3/ When people believe they have nothing left to lose, they become impossible to intimidate. That is exactly what we are witnessing: ordinary Iranians confronting armed security forces with extraordinary courage.
4/ But courage must be matched with strategy. Real, lasting change will only come if the opposition can stay united and refuse to be fractured by the regime’s familiar tactics of fear, infiltration, and repression.
5/ The regime is brutal, but the people’s determination is stronger than I have ever seen. Their fight is not symbolic — it is existential. And the outcome will define Iran’s future for generations.
I can’t blame our Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, and pagan ancestors for losing their nations to the Islamic armies that erased their civilizations a thousand years ago. They didn’t know what else to do, and they lacked the power to stop it. But I do blame the West today for ignoring 1,400 years of historical evidence and repeating the same mistake.
I’m in an Apple Store in America. The woman helping me asks where I’m from. I say Israel. Her eyes grow wide and she starts to tear up. “I’m from Iran,” she says. “When my people are free we will dance in Israel.”
Sent via Starlink:
"I barely managed to get temporary access to the internet amidst the chaos.
Here, it's truly hell. For us, it smells of victory, and for them, it reeks of the stench of overthrow, and they know it too.
Without exaggeration, this is what I've seen with my own eyes.
The videos you see, which barely make it through, might only be 20% of the reality at best. It's impossible to show the entire population.
The crowd is in the millions and astonishingly coordinated.
This morning, I went to the grocery store to buy a few things for home and asked how long they'd be open. They said 3 PM. "If we don't close, it's a betrayal"
Here, everyone is talking about the Shah. Everyone is brimming with energy. Let it reach the Shah's ears that since he said he's preparing to return to Iran, the people have gained momentous energy.
No one says anymore 'if it happens...' Everyone knows it's over. They're fighting with all their might just to make it happen sooner.
I say it again: In these past few nights, I haven't heard any slogan other than "Pahlavi will return", "long live the Shah", and "death to Khamenei". Everyone wants the Shah, don't let anyone claim that the people want anyone but the Shah!
The people have such unity as if they've been practicing for this time period for decades. If it was possible to show everything, you'd be witnessing by far the most magnificent revolution in history. I swear on this soil that I'm not exaggerating.
Tell the people abroad that we've seen your gatherings and we're proud of you. Tell them we kiss your hands. Tell them we know your hearts are with us, and know that our hearts are with you too. Tell them that the great work you're doing is no less than the battlefield we're on.
The revolution is a team project, and each of us must properly fulfill our duties. Without you, we won't win, so hold your heads high and keep going.
Victory for Iran and the world is just around the corner.
See you soon”
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