The Iranian anti-regime protesters suffer from a serious PR problem: They are not Palestinians.
An Internet and telecommunications blackout imposed on Iran last week by the brutal regime makes it difficult to get an accurate picture of what is going on in the Islamic Republic, where protests have been happening for the past three weeks. Anti-regime organizations estimate that anywhere between 3,000 and 12,000 people have been killed by government forces, and that the communications outage was deliberately imposed to prevent footage of the bodies from being shown around the world.
The regime need not have worried. Even when there were open communications, the world was not eager to see what was happening. Images of demonstrators being shot by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Basij paramilitaries, and other Iranian security forces do not fit in well with the narrative many – particularly on the radical Left – want to cling to.
The situation has become so absurd that the anti-regime protesters in the West – those who want to remove the Islamist terrorist rulers – have been met with counter-demonstrators, often screaming at them: “Free, free Palestine.” The pro-Hamas crowd has been so thoroughly brainwashed that their brains have shrunk.
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