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Re:Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, document... by squidbeak on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:32AM (#46778096)
Why lie about this when the first paragraph is explicit about its source?

> As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME

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Re:Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, document... by vogre on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:43AM (#46778226)
>two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health

And their names are never called.

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Re:Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, document... by johanyc on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:27AM (#46778577)
It's pretty common practice if naming them will get the people who shared the info in trouble. Depends on whether you think Time is a trustworthy source I guess
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Re:Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, document... by vogre on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @09:05AM (#46780058)
Time always was a propaganda leaflet.

Remember "bomb serbs to heel" or "sinister world of saddam"

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Re:Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, document... by pydry on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @10:45AM (#46781511)
The US paid for similar information from Iraq about WMDs just before it kicked off the invasion.

Meanwhile, the US is rearranging its forces in the middle east. What a coincidence.

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