When a Criminal Regime Becomes Forensic Medicine; Bullets Shot, Lies Buried
From street massacres to fabricating deaths on official television, once again the face of the Islamic Republic regime’s criminality and its blood-washing project have been exposed.
The Islamic Republic once again demonstrated that after mass killings, it not only remains silent, but shamelessly fabricates lies; lies whose purpose is not concealment, but rather contempt for public reason and trampling on the dignity of victims. This time, after days of bloody crackdowns, it has moved to the next phase: “Converting bullets to overdose and street executions to natural death.”
“Amir Hatami,” the Islamic Republic’s Defense Minister, with a confidence that comes only from complete immunity from accountability, announced: “We have precise information” and then made a claim that has crossed the line of falsehood into the realm of political shamelessness. He continued: “The protesters consumed industrial drugs, and some of the deceased even died without any complications simply due to excessive drug use.”
These statements were broadcast from the Islamic Republic’s official television while the world has repeatedly seen footage of direct gunfire to the heads and chests of protesters; videos that, before they could be censored, had been recorded in the memory of the internet and the conscience of the public.
Medical testimonies, witness accounts from families, reports from independent human rights organizations, and even leaked documents from within the country’s medical system all cry out a single reality: “People were killed by bullets.”
But instead of answering, the government brands the victim as the criminal. This is exactly the pattern that the Islamic Republic has been using for decades: “First shoot, then deny, then destroy the character of the deceased, and finally threaten anyone who questions.”
The Islamic Republic’s Defense Minister then pulled back the curtain and exposed the true face of the ruling regime’s policies; not only did he retreat from this massacre, but he threatened other countries and openly spoke of continuing the suppression of protesters with full force. This statement is a formal confession: “What happened was not a mistake or an accident, but a government decision.”
At the opposite end of this machine of lies, a voice was heard from beyond the borders that directly questioned the legitimacy of this performance. “General Michael Flynn,” former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump, addressed the people of Iran: “When you feel you have reached your limit, take one more step, because history has shown that governments often appear strongest when they are on the verge of collapse.”
Flynn, in a conversation with Joe Pags’ podcast, while recalling the experience of the founder of the United States, added: “George Washington understood this truth not at the moment of victory, but in the darkest moments of American history, when his forces were exhausted and their will was being tested. He knew that his enemy was also weakened.”
He then warned: “The balance of power may change precisely at the moment when ordinary people are told there is no more hope, but they refuse to surrender.”
These remarks stand in stark contrast to the Islamic Republic’s narrative; a narrative that wants to convince people that bullets did not exist, there was no killer, and the system merely has “precise information.” But the truth is that a government forced to call death by gunshot wound “drug use” has already been condemned in the court of history.
The Islamic Republic today not only kills people, but also tries to assassinate the memory of the massacre; yet experience has shown that governments that resort to lies for survival usually tell their loudest lies before their fall.
