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The Dark Propaganda Series

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The Dark Propaganda Series

• Iran – the subject of the propaganda campaign and the primary axis of distortion

Countries directly shaping the narrative (media–political sphere): • United States – engineering the human rights discourse, imposing sanctions, and applying political pressure • United Kingdom – providing media and human rights support through soft power platforms • France – hosting opposition figures and producing a cultural–human rights narrative • Canada – amplifying narratives through “civil society” organizations

Implicit / strategic background: • Israel – a strategic beneficiary of delegitimization efforts and the regional weakening of Iran

Dark Propaganda Watch #1

When Dots Replace Evidence

The Claim: A viral flyer declares: “Iran – Each dot is a lost life. 12,000 killed.” No sources. No dates. No methodology. Just red dots and moral panic.

So let’s ask the questions the graphic avoids.

1. Who counted the 12,000?

Names? Lists? Burial records? Or is this a number born in a design studio, not a morgue?

2. When did these deaths occur—exactly?

One protest cycle? Several years? Four decades compressed into a single accusation?

3. Why dots instead of documentation?

When visuals replace verifiable data, are we dealing with reporting—or psychological priming?

4. Why now, and why in this format?

Why does every humanitarian “outcry” against Iran arrive Instagram-ready, English-captioned, and algorithm-friendly?

5. Why is English foregrounded, not Persian?

If this message is for Iranians, why is it designed for Western consumption and policy moods?

6. Why are sanctions invisible in this story?

If lives matter, why are economic warfare, medicine shortages, and financial sieges erased from the narrative?

7. Why is the West always just ‘watching’?

Who funded Saddam? Who imposed decades of sanctions? Who wages cyberwar, media war, and separatist agitation?

8. Why say “regime” instead of “state”?

Is the aim accountability—or delegitimization in preparation for the next “humanitarian” intervention?

9. Where are the sources?

NGOs? Hospital data? Independent verification? Or are we expected to trust aesthetics over evidence?

10. Why are similar graphics never made for Gaza, Yemen, or Iraq?

Is human life measured by geopolitical convenience?

11. Why is ‘condemnation’ framed as inaction—while pressure continues?

Why is “doing something” always code for more sanctions on the same population?

12. Why erase resistance and show only helplessness?

Why depict Iranians as passive victims rather than a society resisting external domination for decades?

13. Why reduce a complex geopolitical battlefield to monsters vs. innocents?

Who benefits from erasing intelligence operations, foreign-backed unrest, and information warfare?

14. Why are numbers shouted, but methods whispered?

If this were a court of law, would this graphic survive five minutes?

Dark Propaganda Note:

When numbers replace names, graphics replace facts, and outrage replaces analysis, you are not witnessing solidarity—you are watching information warfare dressed in humanitarian language.

Next in the series: Dark Propaganda Watch #2 –