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tonight on expose, western broadcast media's narrative of the march 1st parliamentary elections in the islamic republic of iran revolved around made-up stories about iranians abstained from voting in protest against their government. meanwhile, the majority of opinion pieces written by prominent western mainstream media refused to accept. that iran is democratic state, bringing nothing new to the reporting tone and essentially rehashing old tales and narratives and the famin brought on by the ongoing zinus israeli genocide in gaza as well as the air drop sherade of aid and expired food on gaza residence was another hot topic last week, particularly on social media. welcome to espose, the show that leaves no stone unturned.

hundreds of headlines proceeding and following the parliamentary elections in iran were portrayed on major western news outlets, but irony rested in relying on the opinion of just one or two citizens to adopt broad front page headlines talking about the absence of democracy. see in iran. let us hear from fuad itayim, our broadcast expert and writer at the cradle. more about it in fake news expose. the electoral battle for the new parliament and the assembly of experts in iran which took place at the beginning of march, revolved around the younger generation of conservatives who succeeded in tipping the scales in many electoral districts, fact that did not go down well with western media.

yeah, here is more about this with our broadcast expert fuad itayim. thanks very much for being with us, to talk about this. what do you have for us about this? so western broadcast media has addressed the 2024 parliamentary elections in iran, and the main message that was propagated by most of these outlets was that somehow the iranian people stayed away from the ballot in protest against the government. okay, so let's start with the british media outlet channel 4 who sent its lead presenter krishnan guru merthy to cover. the news of the 2024 elections in iran, and he decided to basically not focus at all on the issue of the election and resort back to the same old western media narrative that rights are crushed in iran, so let's take a look. let's see what krishnan had to say. welcome to terran. in two days time, iranians will vote to renew their parliament in a key test for the country's regime. the test being how many people will show up to the polls, but not necessarily who will win. they are the first elections since

mass protest broke out two years ago following the death of young woman masa amini under suspicious circumstances after she was arrested for not wearing a hijab so... so krishna decides to open with the story of the late young uh masa amini who died in september 2022 and according to uh coronary examinations after her death uh masa amini died from cerebral hypoxia basically disproving the claims that she was killed by security forces despite this fact he maintains that she died under suspicious circumstances typical western propaganda and he opens with it about feature report about iranian elections so this has nothing even to do with the protest exactly, so making it worse, krishnan then finds a young non- hijabi woman on the streets of tehran hoping that she's going to tell him that the police have been harassing her or beating her or threatening her, and uh the answer he gets is disappointing, so let's take a look. do you might be asking, mean you're you're not covering your head? do you feel worried about

being out when you're not covered? no, no, nobody's ever given me any trouble, no one has. is that normal in tehran everywhere in tehran or is it just here? no, no, i haven't had trouble anywhere. i don't think he liked what she said, did he? uh, not so much. he seems quite unsatisfied with the answer. so what he does now is he moves to a group of other ladies who the who they say oppose the policies of the iranian government, instead of taking advantage of the situation and asking them in more detail why they're opposed to the government, why they'd like to sit out the current election, he decides to ask them about the genocide in gaza, so let's take a look at what they have to say. let's see that. "the other thing we're asking people about is is the situation in gaza, so do you think the people feel the same way as the government when it comes to of course politics? are you kidding with me? iranian people like peace, they want to live in peace. if you look at the our history, all of

the time they wanted to be in peace, but the government is the opposite of that. uh, i don't know how this relates to the iranian election, which were by the way, one in majority by the conservative side." but it seems that krishnan failed to find what he was looking for on the streets of tehran, which was wide spread anti-government sentiment, that seems to be what he thinks he's going to find, so he decides to ask about the situation in gaza, and resorts to the idea that iranians don't care about the palestinian struggle and only want peace, so his question is about gaza, so what peace exactly is he referring to, peace with israel, the illegal occupying state whose flag is painted on the streets of streets of tehran, basically people just stomp on while... walking and and this we're talking about the same state that has openly supported resistance against scientis israel for the past at least four decades, so i think that question was some sort of a uh a question that he wanted to get out of the people's minds where they do not support any

resistance in the region, but i mean 100% and he's look he's asking few people on the street instead of carrying out a wide spread survey, exactly while talking about an election that the opposition lost, exactly 100%. um so another mainstream outlet that propagated fake news and lies uh was cbs news, no uh surprise there whatsoever, definitely not, so cbs news got a hold of kerim sajadpur, a senior fellow at the carnegy endownment for international peace, now kariem, an american-born iranian who studied at john's hopkins and resides in the united states here makes sure to spew as much hatred as possible against the islamic republic without any facts to back up his claims. let's hear what what he had to say. it's good to see you again. this was the first parliamentary election in iran since the sustained mass protest over the death of massa amini. um, does the turnout tell you anything? it's another reminder, john, that iranians know they're living under religious

dictatorship that can't be reformed via the ballot box. i think what's particularly insulting for iranians is that all politicians lie everywhere. but when you're being ruled by a religious government that rules from moral pedestal and engages in this level of corruption and repression, i think it's even more insulting than just being ruled by your run of the milk corrupt dictatorship. we have enough trouble uh believing polls here in the united states, so i hesitate to put so much or read too much into those opinions expressed in that poll, but do the findings square with your understanding about public sentiment in the... greater population of iran, definitely, i think everyone who has been following iran for a while or has visited the country, has has noted these popular sentiments for many years now, that after

four and a half decades of living under religious government, people want to separate moskin state, so it's quite audacious claiming that people live in a religious dictatorship in iran and that the people somehow... separate mosque and state, even though the entire country revolted against an actual dictatorship in 1979, a dictatorship that was secular and backed by america and israel and suppressed the rights of the entire. population uh, also none of the figures that he's using are based any of the recent election results, and i don't, i don't know where he's getting the facts from, i mean these analysts that go on western media, especially broadcast media who are supposedly american-born uh iranians, but either have never visited iran or they visit iran to see family and then return, they don't even uh conduct any kind of surveys or try to get data from the people uh the... the public uh the least that they could do ask the communities that they uh visit and then go on

tv and say things like this claiming that if you uh are religious state then you are dictatorship, mean that literally applies to 70% of the states around the world and uh that still is not the fact, not the real story about iran, but anyways i want to thank you very much for that for explaining to us how the broadcast media was uh basically spewing all these lies uh about the elections in iran now ladies and gents. we move to digital mainstream media. it wasn't easy for western mation media to accept a contrasting scene to what they had been promoting in the days leading up to the parliamentary elections in the islamic republic of iran. most of the opinion pieces published by major western news outlets were struck by the public choice in iran that they practically recycled the same old stories and repeated the same. small narrative when it comes to their regime's disapproval of democracy in iran. julia qasim, our mainstream media

expert, joins us to tell us more about it. the floor is all yours, julia. thanks, marwa. so despite the massive western campaign to uh against iran to basically boycott the elections uh for the islamic uh consultive assembly in the assembly of experts. citizens participated enthusiastically with noticeable lines at the polling stations continuing on until the very last moments of the 1st of march. so however, the new york times continued to spread lies by claiming that many ordinary iranians were fed up with faltering economy and the so-called government's oppressive rules and violent crackdowns on peaceful protests instead of reporting the reality on the real reasons behind the economic hardships inside iran represented by the aggressive us and eu sanctions illegally imposed on the iranian people. so in a piece published on march 1st, 2024, written by farnaz fasihi. and leili nokazar entitled many iranians boycott vote despite officials ples and roses at polls.

the new york times claim that the residence across the range of locations, big cities like tehran, isfahan and shiraz, and smaller ones like saudi and lahijan, said in interviews that polling stations in their neighborhoods were mostly empty and only the most loyal supporters of the government had shown up to vote, which many other iranians choosing not even leave their homes. but in reality, marw a small search on the same. these mentioned in this article and you can see that they lied about the turnout, especially in the capital tahran and shiraz and asfahan, so the new york times peace was less chaotic than the foreign policy one published on february 29th, 2024, just one day before election day. the first suspicious part of this piece, writers themselves, where we have no evidence whatsoever if they were even iranian or not, wow, as the foreign policy claims they were, saki nasiri, a pseudonym of a journalist in iran, and tuba m another pseudonym of a journalist in iran who wrote an article titled iran's new even worse

hijab era has become. wow, so the foreign policy here falsely claims that freedoms are increasingly under threat for iran's female citizens, according to women's rights advocates and united nations experts who say that the hijab crackdown is creating a chilling effect on women's rights activism and legitimizing broader gender discrimination. mind you, these women's rights advocates and un experts have no names and no positions which... such claims at the level of heresy. this piece by foreign policy continues to spread lives claiming that iranian women now cannot drive, cannot do their jobs and can't even have coffee without worrying about have their cars impounded, being fired or getting hit with fines if the hijab is not worn or worn too lose loosely. yeah, in reality, if you go on youtube and research these claims, look at the malls in tahan, look at the streets of tehran, you can instantly see that these uh statements are comp completely false and the they're nothing but fake news. i've been there, i've seen it first hand, it is completely fake news, and

as you said, people can just serve the internet and see what tehran and other cities in iran look like. yeah, i've been there twice too, and the north of tehran women are wearing hats instead of, and nobody's you know impounding them, police is right there, nothing's going on, so you don't even need to really ask people, just do a little bit of research uh on your own outside of these obviously biased uh sources, definitely. so lastly, the foreign policy piece claims. iran is regularly ranked as one of the worst countries to be woman in terms of gender parity for economic opportunities, education, health, concerns and political leadership, guess according to whom marwa according. to research by the world bank and the world economic forum (wef) that was coming from an american news publication, the same america that does not only suppress women, but now has given the right for men to identifies women while knowing fully well that education and healthcare are completely free for all iranian citizens, unlike the usa, where they wrote these dishonest lines about iranian

women. wow, i mean the audacity, especially these organizations who continue to control many sovereign states but have never been able. to control the iranian uh state for that matter claim that uh all these fake news about iran just to uh play with words and brainwash the public i mean that's ridiculous yeah and they want to begin with their control of iran by controlling woman which they haven't been able to do despite the fact that women in iran have uh their rights met uh years ago uh some rights that are not even found in the west but i want to thank you very much our mainstream media expert uh in this segment m julia qasim for joining us to talk about this uh pressing matter that we always see whenever there's something happening in iran, especially if it's elections. thank you for your contribution dear uh julia, and now ladies and gents, we move to social media expose. another topic that was center stage last week, especially on social media platforms was the airdrop

surate of aid and expired food on gaza residents and the famon caused by the ongoing zinosis. genocide. here is sima ietme, our social media expert and editor at the cradle, with more. thank you. so, air dropping aid much like a placebo, it might make people feel better if they're watching, people who are watching from afar, but at the end of the day, it's a showy pr exercise and it's inadequate, it's pathetically inadequate. i hear you, it's useless to the point where it becomes metaphor and not more, for the abject failure of the international community to muster up any kind of meaningful response to... such a immense, unprecedented humanitarian tragedy, my second bad, definitely, so for the first post, we have a post by big brother seven who criticizes these airdrops, saying, reports from gaza say the airdrops of today weren't enough for 100 people, for reference, there are hundreds of thousands of starving people in northern gaza with many children already dying due to

hunger, the airdrops are just a cruel charade at this point, i second, i mean people my twitter can see that i was very vocal about this, so i'm not going to stop you anymore, right? we knew, mean we could tell from the beginning, and then the aid killed some civilians, yes exactly, it got even worse than what we had expected. for the second post we have by quts news network that quotes the gaza government media office reporting that the situation of famine is deteriorating with 2.4 million people experiencing severe food shortages and air drops, which have proven to be futile. no, my god, so along with this. posts news network attaches a photo with a quotation from the gaza government media office saying that dropping aid from the air and avoiding its entry through the crossings circumvents the root solutions to the problem, definitely i mean the border is there open the border for the love of god where there are thousands of trucks not just hundreds waiting to be like through we have another post by assaf md on x

saying that not only is the amount of aid being airdropped completely insufficient the most vulnerable of gaza civil population will be unable to access the aid, so he attached a video where a care representative ramallah tells sky news that these airdrops make it impossible for people with disabilities to remain alive. let's see what she said, let's take a look. first of all, they are, there is the issue of accuracy, there is the issue of being so expensive, the limited number that they will have and the limited content, so it's only meals while the needs are massive, and most importantly you only those who can reach.... physically strong to reach to these aid will be getting them, so women, elderly, woman-headed household, people with unfortunately disabilities will not be among those that are going to access the aid, so even people with disabilities are finding it hard to get the least amount of aid in gaza, yeah, the minimum, we have another post on x uh from a gaza resident who is currently

displaced to southern gaza with his family, mysara at whatever 2067, laying it out as it is uh jordan complicity turns gaza into a hunger game where people have to fight and even get killed to get food. israel wanted this and jordan airdrops did the job, sadly said by gazan who is a resident of gaza displaced to rafah and i think the the people that we should hear the most are the palestinian people in gaza and no one else outside that beseeged area. so now in response to the world health organization. report entitled gaza worst famin fears realized as 10th child reportedly starves to death, michael fakri who is the un special reporter on the right to food posted israel has been intentionally starving the palestinian people in gaza since october 8th, now famon may very well be already occurring. the only way to end prevent this famon is

immediate cease fire, and the only way to get a cease fire is to sanction israel. so that was a first, i think madwa. we see a un raporteur calling for sanctioning the israeli entity. i don't think i've seen that before, in order to reach seasf. this is kind of coming to terms with reality, finally real. realizing that there is other way around this definitely even we are we were listening a bit uh from the ban administration certain officials saying that they don't condone what's happening yet they don't have the power to change it which we really don't believe but uh listening to this having this voice out in the open especially on social media is something unprecedented indeed and all for the sake of palestinians in gaza. thank you very much sima for your contribution and telling us what happened on x, especially on x this time because it was very heated discussion concerning. whether aid was actually helping the palestinians or not, thank you for being here and for your analysis. now ladies and chens, we move to figures expose. the overwhelming majority of

civilians in gaza are dependent on direct assistance from the unrawa agency, which is also a critical lifeline for other aid organizations working inside gaza that rely its aid infrastructure to distribute. support, however, a recent opinion poll shows that the majority of the israeli entity settlers opposed the transfer of humanitarian aid to palestinian people in the beseged gaza strip where the occupying regime has been waiting a genocidal war since october 2023. the findings were published in a survey conducted by the so-called israel democracy institute, saying over two out of the three jewish israeli settlers, which accounted for 68% of respondents. disapprove of the transfer of humanitarian aid to gaza residents at this time, while a large 85% majority of arab respondents in occupied

palestine supported. now, when asked, do you support or oppose the idea that zinis israel should allow the transfer of humanitarian aid to gaza residents at this time, with food and medicine being transferred by international bodies that are not linked to hamas or to the unra, arab respondents gave aid 5% approval to 13% disapproval rate, left jews gave a 59% approval to 39% approval rate (this approval rate) now center jews gave a 44% approval to 51.5% disapproval rate, and right-wing jews gave a 19% approval to a swooping 80% disapproval rate. now the results of the israeli entity survey came as the united nations food and agriculture organization fou said in a recent report that 55000 people in gaza are currently facing catastrophic food

insecurity levels. now let us move to the most notable expose voices for this week. imagine you are at home with your wife and children. it's dinner time before you put your three children to sleep. "the room is called, the propane cooking cylinder is empty and there is no food, no electricity and no drinking water. this is gaza. gaza is starving. starvation in gaza is not due to a drought or natural disaster, but it is rather an israeli entity made catastrophe enabled by the us biden administration. our first voice this week is from rana omes on instagram, who shared a video by a palestinian displaced resident of..." gaza who wept while telling us about the last meal he had.

500 دولار مش متوفر. تتبن كنا الشعير لا حقوق انسان ولا حقوق المراه ولا حقوق الطفل ولا حقوق الدين ولا دوله عربيه قدرت تدخل على قطاع غزه مساعدات تحديدا مدينه غزه بالاسابيع ما ياكلوش اسابيع اسابيع متخيلين اسبوع اخوك ما يكونش اسبوع امك اسبوع محاصره محاصره غزه محاصره الله اكبر قطاع غزه مدينه غزه حاليا ما فيش فيها اكل

ولا فيها شرب و now for famon to be declared, at least 20% of the population must be suffering extreme food shortages with one and three children acutely malnourished and two people out of every 10,000 dying daily from starvation or from malnutrition and disease, but in late december, the integrated food security phase classification ipc said that the situation in gaza has already exceeded the 20% threshold. now as the united states air dropped aid into the gaza strip, its parachutes, like those of the other participating countries, brought only a tiny fraction of the aid needed for the 2.2 million palestinians trapped without food, water or medical supplies. however, never in a million years would have anyone thought that the us dropped food aid would be expired

food. yes, you heard that right? let's hear bobby's voice on tiktok. 38,000 expired meals. the biden administration just dropped 38,000 expired meals into gaza. i i quite literally don't even know what to say about this, like to be that vile and foul of human being, if you can even call yourself that to send people who are actively starving to death, food that is actively dangerous that is expired that could... poison them, you, you are not on, you're not being complicit in genocide, at that point you are actively taking part in it, indeed they are. now ladies and gents, with that we conclude our expose for tonight right here on press tv, now follow us on our handle at exposeeptv on x, instagram, youtube and tiktok. stay tuned for more eye-opening investigations on expose, the truth is just the revelation away.

your headlines for this hour, the us is really genocide in gaza continues as the israeli fire kills at least eight palestinians at an aid distribution center. at the al-nos refugee camp. two stabbing operations have been carried out against israels in two days with the latest accuring at bait kama junction north of the negav desert. and the us senate majority leader calls for the israeli cabinet to hold new elections to replace prime minister benjamin netanyahu.