MiddleEast

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@arash_tehran What are you pretending to be this time?
A philosopher?
A historian?
A sociologist?
A nuclear scientist?
A condom manufacturing expert?
A cartoon director?
A caricaturist?
Camellia’s backside adviser?
A rope-jumping specialist?
Or just Professor Balthazar on a budget?

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

3 million at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla alone? it’s fantasy. The main enclosed areas hold about 65,000 to 110,000, and even with the outer grounds you get roughly 500,000. The extra 2.5 million exist only in the regime’s imagination

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

Over an estimated 3 million people are reported to have attended today's مراسم at Tehran's Grand Mosalla alone - and that's just one city.

Tomorrow, as the martyred Supreme Leader, Sayyed Ali Khamenei, is transported to Azadi Square, authorities are urging mourners to prepare for even larger crowds.

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@Bushra1Shaikh 3 million at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla alone? That’s not crowd reporting, it’s fantasy. The main enclosed areas hold about 65,000 to 110,000, and even with the outer grounds you get roughly 500,000. The extra 2.5 million exist only in the regime’s imagination

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

کاترین شکدم جديد در راه است

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

❤️🇮🇷 4th of July in Tehran, Iran - It is the duty of every American patriot to pay their respects & honor the life of Sayyed Ali Khamenei

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@BBCArdalan إسهالات خودت را به اسم مرور گذاری اخباری جا نزن ، دستت برای همه رو شده جانور!

[Ali Hamedani @alihamedanii]

Someone should tell Galloway that NO ceremony was held at this location today. At least put a bit more effort into finding a real photo for your propaganda post.

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

Some Tehran-aligned Pakistani Shia activists and media figures are openly amplifying #IRGC propaganda, selling staged regime crowds abroad as if they were genuine national mourning

#uk #london #pakistán #iran

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

Incredible scenes at the Grand Mosalla Tehran for the late Supreme Leader, Sayed Ali Khamenei.

There are several reports suggesting that Mojtaba Khamenei may come today to bid farewell to his father.

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

Nothing “incredible” here. This is how the Islamic Republic does theatre: mobilise loyalists, stage grief, then let useful idiots sell it abroad as a national moment. #Iranians know the script. Western audiences are the target
#iran

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

Incredible scenes at the Grand Mosalla Tehran for the late Supreme Leader, Sayed Ali Khamenei.

There are several reports suggesting that Mojtaba Khamenei may come today to bid farewell to his father.

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@Bushra1Shaikh Nothing “incredible” here. This is how the Islamic Republic does theatre: mobilise loyalists, stage grief, then let useful idiots sell it abroad as a national moment. #Iranians know the script. Western audiences are the target
#iran

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@JasonMBrodsky https://t.co/bVmqX7LLkW

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

- @nytimes has apparently discovered a new method of #Iran analysis: take anonymous factional gossip, ignore public denials, simplify a labyrinthine power structure into “pragmatists vs hardliners,” then call the result deep reporting.

Impressive fiction

https://t.co/x0NZbU28Ma

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

😆😆😆😆 @ReutersIran Much of its supposed inside-Iran reporting is inaccurate, fabricated, or built on anonymous sources.
That is why readers should treat with extreme caution any story it presents as coming from inside #Iran. Many of these reports are unreliable, misleading

[Reuters Iran @ReutersIran]

Mass grief at Khamenei funeral projects hardline grip on post-war Iran - https://t.co/iU2Guogdb3

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@ReutersIran 😆😆😆😆 @ReutersIran Much of its supposed inside-Iran reporting is inaccurate, fabricated, or built on anonymous sources.
That is why readers should treat with extreme caution any story it presents as coming from inside #Iran. Many of these reports are unreliable, misleading

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@NazaninNour 😆 😆😆😆😆 @ReutersIran Much of its supposed inside-Iran reporting is inaccurate, fabricated, or built on anonymous sources.
That is why readers should treat with extreme caution any story it presents as coming from inside #Iran. Many of these reports are unreliable, misleading

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@telegram @nytimes Their institutions may have different names, but many of them orbit the same lobbying networks and pressure groups, including organisations such as NIAC.

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

- @nytimes has apparently discovered a new method of #Iran analysis: take anonymous factional gossip, ignore public denials, simplify a labyrinthine power structure into “pragmatists vs hardliners,” then call the result deep reporting.

Impressive fiction

https://t.co/x0NZbU28Ma

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@telegram @nytimes For example, instead of relying on the analysis and experience of journalists who actually worked inside Iran for years, the newspaper increasingly turns to “experts” and analysts from circles sympathetic to the Islamic Republic.

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

@Bushra1Shaikh Credibility: 0
Simply put, those taking part in the IRGC’s propaganda campaign are either incapable of understanding how the regime mobilises and choreographs its supporters, or they are pretending not to see how the #IRGC assembled these crowds to project an image abroad.
#iran

[MiddleEast @GulfPortal]

Credibility: 0
Simply put, those taking part in the IRGC’s propaganda campaign are either incapable of understanding how the regime mobilises and choreographs its supporters, or they are pretending not to see how the #IRGC assembled these crowds to project an image abroad.
#iran

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

The turnout for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral is unlike anything we've seen in recent years. In my view, the sheer scale of the crowds is something that even leaders like Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have not been able to muster.

Remarkable really.