How Iranian state television goes about discrediting a woman who has escaped their clutches: it claims she stripped her clothes off on a London street while her son stood watching, and was promptly raped by three men. Sounds plausible, doesn’t it.
Iranian state television aired a report claiming that the Britain-based journalist Masih Alinejad, founder of the “My Stealthy Freedom” social media campaign against mandatory veiling, had been assaulted and raped in London in the presence of her son.
The broadcast described Alinejad as a “nexus of sedition” for her campaign, which has garnered over 430,000 likes on Facebook. Hundreds of Iranian women from inside the country have posted pictures of themselves taking their headscarves off in public.
State television painted the campaign as promoting indecency amongst Iranian women, and alleged that an “unstable” Alinejad had stripped naked on a London street and was shortly thereafter raped by three passersby while her son stood watching. The report also claimed that London’s Metropolitan Police, together with BBC officials, had sought to keep the alleged rape confidential, but that the story emerged on social media sites and generated a broad reaction.
Uh huh.
Alinejad swiftly rebutted the report on her Facebook page–which has 224,000 followers, as opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Facebook page, which is liked by 16,463. She posted that she was in good health and had not endured an attack of any sort.
She also provided a cheerful video of herself singing on a London tube station – Temple, to be exact – while a train arrives, waits, and departs. I find her more credible than Iranian state tv.
The Iranian leadership lives in a parallel universe.
One in which good is evil, right is wrong and mercy is savagery.
“430,000 likes on Facebook… as opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Facebook page, which is liked by 16,463.”
well that’s gotta hurt
She posted that she was in good health and had not endured an attack of any sort.
I suspect that somewhere in London people are plotting how to change that.
No link to the video?
Their power apparently slipping away, I had no idea that the Iranian mullahs were in such a desperate situation.
Really pathetic. The story meeting where they dreamed up that “news” report must have been so uncomfortable. Having to fantasize and put into words that bawdy scenario. Poor old mullahs have terrible imaginations., so mortifying for them.
Isn’t it though? It’s as if they come from Planet Remulac. Oh yes, that happens all the time here in the decadent west, women just stop dead on streets in the middle of mega-cities to take all their clothes off while their sons watch, and then pow! three men instantly rape them, still with the son watching.
@ ^ Ophelia Benson : Planet Remulac?
Nope. Not even a nanoparticle of plausibility there I think.
Yes – more credible by megaparsecs!