Two years after the Russia-Ukraine war began, people kept wondering why I continued to ask why no western media were boots on the ground in Ukraine delivering news of the conflict. I called it “world war reddit” for a reason. That question loomed even bigger given the relentless on-the-ground reporting over the U.S-Iran conflict.
Why were/are international journalists almost immediately embedded in Iran to cover the details of the conflict, yet that same approach never took place in Ukraine.
For Ukraine there was no daily reports on the fighting; no frontline reports with journalists in helmets and flak jackets; no live interviews or reports of the back-and-forth battles between Russia and Ukraine; no ‘coming to you live from Kiev‘ tonight, nothing. However, as soon as military conflict breaks out in Iran – all the familiar war/conflict reporting surfaced again.
But I see the Ukraine war reported on Telegram, some say. True, but really?
What you “see” is through a social media prism that is structurally controlled by Western intelligence operations. World War Reddit!
For additional context, when the U.S. went to war in Iraq/Afghanistan, how did it impact your daily life? That’s analogous the same impact within Russia that I experienced in 2024 (3 months) and 2025 (1 month). All recognizable impact is sanctions related.
One of the reasons I traveled from Western Russia to Poland -specifically driving across Ukraine- was to see for myself. I shared that story before.
The reality of the Ukraine conflict, World War Reddit, is entirely against the interests of those who are constructing the false impression of it.
In reality the Eastern Donbas region is very pro-Russian and when the Russian Federation took over towns and geography, driving back the Ukraine military, Russian troops were factually greeted as liberators. Now, there is a slow-grinding stalemate, and the losses on the Ukraine side are well beyond what has been reported by government officials.
I provide this context of reality -vs- media presentation because Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi is strongly calling attention to the bias and willful blindness of European media. WATCH:
“I want to speak directly to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I have had two major press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Between them 150 journalists attended. We spent more than two hours together.”
Not a single one of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 Iranians slaughtered on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th! Not a single one of the 150 journalists asked me about the 19 political prisoners executed in the last two weeks.
When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death, nothing. Not a single one of the 150 journalists asked me about them. When I stood next to a mother and next to a father who lost their sons on January 8th and 9th, and asked them to hear their stories, not a single one of the 150 journalists asked them a question.
[…] It is clear to me that my 40,000 brave, innocent compatriots who were slaughtered in the fight for liberty are of little interest to these journalists. They seem more interested in criticizing America and asking why the United States and Israel killed the dictator that has slaughtered our people for 47 YEARS — than criticizing the regime doing the slaughtering.
They seem more interested asking questions about Iran’s past and history than about what is happening in Iran today; or about the democratic future Iranians are seeking. One member of parliament even told me they didn’t think Iranians are ready for democracy. To that member of Parliament, to those journalists, I remind you: Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy. 40,000 people just gave their lives for it, and I won’t let that be in vain.”
So know this, whether or not Europe stands with us; whether or not your journalists do their jobs; whether or not your politicians demonstrate their courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country. Even if we have to do this alone – we will fight until Iran is free”!
I don’t know if this guy is the right one to lead the charge to bring a more politically democratic outcome for the people in Iran, but what he is saying about the willful blindness of western media is absolutely correct.
The Iranians watch CNN and read the NYTimes and WSJ and think they are winning biggly and act, ie, negotiate, accordingly (stupidly). Oh well. They can FAFO when their oil wells seize up.
The Iranians TELL CNN, NYT, and WSJ that they are winning bigly, and it is dutifully repeated.
Perhaps. Or the MSM staff actually hate America in their demon souls and don’t need direction from Iran.
Ha,… the Iranians are Thelma and the MSM are Louise racing for the cliff in the Thunderbird rag top. FAFO very soon, bon voyage.
Exactly! Bloomberg is the worst with FAKE NEWS on almost everything related to President Donald Trump.
Perhaps the US media gives the Iranians an excuse that maybe “ USA is a fractured government that changes leadership every two year election span”. Dems, impeachments, lawfare, midterms….” Our enemies to negotiations may be our media.???
I look at the Bloomberg headlines only. It is a completely mirror image of what is happening. Nothing they report is true but you can a flavor of the talking points of the day.
Yes. About once a week, I somehow wind up reading a Bloomberg article about some hot political topic, and I am absolutely astounded by the claims made by Bloomberg writers that are quite the opposite of what is being reported in many other mainstream and alternative media.
The IRGC and Iranian people are completely different. Please watch Tousi TV on X or you tube to find out the truth. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
https://x.com/i/status/2047721494348779742
The reporters only do what the EU leaders tell them what to do.
Western media is a cancer on the entirety of the world.
“There will be wars;
and, Reports of wars”
The older I am
The more clear this becomes
Well, they have fellow travelers in the EU, UK, CCP land. Anywhere there has to be censors. The Israeli Press is socialist and hates Netanyahu.
Powerful and righteous!
As always, the presstitutes the world over are shameless and intolerable.
Looks like the Shah’s relative; he keeps using the word “Journalists”..such a misnomer, THEY are mouthpieces of the Euro nazis
He is the Shah’s son.
looks just like him too
The TV “new” is the same thing over and over and over again.
Oh, gives you a “breaking” flash so you think something is new.
Not, Never news.
The only “boots on the ground” news that I saw was short lived. Benjamin Hall of FOX News attempted to provide the information. It makes you wonder who pulled the trigger on him.
The Murdochs hate Trump. We are winning. Do not report it.
“I don’t know if this guy is the right one to lead the charge to bring a more politically democratic outcome for the people in Iran,”
Niccolò Machiavelli ( The Prince (Chapter 6)): “Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.”
During the Romanian “revolution” of 1989, on Dec 20th, the Western media reported 4,000 deaths (the death toll by Dec 20th was around 50; by Jan 1st, the death toll reached 1100).
By the way, on Dec 20, 1989, Ceausescu returned from a visit to Iran. Few days later, on Christmas Day, he was facing a firing squad.
I suspect ‘honest’ journalists on the ground in Ukraine would receive the Gonzalo Lira treatment……
We ve seen the IRCG literally use western “reporting” and politicians to push its propaganda. The most recent being the blockade breakout.
I want to these media and political operatives repulsuve but thats too light a word.
And why do the media and the congress critters do this? “But Trump”……just effing vulgar.
Bloomberg tried to crash the stock market near the end of trading but it’s FAKE NEWS story hit the wires too late…
Bloomberg reports Witkoff and Kushner team seized by Iranian Navy. Bloomberg has been pimping FAKE NEWS on the Iran Conflict for weeks including one that 26 Iranian oil tankers broke through the blockade.
I just can’t hate these people enough especially when the Jewish owned news media sides with Iran.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/flurry-reports-signal-breakthrough-us-iran-getting-back-table-pakistan-third-us
Yes. Of course the Iranians want to be freed from their terrorist regime. When they are freed, they should take back their original name of Persia.
That’s the first evidence that anyone who’s come forward might be worth it.
Understanding the corruption of the AmeriPravda media is an indication of all sorts of greater understanding.
Hi Steph I will hold my powder on the Shaw Junior. His Dad was interested in modernising Iran and improving their standing in the world. Iran even manufactured GM cars for the european market.
BUT he was brutal. Torture, Disapearance and name your favorite horror his secret Police were capable of more, The secret police were an international force keeping eyes on the students who were sent here.
The old adage about apples and trees needs to be considered BUT I am also slow to make anyone responsible for the sins of the father.
Cheers
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
The Corrupt Corporate Media in the West-including the U.S.-is the mortal enemy of all of the above.
How many will “report” on his statement?
Zero.
Iran is a proxy of the City of London/Globalists.
All Western media including most in the US are owned by the above folks.
Iran needs to win just like the Ukraine.
The US is attacking the City of London/Globalists.
The City of London/Globalists need to stop the war to protect their interests via the MSM since they can’t stop the US by military force because they have no military to speak of.
That is why the vicious MSM attacks on Trump, idiot, mentally ill, moron, traitor, no plans, etc.
That is why Congress is trying to impeach Sec of War, Trump, etc to try and stop US attack on C of L/Globalists’ proxy Iran.
Most members of Congress/Senate work for the C of L/Globalists not MAGA.
That is why Trump is divorcing from Europe.
That is why Congress won’t let Trump leave NATO.
Congress wants to keep their C of L/Globalist “grift” going!
So does the CIA!
No one represents Americans but Trump.
Start by revisiting/reversing Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) in regard to “actual malice” standard. Similar to holding professionals responsible for “mistakes” in their decisions e.g. Architects, Structural Engineers, Physicians…the irony is the most corrupt class- JUDGES/LAWYERS/POLITICIANS should be at the top of the liability list but they create CYA law for themselves and become a protected class like journalism…Under the protection umbrella of “Protect the 1st Amendment” and “Protect Democracy”
What a gig!!!
Bless you LongBoarder!
I have been preaching the error of Times Co. v. Sullivan as often as I can find a reason to do so here.
Many just plain wrong SC*OTUS decissions have created havoc and will continue to do so.
Thank you, Sundance, for your great insight and analysis.
“the willful blindness of western media is absolutely correct.”
Which is why Paul Craig Roberts refers to them as “presstitutes”.
I pray our President sees this because he knows the effects of filthy, lying journalism. He also likes a fighter. No one is perfect, but Prince Pahlavi is certainly head and shoulders above the ghouls running Iran now.
When the Pitchforks & Torches come out, the enemy MSM need to be some the first to face justice.
His father, The Shah of Iran established the SAVAK intelligence agency in 1957.
SAVAK was notorious for targeting, arresting, torturing, and killing thousands of opponents, including journalists, labor activists & dissidents.
I don’t think his son would be an improvement. But, how does Iran restore a Republic taken away almost 70 years ago?
I don’t know if Shah Jr would be better or worse than his father and neither do you.
Question 1.
Is it possible the Shah had as much control over SAVAK as does President Trump over the CIA?
Question 2.
Are the Persians better off today with the Islamics running Iran than the Shah?
Good questions, all.
The western media is sh*t.
I watched the press conference in Germany. It was not a good look for the media. He was attacked by a leftist as he was leaving the venue.
Prince Reza Pahlavi’s rebuke of the press is perfect. Haven’t been impressed by him until now. His words will open the eyes of many.
I actually heard someone on TV say that “Trump started a war with no plan.” They just make stuff up. It’s not even close to “news” and hasn’t been for some time.
Some wonder why the Iranian population doesn’t rise up. 40,000 did, and the rest see exactly what that got them. So the regime that exports terror all over the world uses that same terror on its own population. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. They are monsters.
I’ve wondered if the reason Western journalists aren’t on the ground in Iran is because no one wants to risk reporting something in a way the regime doesn’t like and getting shot for it. “I’M not going over there. YOU go.” So nobody will go.
But one thing I do not understand is this: if we can take out the air defenses and navy, why can’t we just mass bomb the IRGC into nonexistence?
Sounds like a plan.
Where are they?
If you have a detailed target list please forward to Sec War.
Mossad knows.
To acknowledge 40,000 innocent lives lost would tell the world that Trump is doing something noble, and they can’t have that. Next thing you know they would have to call out the rape gangs in the UK. It’s a slippery slope, don’t you know.
Seems the great deceiver knows where to place his voice. Media everywhere is nothing but machines of deception. How can it be? Because they are fed daily with what they are going to report. David Michael Lynch got fired from Newsmax for refusing to follow the script. Guess he was the last man standing.
With this biting speech, Mark Twain dissects the damaging role newspapers can play in society. He argues that America’s public opinion is formed “by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.” Twain accompanies these criticisms with personal anecdotes and tales of libel both humorous and disheartening. He concludes by saying that there are virtues to newspapers, but such remarks would not have made for such an interesting speech.
I would not want to be a “journalist” if the crap ever hits the fan in this country.
Why did Sundance not comment on the address of Pahlavlavi in Berlin on Thursday? It was only 20 minutes and a very clear articulation that one finds nowhere in the mainstream media.
Expecting morality from western journalists is like expecting moderation from the democrat party – wishful, and doomed to disappointment.
But I think Pahlavi knows this and is simply trying to shame people who have none. The western media, in general, is a like a fifth column undermining the values on which western civilization is based. Trump has shown the way as to in how much respect they should be held.
J
The prince is certainly saying the right things! Europe is worried for themselves being the globalists have turned Europe into little Islamabad! They are worried the “religion of peace” will blow them to smithereens. Which isn’t far fetched from the truth.
The prince may be just the one to bring Iran back from the dead! 💁🏻♀️
I. Russia/Ukraine Conflict
Western mainstream media have always ignored significant events, such as:
II. Iranian War
It shows how DEMs and their affiliated media hate the USA showing affinity to the mullahs and leaking classified information in order to weaken us. They think it will help them politically if USA can be humiliated and “Trump losing the war”. [2]
[1] NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard | National Security Archive
[2] Our Own Ruling Class Desperately Wants to Lose This War
Communism 101
Control the communication.
Why was Soros allowed to “fast buy” over 200 radio stations prior to the 2024 election?
According to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, the Democrat-led FCC rushed the approval process to allow the transfer of licenses to the Soros-backed Audacy without conducting the standard investigations. Carr said the FCC had never previously used the “Soros-shortcut” procedure to approve licenses to a firm with significant foreign ownership.
FOREIGN OWNERSHIP by a man who believes China s government is better than ours.
😡😡😡
At 66 I really don’t need new friends, however we were smoking and joking. He asked what I watched on TV, I said nothing, we don’t have TV in our home. He was a bit taken back and asked when… me, when Romney threw the election to Obama at the second debate.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, Sundance!
May The LORD BLESS, STRENGTHEN & HELP the Prince and his people, AMEN
I don’t genuflect at Fox but, to be fair, they had a few reporters in Ukraine for a fair amount of time. Alex Hogan, Trey Yingst (for awhile) and Ben Hall, till he got blown up/crippled from indirect fire, with photog & guide-girl killed.
If this was obama’s, biden’s or any other ‘rat’s war the press would love it and be all over it with gushing praise. Due to TDS in the press, however, it is poorly planned, disastrous and we will be the losers.
“the willful blindness of western media”
‘media’, not ‘journalism’, which, btw, is mostly extinct.
“Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”–Charlie Kirk
Canadian Patriot Elizabeth Nickson:
“… Islamists are the standing army of globalism. They have been brought here to destroy our culture from within. Politically, they rise. The rape, murder and assault of white women and children is a weapon anticipated and used by their leaders to terrorize and silence us. It was planned many decades ago. And it is inexorable. Socialism brings them in, compassion leads us to gift them from our stores, and then they proceed to take over.
As they did to the Persians who have, for 47 years, lived under their boot.
That’s why we have an Islamist in charge of New York City, and the foul stench of Ilhan Omar in Minnesota backed by the fully evil Keith Ellison, and the entirely corrupted Kier Starmer who knew that 250,000 English schoolgirls had been raped by Islamists and did nothing.
These facts are hard to take on. Our globalist left propaganda insists that we hate corporations and ‘the rich’, and think everyone else is poor, good and honest like us. We thought green was good. We were like cows, like sheep. And they slowly, slowly took us over.
This is why Canada, the U.K., France, Germany and Spain won’t turn up to protect the source of their oil. First they reckon ‘oil’ must be made expensive and hard to get, and this plays into 2030, and second, their governments are riven through with Islamists, who will make those politician suffer if they fight the source of Islamism in Iran.
The Red/Green/Islamist Alliance is a traitorous, violent, genocidal cult which is real, active, writhing with darkness and suppurating. It must be defeated and thrown into the fires of hell where it belongs.
Luckily we have generations coming up who are roaring to do it.” …….
Read it all.
Psalm 103
Of David
All, Lord Jesus!