{"id":465213,"date":"2021-05-02T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=465213"},"modified":"2021-05-02T21:20:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T01:20:39","slug":"do-not-trust-the-mullahs-apologists-in-the-u-s-media-iranian-dissidents-pay-for-giant-billboard-near-nyt-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/do-not-trust-the-mullahs-apologists-in-the-u-s-media-iranian-dissidents-pay-for-giant-billboard-near-nyt-building\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Do Not Trust The Mullahs\u2019 Apologists In The U.S. Media\u2019: Iranian Dissidents Pay For Giant Billboard Near NYT Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdo-not-trust-the-mullahs-apologists-in-the-u-s-media-iranian-dissidents-pay-for-giant-billboard-near-nyt-building%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=465213&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NYT-Building-.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Iranians disgusted with the mainstream media acting as apologists for the despotic Iranian regime, the largest state sponsor of terrorism on the planet, paid for a billboard near The New York Times building in Manhattan that read: \u201cThey killed more than 1500 innocents on the ground and lied about it. They killed 176 passengers in the air and lied about it. Regime of Iran lies about JCPOA too. They intend to harm America. Do not trust the Mullahs\u2019 apologists in the U.S. media.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3576642335766\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDon\u2019t trust the Mullah\u2019s apologists in the U.S media\u201d Iranians wrote on the billboard in front of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> building. Can\u2019t think of a worse disgrace for a newspaper than this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7gjRNl3cZb\">pic.twitter.com\/7gjRNl3cZb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarai (Sarah Idan) Miss Iraq (@RealSarahIdan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSarahIdan\/status\/1388642896992104449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-protests-specialreport\/special-report-irans-leader-ordered-crackdown-on-unrest-do-whatever-it-takes-to-end-it-idUSKBN1YR0QR?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=Social\">Reuters<\/a> reported in December 2019 that after massive protests against the despotic Iranian regime in November 2019, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told top security and government officials to do whatever it took to stop them. Reuters continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>That order, confirmed by three sources close to the supreme leader\u2019s inner circle and a fourth official, set in motion the bloodiest crackdown on protesters since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. About 1,500 people were killed during less than two weeks of unrest that started on Nov. 15. The toll, provided to Reuters by three Iranian interior ministry officials, included at least 17 teenagers and about 400 women as well as some members of the security forces and police.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Human Rights Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/11\/27\/iran-deliberate-coverup-brutal-crackdown\">reported<\/a> in late November 2019, \u201cIranian authorities are deliberately covering up the scale of the mass crackdown against protesters, Human Rights Watch said today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On January 8, 2020, a Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight\u00a0taking off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-51047006\">shot down<\/a> by theIranian\u00a0Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). All\u00a0176 passengers\u00a0and crew were killed.On January 14, 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-51047006\">BBC<\/a> reported, \u201cAfter days of denial \u2013 and mounting evidence \u2013 on Saturday Iran admitted it had shot the Boeing plane down \u201cunintentionally.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Trump administration ordered the killing of Iranian general Qassam Soleimani in January 2020, the same man whom the State Department said was responsible for \u201ccoordinating\u201d attacks on U.S. personnel, the Times, as noted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ny-times-runs-piece-lionizing-soleimani-trump-administration-miscalculated\">The Daily Wire<\/a>, published a piece lionizing Soleimani:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14.746932515337\">\n<p><em>The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/07\/podcasts\/the-daily\/trump-iran-soleimani.html?smid=tw-nytimes&#038;smtyp=cur\">ran a piece<\/a> titled, \u201cWhy Iran Is In Mourning,\u201d in which the Times attempted to put the best face on Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, opining of his funeral that there was a \u201cunified national outpouring that is reserved for a small handful of figures in any country, I mean a beloved president, a civil rights leader like Martin Luther King in the United States\u2026\u201d The Times reporter theorized that the Trump administration had \u201cmiscalculated the level of admiration\u201d that Iranians had for Soleimani, claiming that opposition figures who had been jailed by the Iranian government had said, \u201cHe was a national hero.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>CAMERA <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camera.org\/article\/new-york-times-flunks-transparency-test-on-alleged-iranian-agent-kaveh-afrasiabi\/\">reported<\/a> in January that the Times identified a columnist, Kaveh Afrasiabi, who had contributed two opinion pieces to the Times regarding the Iran nuclear deal \u2014 pieces that CAMERA stated offered a \u201cdecidedly favorable view of the Islamic republic\u201d\u2014 as a political scientist and expert on Iran\u2019s foreign affairs as well as \u201ca former political science professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran\u2019s nuclear negotiation team\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CAMERA noted, \u201cEarlier this month, the U.S. Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/political-scientist-author-charged-acting-unregistered-agent-iranian-government\">identified<\/a> the same Afrasiabi as an unregistered agent of the Iranian government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranians disgusted with the mainstream media acting as apologists for the despotic Iranian regime, the largest state sponsor of terrorism on the planet, paid for a billboard near The New &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277177,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NYT-Building-.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Do Not Trust The Mullahs\u2019 Apologists In The U.S. Media\u2019: Iranian Dissidents Pay For Giant Billboard Near NYT Building","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NYT-Building-.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Do Not Trust The Mullahs\u2019 Apologists In The U.S. Media\u2019: Iranian Dissidents Pay For Giant Billboard Near NYT Building","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}