The Iranian Regime Is Fooling Us With These Influencers For Spreading Fake News On Twitter: EU Blames Elon Musk

Next to Switzerland-Serbia, it was the most politically explosive game of the week: Iran-USA. Iran lost and was eliminated from the World Cup in Qatar. Many would have wished that footballers from a country where thousands risk their lives every day in protests against the totalitarian regime made progress. Especially since at first it looked like the team represented that part of the Iranian population that was suffering under the regime and rebelling against it.

Footage of the Iranian players refusing to sing the national anthem before their opening match went viral. Likewise the pictures of the women and men in the stadium holding up protest posters and crying with emotion. In any case, Iranian state television interrupted the broadcast to shield the population from these images. It later emerged that enormous pressure would have been exerted on the families of the players. In any case, the players sang along again in Iran’s remaining two games.

In the audience, other Iranian women also caught the attention of FIFA TV directors. Their cameras also often showed Iranian women in close-fitting clothing, with make-up and without a headscarf. The naive interpretation of the Western television audience: it must be the beautiful Iranian women who dare to show off their chadors abroad and enjoy their freedom, for which their sisters risk their lives at home. The one detail that should make you suspicious: These women wore no signs of protest.

So who are the women? Iranian exile Shoura Hashemi took up the issue on Twitter. She calls them influencers of the Iranian regime:

Hashemi, who works in Austria for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provided photos of such women:

Bare bellies abroad, in a chador at home: According to Shoura Hashemi, women like these in Iran do not belong to the circle of protesters, but are nothing more than supporters of the regime whose “beautiful faces” like to show the world. They would enjoy certain privileges in Revolutionary Guard circles, i.e. the heavily armed and highest-ranking defenders of the regime, and would not be prosecuted for “misconduct”. “All these people don’t care about religion, it’s about the money,” Hashemi writes.

Shoura Hashemi reminds that women are also among the perpetrators in the “Islamic state of terror”. Some of these aides to the regime have now been captured by the cameras of this World Cup.

The confusion of Tehran

So have we been cheated in the West? Hashemi’s observation is in any case consistent with the facts: the security authorities in Qatar banned Iranian demonstrators from the stadiums; critical Iranians harassed in Qatar; Protesters in Iran did not regret the departure of the Iranian team, in fact they celebrated it.

But what is the motive? Why does Iran send fans loyal to the regime to Qatar, pretending to be a cosmopolitan Iran where women can also dress in form-fitting clothes?

Apparently, the regime felt compelled to act after the Iranians’ first game. Already in the second game, a completely different mood, aggressive towards the critics of the regime, would have reached the stadium. This is how this woman described it to the British BBC.

The impressive recording of this Danish journalist also shows how opposition voices from Iran are suppressed in Qatar:

So the regime in Tehran is doing everything it can to maintain the sovereignty of interpretation. Political ally Qatar and supporters of Tehran’s power apparatus are helping to build a false image of their country. Shoura Hashemi says: “Of course the regime also plays with the fact that to many Europeans all these things sound completely absurd and implausible.” In other words, to keep up appearances, Iranian women are allowed to appear abroad at will for propaganda purposes. That is denied to women in Iran. Western audiences are meant to be deceived and confused. (cpf)