Something is being forgotten, or consciously repressed about Iran’s deeds under the leadership of ayatollah Khamenei. Especially amongst those many on the anti-Zionist-left and the openly antisemitic Tucker Carlson/ Candace Owens-right, who spread the genocide libel against Israel in hopes of destroying it, while fiercely attacking the war against the Iranian regime. Iran, under Khamenei, is largely responsible for the actual genocide of half a million Sunni Muslims in Syria, as well as the displacement of several million others. 

The erasure of Iran and Khamenei’s role in the genocide is evident not only amongst the crazy fringes, but in the mainstream press as well. The Washington Post’s obituary of Khamenei ignores it completely. In the New York Times’ obituary of Khamenei, his role in Syria is mentioned, but not connected with the mass murder of civilians. Instead the NY Times writes that the ayatollah “sent militia forces into Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad against Western backed rebels and Sunni jihadists.” 

Help for Assad against jihadis sounds reasonable. But the majority of Sunni Muslim deaths in Syria were civilians or political prisoners. According to a 2018 report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 104,000 political prisoners were........

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