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This website has no more than a year in video presence in Youtube. It talks exclusively about Iran-only affairs that are of interest for foreigners. [It was started in 2017 and is mostly funded by Saudi money](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_International).

Sorry but we're going to need a more credible source than a propaganda site.

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Are you suggesting this didn’t happen, or that they’re hypocrites for publicizing it while taking Saudi money?

Every authoritarian regime does this, and some legitimate non-totalitarian governments do too.

Yes, they are very obviously suggesting it didn't happen. I have no idea why certain people on the left want to ignore what is happening on Iran, and even pretend like nothing problematic is happening in Iran.

Nobody’s saying nothing problematic is happening in Iran.

What I’m saying is that a lot of people are extremely interested in seeing Iran fall and that Western media paid by Saudi Arabia has exactly zero credibility. So get better sources, that’s all.

Always baffled how credulous hn users are when it comes to political news

yes, I think it's because HN users think that politics are comparable to systems design, and its not. Politics is very complex and a lot of non-rational things are done and rationalized later.

I also blame undeveloped theory of mind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

I guess I thought that would be a good thing? Like shouldn't we be measured and critical? Check our sources? Recognize at least the possibility of being fooled?

I think we should always default to skepticism no matter our priors, even if that ends up being wrong, its not a fruitless position compared to the alternative.

Do you have any suggestions?

Get better sources with a history of credibility instead of being funded by a state actor whose main man had a journalist dismembered.

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