Media hype 9/11, ignore 1m Iraqi victims: Ahmadinejad

[Hasbara Buster]

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Media hype 9/11, ignore 1m Iraqi victims: Ahmadinejad

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized Western media for creating hype over the September 11 attacks and ignoring more than one million victims of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“The materialistic view of Zionists has destroyed the sacredness of media and today media no longer regulate the relations among humans, but have turned into a means of domination and gaining power,” Ahmadinejad said on Monday.

The Iranian chief executive stated that a major part of the events surrounding the September 11 attacks was merely a “media operation”, adding, “Today American forces would not be in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Persian Gulf, if it was not for the media coverage of this incident.”

Why have the media that provoked public sentiments and emotions during the September 11 incident, remained silent regarding more than one million victims that have been killed in the aftermath of the attack?, he asked.

On September 11, 2001, a series of coordinated attacks were carried out in the United States leaving almost 3,000 people dead.

The US, under the administration of former President George W. Bush, invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after claiming that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by members of al-Qaeda harbored by the then Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

The US also attacked Iraq in 2003 claiming that the Middle Eastern country was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Washington’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have claimed the lives of more than a million people.

PressTV - Media hype 9/11, ignore 1m Iraqi victims: Ahmadinejad

[Banglar Lathial]

The sad fact is no matter how true his statements are, the desert dwellers in this forum or in real life will not appreciate the truth. They will cheer on their American masters despite how many of their own Arab and Muslim brothers were killed, wounded and treated in unspeakable ways numerous times by those same Westerners.

[baqai]

It is the truth, why not mourn for those who died in the name of "war on terrorism"

[Oldman1]

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If it was not for the media coverage of the 9/11? Who the heck is going to ignore the 9/11 attacks? It be like never saying Pearl Harbor ever happened and we wouldn't have been at war with Japan.