Thread by @ip_Guy_

Iranian people are furious with @nytimes and their Iran reporter @farnazfassihi. Read this thread to know why.
#NYTimesPropaganda

There are three main elements in what @nytimes reporter @farnazfassihi does which infuriates Iranian people.

1. She consistently spreads misinformation regarding Iran. All this misinfo is in one direction: whitewashing the IR regime's actions against its people. Examples follow.

1.1. Last year, she posted this video calling it a "slice of life" in Iran: women dancing, no hijab.

Hijab is compulsory in Iran and dancing is not allowed. In fact, a few days later many people involved in the same video were arrested.
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https://twitter.com/farnazfassihi/status/1224081132771336192

1.2. She tweeted multiple times about "massive" gatherings in mourning of Soleimani. (A huge part of the attendees were forced to attend, in fear of their jobs, or even lives).
This included a blatant lie reported in @nytimes: exaggerating 3km to 30km!
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1.3. After IRGC fired two missiles at Ukraine #Flight752, killing all 176 civilians on board, she wrote a piece in @nytimes supporting many of the regime's coverup attempts, including that the president "was lied to" while the facts supported the opposite.
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1.4. As she constantly tries to show Iran a free country for women (!), she claimed there are no women's only parks and they exercise freely in public.
In the very least, this @nytimes reporter knows next to nothing about women in Iran.
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https://twitter.com/hafezeh_tarikhi/status/1371810102919974913

1.5. She claimed that journalists "from inside and outside" and "ordinary Iranians" were asking the Foreign Minister challenging questions on Clubhouse!
As she later had no choice but to confess, only select journalists were allowed. Interestingly, she was one!
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2. She has blocked almost all Iranians who may point out the falsehood of the information she spreads.
She used to do that on any instance of noting the lies. But as I will show below, she is now using a bot to block ANY mention of her name in Persian.
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2.1. Here are examples of people simply noting her information was false who got blocked within minutes, if not seconds.
@nytimes believes she knows Iran well enough to report on Iran even if she doesn't want to hear what Iranians say.

https://twitter.com/HosseinRonaghi/status/1378417145504280585

2.2. This got to a point that Iranians got suspicious. So they ran tests to see if she is using a bot to block any Persian mention of her name.
Complementing her Twitter header and...blocked.
An irrelevant sentence containing her first and last name.. blocked.
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3. She then hides behind being a "female journalist". She finds a few insulting comments (that you can find on anyone's tweets) and dismisses all the Iranians claiming they are "trolls" and calls them "fake".
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3.1 She mistranslates tweets to appear as threatening.
Here, she translated "prosecution" as "persecution".
As I noted this, guess what? Correct. I was blocked.
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https://twitter.com/ip_Guy_/status/1375955913996075008

3.2. If she can't find examples, this @nytimes reporter simply lies that she was threatened.
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3.3. You can read this thread on how she lied about an obviously nonthreatening and unrelated Persian tweet to her English speaking audience.
@nytimes, is someone who is at least far from understanding Persian a good Iran reporter?!

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https://twitter.com/SharOBalaa/status/1375901728571330575