Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Dumb Israeli and Saudi propaganda: the story of the 15,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards who were dispatched to Syria

So the website of King Fahd's news station, Al-Arabiyyah, has a dumb story about 15,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards dispatched to Syria to participate in repression.  But the website cites Haaretz as a source, and it says that it cited an unnamed official of the Syrian National Council.  You go to Haaretz and you see a version of the same story but it cited Al-Arabiyyah itself and an unnamed source, but the number 15,000 is cited in a different context: only to indicate the size the of the Quds Force.  Oh, and then: Al-Arabiyyah adds another report: based on a source "from inside" the Revolutionary Guards in which he tells them that Iran has moved the Revolutionary Guards from Syria to Lebanon.  As you know, the Revolutionary Guards does not trust to tell its secrets except to this hostile Saudi source. For some reason, they trust.  It is obvious, that Al-Arabiyyah has been busy as of late, fabricating the news but it is obvious that they have been so amused by their work that the fabrications of news has increased as of late.