Fox News, Among Others, Reports Clickbait Fake News Story Regarding Iranian President’s Resignation; Obviously Propaganda

 

Badlands Brief Fake News Propaganda Exposed, Iranian Investment Opportunities, and Talibros in Moscow GhostofBasedPatrickHenry Jun 1   READ IN APP   The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section. As Schrodinger’s War Rages On, The US Plans an Investment Fund into … Iran? U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative memorandum of understanding on May 28 that would extend the current cease-fire by 60 days and launch a new round of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, according to U.S. officials. The proposal remained subject to final approval by President Donald Trump. Reuters reported that the agreement would begin a formal negotiation period focused on nuclear issues. According to reporting by The Associated Press, the draft framework would require Iran to cease collecting tolls in the Strait of Hormuz and remove mines from the strategic waterway within 30 days. In exchange, the United States would begin easing its naval blockade of Iranian ports and discuss sanctions relief during the negotiation period. The future of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile remains one of the principal unresolved issues identified for the talks. Vice President JD Vance said negotiators had reached a tentative agreement but were continuing discussions over language and nuclear-related provisions, and he said it was unclear whether or when Trump would approve the proposal. Separate reporting citing the New York Times said the draft memorandum also included discussion of a possible international investment or reconstruction fund for Iran in the event that a broader final agreement is reached. Details and terms of any such mechanism had not been finalized. Burning Bright: Last week, the New York Times reported that there are plans for a $300 billion US investment fund into Iranian reconstruction once the very real war Donald Trump is waging with the definitely very real and not fake so-called Iranian Regime runs its course. The media machine is very confused by the prospect that Trump already has massive infrastructure and investment plans into a foreign adversary, especially when said investments will no doubt bolster said adversary, and especially when said adversary is the absolute most seriously bad adversary of all the other adversaries. For now. The thing is, when you understand that Trump and the so-called Iranian Regime are the ones putting the squeeze on the Globalist Hegemon, and that the closest allies to said Regime are Russia and China, two of the three core pillars of the Sovereign Alliance alongside the United States, it's not only possible to see such reconstruction efforts coming, but to project them in advance. In fact, I even named the process as part of my Iran War series, which itself is an evolution of the Multipolar War thesis I've been constructing for years. From April ... "The fragile off-ramp from the latest Iran theater—hailed as a face-saving ceasefire while detonating a cascade of second-order exposures—has accelerated the very transitions the Invisible Enemy once relied upon halting to maintain its grip through scarcity, dependency and perpetual friction. Energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz are resuming under new terms. Iran is asserting direct, tiered control—limiting transits, vetting affiliations and floating toll structures that lean into DeFi rails for Gulf reconstruction. Currency rails are shifting in real time. Value exchange mechanisms are decoupling from the old petrodollar chokeholds. Markets are pricing in reconstruction booms, energy prices are stabilizing on fundamentals rather than fear, and the European Collectorate is being left staring into the void of its own exposed fecklessness on both power projection and resource security grounds. This was never random. It was the public translation of the patient architecture of liberation I first named years ago. And the Sovereign Alliance—anchored by the US under Trump, Russia under Putin and China under Xi, now extending quiet nods to a reforming Iran and other inverted players stepping onto their own redemption arcs—has accelerated these transitions. I believe Trump is strengthening the position of the American people precisely by weakening our position in the System of Systems. Economic, energy and military disentanglements are not markers of retreat, then. They are the prerequisites for genuine resurgence and convergence, and the disentangling of the Iranian Knot acts as a microcosm for this global dialectic between Sovereign Disentanglement and Multipolar Reconstruction." Usually, the Building comes AFTER the Breaking. But the path to the Golden Age is Bicameral. (Read the full feature, if you fancy.) Fox News, Among Others, Reports Clickbait Fake News Story Regarding Iranian President’s Resignation; Obviously Propaganda A number of media outlets [falsely] reported that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had offered his letter of resignation, “citing a lack of authority inside the country’s ruling system.” According to the report, Pezeshkian accused the IRGC of “excluding him from major and vital decision-making processes in the country, and that the vacuum created by this situation has enabled hardline factions within the IRGC to take control of affairs, the source said.” The claim of Pezeshkian’s resignation was later proven false by the Iranian government. The story was originally published by Iran International with the headline, “Iran’s president offers resignation, citing total takeover by IRGC commanders,” and was cited by all of the other news outlets as the source in their reporting. Fox News originally published the report as the lead story on their website with the headline, “Iran’s president reportedly submits resignation letter amid claims of deepening internal divisions,” and later amended to read, “Iran president’s request adds new twist to US-Iran talks as Trump weighs peace proposal.” A number of other outlets who reported the story, including The Jerusalem Post, kept their original article posted on their websites. GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: I saw this story break last night, right as I was going live on The Narrative with Burning Bright. I only had time to check Pezeshkian’s X account—which had no mention of a resignation—before posting my knee-jerk reaction as our stream was beginning. Something about this story didn’t feel right. That initial instinct was vindicated when the Iranian government later dismissed the report as fake news. Before I get deeper into it, I just wanted to take a moment to dunk on Fox News—or should I say Faux News—who had the audacity to update the headline in order to avoid embarrassment, but forgot to update the image or the article, itself. The story remained the lead on their website throughout the night. Here is a screen cap of the original headline on their website. And here is the updated headline. Note that the image still bears the inlay caption, “REGIME RIFT.” The also forgot to write a new article that corresponds with the new headline. I suppose the article does still correspond with the headline, being that Pezeshkian had reportedly “requested” to resign, but the fact that they changed the headline seems to indicate that they likely knew the story was pure propaganda and wanted to minimize embarrassment. The outlet that originally reported the story is called Iran International. The headline they published read, “Iran’s president offers resignation, citing total takeover by IRGC commanders.” A quick search revealed that Iran International is owned by a privately-owned UK-based company called Volant Media. In fact, this information can be found in the footer of Iran International’s website. Volant Media is owned by a British-Saudi film executive named Adel Abdulkarim Alabdulkarim. A 2018 report by The Financial Times of London accused Alabdulkarim of receiving funding from Israel, which he denied. Anytime I learn that a media outlet which ostensibly presents itself as a “Middle East” news organization that is based in UK, I assume that it is actually British Intelligence. This feeling was compounded when I learned that Alabdulkarim was a Saudi royal with British citizenship, and further compounded when I learned that Iran International beams its signal directly into televisions in Iran. Clearly, this organization is a propaganda outlet. So it makes sense that it would push this Fake News nonsense. I just find it hilarious and awesome that they got caught making up news, and that Fox News (among others) are also exposed in the scheme. It would seem that their intended goal was to gaslight the public (both inside and outside Iran) into believing that Pezeshkian (who is a heart surgeon) was resigning and that the “hardliners” at the IRGC had taken over control of the civilian government, likely in an attempt to sway public opinion toward supporting the resumption of hostilities between the US and Iran. This could not have happened to a more deserving group of lying sociopaths.