DISINFO: Anglo-Saxons involved in Iran leader’s death and other recent attempts
SUMMARY
The fact that so many assassinations and assassination attempts have occurred recently is not a coincidence. Iranian president Ibrahim Raisi was aboard an old American helicopter instead of an excellent Russian one. There has been an attempt to overthrow the Turkish government, the murder of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, a failed assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, attacks on the leaders of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, assassination attempts on Serbia President Aleksandar Vučić and Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán. Only leaders whose policies are reasonable and not anti-Russian have been targeted. Does one see the true face of Anglo-Saxon terrorism? The Anglo-Saxons have seen that acts of terror in Donbass have been committed with impunity. Some of those who signed the protocols of the Minsk Agreements were killed. Some political figures have been killed on Russian territory without problems. The blowing up of the Nord Stream pipeline went unpunished. Political assassinations have begun now. There has been a direct conspiracy to eliminate Lukashenko and members of his family. All these facts fit in the same logic.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative and a conspiracy theory claiming that Western countries support terrorism all over the world and order assassinations of political leaders who carry out independent policies.
There is no evidence of the EU, the US or their allies being involved in the long list of events covered by the disinformation piece above.
Commenting on the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, a former Iranian foreign minister said that ‘one of the causes of this heart-breaking incident is the United States, which by sanctioning the sale of the aviation industry to Iran caused the martyrdom of the president and his companions.’ US officials dismissed the allegations as ‘baseless.’ See more here Raisi helicopter crash: Some in Iran claim US sanctions to blame but the truth may be more complicated.
No evidence is provided for the US or its allies’ alleged involvement in a recent assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. The suspected gunman, identified by Slovak media as 71-year-old former security guard and amateur poet Juraj Cintula, was charged with attempted premeditated murder and was put in pre-trial detention by a special penal court on 18 May 2024.
There is no evidence that the US was involved in the Nord Stream sabotage. Investigative journalist and Vietnam War-era Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Seymour Hersh, has claimed that the US was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year. A number of factcheckers have debunked all important details (ships, aircrafts, timelines, role of NATO SG) and pointed to other obvious flaws in Hersh's story.
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