
Phyllis Ring
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Phyllis Ring
@phyllisring
Author: THE MUNICH GIRL: A Novel of the Legacies that Outlast War. Balance-seeking investigator of Reality.


Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.

While more than 150 journalists attended Prince Reza Pahlavi's press conference during his trip to Europe, not a single one asked about executions, massacres, or the current reality inside Iran. So no—this isn't vague "bias." It's a lens. Let's call it what it is: Third-Worldism. Look at the contrast. Nothing has changed since the 1970s. Back then, Khomeini was welcomed in Paris and romanticized by Western intellectuals like Michel Foucault, who framed his Islamist revolution as "political spirituality." Today, a press conference with Prince Reza Pahlavi—a figure speaking about regime change, repression, and the future of Iran—is met with suspicion, trivialities, and ideological vetting. Instead of asking: What is happening inside Iran right now? How many are being executed? What do the Iranian people want? You get: "Are you an asset?" "What did your wife retweet?" "Let's relitigate your father." That's not journalism. That's filtering reality through a preconceived narrative. Prince Reza Pahlavi represents something deeply inconvenient to that lens: a secular Middle Eastern country, aligned with the West and Israel—not imposed, but chosen—by a population rejecting an Islamic regime in favor of liberal democracy and pluralism. That doesn't fit the script. So instead of engaging with it, they try to disqualify it before the conversation even begins.










After all the defamation, threats, and insults... US Cancer Data Just Dropped Will there be even one single apology? Will allies acknowledge this? Will they remember we showed this mid-2021?














