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Israel Is Diverting Attention Away From Its Genocide
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January 15, 2026
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9:03Now PlayingJournalist Samira Mohyeddin discusses orchestrated online campaigns pitting supporters of Palestinian liberation against those critical of Iran.
"Israel is diverting attention away from it's genocide, and it's using Israeli influencers...to create this binary to make it so that you can't—at the same time—support Palestinian liberation or be critical of Israel and yet at the same time be critical of what Iran is doing...And it's been very effective," Mohyeddin said.
Narges Bajoghli, co-director of the Rethinking Iran Initiative and a professor at Johns Hopkins University, spoke with Drop Site about Iranian opposition. "Reza Pahlavi is a weak political actor,” she said.
Real opposition isn't actually in the the interest of Iran, the U.S. or Israel, according to Bajoghli.
"None of them want an Iran that is democratic and actually sovereign and independent...The interest of the Islamic Republic is to maintain power, and the interest of the U.S. and Israel is to have a weakened Iran," Bajoghli said.
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