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squidbeaktoday at 10:32 AM2 repliesview on HN

Why lie about this when the first paragraph is explicit about its source?

> As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME


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pydrytoday at 3:45 PM

The US paid for similar information from Iraq about WMDs just before it kicked off the invasion.

Meanwhile, the US is rearranging its forces in the middle east. What a coincidence.

vogretoday at 10:43 AM

>two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health

And their names are never called.

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