At Last! I see the error of my ways. The Iranian Contributor done brushed the scales from my eyes. All these years I foolishly believed the international press were giving the world true and accurate accounts of :

(a) the child-martyr mine-sweeping brigades, made to walk in cheap pyjamas and barefoot before the armed Iranian soldiers to clear paths through Iraqi minefields with their pathetic scrawny bodies;

(b) the arrest, torture, summary trials, and execution of tens of thousands of dissenters, dissidents, communists, unionists, evangelical Christians, insufficiently modest or chaste Muslim females, homosexuals, adulterers, and other conspicuous enemies of the Mullahs;

(c) the accelerating preparations by Iran for war – nuclear weapons development, ballistic missile development, etc.

Obviously, all the photos and videos of public executions and corpses dangling from industrial cranes like chickens on display at the butcher’s — those are all fakes. It’s a vast Jewish conspiracy. Ahmadinejad and friends are really a bunch of sweet blokes I would quite fancy meeting at the pub for a round of tea and cakes and a game of skittles.

Sorry it’s taken so long to wrap my head around that. Now I see, it really is the Mainstream Media who have been lying to us all along. Where to I send away for my Convert-to-the-Persian-Islamic-Death-Cult application?