Viral, But Not Verified

Here is the introduction.

There are moments in history when the loudest sound is silence. When something real is happening, dangerous, destabilizing, and profoundly human, yet the headlines barely whisper. Iran may be in one of those moments right now.

Reports of widespread protests are filtering out, uneven, fragmented, hard to verify. Rumors are filling the gaps, some reckless, some hopeful, some deliberately false. And meanwhile, much of the Western media seems oddly restrained, as if this story does not quite fit the categories it knows how to tell.

Tonight, we are not here to sell certainty. We are here to ask why uncertainty is being handled so selectively. Why protests against a clerical regime struggle for oxygen. Why silence becomes policy when narratives collide with ideology.

History teaches us this much. Revolutions do not always announce themselves politely. Sometimes they arrive half seen, badly explained, and remembered later with embarrassment by those who looked away.

Here is the thing. When the noise goes quiet, that is often when you should lean in and listen hardest.