Commander: Western Mass Media Censoring Reality in Britain, West

Commander of Iran’s Basij (volunteer) forces Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi deplored vast and strong censorship in the mainstream media in the West, and said what is reported from unrests in Britain is just tip of the iceberg.
“We should not assume that we are aware of the different aspects of the violation of human rights in Britain because many humanitarian disasters in Britain have not been disclosed to the public due to strict news censorship,” Naqdi said on Monday.

He underscored that the Zionist media have resorted to massive propaganda campaign to hide the deep crises in the arrogant countries.

“The Zionist mass media are seeking to divert the public opinion from the great developments in the world through massive propaganda campaign,” Naqdi reiterated.

Unrest has rocked Britain in a scale unprecedented in 30 years following the police’s killing of black male Mark Duggan in a shooting spree in the London suburb of Tottenham on August 4.

Tension erupted on August 6, when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the killing.

The protests then spread to major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.

Despite London’s claims about supporting freedom of expression and flow of information, Britain’s Prime Minister threatened to block access to social networking websites following the outbreak of social unrests in the country, London in particular.

The British police have arrested a number of internet users as part of a broader clampdown on social networking sites under security excuses.