On Piers Morgan’s show, Max Blumenthal dismantles the screaming “100,000 dead” headline from Iran’s recent unrest, tracing it back to exile grifters, Mossad‑adjacent outlets, and Western media eager for a new Iraq‑style casus belli. He shows how sanctions, engineered currency collapse, and hybrid warfare manufactured real misery, then got spun into a “genocide” narrative to ram through a U.S.–Israeli strike that neither regional states nor most Americans want. In Blumenthal’s telling, the fake body count isn’t about human rights; it’s about giving Trump’s donors and Israel a pretext for war before the political window slams shut.

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