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Yeah, the 100% remote control idea seems unlikely, just provides cover for Iranian leadership when they fail to find the assassins.

This is a more thorough and believable report: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8997575/Assassinati...

(However, that site is a nightmare of ads, popups and auto-playing video, only legible with uMatrix.)



Never in my life did I imagine I'd come across a Daily Mail article labelled as a "thorough and believable report". It's half banned as a source on Wikipedia for crying out loud


1) Daily Mail is shit

2) Daily Mail article is more thorough and believable than a tweet sourced to IRGC propaganda

Both statements can be true.


The Daily Mail publishes a lot of articles by contributing journalists, Harriet Alexander is actually a pretty good journalist https://twitter.com/h_alexander


Well, completeness and superficial verisimilitude is proobably easier when you can just invent a story based on what people are likely to find believable with as much detail as you want because you don't have any journalistic standards.


(However, that site is a nightmare of ads, popups and auto-playing video, only legible with uMatrix.)

It's also legible, I'd even call it pleasant, with Firefox plus NoScript. Many sites block or degrade images when JS is disabled, but not the Daily Mail.




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