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Why lie about this when the first paragraph is explicit about its source?

> As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME

>>squidb+(OP)
>two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health

And their names are never called.

>>vogre+62
It's pretty common practice if naming them will get the people who shared the info in trouble. Depends on whether you think Time is a trustworthy source I guess

>>johany+L7
Time always was a propaganda leaflet.

Remember "bomb serbs to heel" or "sinister world of saddam"

>>squidb+(OP)
The US paid for similar information from Iraq about WMDs just before it kicked off the invasion.

Meanwhile, the US is rearranging its forces in the middle east. What a coincidence.