Sure, the US government lies, especially now when there’s a person in charge who seems to be incapable of telling the truth. But let’s not dichotomize this too much: both sides are lying, both sides are their own kinds of evil. But not equally evil.
I’ll list a few of the lies:
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Claims of successful strikes on USS Abraham Lincoln around March 1. We also saw those spread here, which is some sort of telling.
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IRGC claims 100x casualty rates compared to reality for US troops in the first week of the war.
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Claims that Al-Udeid radar site in Qatar being completely destroyed by a drone strike around February 28.
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Claims that several F-35s had been shot down. Al-Jazeera spread this one. I reality, seems like one has been damaged on ground, and none have been shot down.
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Plus generally all kinds of exaggerations about the great things Iran’s side has done and the horrible things their enemies have done. Some groups of people in west swallow these without a second thought.
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Persistent Holocaust denial. A classic.
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Claims that ISIS was created by Mossad and CIA.
Classic propaganda tactics: stuff you cannot check at the time, but even if you check and debunk them later, a certain feeling will linger. And most people won’t even bother to check. They’re pretty good at that, which explains a lot of the delusion in the west about that area.
Cold war was on. They fought the spread of Communism, and you have to understand that communism was an actual threat in the latter part of 1900s. Not like the complete joke it is now.
Things don’t always go brilliantly in wars.