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In all fairness, the Iranian government is more popular in Iran than the US govenment in the US. The US sanctions wasn't enacted to help the Iranian people, bu

In all fairness, the Iranian government is more popular in Iran than the US govenment in the US. The US sanctions wasn't enacted to help the Iranian people, but to weaken a country that the US perceives as an adversary.

xtracto 7y ago
This is important. This kind of actions have to be taken as what they are: unilateral actions of a country against another. It is just the US defending what it sees as they interests. But for the rest of the world it is just a maneuver. For some people in the USA it is difficult to see it. Given their (expected) skew towards their country. But people outside that country can see it with a more objective perspective. Similar thing is happening with the concentration camps in the south.
- AmericanChopper 7y ago
  You’ve just described the foreign policy of every country in the world.
StaticRedux 7y ago
Are they? Or are the Iranian people too afraid of the Revolutionary Guard to say different? If you want to go that route, North Korea has the most popular government and leader on Earth. I don't think you can make claims about popularity of a government that can and does make people disappear who say otherwise.
- meitham 7y ago
  Two very different cultures. there has been several protests in Tehran in the last decade with no execution. NK has their own culture too where it's just wrong to critise their rules (or their parents). we need to stop looking at the world from a globalised western lens.
  - AmericanChopper 7y ago
    This comment seems borderline satire. But I guess you’re right. There’s the western way of approving of your government, where you’re free to make up your mind about whether you do or not, and the way that they do it in North Korea and Iran, where you have to constantly fear the consequences of not approving of your government in the appropriate government prescribed manner.
cronix 7y ago
> the Iranian government is more popular in Iran than the US govenment in the US It really would be sad if you controlled the media, religious doctrines as interpreted by the gov't (which you can't criticize), had censors, and couldn't pull that off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Iran
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xtracto 7y ago

This is important. This kind of actions have to be taken as what they are: unilateral actions of a country against another. It is just the US defending what it sees as they interests. But for the rest of the world it is just a maneuver. For some people in the USA it is difficult to see it. Given their (expected) skew towards their country. But people outside that country can see it with a more objective perspective. Similar thing is happening with the concentration camps in the south.

AmericanChopper 7y ago
You’ve just described the foreign policy of every country in the world.

StaticRedux 7y ago

Are they? Or are the Iranian people too afraid of the Revolutionary Guard to say different? If you want to go that route, North Korea has the most popular government and leader on Earth. I don't think you can make claims about popularity of a government that can and does make people disappear who say otherwise.

meitham 7y ago
Two very different cultures. there has been several protests in Tehran in the last decade with no execution. NK has their own culture too where it's just wrong to critise their rules (or their parents). we need to stop looking at the world from a globalised western lens.
- AmericanChopper 7y ago
  This comment seems borderline satire. But I guess you’re right. There’s the western way of approving of your government, where you’re free to make up your mind about whether you do or not, and the way that they do it in North Korea and Iran, where you have to constantly fear the consequences of not approving of your government in the appropriate government prescribed manner.

cronix 7y ago

> the Iranian government is more popular in Iran than the US govenment in the US It really would be sad if you controlled the media, religious doctrines as interpreted by the gov't (which you can't criticize), had censors, and couldn't pull that off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Iran

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