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yes, yes. Poor Iran.
by SirFatty 8mo ago
yes, yes. Poor Iran.
- Schmerika 8mo agoYes. Poor Iran. Because America and Israel.
- dijit 8mo agoIran are the good guys? What topsy-turvy land have I wandered into? They've funded Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis for decades. They've assassinated dissidents on foreign soil. They sentence people to death for apostasy and flog women for not wearing hijab correctly. The sanctions aren't about race. They're about behaviour.
- bigyabai 8mo agoThere are no "good guys" in real-life. If you as an individual revile proxy conflict, assassination of dissidents abroad, torture and summary execution, then it's hard to stand on the American soapbox and demand change. Many Iranians still remember SAVAK, and are told stories of the last time they tried nationalizing their resources. The US doesn't need an interventionist policy with Iran any more than we need to invade North Korea. Israel needs it though, and their entire strategy is to risk American lives for their meaningless expansion campaign.
- tredre3 8mo ago> Iran are the good guys? Nobody said that. But they are a sovereign country that did not attack America. Bombing them because you find their internal politics distasteful is appalling, to say the least.
- danielxt 8mo ago> find their internal politics distasteful is appalling you call their official slogan "Death to America, Death to Israel" - distasteful internal politics?
- fortzi 8mo agoThat’s not why they’re being bombed. They’re being bombed because they strive for nukes and ICBMs with ever larger range, all the while calling “death to america”. P.S. downplaying their behavior to “distasteful”, is, well, distasteful.
- tovej 8mo agoIran getting nukes would stabilize the region.
- almosthere 8mo ago[flagged]
- NickC25 8mo ago>Iran are the good guys? No. But they are a sovereign nation who didn't directly bomb the US or its allies. >They've funded Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis for decades. They've assassinated dissidents on foreign soil. They sentence people to death for apostasy and flog women for not wearing hijab correctly. You want to know who the US has funded? You want to know who Israel has funded? I mean, shit, the US took out Iran's democratically elected government in the 1970s and was a huge fan of the Mullahs because they let us steal Iranian oil. The same secular Iranian government that was quite literally the first middle eastern country to recognize the existence of Israel, and was a leading secular state in a region of ass-backwards religious nutcases. Israel has refused to acknowledge the obvious existence of its nuclear weapons program while Iran is a full member of the IAEA and allows for full international inspection of its uranium facilities. Fuck, the Israelis engage in massive blackmailing operations of their own "allies" (see Epstien, Jeffrey) , attack their own "allies" (see USS Liberty attack), and have tried to goad its "allies" into carrying out attacks on their behalf. They are a tiny bully that starts shit they cannot handle themselves, and American lives are sacrificed because of it.
- fortzi 8mo agoIsrael is not threatening to annihilate any country, while Iran is vowing to. How can you even make this comparison?
- Schmerika 8mo ago> Israel is not threatening to annihilate any country Oh man, are you gonna get a shock when you look at the news from the past 3 years.
- NickC25 8mo agoThat's because Israel didn't threaten to destroy a country, they simply did so and called anyone who dared question their methods antisemitic.
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- harimau777 8mo agoMy greater concern is the people of Iran. Especially since Iran has conscription so the people who end up dieing in a war didn't even consent to being made soldiers.