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A lot of comments talking about the Iranian regime. The videos I've seen say nothing positive about the Iranian regime, all they do is rightfully criticize the
by deaux 7mo ago
A lot of comments talking about the Iranian regime. The videos I've seen say nothing positive about the Iranian regime, all they do is rightfully criticize the US regime that carried out an assault out on Iran, which as expected has led to nothing but more suffering for the Iranians, without improving their lives. That the Iranian regime killed thousands of protestors says nothing about both the legitimacy and the effects of the attack on Iran, and believing otherwise is caused by being raised on US propaganda.
If you truly care about the Iranian people, you'd be agreeing with these videos, because the attack has only made their lives worse. And this was completely expected, look at how the last two times of the US attacking a country in the Middle East went.
- drnick1 7mo agoWhile civilian casualties are unavoidable in any conflict, the idea here is that if the regime falls, the face of the Middle East will completely change. Just look at Iran pre-1979 and imagine what it would be today had the theocracy not mercilessly oppressed the population for half a century. Perhaps this creator should use AI to generate a video of the IRGC killing an estimated 30,000 of their own people[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres
- lolcopedope 7mo ago[dead]
- roflfaghagfag 7mo ago[flagged]
- ozozozd 7mo agoOne might wonder what helped the theocracy take over the pre-1979 Iran. One need not wonder. Your first guess is correct!
- mentalfist 7mo agoThere is a certain leap between "civilian casualties are unavoidable" and "a civilization Is going to be destroyed and sent back to the stone age through war crimes"
- drnick1 7mo agoTrump's comments are quite obviously saber-rattling. Until now at least, the U.S. hasn't executed 30,000+ Iranians in a short period of time, and countless more over the past five decades.
- bulbar 7mo agoRegime change isn't the real goal here, is it? Haven't followed closely, but to me it seems the goal is to just destroy Iran as a regional power, with dire consequences for its population.
- blizdiddy 7mo agoThe only thing any of that has to do with the US is that the US backed that theocracy! We cannot unilaterally violate all international law and sovereignty without Congress and our allies… that’s obvious though so what are you talking about?
- Larrikin 7mo agoThis is a pointless complaint if the person who has ended up in charge is worse. There's no point in imagining what could have been. The world is dealing with what exist now.
- superb_dev 7mo agoSome civilian casualties may be unavoidable in a conflict sure, but the US and Israel are not trying very hard
- rolymath 7mo agoMaybe the US should have intervened in 1979. Oh, wait.
- crooked-v 7mo agoExcept that the effect here has not been to overturn the regime, but rather to put a hardliner into absolute power while also murdering his entire family in the middle of diplomatic negotations. And then murdering plenty of innocent people, like that school full of literal children, to ensure that the country rallies around him.
- oa335 7mo agoIran under the Shah was hardly a bastion of liberty: “In a 1976 document, Amnesty International detailed some of SAVAK's torture practices and stated that the shah's regime was one of the worst human rights violators in the world.” https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/legal-and-political-magazines/human-rights-abuses-shahist-iran https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/legal-and-political-mag... Some argue the excessive repression is what caused the reactionary backlash of the Islamic Revolution (which initially was also supported by liberal democratic and leftist parties as well).
- pseudohadamard 7mo agoAlso SAVAK were trained and intimately tied into Mossad. It's not surprising that this caused a little bit of resentment against Israel.
- oa335 7mo agoOne of my friends in Iran who was previously critical of the government is now highly supportive of them. I wonder how many other Iranians have become supporters of the government during this war.
- culi 7mo agoI've heard the same from many Iranians I know. Western media presented the protests as an attempt to overthrow the order but it seems many protestors were simply calling for reform.
- Ray20 7mo ago> seems many protestors were simply calling for reform I mean, when you would have literally death penalty for attempt to overthrow the order, of course you will be "simply calling for reform".
- culi 7mo agoAccording to Gallup, Iran's approval ratings of its leadership are as follows: 2018: 45% approval vs 49% disapproval (net -4) 2019: 44 vs 53 (-9) 2020: 43 vs 51 (-8) 2021: 50 vs 46 (+4) 2022: 44 vs 51 (-7) 2023: 43 vs 52 (-9) https://news.gallup.com/poll/611210/iran-votes-lukewarm-leadership-cool-economy.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/611210/iran-votes-lukewarm-lead... We don't have numbers after that but I find it hard to believe a large majority in a country with middling approval ratings would suddenly want to completely overthrow their leaders in just a few years.
- oa335 7mo agoGenerally I agree; i doubt that there is a large contingent of Iranians in Iran who are cheering for bombing and complete collapse of their civilization. However it’s not out of the question that the approval of the government could have plummeted precipitously within a couple of years - there’s lots of precedent for that across the world (UK conservatives come to mind, George W Bush 2nd term as well)
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