Khomeini hijacked the revolution that ousted the Shah and turned it from a triumphant moment and chance for change into a “under new management” situation.
Khamenei now presides over this theocratic regime and continues to oppress Iran.
Mate, I don’t rely on mainstream media to tell me what to think about Iran. I have in-laws there. My partner regularly talks to them.
Iran was always shite and during the protests, the media said as much. When they executed protestors, It got reported upon. There was never a time in which Iran was like anywhere close tolerable. Did UK media not pounce on the Shahed drones to Russia? Come on, mate.
It has been touched upon for years, then fell off the news wagon because of other events.
The attacks are unjustified, but this narrative of “the media had no problem with Iran” when again, in the past years, executions and state violence carried out by Iran have been reported, is false.
“hey, so if we think you published classified info, you’re gonna get killed. Is that okay with you guys? Thanks for being so understanding.”
I don’t want to be mean but did you live under a rock in 2022-2023?
You’re responding an awful lot for someone who doesn’t care :)
That’s the first coherent take you had so far.
Lol, my gf is not Iranian then. Thanks for letting me know. I’ll tell to just not bother with putting on a hijab anymore when she visits her family.
The bombing campaign will do absolutely nothing to topple the regime. Israel has now hit orphanages and residential areas.
The people already hate this regime.
Also known as putting words into people’s mouths.
Ask any Iranian woman. Jina got beaten to death for not wearing her veil correctly.
Shut, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck up.
In 2009, the government killed 1.500 people because they went out to ask were their votes went. 10 years later they killed the same amount because people protested an overnight gas price hike of 100%. Then they killed a similar amount, because they beat a Kurdish woman to death for not wearing a hijab. Last year, a wave of gas attacks on girls schools happened and the government looked the other way.
Mossadegh would have led Iran to a better future. Both the Shah and the IRI Ran It into the ground.
Almost as if two thing can be shit at the same time
This isn’t about siding with anyone. You’re putting words in my mouth. I never said the majority would not take up arms, I said there are groups who are ikely not to pick up arms.
There is no Iranian nationality, there is a core of Persian Iranians, who are considered the only Iranians and then there are peripheral groups. Those groups neither feel Iranian, nor do they like the central government.
Just listed you 3 major groups who do not see themselves as Iranian, because the country doesn’t do that either.
Iran has 82 million inhabitants.
The amount of people willing to die for this regime is much much smaller. 16% are Azerí, 10% Kurds and 2% Balochi, all groups who would rather die than fight for the IRI. Not that this would stop the IRI from pressing 15 year olds into service, but there wouldn’t be many volunteers.
The IR brutalizes its people, but doesn’t treat other countries directly that way
It would be political suicide
Re: Chattel Slavery: Egypt after the 7th century, Subsaharan Africa and after the Trans-Atlantic trade was shut down, the trans-saharan and red sea trade continued to ship Chattel slaves to the Middle East. Mauretania abolished it’s Chattel Slavery system legally in 1981, but the practice continues to this day.
Everywhere, where humans established empires, they dehumanized and colonized. Claiming that somehow western Europeans specifically are inherently more prone to doing that.
Even the claim “since Jesus’ birth” false. In the meantime, especially in the early years, there were larger empires than the “western European” ones.
Well fuck UK media then, lol.
Maybe I misunderstood you. I’ve been seeing too many people running defense for Iran these days, and by running defense I don’t mean justifying Iranian retaliation (totally justified to strike back if you’re attacked) but rather defending the Iranian government retroactively.
Both Myanmar and Ethiopia are in active states of civil war. By the very nature of civil war they are doing much worse to their citizens. Iran hasn’t been in a civil war, yet it’s still brutalizing its citizens. Even more than the Saudis.