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Uh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran
Iran is only hitting US military bases in other countries, because even now an attack on US soil is a terrible idea.
trump and Iran are both evil, but Iran isn't ran by idiots. They understand the game.
Like in most conflicts, both sides can be shitty. But Iran makes what trump is doing with ICE like nothing. They're both evil and shouldn't be in power, but Iran's government has killed looooads more Iranians than trump.
I wonder what Iran would be like if it still had its democratic government before the U.S. and U.K. orchestrated a coup in 1953 that installed the Shah for the crime of nationalizing their oil industry. Iran was on a path to democracy and the US undid that and installed an authoritarian leader.
Obviously way better...
But that's not whose been running Iran?
Like, America would be a lot better off if Al Gore and Bernie Sanders had been elected too.
Right, but the people running Iran right now are the result of the US interfering explicitly to combat Iran's socialization of their oil. Which reflexively led to the Iranian Revolution and the current Islamic Republic. The current regime would not exist without US interference. Al Gore and Bernie Sanders suffered domestic interference, not foreign.
You could also say Iran's pro-democratic people and socialists suffered a little bit of 'domestic intereference' when the islamists started killing them off after the revolution
A downstream effect, but you're absolutely right
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We will never know and that's not the reality of today. Useless to speculate about, the regime can convert to democracy and stop oppressing its citizens any day they want, but they won't.
They tried that already. Where did it get them?
If you think the US would lay off the attacks at all if Iran was more democratic, you're delusional. The last thing the US wants is for it's prospective resource colonies to be democratic. Because democracies tend to insist on getting a fair deal for their resources so they can reinvest the money on development. Far better to install a military dictatorship that depends on foreign backing and in turn suppresses the people into compliance, while the colonizer steals their resources. Which is exactly the system the US installed in Iran and kept around for decades.
At this point, the US mostly just wants Iranians to suffer (assuming subjugating them again isn't on the table), because they had the audacity to overthrow their puppet and they don't want any other colonies getting any ideas.
I am not sure you want to go down this road, the US has killed likely millions of children in iraq, iran, afganistan, yemen, etc
Millions? Bruh if you want to be taken seriously you have at least try to sound like you know what numbers mean
Lol. Not a big fan of the news, eh?
The fuck are you talking about even?
Why add a shit ton of countries?
I'd still be surprised if they directly killed millions of children in all of the middle east. But even if they had, why wouldn't you compare that to how many Irans government has killed in all those countries?
Google it and get back to us
Sorry, but this is a false equivalence.
Of course things are terrible inside Iran, especially for women. However. This is about each country’s military strategy.
If you want to whataboutism into “but look at their human rights for their own people”, I will gladly send you here and there for a moment of pause and reflection.
And yes Iran is strategecally far superior in the way they are playing this, but if you think that through, you will understand that Donny and Benji are providing a perfect external threat to Iran, bolstering the perceived need for a ‘protector’ in the from of the IRG.
This zionist war is helping Iran to keep it’s status quo, rather than letting the people continue the beginnings of a groundswell movement which was beginning to take place right before the war.
Your wiki article far from unbiased, and you might want to take into account who’s been interfering for over half a century tool.
TLDR; don’t compare a theocracy vs a (kleptocracy + theocracy) and say one is better than the other. Go print a newspaper in Jerusalem with FREE PALESTINE as the headline, or go walk around freely as a hispanic looking person in any democratic state in the US.
US military bases in other countries are very explicitly considered "US soil."
Do you expect a country defending itself against attack to travel around the world to attack instead of using those resources defensively?
They very much are not, at least not by default. That's typically reserved for embassies and consulates. Many foreign bases remain under host nation control.
You know they meant the US proper.
I am definitely not an expert on Iran, so I will not say whether Iran truly has a history of human rights abuses or not, but I have to say the citations of that Wikipedia article ia full of citations from sources that have clear vested interest in the United State hegemony. This is the exact kind of Wikipedia article teachers warned aginst citing when I was in school.
In the time it took you to type that a rational adult could have just looked it up...
You're from .ml, I have zero idea what you would consider an acceptable source. And I'm not fucking playing that game where every time I link something you say it's not good enough.
You didn't understand then
You don't understand now.
I see no reason to believe my time would be more helpful than you're teachers.
Don't accuse others of failing to learn from their teachers lol.
Yeah man, autocorrect isn't a thing...
Still not surprising .ml thinks Iran are good guys.
They are against America. Like.. Not even a question.
Are you talking about Iran or .ml users?
Because if the later, yeah no shit, here in vietnam, there's still areas with insane birth defects due to agent orange and elevated arsenic due to agent blue.
Iran are the good guys if we are comparing them to America.
If only they hadn't had to game so much, they'd be down there helping them hang socialists
Down where? I am in vietnam rn.
You don't need to be an expert on Iran to know about the human right abuses lol
And you don't need to be one on America to know its much much worse.