Just the normal leftist conspiracy theory proven correct as always, but this time it's a speedrun
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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Mossad agents: "60 gazillion protesters killed! We have to save them by killing everyone that's left!"
Liberals are midwits at best, who knew? 🤷😅
TBF most of us used to be liberals, and we have no more wits now than we did then.
i sure don't and age is starting to make me forgot more often so i'll have less wit soon. lol
Self reporting as "I would have fallen for the Iran propaganda" a year, two max ago.
Trump and co. aren't even pretending, which is precisely what they campaigned for as "being authentic" and "telling it like it is". Liberals, on the other hand, are pretenders.
Strictly speaking, that headline and the articles I've read in the Western press, suggest the idea was to incite a rebellion by clearing a path. Meaning by weakening the regime and giving the protestors the opportunity to seize the government.
It doesn't suggest they were trying what they did in Afghanistan, finding all the incels and giving them money and guns.
I mean they waited until a week after they rounded the everyone related to rebellion up and killed them.
Who did they think was left after the 1000+ executions? That might have been legitimate 2 weeks earlier.
- Marx : "the freedom of the workers will be accomplish by the workers themselves"
- Workers fighting for freedom
- Marxist : "It's CIA !"
Marx also railed against metaphysicians, who dogmatically try to apply one set of conditions to an entirely different context, ignoring the particularities. The concrete reality is that the CIA and Mossad were infesting and sparking the protests for the purposes of installing a reactionary monarchy. This isn't worker liberation, the class interests served are the imperialist bourgeoisie. Without a strong and unified working class, revolution cannot succeed, and so the better organized factions like Mossad and the CIA would be able to take advantage of this.
"We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds. And I think the Kurds kept them," Trump said.
"We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them. And I think the Kurds took the guns," he added.
Sorry to break it to you bro, you're not getting that $7,000 💔
Did I say CIA, Mossad or other imperialist state were not involve ?
I pointed out that you couldn't pretend defending the working in class when denying its agency. The movement "jin, jîyan, azadî" started way before the US and Israel operations (2022); kurdish people are organizing for their freedom even before the 1st war of Irak, and one of the few example of real socialism (democratic confederalism).
Yep, the imperialist state try to use those movement; the responsibility of the revolutionary movement inside those imperialist state is to fight the imperialism of their own state, not saping the revolutionary movement in other state
US and Israeli operations within Iran are as old as the current government.
This is just my opinion, but as far as I understand it Iran can't quit the war unless it gives massive concessions to the people who bombed children and their leadership on the first day of the war DURING NEGOTIATIONS. You can't opt out of it because the US and Israel clearly won't accept anything less than neoliberal policy under a puppet regime, they certainly won't let a socialist government take power. So I believe the logical conclusion for socialists within Iran is to defend their country and people in a platform of national unity. Showing up in the defense of regular people is necessary for regular people to see that socialists actually care about them not dying.
This thread is explicitly about imperialist backing in the recent protests, not just protests in general. We weren't talking about the kurdish conflict or anything, so it's weird for your original comment to mock people for correctly accusing heavy foreign involvement.
My top comment was snark-ish, so I'll elaborate my real positions here:
I think many of the protestors are real, and unrest is not fully foreign. More specifically, they are protesting about heavy economic turmoil and internal repression. The latter is definitely real and I do not deny that, and so is the former. But a large part of the economic struggle in Iran is imposed by heavy sanctions and wars (this war already happened last year!) by the US and Israel, to overthrow the state for their own interests. US using sanctions in this way is documented in many countries, and they are using the natural unrest, throwing oil in the fire by both waging more war and strangling the economy further. Their goal is to overthrow the state and either install a western-friendly state that sells away its natural resources at the expense of their people, or another Libya. Iran is the only nation in the region actively resisting Israeli-American bloodthirst, and have been dreaming of this war for decades.
Overthrowing Iran (at least, now) would serve Israel/American imperialism, and would leave Israel unopposed to butcher the north of the region freely. Reality is not neatly isolated into compartments, something like this would have consequences and US/Israeli would rabidly seize the opportunity.
Hope that made sense
I pointed out that you couldn’t pretend defending the working in class when denying its agency.
There’s no evidence of us denying the agency of the working class, but Western media have groomed you to believe it. Previously:
Citations Needed podcast: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center
We discuss the uses and misuses of liberal standpoint theory to promote US meddling, sanctions, and bombing. With guest Vincent Bevins.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
- https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War#Weapons_of_mass_destruction
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_rape_allegations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park
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You don't have to agree with the regime to know US/Israeli attempts to over throw it will be worse for the Iranian people. The external contradiction facing Iran must be overcome before the internal contradictions can be resolved. There is no social growth under imperial boots.
If you are claiming to be a communist then please apply material analysis
If you oppose the Iranian government, do you think whatever replaces it will be better if Mossad and the CIA overthrow it?
I mean, that's how we got here, so I guess doubling down will only take us to where we are, but with extra effort.
The current government overthrew the US backed monarchy, so in a way it was caused by US intervention but indirectly.
That's not my reference. I'm saying CIA backed the current authoritarian state of Iran when the left was gaining ground in Iran through democracy.
The first example most people cite when the subject is "why don't you like CIA". Second is likely Pinochet in Chile. Same play book.
2003: Communists are against fascist religious tyranny in Iraq!
2004: Communists are against fascist religious tyranny in Afghanistan!
2011:Communists are against fascist religious tyranny in Libya!
2015:Communists are against fascist religious tyranny in Syria!
2022:Communists are against fascist religious tyranny in Palestine, free Palestine from Hamas!
What does siding against the governments of these places mean? Oh right, in every case it means siding with the rapacious genocidal US empire. How interesting of you to leave that out, you Totally Real Communist you.
Who funded that regime coming into power?
“Coming into power” is putting the cart before the horse. The odds of regime change don’t look good, and what would replace it hasn’t been decided. I doubt “crown prince” Reza Pahlavi is still a serious contender.