this is more of a “let them fight”, just grab popcorn and enjoy the show, not sure any side is really good.
except for the countless Iranian civilians the US/Israel will carpet bomb/starve.
would say I’d feel bad for the Israeli civilians, but goven how they mostly celebrated the genocide, and block arabs from their shelters. they have systematically exhausted any ounce of empathy I am willing to give.
And I am technically Israeli (was 100% zionists until I lived there and saw that the antizionist talk wasn’t propaganda but the truth and left Israel). would love to return once apartheid collapses.
The image is of Khomeini, who is long-dead. Nevertheless, there is a strange current of ‘critical support’ (often lacking any serious criticism) for the Islamic Revolution and the resulting Islamic Republic of Iran, despite Khomeini’s success being predicated on massacres of leftists, including the total purge of the Tudeh Party.
Despite the current flare-up, this is only related to current events by the strange tendency of some nominal leftists to simp for the Islamic Republic on campist grounds.
In terms of current events, I agree - except for the civilian population, which always suffers, there are no good guys between the US, Iran, and Israel at current, even in relative terms.
it absolutely breaks my heart, because I have family in Israel, and whenever I talk to them they are crying about why would Iranian be so cruel, and also super happy and joyful that they kill as many Palestinians as possible. don’t talk to them often, and I can’t understand, they are in Israel, they see the same things I saw when I was there, why can’t they get past they 24/7 lifelong propaganda like I did?
I really hope apartheid falls, and they get to live in a free democratic country, and be grumpy that their racist asses have to be free in a country where everyone is free. I hope the apartheid they support collapses before they get kill by it.
Khomeini took power originally in 1979 after returning from exile in Paris, right after the deposition of the Shah? People either seem to praise Shah era Iran for its supposed liberalism (when it had really ruthless police system and crackdown on dissidents) or this wave of sympathy for the Islamic regime.
Ironically, it all stems back to 1953 when Mossadegh tried to nationalise some oil fields and was couped and Reza Pahlavi was installed. This led to this deeply unpopular regime and the mess we see today.
this is more of a “let them fight”, just grab popcorn and enjoy the show, not sure any side is really good.
except for the countless Iranian civilians the US/Israel will carpet bomb/starve.
would say I’d feel bad for the Israeli civilians, but goven how they mostly celebrated the genocide, and block arabs from their shelters. they have systematically exhausted any ounce of empathy I am willing to give.
And I am technically Israeli (was 100% zionists until I lived there and saw that the antizionist talk wasn’t propaganda but the truth and left Israel). would love to return once apartheid collapses.
The image is of Khomeini, who is long-dead. Nevertheless, there is a strange current of ‘critical support’ (often lacking any serious criticism) for the Islamic Revolution and the resulting Islamic Republic of Iran, despite Khomeini’s success being predicated on massacres of leftists, including the total purge of the Tudeh Party.
Despite the current flare-up, this is only related to current events by the strange tendency of some nominal leftists to simp for the Islamic Republic on campist grounds.
In terms of current events, I agree - except for the civilian population, which always suffers, there are no good guys between the US, Iran, and Israel at current, even in relative terms.
it absolutely breaks my heart, because I have family in Israel, and whenever I talk to them they are crying about why would Iranian be so cruel, and also super happy and joyful that they kill as many Palestinians as possible. don’t talk to them often, and I can’t understand, they are in Israel, they see the same things I saw when I was there, why can’t they get past they 24/7 lifelong propaganda like I did?
I really hope apartheid falls, and they get to live in a free democratic country, and be grumpy that their racist asses have to be free in a country where everyone is free. I hope the apartheid they support collapses before they get kill by it.
not asking you or anyone to empathize with them.
Khomeini took power originally in 1979 after returning from exile in Paris, right after the deposition of the Shah? People either seem to praise Shah era Iran for its supposed liberalism (when it had really ruthless police system and crackdown on dissidents) or this wave of sympathy for the Islamic regime.
Ironically, it all stems back to 1953 when Mossadegh tried to nationalise some oil fields and was couped and Reza Pahlavi was installed. This led to this deeply unpopular regime and the mess we see today.