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Inside Iran’s protests: ‘Either we overthrow the regime, or we are destroyed. We have nothing left to lose.’
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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Iran powerless even after the terrorist orgs they bankroll went wonky? Tell that to the unarmed civilians they shot in the fucking face.
You're a disgusting anti-human ghoul, shilling for tyrants and murders.
Yes not giving the US and Israel cause for more Iran war is "disgusting," great point. That is the quality of conversation I have come to expect from the mechanized troll legions and their carpet bombing of social media campaigns with diarrhea shit.
It works on some people, the weak minded.
Why do you consider rape, murder, and maiming as state policy as an acceptable way to terrorize the Iranian people for protesting?
Israel rapes kills and murders. You want to give them cause to wreck havoc in Iran.
Because Isreal has acted evilly, that justifies the Iranian government shooting their citizens in the face for protesting?
Your logic would not fool a child. Because Iran bad let worse Israel and US people make it worse. War mongers do not make very good arguments, just repeat them aggressively, and are backed up by the government running legions of trolls and bots and using their corrupt influence to make it seem like those war mongering justifications are accepted by people.
No to Iran War 2. Spin that.
The only people shooting Iranians today is the Iranian government, your attempts to deflect aren't working. Why is Iran murdering and maiming protesters justified to you?
You are trying to trick people into thinking that flawed logic is something shared by a lot of people, and it's not. You could justify going to war with any country with your logic. Government bad, therefore war with them good. Brilliant truly. But it's not about making good arguments is it? It's about making it seem like people think like that to influence them, and it's about bullying people into not challenging your arguments made on behalf of the US and Israel to justify more war.
You depress me. People are being tortured and murdered by their dictator for protesting, and you're justifying the active, tangible evil with a theoretical war. Go outside and hug a person please :(
Iran rapes, kills and murders.
Israel rapes, murders, shunts millions of others into ghettos and tries to final solution them all, while lashing out at their powerless neighbors with absolute military and intelligenc superiority, under false pretenses. Then schemes to keep lashing out after international pressure forced them to put their fhetto reprisals and bad neighborism back on simmer.
Which is where we are. Restarting bad faith war between an advanced military with unlimited funds and a rudimentary military with limited funds.
You are going to get those protesters hurt with your cassus belli here.
I dont want a war. I dont want military intervention. I just want these protestors to succeed. I know some of them. They should not have to live under the IRI anymore.
As I've explained ad nauseum, the only way for that to happen is for the democratic establishment to be replaced with agressive popular reformists.
Have you ever considered that you might be wrong? The only way? Seems a bit closed minded to think that way.
Your username checks out. That you would question undeniable fact discounts everything you have to say.
We cannot trust you, too misguided, or a cynically manipulator of the well intentioned.