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What Trump and Netanyahu really don''t want is for the Iranian pro-democracy movement to succeed.
Last time, they bombed Evin (notorious prison holding political prisoners), murdering the elite opposition figures. This time too they have directly targeted Reformists and opposition leaders, anyone who's not a hardliner and who's been working on normalizing the relationship with the West.
From their actions, we can derive their intent. Anyone listening to their words should recluse themselves from society so the rest of us can advance free of the burden that they are.
This war is certainly a blatant breach of international law but I won't shed any tears if that fucker is really dead.
That's the correct way to interpret this situation.
I mean, the CIA got him in power to begin with...
Iran had a relatively progressive democracy before we installed their authoritarian theocracy in exchange for cheap oil. Khamenei was very involved in that.
Israel has been trying to kill him ever since.
You confused the Islamic Republic with the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi era.
CIA installed the son of the previous usurper. Theocracy was not installed - it was a revolution against that.
So... the consequences of the CIA's actions?
Turns out raping peoples basic human right to democracy, and installing puppet dictatorships, is fundamentally unstable... let alone morally, ethically, or legally justifiable.
The CIA: "but oil... and corporate profits! The Dow is over 50,000 dollarydoos"
So… the consequences of the CIA’s actions?
That's really fucking lazy. Also the consequences of British adventures in the century right up to that point, of Mongols torching everything to the ground, and oh Xerxes should have punished Dardanelles harder.
Like, yes it's bad to rape people's dignity, but come on, at least glance at Wikipedia sideways.
Khamenei was very involved in that.
You'll shit bricks when you realise Khomeini and Khamenei are not the same Ayatollah :D
Blaming everything on the CIA effectively white washes the Iranian regime.
Was he hanging out at a girls' elementary school?
Fuck Israel
Best outcome is yahu and trump are next
Unfortunately that's like hitting two major jackpots in a row at a casino, not likely to happen. One can dream though! Sure would make the world a better place overnight.
Will never happen, Iran has a very weak intelligence system that is very easy to crack and compromise. Hence why they were able to take out so many Iranian leaders and allies. However, the US and Israel have some of the most sophisticated intelligence networks in the world. Nobody is touching them. The only way they can go down is via internal institutions such as Knesset/Congress, courts, government institutions, or popular uprising.
Feeling some variation of this
Yeah, two awful authoritarian regimes are currently fighting and one of them is worse, but that doesn't make the other one good.
3 awful authoritarian regimes are fighting
Is it hunting season for oppressive leaders of soverign nations? Do us next, please!
Best we can do is a school shooting, sorry.
Great, so then what? Another guy they don't fuckin like comes in. It never ends.
Now it will be Saudi Iran.
Don't believe anything they tell us unless there's corroboration.
ISW is keeping track of assassinations and bombings, and are calling this "unconfirmed." But they do aggregate several sources:
I do wonder what happens next. Does the IRGC take over as a military junta or something? That sounds... unfun.
Tin foil hat time: IF he is dead he was killed before the strikes started.
Solid strategy. You can’t kill me if I’m already dead! #checkmate ♟️
Finally some good f*cking news.