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Well, Iran had a democratic government before the U.S. and U.K. orchestrated the coup in 1953 that installed the Shah. The government was led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who was democratically elected and nationalized the oil industry.
And?
We are talking about what is now, and not what was before
Good thing we’re about to give them a half a trillion dollars. Goddamn the entire world sucks.
little men will do anything to stay in power.
I don't think that's an accurate title for the piece they wrote.
Shithole country doing shithole things.
At least they uphold their laws, even if they're religious trash. We can't even get Trump out after two impeachments and evidence he's a pedo. So who's worse, a country with extreme religious laws that actually enacts said laws or one with much more reasonable ones but never enforces them.
Enforcing shitty laws is shitty. And you're right: both are shithole countries doing shithole things.
Por que no los dos ?
A nice little reminder that, even with everything else, Iran is still a shit hole.
That's right. Trump shouldn't have started a war with Iran, but it's still a shithole country.
No, the war was a good idea and the consequences of it proved that.
If Iran had nukes (which it would soon have, thanks to Trump, who in first term closed nuclear dearment agreement with Iran) and the control over Hormuz Strait and Russia as an ally, it could close the strait just because it felt so, which would be way worse than the current situation.
Get fucked, idiot. There's no evidence that iran was actually close to getting nukes. Trump was just a massive cunt in starting a war with Iran.
They had almost 10 years of almost uninterrupted development and 2 nuclear countries as allies.
They must've been close.
The war didn't start over just nukes, but also because of the Iranian people, supporting Israel and not letting Iran control such important geopolitical point as the hormuz strait.
Or at least how I see it.
Imagine being such a shit hole that the world is rooting for Iran.
This mentality exhausts me. If people can stop treating geopolitics like a fucking sports match that would be great. We don't have to root for anyone in a given conflict. We can acknowledge both sides are bad and not matter the outcome it will be bad for common people.
If we ever are able to do this we might actually have some progress. But until then we continue to worship inherently evil states
Isnt that basically an execution by torture? I dont think anyone could survive 74 actual lashes if they do it like other countries with lashings.