I agree, but you should also pay for killing women for not wearing hijab.
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There is already sanctions on Iran related to human right abuses by countries backing a genocidal state with weapons and diplomatic protection. Israel and the usa are the countries that are not getting punished
I’m against that too, but not wearing hijab is not a capital offense in Iran.
The famous case of Masa Amini was a case of resisting arrest gone wrong and she died from police brutality. Saying she was killed for not wearing hijab is like saying Eric Garner was killed for not paying taxes; it’s an incomplete story.
People hate whataboutism until it’s used to cast shade on the enemies of America’s oligarchs.
I don’t get how people can hate billionaires, then spout rhetoric that directly helps their genocidal programs. Iran is the lesser evil in this fight, and in fact one of the only countries standing up to the world’s biggest threat- American/western imperialism. You don’t have to like them, but you also don’t have to carry water for the oppressors.
You're allowed to not like both of them
If every time Iran calls out the warcrimes and genocide of the US, you answer with a criticism of Iran, all you are doing is saying that the US is right to do warcrimes. That it’s justified because Iran mistreats some of its citizens.
Iran is literally fighting to stop its schoolgirls from being bombed, and you’re out here saying, “Maybe if you hadn’t forced the little girls to wear burkas they’d still be alive.”
Again, you don’t have to like them, but maybe just shut up about it for a second so we can all focus on the bigger issue. It’s called critical support.
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The western leaders should be tried for crimes against humanity at the Hague. Don't you think indiscriminate bombing, genocide, and child sex trafficking are a bigger problem?
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The messenger is awful, but the message his correct: the US war criminals must be brought to justice.
The messenger is awful
I'll take ten Mojtaba Khameneis over one Pete Hegseth. Hell, I'll take a Khamenei over Keir Starmer, at this point.
Of course, he's little more than a figurehead under the current Iranian government, given that their Parliament can't safely convene and their military is fully operating via the Mosaic Strategy of decentralized retaliation against ongoing US/Israeli bombardment. I'm not sure why people have decided he's a bad leader, given that he hasn't made any meaningful leadership decisions since taking office.
But I guess he's Muslim and unseasonably tan, so that's enough to make him a bad guy.
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Before blaming the current Iranian government of killing its own people, one should remember it was the US made it possible for them to come to power. By fomenting unrest against a democratically elected government which was as western as possible.
We shouldn'tve meddled, but I can still blame theocratic authoritarians for being theocratic authoritarians who abuse and murder protesters
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True.
Fair. But let's not forget all of their own people they killed. Trump, Netanyahu and Khamenei should all share a cell in The Hague.
let’s not forget all of their own people they killed
It was crazy to hear US news reporting "Iran has killed 30k, 50k, 90k of their own people!!" based on unnamed sources and Facebook memes. Meanwhile, the journalists on the ground in Gaza reporting on the genocide were systematically assassinated by the Israeli government, while hospitals were obliterated, and communications severed. And the US national media response became "information is unreliable so we're just not going to say a number anymore".
I wonder how many Iranians killed during the current US/Israel air raids and infrastructure annihilation will be retroactively counted as "The Iranians killed themselves", once American journalists finally make their way back into the country.
The Americans think that their propaganda still works. fuck that disgusting rogue empire.
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The regime that slaughters and oppresses its own people so heavily is going to have a tough time here, even though the US is guilty of what they accuse.
As an American, I agree, the government needs to be held accountable
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Fuck all the goverments who oppress their citizens or the whole world so that a few can cling to power. In US it is the billionaires in Russia or Iran it is the supreme leaders in Israel it is the members of a society. US/Israel/Russia can afford to be a world-wide menace because they have the power to back that up. Believe me the religious supreme leaders of Iran would be doing similar shit had they the same power and leverage as US. They would be quite happy to use religion as an excuse to wage a holy war. They all deserve to rot in the same cesspit and they are not your friends.
The difference is that one of those countries is actually supporting a genocide and actively bombing civilians. We don't need to hear about your what ifs, because America is actively murdering innocent civilians in Iran, and supplying the weapons for a genocide in Gaza and now Lebanon.
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