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Trump, Netanyahu and Khamenei – three angry old men who could get us all killed
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Khamenei maybe an angry old man considering his country is facing an existential threat but Netanyahu is a wanted war criminal and Trump is a rapist with nefarious ties to the notorious Epstein
My Iranian ass spending minutes to get my VPN working so I can access lemmy and watch people whitewash the man responsible for all my misery only to shit on Netanyahu and Trump:
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?
Ali Khamenei.
I mean screw the men responsible for your misery, but Iran is objectively the good guy when it comes to Palestine. We don't have quite as much opportunity to shit on Khomeini now that Assad isn't around, but we still hate him don't worry.
From what I understand from your message it looks like to me that this is all something like a game for you people to virtue signal.
Edit: Funny how you got Khomeini and Khamenei mixed up. It shows how much you know and care about the matter.
No? What do you even mean by whitewashing him? The atrocities he commits just aren't relevant to the topic at hand, so they're not brought up.
Wow, TIL. I thought their names were both Khomeini but that makes more sense.
Not every conflict has a good guy, there are no good guys, the Khamenei regime is evil and so is the leadership of Isreal. Just because the latter attacked the former does not make them innocent, let the bastards burn and pity the civilian.
In any other country, Khamenei would be considered a pedophile.
You know, the whole marrying children business.
Stop pretending like Khamenei isn't a criminal. He's not just an angry old man because they're "facing an existential threat" he's a fuckwad through and through and no Iranian would shed a tear if he was shelled. Israel certainly started this iteration of the conflict but Khamenei and the regime has a rap sheet far longer than Trump's.
Khamenei is a priest. 'Nuff said. Israel is a theocratic state. Religious people attacking each other, with normal people in the middle. Once more, Rome did it first, 900 something years ago.
What do I know? My parents came to Denmark fleeing from this shitty regime. What do you know?
Of course I have family in Iran, even though I don't know them too well. How are you reading that I'm happy that terrorist (Israeli) bombs are falling on people? Regular people are always the losers in warfare, no matter the circumstances. Just wouldn't be sad if it happened to fall on Khamenei - nor if a missile landed on Bibi's house.
It's so hilarious how they try to spin any criticism of the IR as blind Zionism. Gotta love it.
Israel is undoubtedly the most evil regime in the world but upholding another evil regime oppressing 90+ million people just because they lay claim to standing up to Israel - without producing any particularly strong results - doesn't seem like the tradeoff to go for. Two wrongs don't make a right. Iran can still be on the right side of history without Khamenei and his goons.
Again, what does that have to do with not supporting the regime? They're not there to protect the people.
Of course not, USA and Israel won't ever let Iran thrive - but it can't be any worse, like in Syria. New crappy regime to replace the old, but a slight improvement nonetheless.
I am, but I won't claim that I'm not first and foremost Danish - apart from when it comes to food.. But I do feel like I'm allowed to have a strong opinion on the regime.
You are out of touch if you think Trump is worse than Khamenei
EDIT: Lemmy, wake me up when Trump orders to kill the protestets, because by every passing day most of you look more and more delusional to me, lost in your own hate. Feels weird defending trump, but there is a day and night difference between the two. See what Iranians themselves are saying.
Trump is actively helping to exterminate hundreds of thousands in Gaza. He is orders of magnitude worse than Khamenei
I'm not sure what did you mean by this. Violently attacking police officers usually results in the same thing anyways. Read the first lines from that article, he's not talking about normal protesters and neither was that government official. Very poorly worded and stupidly timed.
Because someone didn't wear a gender discriminatory dress that the president enforces upon it's population? Dude, get reality checked. Trump is a piece of shit, but he's pretty far from such extreme levels of evilness. When I'll see news like "Trump administration executes Harvard students for protesting", then I'll re-consider my views
EDIT: Lemmy, please stop supporting radical islam. Not even muslims like you. Wtf is wrong with you people?
Lots of people in this site are sympathetic to any tyrant as long as they aren’t ruling over a western country.