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No you cannot crush our foreign backed armed terrorist insurrection. Wait, protests in our country?! (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 day ago by [M] to c/ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml
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[+] -7 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

It's pretty easy to find my real name from my username here and see that it's blatantly of Persian origin. You've jumped the gun with that accusation. It works much better if you point out that I'm overwhelmingly likely to be biased given that people that oppose a country's government are much more likely to emigrate and I've only claimed to have relatives in Iran, as that undermines my point without risking being totally fucking wrong.

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago

    I don't know what Persian name AnyOldName3 is a homonym of, but isn't your profile picture that game where you bomb Iran? If memory serves, the first level is running around with a machine gun, doing a terrorist attack in Tehran, firing full-auto past civilians.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 21 hours ago* (2 children)

    Any person blaming the Iranian government instead of the West for the current situation in Iran is either ignorant or trolling.

    It's like Miami Cubans saying that Cuba just needs free market capitalism while the US is imposing a blockade on it.

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  • [–] 0 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    You're putting a lot of words into my mouth. No one's more to blame for the current situation in Iran than the West, but the Iranian government has more than its fair share of what could be incredibly charitably referred to as unforced errors. There are plenty of Iranians living outside of Iran who have such a warped view of the CIA-backed Shah regime that they want his son reinstalled as monarch, which is fucking nuts. That doesn't include any of my relatives.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 12 hours ago*

    That's great but Iran is also the main party actually fighting against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and facing the entire West for it.

    I'm sure the Iranian government has a lot of faults but the one thing you have to give it credit for is that it's sovereign and not a puppet regime for the USA like Jordan, Egypt and basically everything else in the Gulf.

    And the main thing people in Iran are unhappy with are still the prices. The economy. That's why they demonstrated.

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