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.

Whoever's idea it was to use fucking Grok for targeting with no human intervention. And the "haven't washed my hands in a decade" douchebag, Pete Kegsbreath.

but and

This doesn't have to be an either/or situation.

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.

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.

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?

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

Yup. The guy's not wrong.

We shouldn'tve meddled, but I can still blame theocratic authoritarians for being theocratic authoritarians who abuse and murder protesters

Don't forget the Brits!

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.

Yeah, but most of the World does, which means that the American and Israeli leadership shouldn't be able to travel to most of the World or even fly over most of the World without getting arrested (if those countries actually properly abided by that treaty, which many don't).

Every single UN Member State is subject to the ICJ. The ICC is another story though.