Post #3048835

2024-11-04 18:59 UTC

@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social The groundwork for Ayatollah Khomeini was laid by the British and the US dominating Iran for their economic interests, including overthrowing the democratically elected government in 1953, because it threatened to introduce socialism to Iran's oil, attacking British superiority. The truth is, the vitriol against modern Iran, which is merely a continuation of the previous authoritarianism, is entirely about it no longer being economically friendly to the US and the UK.

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@timfordwrites@mstdn.ca 2024-11-04 19:01

@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social All this crap and propaganda about "women's rights" or "LGBTQ rights" in the Middle East is a smokescreen. If the west gave two shits about these rights, they'd concentrate their efforts on foreign exchange programs, promotion of socio-cultural exports, diplomatic soft power, and normalized relations and trade. But that would mean accepting that these states get to control their own resources, which would make life in the West more expensive. And that is unacceptable.

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@phaedral@mastodon.social 2024-11-04 21:37

@timfordwrites@mstdn.ca @MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social @B_Whitewind@regenerate.social the interwebs know all!

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@tyx@lor.sh 2024-11-05 11:08

@timfordwrites@mstdn.ca @MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social >The truth is, the vitriol against modern >Iran, which is merely a continuation of >the previous authoritarianism Have you even been in Iran once? They live in a literal late USSR with their hypocritical religious despots instead of the Party and Quran instead of Marxism. Cut that bullshit about anti-colonialism and freedom-fighters. Iran is just now helping to bomb a country in Europe to help a fellow from dictator-club. Would it, just theoretically, try to feed all sorts of religious shitheads in the region?

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