Khamenei fans on a walk in London today to tell people that they're on the "right side of history". Do they mean the far right side of history? pic.twitter.com/0qjQQtIL6S
As Richard Dawkins said about religion “You’re only a Christian because you were born in America. Had you been born in Israel you’d be a Jew, in India a Hindu or in Iran, a Muslim”
When you only know your country as a theocracy, you grow to think theocracy is normal, just as Brits accept an expensive monarchy and Americans a dysfunctional electoral system.
Iran is only a theocracy because the British feared losing their oil fields when Iran’s nascent democracy proposed nationalisation of its resources. Britain, aided by the USA overthrew the Iranian attempt at democracy and reimposed the brutal Palavi family. That the only way Iranians could rid themselves of the brutal police state Iran had become was to support an Islamic revolution is totally the fault of the UK and USA. I doubt the Iranians who supported the revolution realised that they would replace one form of repression with another.
Since the war with Iraq, Iran has kept within its borders, has not attacked its neighbours. Israel alone is responsible for the current situation, aided and abetted, as usual, by the USA. Iraq didn’t attack Israel, but is now forced to defend itself, just like Ukraine, but with less help from the rest of the world.
Netanyahu is a war criminal who is doing anything he can to cling to power, because just like Trump, as long as he is in government he is immune from prosecution.
As for “The far right side of history”, that again is Israel and USA.
I hold no brief for Iran or Islam, but I can understand how the one is the unifying force for the other when it seems the whole world is against you.
The only light that may come from the death and destruction in Iran could be the self destruction of MAGA and the GOP returning to actual policy. So, just as Palestinians were robbed of land, homes, and businesses to assuage European guilt, so must Iranians pay for America’s failings.
I wish I could have seen the other potential Iran. It was shaping up to be a highly democratic place, but was overthrown by USA and UK-assisted insurgents before I was born. As it is, what we see being whipped up is another go around to topple Iran again. Israel leads USA by the nose somehow, and that means a great many nations will join with the Israel-led carnage, or simply fail to oppose them. Khamenei is not a good guy, but Netanyahu is a gore-soaked tumour in the middle east.
As Richard Dawkins said about religion “You’re only a Christian because you were born in America. Had you been born in Israel you’d be a Jew, in India a Hindu or in Iran, a Muslim”
When you only know your country as a theocracy, you grow to think theocracy is normal, just as Brits accept an expensive monarchy and Americans a dysfunctional electoral system.
Iran is only a theocracy because the British feared losing their oil fields when Iran’s nascent democracy proposed nationalisation of its resources. Britain, aided by the USA overthrew the Iranian attempt at democracy and reimposed the brutal Palavi family. That the only way Iranians could rid themselves of the brutal police state Iran had become was to support an Islamic revolution is totally the fault of the UK and USA. I doubt the Iranians who supported the revolution realised that they would replace one form of repression with another.
Since the war with Iraq, Iran has kept within its borders, has not attacked its neighbours. Israel alone is responsible for the current situation, aided and abetted, as usual, by the USA. Iraq didn’t attack Israel, but is now forced to defend itself, just like Ukraine, but with less help from the rest of the world.
Netanyahu is a war criminal who is doing anything he can to cling to power, because just like Trump, as long as he is in government he is immune from prosecution.
As for “The far right side of history”, that again is Israel and USA.
I hold no brief for Iran or Islam, but I can understand how the one is the unifying force for the other when it seems the whole world is against you.
The only light that may come from the death and destruction in Iran could be the self destruction of MAGA and the GOP returning to actual policy. So, just as Palestinians were robbed of land, homes, and businesses to assuage European guilt, so must Iranians pay for America’s failings.
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I wish I could have seen the other potential Iran. It was shaping up to be a highly democratic place, but was overthrown by USA and UK-assisted insurgents before I was born. As it is, what we see being whipped up is another go around to topple Iran again. Israel leads USA by the nose somehow, and that means a great many nations will join with the Israel-led carnage, or simply fail to oppose them. Khamenei is not a good guy, but Netanyahu is a gore-soaked tumour in the middle east.