[ghusto]

Talk to some Iranians. We would _welcome_ "imperialist" intervention.

The black and white "west is bad" narrative you're being fed isn't accurate.

[culi]

Definitely seems the majority viewpoint of people from Tehrangeles

[twister727]

How can you welcome imperalist intervention when the imperialists are the ones purposely causing (to a large extent) the economic instability?

Just trying to understand.

[emilsedgh]

They are not. It's the eastern imperialists that are causing this. And if it's a choice between eastern imperialists (China and Russia) and western ones, it seems that Iranian people by far prefer the western ones.

For three main reasons.

1. Culturally Iranians are way more aligned with west.

2. Western imperialism results in more democracy. Not 100%, but not this bad.

3. Economically countries under west's influence do much better. Iran is extremely poor right now.

[kuboble]

Ask Poles.

Some "west bad" rhetoric is that the fall of communism was orchestrated by Americans and not of organic local origin.

In reality the communist regime protected by Russian/ soviet violence had no legitimacy or support from the population.

Perhaps Poles could not free themselves without the western , maybe Cia played active role in organizing solidarity movement.

If this is true then we Poles are forever grateful for orchestrating regime change in Poland in 1989.