[kome]

shameful for the west, and a tragedy. leave iran alone. defending the mullahs wasn't exactly on my bingo card, but here we are...

please, can somebody in the US or Israel have an "are we the baddies" epiphany?

[dismalaf]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/i...

> defending the mullahs wasn't exactly on my bingo card, but here we are...

Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

[kranke155]

And you think the US, now currently sliding into authoritarianism itself, will install an enlightened democracy upon the Iranians?

This is WW3 in slow motion. The goal is to takeover Eurasia and contain the Russian-Chinese alliance by eating away at the edges and removing all unaligned or hostile energy sources.

[m90]

So how do the recurring airstrikes help the protesters?

[epsters]

> 30,000 in 2 days - half the 2-year death toll of Gaza ; With no artillery , air-strikes or heavy weapons, without million-man armies facing off in pitched battles, without health system collapsing with 100s of thousands of injuries in 48 hours, photos or satellite imagery of mass graves and bodies littering the streets

Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

[tgv]

There's no way you can defend the Iranian leadership. Toppling them is not shameful, just like ousting Saddam Hussein was IMO reasonable. The problem is what happens afterwards.

[faust201]

Ask your colleague if his family is still there... May be not.

or ask another colleague whose family is still there. Would be different answer.

[Freedom2]

Agreed. I had an Iranian colleague also reach out who was ecstatic about this news. The hacker in me is curious to see how it all unfolds, as well as to see all the curious discussion that arises on this forum.

[ReptileMan]

Killing people that blind women for refusing to wear headscarf is always a good deed.

It may be infeasible to do it, or bad idea because of geopolitical or similar reasons, but no - in Iran's regime case - we are not the baddies.