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dismalaf | 1 day ago

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.

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kranke155|1 day ago

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.

tdeck|1 day ago

Remember how much toppling Sadam Hussein, killing a million Iraqis, rounding up and torturing thousands of random Iraqi civilians, destroying most of the country's vital infrastructure, and selling their oilfields to American companies at bargain prices helped Iraqis? It's going to be the same for Iran. There's going to be massive suffering.

znpy|1 day ago

Any kind of decent democracy would be better than the iranian regime.

m90|1 day ago

So how do the recurring airstrikes help the protesters?

mschuster91|1 day ago

Easy: decapitate the leadership of the military, IRGC, Basij and let the revolution stand a chance.

dismalaf|1 day ago

It's the biggest military buildup since 2003. Kinda looks like they plan on overthrowing the regime. Which would be amazing for world peace considering Iran is building drones for Russia and supporting Hezbollah and Hamas. But we'll see...

epsters|1 day ago

> 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.