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Are you aware of the historical context where the UK and the CIA removed the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 because the Massadagh government had sought to nationalise the iranian oil industry?
The CIA and UK went on to install the Shah who then allowed UK (BP) and US oil companies to continue extracting Iranian oil until the 1979 revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh
The CIA also sponsored Saddam Hussein into power in Iraq from the 1960s onward and supported the Saddam Hussein led Iraqi government throughout the Iraqi 1980 invasion of Iran?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
Could this explain why the Iranian government is determined to assert Iranian sovereignty and not be a puppet and slave to US western resource hegemony?
Do nations not have the right to use their own resources in their own best interests?
Past mistakes are irrelevant. The present reality is Iran is run by a bunch of dangerous Islamic nutjobs who want to kill us.
Past actions have consequences.
The past actions of the US interfering with the sovereignty of other nations leave a residue of bitterness, anger and resentment.
The reactionary nature of the current Iranian government is testament to that.
Iran is happy to interfere with the sovereignty of other nations...
Again, this is irrelevant. They're a clear and immediate danger to us because of their extreme Islamic beliefs and work towards getting nuclear weapons. It is unacceptable to have nutjob islamists in power with nukes. Believing otherwise is suicidal.
Who can blame them for wanting nukes given the past incursions upon their sovereignty by the west?
If I was them I would want nukes yesterday- it ia the only thong that seems to give any chance of not being attacked by US...eg North Korea.
Or perhaps you believe The West has a God given right to resource hegemony over all other nations?
You're such a hypocrite, New Zealander. Obviously you wouldn't take issue with the communist party attacking the sovereignty of the Republic of China. Why are you trying to appeal to self-determination like you never initiate wars or cheat at elections?
We can absolutely attack North Korea if we feel like it. Yes, God has commanded the US military to support a Japanese invasion of Beijing. Socialism deserves to be erased from history. The next global reserve currency is Bitcoin. Not Mao notes, not gold, not some UN-negotiated multinational currency, just clean American-mined Christian Bitcoin. No more taxation, no more slavery, no more overpaid Marxists yapping about Western imperialism. And absolutely no one is going to mourn the loss of Chinese communists when it's over. You'll be the meme evil villain in every piece of media for the next hundred years.
It was statists like yourself who decided that whoever wins a war gets to decide how to spend everyone else's money, so since those are the rules of the game, we have no choice but to win. Yes, China will be leading the 21st century, but not under your deranged failed interregnum.
You're making excuses doe Islamic nut jobs.
Iran didn't need to fund Oct 7th to protect their sovereignty. But they did. Because they hate Jews, and the west in general.
CIA and UK did not need to remove the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953, but they did, nor did USA need to back Saddam Husseins invasion of Iran in 1980, but they did.
Own it.
Fuck you petertodd and fuck israel.
I will write exactly like you did:
The zionist nutjobs who are clearly trying to destroy iran and all neighbour states.
This zionist apartheid regime has nuclear weapons but nobody is talking about it. This is the real crime here.
Iran had no ambition to go nuclear but now all free states are thinking about weapons of mass destruction because it is the only way to defend against an attacker wo is as radical as the zionist regime whos dictator is actually talking shit since 1990 about iran beiing 98% ready to build a bomb.
Israel is now supported by ukarine, a proxy dictatorship, with a dictator who is drug addicted and against elections.
They attack civilists in russia every day.
Ukraine is also a terrorist state that fights with terrorist attack even against countys who support them. like blowing up the german pipeline and blowing up pipelines for oil and gas from hungary and slovakia. So a zionist apartheid regime is working together with ukraine nazis to fight islamic influence over a region.
i hope iran builds nuclear weapons so this zionist regime stop attacking and killing people.
i also hope that the war in ukraine ends by a capitulation of the agressor (ukraine) who started the bloody war against east ukraine regions in 2014.
They lost, but are still fed and supported by the west only to kill as many slavic people as possible with terror drone attacks against east ukraine and russia.
only a uninformed retard can be a supporter of a bloody regime like israel.
Yes. Fuck Iran.
They're Islamic nutjobs who are clearly trying to destroy Israel, e.g. by funding Oct 7th via Hamas, and they're clearly trying to get nuclear weapons. They've funded Islamic terrorism around the world, and are widely hated in the middle east for damn good reasons. Getting nuclear armed Islamic nutjobs is unacceptable.
They're also allies of Russia, and supplied the original shahed drones that terrorize Ukrainian cities every day, and they're still working with Russia on improving the design and manufacturing of them. I personally have seen dozens of those fucking things hitting Ukrainian cities, including attacks that killed civilians. Hell, I was nearly on one of the passenger trains that was recently attacked by shahed drones; here's a different one on display at the train museum at Kyiv's central train station:
I also have a video I took a few months ago of a shahed attacking that exact same train station. But video uploads seem to be broken right now.
Iran has also supplied Russia with other weapons, most notably hundreds of short range ballistic missiles and hundreds of thousands of artillery shells.
In the short term, it's not great that attacking Iran has pushed up oil prices: Russia obviously benefits from that. But Ukraine has done a good job of mitigating that problem with their recent successful drone attacks halting oil shipments out of Baltic sea ports. So I think the tradeoff is worth it.
My only criticism is that Trump (and the Republicans) should should formally declare war and actually finish the job properly. We don't need another bullshit peace treaty. The Iranian leadership, their supporters, and if necessary, their economy need to be entirely destroyed.