SevenSkalls

"Calls for violence against Jewish people"

They're literally just using people's best guesses about what intifada could mean to stoke fear and panic. It's like when they used the words sharia as a replacement for terrorism for awhile.

So that and world news are both just hasbara?

Haha 😂 well if it doesn't even out after a week or so you could always try something else lol

I think I have to save this comment because you've given me a lot to think about as someone in this situation. I really need to learn to commit to the process, though.

The average American voter folks lol

Even if he ends up being another AOC, this has been a great moment just seeing all the libs and chuds crash and burn in a torrent of tears. I love it. Let me enjoy it you doomers lol

It's like history is a constant process or something, and while things do repeat, it's never quite in the same way because the processes still constantly move forward.

Idk what's so badly phrased about it. It's a good question. I myself have been wondering if there's any communists in Iran lately because of current events and what their opinions are.

Right? Like it's so beyond the most evil thing my imagination could conjure, it seems absurd. This must be what it was like when people discovered the concentration camps.

Ya there are some pretty big clues, like some communist jokes I don't think a chud would even know about it.

I have to be honest, he might now deserve a Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama.

Although now that I think about it, Obama didn't encourage a genocide or ethnic cleansing like Trump has.

In addition to what others have said, and maybe help explain the why, I don't think Iran really knows how to stand as alone and self-sufficient as the DPRK yet, which has been ostracized and sanctioned since it's founding.

On the other hand, Iran has always been a power player in the region and heavily involved in international politics. They traded with Russia and the British for a long time, and I think China as well. Then they developed a relationship with the US, who ended up helping establish the Shah, a Western puppet who sold off a bunch of his own country and was terrible in many ways, but did lead to even better Western relationships and a place in the neoliberal world order.

Their current isolation didn't really happen until after the Islamic Revolution, when the US started getting a little tired of the Shah too, and then Bush's axis of evil speech. All the huge sanctions are a relatively recent development, so not sure they've quite learned how to live when you're isolated like the DPRK has. Imo they should be making much better friends with Russia and China than the weak purely economic BRICS agreement.

Their revolution was also more religious, not class-based like a communist one would be, which I'm sure preserved a lot of the contradictions other people are mentioning, like reformist liberals or bourgeois who would love to be back in the Western sphere still having a lot of power, so they make deals like the nuclear treaty, even though any communist would know that even if the US didn't break it with Trump, they would have some other reason to either attack or sanction eventually. That's how imperialism works because that's how capitalism works. It doesn't mean don't make those treaties and diplomacy, but do it to give yourself more time to defend yourself militarily and build self-sufficiency, not with the expectation the West will let you join their club forever.