If you are a westerner celebrating Khamenei's death in my face you're getting insta-blocked. No one hates the man more than me. The "Islamic revolution" brought about the death penalty for queer men like me. It kicked out atheists, leftists, intellectuals like my mother and grandfather who had fought hard, taken up arms for a fairer Iran; it cannibalised that same rebellious youth that had overthrown the previous government and took over a movement that was not its own. The regime is corrupt, cruel and self-serving. But the complete, absolute impunity with which, without casus belli, openly just because "it's too good an opportunity not to take it", without even official war declaration, the US and Israel just waltz into any country they choose and kill anyone they choose (or arrest, as in Venezuela), and well, sometimes a "pre-emptive strike" might kill dozens of primary school girls --- this is not something to celebrate. It's a decaying, corpse-imperialism reduced to its most naked, short-sighted, violent world-wide bullying. A naked fist fucking the world to its pleasure. If you for a moment think anything justifies that, or that "it'll be for the best", you're not just naive, you're privileged and blind to the point it becomes indinstiguishable from evil.
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