DOWN WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC.
If you have anything to say about Iran, start there.
To everyone who suddenly claims to care about Iranian schoolgirls: where were you when schoolgirls were being poisoned during the Jina Mahsa Amini uprising?
Every civilian life lost is a tragedy, no matter who caused it. But the selective outrage is disgustingly hypocritical. Many leftists who speak loudly about Iran only seem to do so when it fits their existing narratives about the US or Israel, and I truly hate you all deep in my bones. Stop acting like you care about Iran. You guys DGAF about Iran or Iranians. Western leftists only talk about the schoolgirls who died to prove a point. They are simply their political props in a grand drama. If you really cared about Iranian schoolgirls, you would have AS MUCH to say about the regime’s crimes against humanity. They deserve to have their deaths be properly mourned, not exploited for your partisan politics.
You care about your Western superiority complex and abstract political theories. I know this might shock some of you, BUT THE US/THE WEST IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE EVILS IN THE WORLD. Western leftists have shown clearly they don’t understand the brutality of this regime and its deep ideological commitment to death, destruction, gender apartheid, and environmental collapse. I get it, you hate Israel, but your hatred has blinded you.
If Iranians suffer at the hands of the Islamic Republic, the same voices go quiet or parrot the same 3 talking points about “US imperialism” or “sanctions” while ignoring the realities of the regime’s imperialism and domestic repression apparatus. The REGIME helped kill 500,000 in Syria and created proxy warfare in Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen. The IRGC is like ICE on steroids. They grab women off the street when they’re “immodestly” dressed.
They killed, raped, and tortured 30,000+ protestors in January with military-grade weapons. Yes, 30,000+ IN TWO DAYS. There already was foreign intervention when the REGIME brought in terrorist groups from Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan to murder these protestors. Imperialism doesn’t come with a color chart to tell you which kinds are valid and which are “resistance.” Western leftists are regurgitating regime propaganda. Stop carrying water for the regime. Stop explicitly or tacitly supporting the regime.
I know for A FACT you don’t know any Iranians FROM IRAN. The youth who died were some of the bravest, boldest minds of their generation - dreamers, artists, and thinkers no different from you. In 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa that women should wear the veil, thousands of Iranian women protested in the streets. One of their slogans: “Freedom is neither Eastern nor Western. Freedom is universal.” Stop falling into a dichotomy that pits East vs West. You are paralleling the discourse of the most ardent of racists and bigots. Freedom, democracy, dignity, and bodily autonomy are NOT Western ideas and impositions. Iranians don’t want to be Western; they want to be FREE. The international community in both the global north and south has silenced them for nearly 50 years. We did not have to be here.
If you’re going to be “anti-war,” I need to LOUDLY hear your solutions, not your moral posturing and privilege. I can think of a large number of solutions that don’t involve kinetic force, but all you guys do is preen and posture while offering nothing of value. Even as US BOMBS are falling, Iranians are still more scared of the IRGC than the US. Iranians are trapped between two repressive forces.
And you know what, if the US wants the oil, FINE, because it’s not like China and Russia were involved in Iran for the ghormeh sabzi and rice. If the US can support the people’s pursuit of regime change in return for oil, OK. It is not like the people see any of the benefits from their resource-rich country right now. And to be totally honest, fuck the oil. I only, only care about the people.
If you truly care about Iranians, your concern shouldn’t depend on which geopolitical argument it supports. You should mourn every single life lost.
And to be VERY clear, I don’t like or trust Trump or Bibi, and it is 100% valid to question or doubt the usefulness of this operation. I only, only care about the people trapped in this disaster, from Iran to Bahrain, the UAE, and yes, Israel. I don’t mourn Ali Khamenei or any of the top brass who got killed. Rest in piss.
I WILL NEVER FORGET, AND I WILL NEVER, EVER FORGIVE.
Update: if you’re MAGA and engaging with me, leave. I don’t like Trump. I am simply sharing what Iranians have shared with me.
