Independent Persian has received messages from protestors within Iran via Starlink satellite that describe a ‘war-like situation’. Amirhossein Miresmaeili reports
When the options are a brutal dictator who cannot give your children a good future because of sanctions or a brutal dictator that let’s you wear skirts but sells your children’s future to the US, you absolutely shouldn’t choose the puppet.
Unfortunately, and this is not an insult this is a fact of all populations of the world, the people are about as well read as you, and they don’t know what’s coming to them. They’ve been consuming Israel’s propaganda campaign (like you) and they are marching to their own destruction.
Take a lesson from Syria, look at what’s happened to it, the once great civilization reduced to a memory with an ISIS commander as president playing basketball with US military.
Just because wikipedia was the most expedient source to cite on a Lemmy post, doesn’t mean I don’t read books. Stop making assumptions about me.
Hmm, brutal theocratic dictator or democratic referendum with possible constitutional monarchy. Tough choice. Oh but the US at least nominally expresses support for the possible referendum (in reality it’s more like opposition to the theocratic regime), so following the logic that anything anti-west is good, you choose the theocracy?
That’s not that surprising to be honest. Look, I hate trump and I hate agreeing with him even more, but a broken clock is right twice a day, and I’ve been in the background quietly cheering for Iranian self-determination since at least the New Iran movement in 2022. This isn’t about US foreign policy, this is about the Iranian people deserving better than the mullah.
You’re right, Syria was once great, and now for the time being it’s in Shambles. But you’re forgetting a key part of the picture, which is that Assad’s regime already had it in shambles. He needed to go. And although HTS has yet to deliver on the promise of a referendum, and they’ve had questionable relations so far with minority groups such as Druze and Kurds, calling them ISIS is misinformed. They broke with ISIS over ideological differences and disavowed any affiliation, it’s okay if they want to rehab their image to gain legitimacy and international recognition.
Also, I don’t consume Israel’s propaganda. Fuck off with that. Not everyone who is against the Ayatollah is pro-Israel, and just because Israel is conducting opportunistic agitation doesn’t mean the whole protest movement is an Israeli proxy.
I’m making assumptions because your words contradict history, if you’ve read any non colonial books you’d know better. Both good books (e.g. Orientalism by Edward Said) to see how this movie plays out, and bad books (e.g. Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim) to see how the progranda you’re spewing about the Shah gets disseminated and how it never reflects realty.
democratic referendum with possible constitutional monarchy.
That’s not on the table. That’s the rhetoric used to establish a US puppet monarch. See any of the"constitutional monarchies" you listed earlier.
deserving better than the mullah.
A US/Israel funded and backed monarch isn’t better.
They broke with ISIS over ideological differences and disavowed any affiliation, it’s okay if they want to rehab their image to gain legitimacy and international recognition.
Jesus Christ this hurts to read.
Also, I don’t consume Israel’s propaganda
You do, you just don’t recognize it.
just because Israel is conducting opportunistic agitation
Wow, that’s what you got out of it? The biased Israeli news I linked isn’t even that generous, you have to bend that far backwards to stay your ground?
It’s okay to be wrong, it’s okay to recognize that you’re backing and defending a power hungry dictator, it’s okay to recognize you’re repeating talking points literally spread by Israel and generated by AI.
I want self-determination for Iranians, and it doesn’t come through a US intervention installed puppet.
Stop reading Wikipedia and read books.
When the options are a brutal dictator who cannot give your children a good future because of sanctions or a brutal dictator that let’s you wear skirts but sells your children’s future to the US, you absolutely shouldn’t choose the puppet.
Unfortunately, and this is not an insult this is a fact of all populations of the world, the people are about as well read as you, and they don’t know what’s coming to them. They’ve been consuming Israel’s propaganda campaign (like you) and they are marching to their own destruction.
Take a lesson from Syria, look at what’s happened to it, the once great civilization reduced to a memory with an ISIS commander as president playing basketball with US military.
Israel didn’t do this for the love of democracy in Iran: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2025-10-03/ty-article-magazine/.premium/the-israeli-influence-operation-in-iran-pushing-to-reinstate-the-shah-monarchy/00000199-9f12-df33-a5dd-9f770d7a0000
Just because wikipedia was the most expedient source to cite on a Lemmy post, doesn’t mean I don’t read books. Stop making assumptions about me.
Hmm, brutal theocratic dictator or democratic referendum with possible constitutional monarchy. Tough choice. Oh but the US at least nominally expresses support for the possible referendum (in reality it’s more like opposition to the theocratic regime), so following the logic that anything anti-west is good, you choose the theocracy?
That’s not that surprising to be honest. Look, I hate trump and I hate agreeing with him even more, but a broken clock is right twice a day, and I’ve been in the background quietly cheering for Iranian self-determination since at least the New Iran movement in 2022. This isn’t about US foreign policy, this is about the Iranian people deserving better than the mullah.
You’re right, Syria was once great, and now for the time being it’s in Shambles. But you’re forgetting a key part of the picture, which is that Assad’s regime already had it in shambles. He needed to go. And although HTS has yet to deliver on the promise of a referendum, and they’ve had questionable relations so far with minority groups such as Druze and Kurds, calling them ISIS is misinformed. They broke with ISIS over ideological differences and disavowed any affiliation, it’s okay if they want to rehab their image to gain legitimacy and international recognition.
Also, I don’t consume Israel’s propaganda. Fuck off with that. Not everyone who is against the Ayatollah is pro-Israel, and just because Israel is conducting opportunistic agitation doesn’t mean the whole protest movement is an Israeli proxy.
I’m making assumptions because your words contradict history, if you’ve read any non colonial books you’d know better. Both good books (e.g. Orientalism by Edward Said) to see how this movie plays out, and bad books (e.g. Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim) to see how the progranda you’re spewing about the Shah gets disseminated and how it never reflects realty.
That’s not on the table. That’s the rhetoric used to establish a US puppet monarch. See any of the"constitutional monarchies" you listed earlier.
A US/Israel funded and backed monarch isn’t better.
Jesus Christ this hurts to read.
You do, you just don’t recognize it.
Wow, that’s what you got out of it? The biased Israeli news I linked isn’t even that generous, you have to bend that far backwards to stay your ground?
It’s okay to be wrong, it’s okay to recognize that you’re backing and defending a power hungry dictator, it’s okay to recognize you’re repeating talking points literally spread by Israel and generated by AI.
I want self-determination for Iranians, and it doesn’t come through a US intervention installed puppet.