So here’s the uncomfortable question Australians should ask, especially when our leader Anthony Albanese was so quick to line up behind the strikes: what exactly is the theory of change?
Not the slogan. Not the press release. The real theory. How, precisely, does dropping bombs - or killing a dictator - make Iranian women freer, Iranian prisons emptier, Iranian courts fairer, or Iranian politics more accountable? And how does it secure long-term peace in the Middle East.
If we can’t answer that in plain language, then we are not looking at a pathway to peace and human rights. We’re looking at protracted violence and dysfunction dressed up as virtue.
your ‘sources’ are the guardian and people from the iranian diaspora? lol.
I don’t normally wade into these threads because they’re normally very emotionally charged but discrediting people cause they no longer live in the country of question denies displaced communities a voice.
Your statement would mean refugees or individuals who had the funds to legally (or illegally) escape from places like Syria under the Assad regime should be ignored as they don’t live in the country (roughly 6.2 million refugees or displaced individuals from as early as 2011).
While we should always take care when taking statements from any individual or group at face value and we should always complement them with a wide range of research from various sources we should never discredit someone’s voice because of something as arbitrary as not living in a country anymore.