• the_wise_wolf@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Nah, the kind of violence we are talking about here has nothing to do with sanctions/Israel/USA. It’s the regime against the people, not people against each other. And this is 100% the regime’s responsibility. Israeli and US leadership is bad, but it has nothing to with the regime’s brutality. Also the sanctions are international, they hit Iran’s economy, but the regime could get rid of them at any time. It’s just that war and nuclear weapons are more important to them. Plus they run a very corrupt and inefficient economy anyway.

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      It’s the regime against the people

      Iran is bordered on one side by Afghanistan, and on the other side by Iraq. Anyone with two brain cells can see what happened there after the Epstein regime invaded. Trying to help the Epsteinites kill your own people goes beyond even treason; it is some sort of death wish or misanthropy. I cannot blame the Iranian government for cracking down on this.

      Also the sanctions are international

      No they’re not; they were imposed by the Epstein coalition with the threat of secondary sanctions, and sometimes even violence.

      the regime could get rid of them at any time

      Yes, but the Epstein regime wants those sanctions, so as to hurt Iran’s economy.

      It’s just that war and nuclear weapons are more important to them.

      Nuclear weapons are, sadly, one of two things the Epstein regime fears, so they are a necessary evil if you want to be a sovereign nation.

      And we all know who started this war.

      Plus they run a very corrupt and inefficient economy anyway.

      A very corrupt and inefficient economy that somehow produced enough weaponry to drive the biggest military in the world out of West Asia. I suppose when your efficiency stat is too low, it underflows and becomes insanely high?

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      Also the sanctions are international, they hit Iran’s economy, but the regime could get rid of them at any time. It’s just that war and nuclear weapons are more important to them.

      They had already agreed to not pursue nuclear weapons, and let international observers in to verify, in the talks that ended apruptly when the US and Israel started bombing them.
      And before that, there had already been a deal in place, which the US unilaterally pulled out of.

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          23 hours ago

          The bigger picture in which the Iranian regime has had a top level ban on developing nuclear weapons for decades, and stayed compliant with the deal years after the US unilaterally ended it?

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      “Corrupt and inefficient economy” they are able to fight the world’s most expensive army while still actively selling munitions to Russia while also at a food surplus while also managing to punish a dozen US allies that picked sides poorly. Even the CIA admits they could keep this up for YEARS.

      They have a far more efficient economy than any country in the west – all developing countries do by necessity.

      • the_wise_wolf@feddit.org
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        1 day ago

        Ok, this is just blatant propaganda. Everything you just wrote is hilariously false or a misrepresentation of the issue at hand. But by all means, continue believing that fucking Iran’s economy is superior to that of the “western world”…

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          Calling everything that disagrees with your owners’ world view “propaganda” is just pure slavebrained behavior.

          Yes, the fact they are able to feed themselves while under crushing sanctions and even have a fucking space program means they have a more efficient economy than say, the US with it’s 1% hunger rate or the UK which is starting to kick people out of housing because they ‘can’t afford it.’ They are able to accomplish the same thing every society has as a goal – taking care of its people better than if they were on their own – with 1/10,000th of the resources.

          Developing countries that aren’t in famine are indeed better economies than developed countries, because they don’t have developing countries to exploit to prop up their economy.