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Every Year, Sanctions Kill More People Than Wars
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How cute is to say that we caused the issue but then talk about how we should continue to punish Iran with sanctions. What repercussions did we get from instauring the shah, invading iraq and afghanistan, financing a genocide in gaza. Should we sanctions ourself or be ok with other countries sanctionning us?
I am not again sanctions in general. In case of invasion or genonide which both russia and israel are doing, i am for it. For iran we shouldn't sanctiona them , it will only made it support russia more out of necessity. Supporting the end of regime with ulterior motive won't work.
Only iranians who really love the countries could do it without intervention can do it not the traitors who cheared killing hundred of iranians in israel/ iran. Tunisian revolution was relatively succesful because it was natural with no western intervention
I know! God damn it! It's like talking to a brick fucking wall! Christ, are you deliberately avoiding my questions and points just to regurgitate the obvious? I mean, we fucking agree!
Point to my comment about me justifying western hypocrisy!
You know what, nevermind we both know you're not going to. You're just going to keep talking about our previous fuckups instead. I'm out.
You clearly love to create drama, it's clear that it's you who don't read. I also answered all your wuestion, it's you who didn't answer mine.Where did we agree that the west should impose sanctions on iran?
About overthrowing iran regime, you don't care about how it should be overthrow while i do i want zero western intervensions. If israel succesed in overthrowing the mullah it would be caos like in syria
Seeing that the sanctions comes from a political point rather than a moral stand point imposed by countries that themselves commited ton of war crimes that showed again and again only hurt the sanctionned countries population amd not the leaders is justifying western hypocrisy.
Besides western indepedent human right organizations exposing the abuse we should not intervene unless there is a genocide