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Where did she said yes?
right? that was just a general statement that someone's doing a bad thing.
zero claims were made in this tiny snippet of a much longer conversation
In the part where Iraq must be liberated from the evil dictator for freedom and Democracy.
Iran shut down US-Israeli backed terrorists. Not whatever fairy tale AOC is propagating.
You can be against foreign interference while not whitewashing human right abuses.
Would you say the same thing if Iran backed a massive terror network in the US which started massacaring people and set US infrastructure on fire?
If the USA was an authoritarian country and was oppressing the opposition and another country want to start a war with them under that pretext but their real intention is a failed state then yet I would say the USA is doing human right abuses but it doesn't justify foreign intervention .
The same human right organizations that expose Israel human right abuses are also show that human right abuses exists in Iran
Thank you for this great lesson on victim blaming and both sides nonsense. Do not forget to condemn Hamas while you are at it.
If I said Israel and the USA had the right to interfere I would be both siding and victim blaming but I didn't say that. Iran has the right to defend itself against the terrorist state of Israel and the United Snakes . No amount of human right abuses from Iran will change my stand. Hamas is a resistance group that should not disarm until the occupation end , it doesn't mean I should support when they kill civilians and when they kill civilians it doesn't mean they can no longer defend Gaza and fight against the genocidal force
Terrorists armed with AK47s, machetes and molotovs are civilians now? Okay lol.
No those armed with AK47s, machetes and molotovs are terrorists but there is videos of pro government people beating unarmed people too those are civlians
No there are not. Iran let the protesters protest freely until their movement was hijacked by US-Israeli backed terrorists with guns and molotovs which commenced the terror attacks.
From then Iran rightfully imposed a ban from organizing or participating in the riots.
From then Iran rightfully imposed a ban from organizing or participating in the riots.
Legitimate protesters still has the right to continue protesting while the terrorists backed by the terrorist state of israel and the united snakes should be arrested just like when people protested the Vietnam war it was wrong to ban all protests because of a minority of violent people
No they do not. There was no "violent minority" of protesters here but heavily armed terrorists shooting civilians, police and burning down infrastructure in organised foreign led terror operations to literally violently topple the government. It is every lie the US uses to justify their crackdown on protesters but it is actually real in Iran.
You are applying completely ridiculous standards to the Iranian government which had been very amicable to protests for protests caused by the US and Israel to begin with.
Iran never gave an estimate of the number of violent protesters and I said that the violent rioters are terrorist backed by Israel and should be arrested . I am applying the same standard for all countries .
Did I ever denied this ?
Iran did. Around 600 of the 2400 people who died were violent terrorists. The 2400 including Iranian government employees and other people killed by the terrorists.
The ongoing campaign to paint AOC as a neoliberal centrist in progressive spaces is so tiring and predictable.
The ongoing campaign to deny AOC as a neoliberal centrist in progressive spaces is so tiring and predictable.
She's one of the very few people in congress who does not accept corporate or foreign donations. She's also hugely popular, especially among young people.
At the same time, Zohran is already delivering in NYC -- when 2028 comes around, he will likely be massively popular and AOC's association with him will give a ton of weight to the feasibility of a bold progressive vision to rebuild.
The corporate/ruling class is rightfully threatened by the possibility of an AOC presidential run -- whether you mean to or not, you're doing their work for them.
She is sending missiles to Israel and spreading obviously false hoaxes that Iran has killed tens of thousands of people. The cope is unreal.
Let me guess, the Iranian government is innocent and the people looking to change it are rioting militias paid off by some shadowy cabal to overthrow them? CIA everywhere man...
The large part of protesters are legitimate protesters but it is fact that Israel and the USA are backing rioters. The hypocritical west who is backing up genocides and civil war all over the place should shut the fuck off.
We can pretend the Mossad did not say they directly armed and instructed the rioters by typing it very sarcastically.
Sometimes people provide help to those they see as on the right side of a conflict, see Ukraine for example.
The country who is committing a genocide in Gaza and the country who bombed the biggest numbers of countries and assisted the biggest number of regime changes are backing people on the right side of history?
Thank you for explaining you support US imperialism. Iranians suffer from US sanctions not what you have been brainwashed to believe.
Authoritarian theocracies are bad, M'kay?
Yes and terrorist countries like Israel and the USA are even worse and you still support them attacking another country. Did you also support the Iraq war?
Thank you for your insightful justification of the the US should murder millions more brown people and US backed terror groups are the fault of the brown people.
I said Iran has the right to defend itself from US imperialism
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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