Fabio ManganielloRock on #Iran 🤘
May 7 Nation Army be the sound of your liberation and may you sprawl a lot of new metal bands, as we in the West have a bit run out of ideas of what to do with a distorted guitar.
Cătă 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇲🇩🇪🇺@fabio Dictatorship, censorship and repression are always an unwanted source of inspiration for artists. Unwanted, because, well, nobody wants to live under repressive conditions. In Romania, we had a fairly popular underground alternative rock band called Timpuri Noi (New Times). Among their songs, for example, there was a song called Perfect whose lyrics depict a utopic image of grain received on time and placid sheep which stare greedily at their food for the entire winter. Of course, this was in stark contrast with the reality, where both the sheep and their food was sold outside in order to pay for the country's foreign debt, and people were struggling to get even their basic food which was lacking in the stores.
Timpuri Noi - Perfect
Hugh Ferguson@fabio I wouldn't be so enthusiastic about this. These riots have Israeli Mossad written all over it. Iran in civil war means one less foe that can push back against Israel. Much of the misery in Iran around cost of living can be attributed to the US pulling out of the arms control agreement that saw sanctions against Iran lifted in exchange for no more enrichment of Uranium. And the US nixed that deal at Israel's behest.
@hfinyow some of the misery in Iran can be traced back to international isolation, yes. But let’s not forget that that isolation is the consequence of a decrepit hostile regime that has turned the development of a nuclear program into its only reason of existence (just like other failed States like North Korea), which has tamed the talent of his own citizens with strict religious laws and caused mass migration, and that the regime is very unpopular with Iranians themselves. Oppressed people must always be liberated, and their efforts always supported.
Sure, I understand that Iran is also the only reliable opposition to the genocidal Zionist shithole in the region, but the enemy of my enemy isn’t necessarily my friend.