Mastodawn

This may shock some folks, but it is OK to simultaneously say that Khomeini had it coming and is a piece of shit who deserved what he got, and to say that a US president shouldn’t be assassinating foreign leaders without authorization from Congress. We can do that. We can have complex discussions. It is possible.

Edit ** as many have pointed out, the guy I was posting about here is Khameini (perils of late night posting). Khomeini died of cardiovascular disease in 1989.

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Perma

@mcnado @pojntfx Well. From Iranian perspective I think it feels a bit different. Previously only people were getting hurt by “diplomatic measures” like sanctions while the regime was becoming more and more emboldened. So yes. Assassination. But also putting innocent civilians that never had a choice in any of this into poverty and exclusion and claiming that it is for them, is also an action. (1/2)

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Perma Mar 1

For me it is worrying where the help came from but it is also very clear that this was one of the best helps we ever got from other countries. (2/2)
P.S. of course I acknowledge that this was a clear failure of checks for American people and probably a distraction from what is going on with US and Epstein at the moment.