Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦It's not war, it's a "major combat operation"?
Trump can't even come up with his own bullshit, has to steal Putin's homework.
Also a reminder that while the Iranian regime is undeniably horrible, it is also the result of CIA and MI6 instigating (in 1953) a coup d'état against the government of Iran that had a democratic mandate, over oil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
Here's the Wikipedia page about the prime minister of that government, Mohammad Mosaddegh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh
The coup made shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi an authoritarian monarch with US backing. His oppressive regime ended with the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
malcolm@rysiek The US interfered a second time in the 70s - the left wing were rebelling against the Shah (Evin prison was set up to hold left wing political prisoners) so the US invested in training and weapons for the Islamic students who became the IRGC as it thought they'd be more pliant and less left wing
@rysiek Whenever the future of Iran is brought up it's always portrayed as Muslim fundamentalist authoritatians Vs rich right wing authoritarians, as if there's nothing more to the country (or the diaspora)
@rysiek There's an article in The Guardian talking about how (this bit is mentioned once) "sections" of the Iranian diaspora in the UK are happy about the strikes. Nothing about their politics or if there are any parts of the diaspora not happy though (IME the newer arrivals are happy and the older ones are cynical and don't trust Trump be doing anything that will actually benefit Iran no matter their actual politics as they've got a better knowledge of Western politics)
@rysiek Guardian always seems to highlight what "sections" of the diaspora think and it's always the same sections, if I were a cynic with a good working knowledge of the diaspora I might wonder why that is. And the diaspora really go for mutual aid/support in a way many diasporas don't even if they have otherwise gone native so they could all point you at secular lefty Iranians etc.