Mastodawn

"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it’s not freedom you’re after.”

Sahar Delijani

https://evergreenreview.com/read/an-interview-with-sahar-delijani/

Toni Aittoniemi Mar 1

@sagilca Of course, the right wing would cringe at the concept of freedom being real anyway. Their world only accepts a narrative that everyone is out for themselves, and that freedom is a lie told by those seeking only power for themselves. Which they do, every damn day.

Regendans Mar 1

"PK: We have both been anti-war voices (as well as anti-sanctions) and also voices of pro-Palestinian solidarity for ages now. Can you talk about what that means in this moment?

SD: I feel that this is happening now—that the war has come to Iran—because we didn’t fight hard enough for Gaza, for Palestine. We didn’t stand tall enough. We didn’t risk enough. And I include myself in that. I didn’t do enough. I didn’t speak loud enough against the utter injustice that is waged against the Palestinian people.

That silence—ours and the world’s—has emboldened Israel to act with total impunity. It struck Lebanon, Yemen, Syria. No one said anything. It actively starves people, kills them as they wait for food, and still the international community says nothing.

Never has it been clearer to me now: we the people of the MENA region are completely on our own. And we will not survive this hell unless we unite, unless we truly see and hear one another, unless we fight for each other. Not only against war but against every last trace of fascist dictatorial rule that has brought ruin upon us and our lands. No one will bring us salvation. Only we can."

#iran #palestine #gaza #lebanon #yemen #syria

True...

Petr Skála Mar 1

@sagilca 💯 ✌🏾

Koen 🇺🇦Mar 1

@sagilca the ayatollah was as innocent as trump

As Flores do Mal Mar 1

@bonno @sagilca The point is not about him being good or bad, innocent or not. No country should be bombed and have its leader killed - and civilians got killed in the process. Every country has their right to self-determination and the US doesn't respect that at all. Plus, this attack has nothing to do with the nature of Khamenei, but rather with US' geopolitcal interests.

@bonno @sagilca 165 school children have been murdered by the US and Israeli strikes so far. We can look to history to see how imperialist aggression like this has turned out for the region. Please free yourself from this chauvinist mindset, you are responding to a post in which Iranian people are telling you they do not want to be bombed

Paul Sutton (zleap)Mar 1

I am British and fully agree with you, this action won't solve anything and could make the situation worse for everyone in Iran.

Not that the US / Israel care, as long as Iran can't develop nuclear weapons of course.

Flip them all Mar 1

@sagilca #trumpepsteindiversion

@sagilca If there was any indication at all that Trump and Netanyahu were in this to help the Iranian people in any way, there could be a meaningful conversation about whether the means were justified or appropriate. But that is not why these men are in this fight.

Felis_Catus_Domesticus Mar 1

@jb643 @sagilca

time will tell.

Sem tempo, irmão Mar 2

@sagilca rooting for the US and Israel means rooting for a different boot upon your neck.

@sagilca Freedom's just another word for nothings left to loose.

Andreas K Mar 2

@sagilca
Well Trump is not consistent here.

He ticked off the box in front "war" to get more support at home.

At the same time he is arguing that the same war that is supposed to raise support for #Trumpregime is supposed to weaken support for the Iranian regime.
While it might weaken it because of the couple of bombs it will almost certainly push all non strict opposition citizens into a more "patriotic" pro regime mood. America the Big Satan.
Self introspection is not a core American value