Susan Ville🗨️ Fundamentally, all forms of #propaganda are the enemy of #civilprotection - This is neither about pro-royalists promoting #US narrative about the Pahlavi family, nor about the goals of the separatists in the region!
People /animals are dying, habitats are being poisoned, because everyone wants to be right - Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?
This is not how #humanrights work! #HRW also suppressed reports on the #genocide in Gaza when the money was right
HeavenlyPossum (@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social)
Since then, they have played an even bigger role in Iraqi politics and security, effectively emerging as a parallel army. Although they are officially a part of the Iraqi Security Forces and ostensibly under the command of the prime minister, they’re also loyal to Iran’s Islamic Republic and to their own political leaders. They’re also heavily involved in both formal economic activity and crime. These are not *good actors* just because they opposed the US military occupation of Iraq. They are thuggishly reactionary forces, Shia supremacists devoted to both their own parochial interests and a broader project of clerical rule. They brutally suppressed protests in 2019. They committed torture and mass murder against Sunni Arabs in Iraq and in Syria, where they were allies of Bashar al-Asad’s dictatorship. https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/27/iraq-protesters-killed-teargas-canisters