Actual Iranian women vs. Imperialist pinkwashing.

These villains are driving us crazy! These villains spent a year and a half killing half a million people, and now they’re attacking! We want an atomic bomb!

Rania Khalek/BreakThrough News 📺 Iran’s Anti-Imperialism: Where It Comes From, Why It’s Not Going Away, w/ Prof. Nina Farnia

Why is Iran under constant US attack? Is it really about women’s rights and democracy? Or is it because Iran, since its revolution, has been a staunch supporter both ideologically and materially, of resistance to US imperialism across the Middle East? To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by Nina Farnia, Assistant Professor of Law at Albany Law School, a longtime activist and a scholar of Critical Race Theory, with a focus on US imperialism and its impact on domestic law.

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    16 minutes ago

    MAD is only a detergent if everyone has Nuclear bombs.

    If the US and west get to keep their bombs, despite being the US being the only country to have ever used one, then everyone should be able to have nuclear bombs.

    The thing is, the US and west don’t actually want to prevent nuclear weapons from being used, they specifically want to prevent them being used against them and their allies, while maintaining the threat of using them against their enemies.

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    1 day ago

    Anybody who wants peace and justice wants iranians to be able to defend themselves from centuries of endless imperial attacks. There will never be peace or progress if only the genocidal fascists are armed. They already have nukes and their explicit goal is invading and stealing every neighboring country.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel

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      The Persian empire was pretty big, until Alexander the Great (Greece) kicked their asses. This area has had empires rise and fall for millennia. Iran was the dominant power (and sometime colonizer) western Asia for 12 centuries.

      I highly doubt anything will ever bring it peace, it’s the middle east, nuclear proliferation is a terrible idea. And that goes for anyone, any country.

      https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/persia/explore.html

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    pfff. like this wasnt what they wanted since nakba. “no, tihihih, we just enrich so much for energié, tiihihi.” iran is so stupid.

    the iranian dissendents are standing ready to wipe the religious assholes off the country after the war. time is up.

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      Iran is a BRICS member and both china and russia are invested in Iran. I dont think that this will be so easy. It will be interesting to see if US gets involved, since it almost never wants to directly fight against a decent enemy all since Vietnam.

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        russia has enough problems and wasnt even able to keep syrias dictator in charge. i am sure they cant and wont help. see ppl that love patriarchy tend to over inflate things. and regimes are the peak of patriarchy. thats why ukraine will beat russia and israel will beat iran.

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          Yeah they only managed to keep him in charge for over a decade. And china? Also why are you confusing military power with some unspecified peoples claims? You are not inflating ‘things’ when you assume that ukraine will beat russia?

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              Again for some reason china which is invested in iran is not relevant. As for russia it has considerable territory in ukraine. Maybe that will change, but note that unlike before, bilateral talks are happenning.

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                i am sure stupid countries win stupid prizes. i mean china is shit stupid for thousands of years now. nobody but stupid countries wants to be friends with them, birthrate decline, no growth in housing sector, the list never ends. but they have always been that stupid; like that time their regime failed to grow crops and blamed birds forcing their goon citizens to cull all the birds. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kwURhByIOuw and you cant even talk about it with them…they are goons. same for tibet, tiananmen square, uigurs, hongkong… like if you can make a stupid choice china will do it. same for russia…cant talk about basic history of the country and yet they think they are a strong country. 180million ppl cant beat 50million ppl for over 1000 days now… what a sad sad shitshow. why would anyone think russia will win? delusional facists.

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                  So you just disregarded the points I made? Ok. Well just to quickly compare. History of a country, even as uninformed as the one you presented, has no bearing on the argument here. China is now consistenly outpacing essentially rest of the world for idk 30 years? It overtook US as largest economy, and is growing far faster. Theyve lifted hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty, without precedent. But again this is irrelevant to their position on iran.

                  As for russia, ukraine is receiving aid yes? And if we are to compare population sizes for some unexplained reason ok for the sake of it lets do that. Us did not manage to beat afghans taliban, these used to be literally armed goat herders, unlike trained ukrainian soldiers, western mercenaries and massive aid of the west.

                  Now to actually get to the topic there are bilateral talks and russia holds significant territory, those are just observations. No need to try to predict based on some emotional dogma. But if things are to continue as they are now, significant territory remains ceded.