• alcoholicorn
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    I think you confused Saudi Arabia, the desert country ruled by a king imposed on them by the British Empire to oversee the extraction of oil with Iran, the country that had that, until a local militant religious movement overthrew him.

    Hell half of Iran isn’t even desert, Tehran has the climate of Colorado.

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        well it’s half mountainous half desert. Tehran’s north is on the mountainside and it gradually transitions to desert on the south side.

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      Authoritarian assholes are all basically Harkonnens.

      Are the the Iranian Harkonnens paying you well to help them oppress the Iranian people?

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        Is Raytheon paying you well to advocate “liberating” Iran?

        We’ve seen how this plays out in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya. When Israelis criticize gay rights in Palestine, they’re not trying to help gay people in Palestine, they’re carrying water for genocide.

        I have my criticisms of the Iranian state, but they’re infinitely better than what the west will do if they get their way.

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          Maybe criticize Iran more and carry their water less.

          The barbaric Ayatollah regime murder women for showing their hair. Try not to carry too much water for these assholes, ok?

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            I am in America, I cannot support the Iranian people from here, I can only support my government further immiserating them. The same is true for you. If our governments get their way, Iran will look like Saudi Arabia. Equally reactionary and even more fundamentalist, but 100x more extractive; the few gains the Iranian people made since the overthrow of the Shah such as education and healthcare will be wiped out.