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I think the distinction here is warranted. The people of Iran aren't being given a free choice of who governs them. The Israelis keep voting for Bibi out of their own free will.
Israel is literally an Apartheid. Half the people in it don't even get to vote.
Israel almost devolved into a civil war because Netanyahu's court cases kept being delayed (and still are to this day)
Israel also just banned Arab parties.
There is a much stronger case to make for Iranian democracy than Israeli
You're describing a democracy. A non democratic government is still a government.
🫵🤣 me when democracy is assassinating any real political opponents
Iran is the healthiest and most participatory democracy in the Middle East if you look at actual facts instead of imperial slop media
Here come the narratives!
I said what I said and I meant it. The competition for Most Democratic in the Middle East features such contenders as:
Iran has a complex constitutional system that is alien to westerners. Every single politician in the United States has to be approved by the capitalist class, does that make it not a democracy? Even the self-righteous Europeans are completely prostrate before the empire and under military occupation
Talking about "protests" outside of the context of 50 years of regime change operations is a joke
You got all your information about Iran from their geopolitical enemies, Iran isn't perfect by any means and we don't have to like it, but it's democratic and much, much better than every other state in the region
Doesn't change the fact that they just cut down an anti-government protest, killing at least 6000.
Where did you get that number, and did you even bother to check the facts on the ground? Are you unaware that the peaceful protestors met with gov officials and actually got an agreement, and because of that rioters related to Mossad and the CIA started killing random ass civilians, police officers and setting all sorts of buildings on fire, especially mosques? How dare you regurgitate western media narratives without even bother to look deep into it against a country being bombed RIGHT NOW by those western countries? Do you not know that most confirmed deaths are civilians and gov employees, not protestors? Or do you believe those who LITERALLY bombed a school for girls as one of their first acts of aggression in the names of the rights for women? And they KILLED their leadership, but the country did not collapse, you know why? Because it's still a Republic that has the support of most of the population, at least during war.
Iranians living in Iran? Because if they're not the ones being bombed their opinion isn't any more important than yours or mine, and unlike your anecdotal experience I actually speak from a place of knowing history and listening to Iranians IN Iran.
This isn't the gotcha you think it is