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This guy just gunned down 36,500 civilian protestors.
I've been following this story. It's considered the most horrendous death toll of protestors in the history of the world.
I don't think people understand the gravity of this.
And like most Americans, Ive got my hands full with domestic problems.
But 36,500 people. Executed. Children. Grand parents. Neighbors. Entire families.
There are reports the attackers entered hospitals and shot patients in the head.
Imagine if Iran sent planes loaded with bombs to the US because of the MN protestors getting killed.
If the US government killed 36,000 protesters I would probably want them to.
No you wouldn't. Just look at how many Americans die each year due to lack of health care. Then look at how many Americans die due to gun violence. Then look at how many American veterans commit suicide each day. Stop acting like you care, about Iranians or Americans. Or at least start caring instead of raising that veteran suicide number.
they can't. nobody can.
I'd be s little cautious about those numbers, we all remember WMDs in Iraq and Iraquis throwing babies out of incubators.
Edit: and such statements
The statements come from an Iranian senior official. He said forces were given
"full authority and a blank check to attack, with the aim of creating maximum fear to deter the resurgence of protests."
And the senior official speaking at the meeting was presenting
assessments by security bodies that sharply contradict the government’s official figures on the killings.
A supposed anonymous iranian senior official as quoted by the website iranintl.com in an article without author's name on it. Are we able to cross-source that claim or have some info about that website, if it's worth it's words? In a situation where your only choice are state's PR agencies and west-facing news outlets, it's weird to unconditionally believe only one of them.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Iran massacring its civilians is not an extraordinary claim.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
So go on and provide them.
Authoritarian theistic shithole government accepted 3k people dead, so we know that's a real deal and they can't just silence that, alright, and the numbers are obviously over what they claim.
But some source pushes it 10x that, alleges they have some insides from within the house. And I'm not informed if it's a legit media source or on the level of someone's substack. No names there, nothing, even said article got posted without an author's name on it, while they do put these on other articles. In order to trust it, and not just average it with the state's PR team, I need some background, some cred, just something to believe they don't make these up on the spot.
And that got posted three times by a person that gets called out for their overwhelming presence (on their main acc).
Some ordinary evidence would be sufficient in that case.
Eye witness reports show Iran is actively trying to disguise the death toll. That puts the burden of proof on Iran that their number is right.
10x doesn't seem too far off. It's like the number of rapes being notoriously higher than the number of reported rapes.
There are a lot of people worried about a large death toll being used to justify foreign intervention. Meanwhile, another uprising in Iran is being put down so their benevolent and wise rulers can hold power for another decade or two.
Do you believe over 700,000 Palestinians have been murdered by Israel?
It's not out of the question, given Israel puts the number at 70,000 and stifles independent investigation.
Murder is a loaded term, though.
Take a remedial English course with an emphasis on rhetoric.
Go on and provide them.
That revolution comes at the right time for all turmoil in the US.
virtually certain.
That and Trump needs a distraction from Epstein.
Wait, this in Iran? You could forgiven if you thought it was in the US.
Not really. I get you're using hyperbole here, but this kind of attitude is dangerous.
Scale matters. Every country is guilty of wronging its people. That doesn't make all countries or all acts equal. If you can draw false equivalence between the US and Iran, then you can draw false equivalence between Norway and North Korea.
The US hasn't crushed protests like China and Iran. What the US has done is very bad, but that just makes what's described here as horrific instead.
I had to assume you were referencing the recent ICE killings. If you're a Good Ol' Boy still sore about being on the losing side of the Civil War, then I can see your point.
Why these countries crush protester?
We didn't kill as much domestic protester as these countries yet