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The funny thing I've been reading / seeing is that the paralympics are still ongoing.

The Olympic truce says no one will start a war during the 7 days before the Olympics and for 7 days after the Paralympics finish.

The US and Israel should be banned by the IOC from competing at the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (even though the host country is the US).

It won't happen though.

And of course the Trump administration/CIA already has his replacement lined up, and ready to install just like they did in Venezuela.

Who is Reza Pahlavi? A royal in exile, Iran's youngest pilot, and a potential successor after Khamenei's death

A good outcome would be if we could just get rid of all authoritarians instead of being offered this fucked up scale of "how evil is your authoritarian leader," based on raw number of protestors murdered, unfair elections, and unjustified detentions (so far).

Instead, we're supposed to be dumb enough to believe rank on this fucked up scale "justifies" another authoritarian overthrowing a regime with zero notice to their own government and completely ignoring rules of procedure, in the name of "freedom and democracy." Oh, and they do it in the same week we found out they're putting together an executive order to cancel our upcoming elections that could possibly take down their regime...

It's like having two families, each with their own mentally unstable and abusive parent, (plus your parent's dickhead boyfriend and all of his kids he's doing a shitty job of parenting). Your shitty parent gets in a fight with another shitty parent over who is the worse parent. Then your parent and their dickhead boyfriend, murder the other parent in front of you and all the other kids. Clearly, they have absolutely no intention of doing anything to actually help the kids of the parent they just murdered, and are planning to loot their pockets after murdering them.

But for some reason, we (as in all the kids that just witnessed exactly what happen) shouldn't worry about what comes next, because our "rockstar" parent has already arranged for "some guy" to take the kids in the other family, whether they like it or not. You know, because "democracy."

We're supposed to pretend from this day forward, that our collective memory of watching our insane narcissistic parent murdering somebody with their shady boyfriend Israel, after months of hearing them threaten to do it, is that our parent was the good guy who just did what needed to be done.

Because if we don't pretend they're a fucking hero, our insane authoritarian parent will give us something to cry about.

they did it because it was what THEY want

1. Oil. Iran is said to be producing the same amount as Iraq.
2. Ensure that Yahoo would then expel all those are potential threats to his lebensraum plan. Yeah, Yahoo's Israel is what North Korea is for Russia: the mouse that roars.
3. Make the Christofascist supporters happy as if this offensive action is "the mandate of God".

Now and infuriatingly Trump has achieved infamy as the worst generator of anxiety in history.

I know that Trump did do this for himself.

On the other hand, the Mullah dictatorship murdered Thousand of protesters during the last months, so they can get fcked!!!

I'm hoping the Iranian people can come out of this a better country. But you are totally correct in that the US did this for the oil not the people.

Both can be true and the act does not need to be selfless to be good.

Furthermore, even if you, perhaps understandably, aren't a big fan of the concept of a Theocratic supreme leader, your personal feelings on that fact are really beside the point.

For better or worse, Iran has been the one of only countries on the world stage to materially support Palestinian resistance, and opposed Israeli expansionism.

You can't support the Palestinian cause and cheer on this war/the death of the Ayatollah. Certainly not before there's a free and unified Palestine, anyway.

Khamenei was a monster. It doesn't matter how or why he's dead. Good riddance, may he burn in hell for an eternity.

It doesn't matter whether a monster is killed by someone with noble intentions or a monster is killed by another monster. Either way there's one less monster in the world.

Not like we've been here before. Surly there won't be blowback from this.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

And Fascist 47 while we're at it.

the fuck is PP giving statements for? fucker still doesn't have security clearance. He's got about as much knowledge on what's really going on as I do.

"Lets hope this bloody war ends now."

Hahahahahahah. No chance.