• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    If it’s what the people of Iran want, then it’s no one else’s business to decide.

    People on lemmy are like “Boo, foreign intervention. No, don’t choose that way! Let me tell you what’s what.”

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      15 hours ago

      If it’s what the people of Iran want, then it’s no one else’s business to decide.

      Fair enough though it’s difficult to determine what the people of Iran want being from a different country and culture half way around the world. Hope they figure it out and make it work.

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        8 hours ago

        I’d say from the huge numbers of people out protesting in the streets against the regime and winding up in body bags by the thousands because the regime is massacring them, that they probably want the downfall of the mullah.

        And the reason it’s “difficult to determine” is because the regime cut off their internet access to isolate them from outside observers and increase the fog of war. People saying “it’s difficult to determine what they want” is precisely what the ayatollah intended to happen.

        As for what they want to replace it with, that’s what a referendum is for. So I don’t get this “don’t give them a referendum, they’ll just choose wrong” mentality…