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> Because the next ruler will be an American stooge.

And if that's the case, do you think that American stooge shall do worse than Khamenei who ordered his islamist guards to slaughter 30 000+ unarmed iranian protesters in a matter of days?

What can be worse than religious extremist sending their fanatics into hospitals to finish the wounded?

I'm in the EU and I see cars with iranian flags honking. Someone posted a video or iranians celebrating: not bearded men and veiled women (which is a sign of religious extremism: there are many muslims that do not have the islamist beard and many muslim women who aren't veiled) but regular people, celebrating.

I don't doubt that many bearded men and veiled women are very sad today.

But I side with the free iranians in exile who are celebrating what may be the end of four decades of sharia law ruling their country.

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> And if that's the case, do you think that American stooge shall do worse than Khamenei who ordered his islamist guards to slaughter 30 000+ unarmed iranian protesters in a matter of days?

American seemed to have been fine with 30k people disappearing in Argentina:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War

While a smaller number, US seemed to have been fine with their then-friend Saddam Hussein gassing a whole bunch of Kurds:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_massacre

The US stooges and friends have done all sorts of bad (maybe even worse) things in the past.


> The US stooges and friends have done all sorts of bad (maybe even worse) things in the past.

What kind of all sorts of bad did they do in the past while they ruled a country? Have they ever usurped throne for 36 years?


> What kind of all sorts of bad did they do in the past while they ruled a country? Have they ever usurped throne for 36 years?

To take the second quest first, and focus on Iran since it's the topic du jour: you mean like how the shah usurped power from the legislature with US/UK help and ruled for 38 years?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi

And circling back to the first:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Imperial_S...

Why do you think the 1979 Revolution happened in the first place? The people were tired of being repressed by an imperialist puppet:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

(Hello irony.)


What about close to one million deaths in Iraq not to mention other countries?



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