In their efforts to Westernize Iran, the USA has bombed over 500 Iranian schools this year.

They really choose their best school shooters

and only by RIGHT wingers, who are white.

losing this war

That's what America does

They only have to fight until next election cycle. And this extremely unpopular offensive will be over. and they might even get a friendlier US administration.

Chuck and Hakeem criticisms of the war is that it is not being run competently enough, when Trump had a stopped-clock-moment and signed the first peace deal, they and the rest of BlueMaga were saying TACO Trump.

I have no faith a Gavin Newsom presidency stops the war.

Winning might not even be the point...

Iran is not perfect, but they do have very strong convictions and their own conception of what it means to be a humanitarian state.

Iran never developed or used chemical weapons against Iraq, even when Iraq used it against them. Producing chemical weapons is easy and Iran could have easily done it hade they wanted to.

In the same vein, Iran could have had nuclear weapons had they not decided to ban weapons of mass destruction.

There also aren't too many US schools in the area, but a lot of military bases.

Eh, I get what you mean but imagine the Nazis started nuking.

I think an Antropologist said it something as "the barbarian is the one who belives in the existance of barbarism."

They could hit schools in USA allied countries where the USA military bases are. They could explicitly target the schools in the USA military bases. They're not doing that, we would be told if they did.

A very valid perspective, which brings us back to why did we start a war with a nation that can't even strike us?

and even if they did - those missiles aint cheap to throw into schools.

massacred tens of thousands of activists

Trump literally admitted they had armed them.

Was Iran supposed to let US proxies just prevent them from defending themselves?

So Iran was able to kill as many civilians as Israel did in 2 years, in one week, hide the bodies, clean the blood, and convince the families not to say anything? No news footage, no cell footage..

We just have to take the word of a pedophile rapist billionaire government?

All this while mossad literally admitted to having agents in the protests??

Also a prime sponsor of terrorism all over the Middle East. Sure, the US shouldn't be there and shouldn't be acting like assholes, but you're 100% correct. No good guys.

I would take "tens of thousands" with reserve. It would put casualty rate up there with Ukraine and Gaza war. And all this with small firearms vs 1000kg bombs in war.

Its hard to get anything resembling the truth because gov wants a clean image and protests were happening just before Israel/USA attack which had direct goal of toppling gov with these numbers as justification.

I wonder what Iran would be like if it still had its democratic government before the U.S. and U.K. orchestrated a coup in 1953 that installed the Shah for the crime of nationalizing their oil industry. Iran was on a path to democracy and the US undid that and installed an authoritarian leader.

I am not sure you want to go down this road, the US has killed likely millions of children in iraq, iran, afganistan, yemen, etc

Sorry, but this is a false equivalence.

Of course things are terrible inside Iran, especially for women. However. This is about each country’s military strategy.

If you want to whataboutism into “but look at their human rights for their own people”, I will gladly send you here and there for a moment of pause and reflection.

And yes Iran is strategecally far superior in the way they are playing this, but if you think that through, you will understand that Donny and Benji are providing a perfect external threat to Iran, bolstering the perceived need for a ‘protector’ in the from of the IRG.

This zionist war is helping Iran to keep it’s status quo, rather than letting the people continue the beginnings of a groundswell movement which was beginning to take place right before the war.

Your wiki article far from unbiased, and you might want to take into account who’s been interfering for over half a century tool.

TLDR; don’t compare a theocracy vs a (kleptocracy + theocracy) and say one is better than the other. Go print a newspaper in Jerusalem with FREE PALESTINE as the headline, or go walk around freely as a hispanic looking person in any democratic state in the US.

Iran is only hitting US military bases in other countries, because even now an attack on US soil is a terrible idea.

US military bases in other countries are very explicitly considered "US soil."

Do you expect a country defending itself against attack to travel around the world to attack instead of using those resources defensively?

I am definitely not an expert on Iran, so I will not say whether Iran truly has a history of human rights abuses or not, but I have to say the citations of that Wikipedia article ia full of citations from sources that have clear vested interest in the United State hegemony. This is the exact kind of Wikipedia article teachers warned aginst citing when I was in school.

No, it's American as apple pie.

russians are more into firing ballistic missiles into residential housings in the middle of the night these days. still doesn't work.