If you’re reading this post this afternoon and you happen to be Iranian, congratulations. Your civilization didn’t die last night. I know it got a little bit dicey there for a minute, what with President Donald Trump promising that full-scale Armageddon would arrive at the stroke of 8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday night. But Donald Trump’s arbitrary deadline came and went last evening and you and I are still here. The nation of Iran is also, thankfully, still here.

And it has kicked Trump’s sorry ass up and down the block.

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[–] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Despite its relatively brief duration, the War on Iran has been nearly half a century in the making. That country officially became a theocracy back in 1979, under the rule of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In the midst of Khomeini’s revolution, Iranians stormed the U.S. embassy and took 66 Americans hostage, including diplomats, triggering a crisis that lasted well over a year and left deep enmity between our two countries in its aftermath. There are active government officials in America who have, quite literally, wanted to destroy Iran my whole life.

Even an article like this blindly ignores that America was the aggressor and tries to frame Iran as the bad guy, when the current regime is a response to the USA overthrowing a democratically elected government.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    This has been a disaster from top to bottom. Donald Trump started this war for no reason at all, quickly found himself in over his head, and then skulked away from it, with you and me getting stuck with the tab via skyrocketing gas bills and a nosediving stock market.

    It tries to pass the buck to Trump. Which obviously he was not alone in this decision.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Even an article like this blindly ignores that America was the aggressor and tries to frame Iran as the bad guy

    Decades of indoctrination means "western" people simply cannot understand that the USA is objectively evil. Everything they'd done for over a century was done to accrue more and more money and power, and the rest of the world must either bend the knee or die.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    He lost the war weeks ago.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago

    No surprises there. He's fucked up everything he tried his hand at ... except convincing gullible morons he's shit hot.

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  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

    Sorry, 1979?

    The war dates back to the astroturf revolution that inserted the Shah(a nazi supporter who was at the time in jail) into power.

    The revolution created and bankrolled by MI6 and the CIA. It led to the creation of BP.

    Why did they do it? Because the democratically elected government of Iran had promised to nationalize the oil fields.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    People forget the US installed a dictator so it could more easily rob Iran of its natural resources.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    A lot of Americans weren't even born when that happened.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    80% 55% of the US population was born after 1979 too.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Source? As far as I know, almost any Western civilization has most people in the Boomers / GenX age brackets, so way before 1979. Same for Japan.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Well before 2 days ago, there was the CIA World Factbook, widely considered the most regarded and cited source of world statistics (yes, even given the source - the reason behind its creation and it's maintainers was quite interesting).

    Of course, in an an administration made up of bullshit, facts are the enemy, so it has been removed and probably destroyed.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    After Vietnam, Afghanistan, Irak, you would think US understood you cannot take a country by force if you don't have a strong local support or willing to commit all your resources to invade but no they continue to believe that a little bombing would overthrow a country’s regime. Hope they'll get the memo this time

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Dump the Trump

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago*

    Yep and they try telling their meeia they won haha. Now they are raging against NATO because of their stupid fucking war. USA is a fucking laughing stuck.

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