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Yeap. Neither is Iran.

They're someone elses enemy, not mine.



They'll be your enemies if you're the "wrong" kind of person as soon as you step on their soil.

Hope it helps, because it doesn't to millions of people living in their regimes. Authoritarianism apologia is wild.


No Persian government agents have ever come to my country to try and fraudulently steal a passport from a man with cerebal palsy. Israeli ones have though.


Yet.

Not to mention you sidestepped the entire conversation. It sucks for their own people. Their own govt is their enemy - we should be standing next to them, not going "oh yeah you're oppressors of your own people but in my book you're cool because I dislike my own country/Israel/West" or whatever the new excuse is.


Who the hell are we to tell Iran what sort of government they should have?


While NZ currently doesn't do much of that sort of thing, the European settlers of NZ simply couldn't get enough of telling other countries what to do and were fairly instrumental in drawing up and imposing borders after the fall of the Ottoman empire.

If "we" is taken to include the core HN user base (the USofA) then that horse has bolted given the the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh that more or less kick started the arc toward where Iran-West relations are today.


While NZ currently doesn't do much of that sort of thing, the European settlers of NZ simply couldn't get enough of telling other countries what to do and were fairly instrumental in drawing up and imposing borders after the fall of the Ottoman empire.

Did that work well? Should the west keep following a similar course of action?

I am also keenly aware that British Empire involvement started with conquering Palestine & The Balfour Declaration, and ended in the Sergeant's Affair. We have spilled more than enough blood for Zionism and (when we were no longer useful) had our blood spilled by Zionism.

Therefore I reiterate - do not make Iran your enemy on behalf of people who have historically used us as tools to get what they want.




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