• Riverside@reddthat.com
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    It began before the attacks on Iran

    Not true. Iranian people have been attacked by murderous US+EU sanctions killing tens of thousands of them every year for decades now. The protests were literally engineered by the US as a form of justification for the war, look at Iranian Rial exchange prices on the months before the protests. Hell, Trump literally admit a few days ago to sending weapons to the “protestors”.

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      Iran’s government has done plenty to deserve those sanctions. War is wrong no matter which side does it, and Iran is very guilty.

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        I wish you and your family never have to go through the “deserved sanctions” of the USA and EU, which together murder half a million people yearly since 1975 per latest medical research

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          saddly nobody has found a better option. Iran has had particularly evil leaders for decades. (Why is interesting history itself - but not relavant to today)

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            saddly nobody has found a better option

            I guess all Yanks should be starved for choosing the wrong president? Or is that something you reserve to nonwhites?

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              Or you can make war and kill innocents. Or you can turn your back and watch them kill innocents.

              there are other variations, but I have yet to see an option that isn’t awful.

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                You didn’t respond: would you enact starvation on Yanks to push for regime change?

                The people enacting these sanctions, i.e. US government, are as of today explicitly talking about eliminating a civilization, the literal definition of genocide.

                Why are you defending genocide?

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      Sure, and Iran isn’t under a regime now, right? They shut down the internet because they didn’t like what was said over it.