Comment on Iran attacks Oracle as retribution for sacked employees

• Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Iran democratically elected a socialist leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in 1952. The US (and UK) didn’t like that, so they ushered a coup and installed the Shah, a brutal dictator, in 1953. Then in 1979, Iranians had enough of his bullshit and overthrew the government with the Islamic Revolution, voting in Ruhollah Khomeini as the new Ayatollah of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

  Have we ever once considered that the reason why certain sovereign nations in the world behave the way they do was because sometime in the 20th century, the US interrupted their progress towards socialism. See also Latin and South America.

  Maybe the US should just stop interfering with other countries and let the people decide what’s best.

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  • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah but then america would make money

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    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      America makes money when they destabilize sovereign nations and install their puppets to say “yes” whenever American corporations come to extract (read: steal) their resources.

      America does NOT make money when socialist states like Iran and Cuba nationalize their oil industry such that economic commerce can only happen through the government and its people.

      This is why America gets involved internationally: it’s to fuel their corporate greed and endlessly subjagate the Global South all for the benefit of the Imperial Core.

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      • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Meant to say Wouldnt, but still works

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        also harder to control if the country is a democratic one too.

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  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    voting in Ruhollah Khomeini as the new Ayatollah of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    How free and fair was that vote?

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    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Idk, how free and fair are American elections?

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      • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’d say freer than Iranian ones, then and now.

        wp:Ruhollah Khomeini#Democracy

        Khomeini also wrote that since Muslims must support a government based on Islamic law, Sharia-based government will always have more popular support in Muslim countries than any government based on elected representatives.[259]

        As for leftists who support the ISLAMIC Republic:

        wp:Iranian Revolution#The 1981–1982 massacre

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        Between June 1981 and March 1982, the theocratic regime carried out the largest political massacre in Iranian history, targeting communists, socialists, social democrats, liberals, monarchists, moderate Islamists, and members of the Baha’i faith as part of the Iranian Cultural Revolution decreed by Khomeini on 14 June 1980 with the intent of “purifying” Iranian society of non-Islamic elements.[250] Between June 1981 and June 1982, Amnesty International documented 2,946 executions, with several thousand more killed in the next two years according to the anti-government guerilla People’s Mujahedin of Iran.[251] More recently, Rastyad Collective has verified the identities of more than 3,400 political dissidents who were executed between June 1981 and March 1982.[252][253] These dissidents were sentenced to death by the Islamic Revolutionary Courts during show trials in more than eighty-five cities across the country on charges of spreading “corruption on Earth” (ifsad-fi-alarz), “espionage”, “terrorism”, or “enmity against Allah” (Moharebeh).[250] Most victims of the 1981 massacre were young activists aged eleven to twenty-four. These activists were either high school students or had recently graduated from universities in Iran and abroad. During the massacre, hundreds of minors were also subjected to arbitrary detention, torture, and summary executions on ideologically motivated charges of ifsad-fi-alarz and moharebeh by the revolutionary courts.[252][250][254] In July 2024, The Special Rapporteur published a landmark UN Report on the 1981 massacre and categorised the atrocity crimes committed in 1981 and 1982 as genocide and crimes against humanity. In this report, the Rapporteur called for the establishment of an independent and international accountability mechanism.[255]

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• BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The reason Iran has a dictatorship is because America overthrew a democratically elected leader in Iran and installed and a brutal dictator Shah in his place.

  Still Iran has never initiated a war.

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  • drath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Where’s Yemen and Lebanon?

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    it was of the insistence of uk, THE SHAH WAS installed, which led tot he Islamic revolution, REAGAN told iran to keep holding the hostages there til he got elected.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We hit Cambodia again from 80-95!?

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    • Krono@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m guessing this is a reference to unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, which has killed 20,000 and caused 45,000 amputations since the war ended in 1979.

      That war ended 50 years ago, and there is still 700 square miles of land contaminated by unexploded bombs.

      At least one child will lose their hand to a US bomb this month in Cambodia, you can bet on it. And next month too.

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