History repeats in Iran
As a marxist atheist, the concept of a Theocracy to me is a medieval anathema.
The Iranian Theocracy beats little girls to death for not wearing headscarves FFS and the brutal killings, detentions and torture of protestors mark them as a repressive and ruthless regime.
So I am no fan of the Iranian Theocracy.
However.
I’m also not blind to why they exist in the first place!
American foreign policy!
It was the Americans who committed a coup against Iran’s first democratically elected Government, so let’s not play the freedom and democracy card to try and justify this current illegal war against Iran by America and Israel.
The past gives us glimpses of the damage western foreign policy has caused…
A documentary about Peter Sichel – the ‘Jewish James Bond’ who died in 2025 – includes striking mea culpas about the cost and efficacy of US involvement in the Middle East
…If the bloody Americans stop trying to play God in other peoples country, we wouldn’t have had much of the nightmare of violence the 20th Century became!
We should be calling America and Israel out for their genocide, their violence and their cruelty.
This is what we get from NZ instead…
…an AI picture of Simon Court that is as unbelievable as the fact that the large smug golden Lion behind him isn’t smashed with the blood of Palestinian children.
We refuse to learn the lessons of the past, not because we are ignorant of them, but because we are the ones perpetrating the war crimes.
We need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem
Oil has empowered capitalism, and some of the world’s most exploitative regimes. Move away from it and we can solve some of the key issues we face
Go ahead and make your fair point about debating the value of historic US intervention. However it is a little casual and lazy to lump Israel into that when it comes to Iran. By any measure Israel has a self defence justification. Israel is a tiny and relatively young country that literally came under attack on the day of it coming into existence in 1948. While its MMP liberal democracy has produced a tail wagging dog obscenity with the current coalition Government that does not diminish its right to exist and its right to defend itself. In the case of Iran which has persistently called for Israel’s destruction, death to Jews and attacked it directly and via its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah the case for Israel using military force against Iran is strong and is a continuation of a long standing existing conflict.
Most will agree that Iran is NOT a nice country, however Israel and the USA attacking them while in negotiations was totally unacceptable, hence why I am on Iran’s side on this one. So where is Simon Court coming from? He categorically says – “Free speech protects the right to debate and Protest. It does not extend to targeting people because they are Jewish.” Shouldn’t he ALSO BE SAYING – “It does not extend to targeting people because they are Palestinian”? Both are HATE crimes. What he said and what he failed to say apply to all races, including our Maori wh cop a lot of racism too, much from our current CoC! If he posts on line at least he should be consistent. Also not only is the greed for oil. My pet hate now is greed – how much is ENOUGH????