• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Hey Atlantic Magazine, this you?

    Created by The Atlantic’s marketing team and paid for by American Petroleum Institute

    Bringing heat, light, and mobility to two billion additional people worldwide by 2040 – the projected increase in global population. Leading the world in natural gas and oil production. Reducing emissions to the lowest level in a generation. This is the work facing the modern natural gas and oil industry. Ten years ago, achieving these goals would have been considered monumental. Today, meeting them is just another part of the job.

    Can’t imagine why these guys would be excited about a “liberated” Iran.

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      Way to ignore the very real problems of the Iranian people by employing Ad hominem against the news source. Great job!

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          Iran’s very real problems are because of America’s economic warfare

          American sanctions have nothing to do with Iran’s very real lack of water. They did that to themselves with their unbridled and ignorant dam building.

          Specific to economic warfare Iran has trade relationships with both China and Russia. They have the ability to trade they are just absolute dogshit at managing their economy.

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          The fucking theocracy in power doesn’t help. Iran killed 1.500 innocent protesters during the 2022-2023 protesters and did the same in 2019 and 2009.

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              The system of government is not the reason for sanctioning, but it is a reason for people’s unhappiness.

              During those protests in 2022-23, Iran used rape as a weapon, just like Israel did. They disturbed graves and funerals of victims of their own violence and intimidated those who survived. And to the number of victims, most estimates say more than 500. The state admits to about 300, but then again, that’s the same state that told people Nika Shakarami committed suicide after she had been beaten to death.

              The fact that Israel commits a genocide does not excuse the amount of violence the Iranian state is using against their own people.

              I do not agree with the sanctions on Iran regarding important medical or food items.

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          2 days ago

          Like how they built a dam over a salt deposit and contaminated their water? How is this the western imperialists fault? I guess in the sense that the US allowed the current regime to rise to power.