Feel free to use this a megathread for the US/Israeli war on Iran.

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      7 hours ago

      Of course, but it wouldn’t make sense to lie about this, either way he was a 86 year old, and I’m not going to pretend that the Iranian regime was a paragon of freedom.

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        6 hours ago

        That regime has been practicing for this very day for DECADES. They have plans B, C, D, E, F, and G on the books.

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          Hard to grab good examples in the current state of his Telegram/Twitter/etc. apart from the famous ones like “woman is a flower” and the ones about never ever being mean to your wife (man was a great strategist). This is the vibe though:

          I have some older articles saved regarding misconceptions about Iranians having the ISIS misogyny thing going on. Great examples in there. I will dig those up and ping you when I post them. Also should repost stuff like Booker Omole’s thoughts on their revolution.

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            Those are really sweet spirited. I wonder how he was IRL.

            Edit also thank you. Sorry. They made me want to cry.

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              They really are, when I checked out the discussion group for his official Telegram chat, the stuff people were posting surprised me because it was all flower-themed, intensely so. Pink and red petals everywhere. Of course currently it is very death to America but the aesthetic for that is on point as well:

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              Who knows. Lots of people who do bad things can be personable, it’s one of the many weird things about humans.

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                  More nukes are never good and the fact that rearming is on the table for most nations shows how awful the general state of international relations is. Obviously the biggest culprit for the state of affairs is the United State.