Source for this article is Israeli news. Sharing because this is the the complete opposite of what has been said to us by american media the last few hours while the markets get manipulated. We will find out in the coming hours/days but figured to share what this other side is reporting
I don’t understand this refusal to side with the lesser of two evils.
Yes, Iran’s government is very bad in some ways, such as tratment of gay people. However, it is completely ridiculous to equivocate them with America and Israel. Iran isn’t a world-bestriding empire responsible for tens of millions of deaths in its pursuit of world domination, nor is it a fascist ethnostate with unlimited territorial ambitions undertaking an active genocide. It’s a religious conservative semi-democracy with a relatively robust welfare system and a strong public sector - basically if you added sharia law to a nordic model social democracy then placed it under a state of perpetual siege, you get Iran. This is not comparable to genocidal nazi pedophiles.
If you then factor in the fact that Iran’s opponents are completely lawless and are serial violators of the UN charter (plus the UN genocide convention), while Iran is fighting a defensive war, it becomes completely possible for any reasonable person to desire any other outcome other than Iran’s victory. You can say that they’re a “regime” and that they’re heckin fascists (they’re not and you don’t know what fascism is), but they’re objectively fighting for international law and the rights of the developing world against imperial domination. It doesn’t matter what their actual internal motivations are, these are the de jure stakes of this war.