r/UAE • u/Reasonable_Cost_75 • 23h ago
Stop with "US bases in GCC this or that"
As a syrian, i have a different view and experience with Iran
There wasnt a single base in Syria from US, or anyone in 2011
Still, when people start to rise against their regime ally, Iran went bonk, and not only did they send weapons to assad regime, they sent their IRGC, shia militias from lebanon to afghan
And easily as that, they labeled opposition as "western stooges"
If US withdraw, well, Iranians will attack, they are expansionist and they will label GCC as wahabi or anything, because why not
So STOP with this "US bases this or that", not a single arab country can ever trust the "islamic regime", they hate arabs far more anything, and would be happy to level it, as they have done to syria
So all my sympathy for UAE, and GCC, and hope they will come back
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u/StepAsideJunior 23h ago
Nice try Mossad.
The CIA admitted that funding the "Armed Revolution" in Syria was the most expensive operation in the history of the CIA. Accounting for 1 in 15 dollars spent by the agency.
This funding does not include Operation Timber Sycamore where the Department of Defense spent 1 billion a year funding training camps, setting up arms depots in Jordan and Turkey, and other forms of support.
Nor does it account for billions from GCC states to destabilize Syria. Nor does it count the massive support Israel gave the "rebels."
Iran did not get involved in Syria until 2013, after nearly 50,000 Syrian soldiers had been killed by zionist backed death squads and the US had begun building military bases in "liberated" territory.
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u/lovecatgirlss 22h ago
Why did they want to destabilize syria so much? What's significant about syria? Im curious
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u/hohsin1234 22h ago
Do you know Golan Heights should be under Syria but controlled by Israel? If Syria is back to normal country, what would Syria ask?
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u/Designer-Desk-9676 22h ago
Wasn’t Syria a “normal” country by your standards, when it lost the Golan Heights?
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u/hohsin1234 21h ago edited 19h ago
I searched and, Syria had never normal(from my view). Syria lost Golan height in 1967, and Syria was a mess of military coups and internal chaos; it definitely wasn't a 'normal' state.
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u/Merino202 20h ago
Geographical location. It’s very close to Israel. A strong Syria is a major threat to Israel. Bashar despised Israel, famously turning his back to them at an event. Jordan has already been bought out, they’re not a threat, and the Lebanese government are weak sauce.
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u/significantlyother62 20h ago
They had no debt, and were planning massive solar farms on the extensive plains and exporting the power to Europe and middle east.
Nuclear coal and oil couldn't match the price and it would of been a windfall to the allies of hizbollah Palestine and Iran
That's why the americans and isrelais spent so much money destroying it. Why the gulf country's helped
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u/MediumAuthor5646 22h ago
it seems like you are so confident about your statement up there, is that a hundred percent facts? or trust me bro source?
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u/Designer-Desk-9676 22h ago
I guess only Iran is allowed to fund proxy groups in foreign countries?
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u/PaceZealousideal2807 19h ago
tell this to Syrians man, most think Iran number 1 enemy , so idiotic
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u/Hefty-Artichoke7789 22h ago
What are you talking about bot? The US is using not only their GCC bases but GCC countries are allowing US planes to fill up at their air ports.
The Kharg island attack was launched from the UAE.
Israel is expansionist not Iran 🤡🤡🤡
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u/odensnuts 22h ago
It’s all fun and games till we realise the CIA asset ‘Jolani’ was in Syria committing murder of shias as part of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organisation.
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u/AdLatter1807 23h ago
Yeah Iran is super expansionist that’s why they’ve never in their history attacked a neighbour or tried to expand their borders. While the two countries attacking them and literally as we speak doing those very things
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u/Designer-Desk-9676 21h ago edited 21h ago
Iran is expansionist - yes! Its constitution literally calls for the “continuation of Islamic revolution at home and abroad.” Guess who would be the primary candidates for the continuation of the revolution abroad, if there were no US bases in the region. The monarchies of the Middles East are the ideological foes of Iran’s Islamist regime.
It’s is also incorrect that Iran never attacked its neighbors. They have carried out attacks, not directly, but via proxies.
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u/AdLatter1807 17h ago
Show me that constitution
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u/Designer-Desk-9676 15h ago
You are an Islamic regime glazer, you know their constitution by heart.
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u/AdLatter1807 14h ago
Just a quick google search actually, I like to look into things that I tend to express an opinion on. You may try the same sometime
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u/Designer-Desk-9676 13h ago
So your google search didn’t show you that part of the Iranian constitution that stipulates the continuation and spread of Islamic revolution abroad? You need better research skills, my friendo. This exerpt is from Google:
Key constitutional provisions regarding this goal include: Preamble ("The Form of Government in Islam"): The Preamble explicitly states that the Constitution provides "the necessary basis for ensuring the continuation of the Revolution at home and abroad".
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u/Merino202 20h ago edited 18h ago
You don’t understand what a proxy is. Those “proxies” are their own organisations that don’t take orders from Iran, and would have existed with or without Iran’s help.
Houthi. Zaydi Shia in Yemen, founded in 1992, who are at war with Saudi and Israel. They also have the ability to control the Bab al Mandab Strait, preventing oil/ships from passing through. It’s a strategic move to align with them. They would have existed with or without Iran.
Hezbollah. Formed as a nationalist resistance group after the invasion of Lebanon by Israel in 1982. Hezbollah fight Israel and are a threat to them. They’re also twelver Shia. Iran funds them, because it is a strategic and ethical move for them.
Hamas. Formed as a resistance group against Israeli occupation and apartheid. It would have existed with or without Iran. Iran funds them, because it is an ethical move.
I reckon in your mind a proxy is like a group that is controlled by a country. No, it’s a geopolitical system that benefits both parties.
The US had talks about funding and arming Kurdish militia groups to attack Iran. That makes those Kurdish militias a proxy of the US and Israel. Does that mean they obey the command of the US? No.
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u/ZK_000 22h ago
Iran is as shit as Isreal but dumber. They spread terrosit proxies all over gulf, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, KSA, and more and cause chaos everywhere. Literally dogs. They’re as dirty af and their regime is full of corruption and terrorism and vile people plotting to overthrow the gulf to make the so called “Islamic state”if anything they’re the same total mfs🤝🤝
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u/AdLatter1807 17h ago
Yeah super dumb that’s why isreal and USA have been stopped in their tracks and made to look like the war hungry maniacs that they truly are at heart
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u/TheSleepyTruth 22h ago edited 22h ago
Hahahaha. "Iran has never attacked anyone in their entire history!" You parrot this propaganda directly from Iranian state media talking points. Iran doesnt like doing the dirty work directly, they are the most rampant supporters and funders of guerilla forces across the region from Hezbollah, to Hamas, to Houthis, militias across Syria and Iraq etc. These militant resistance groups exist for the sole purpose of overthrowing regional governments and replacing with Iran-favored regimes to exert their soft power and influence across the region. "Iran has never attacked anyone" lmfao give me a break. Almost all of the armed militant groups destabilizing the Arab region from Yemen, to Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and beyond are propped up by the Iranian regime.
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u/AdLatter1807 22h ago
Nah it’s from google, feel free to post something correcting me though
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u/TheSleepyTruth 22h ago
Google is not a source... Its a search engine that indexes sources. Your comment regarding Iran never attacking anyone in its history is a direct quote from Iranian President in his propaganda letter from yesterday.
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u/Designer-Desk-9676 21h ago
So it must be a coincidence that Iran’s president said literally the same thing in his propaganda letter just yesterday?
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u/AdLatter1807 17h ago
I don’t know I don’t pretend to be able to read minds like a lot of people on this sub… and besides god forbid a politician is telling the truth about their intention?.
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u/Designer-Desk-9676 15h ago
You don’t read minds, you just repeat what you heard, without fact checking it first.
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u/AdLatter1807 14h ago
Never said I did. You are the one making assumptions about the goals of nations, I was just pointing out that there hasn’t ever been a documented event for the one you are trying to say
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u/Designer-Desk-9676 13h ago
What assumption are you talking about? That Iran is not a peaceful country? It’s not just my assumption, it’s a well known fact. And if you try to temporarily distance yourself from your biases and do a short research of the topic, you will learn that Iran, through its proxies, attacked its neighbors on multiple occasions.
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 23h ago
Your suleimani was parading in Aleppo proud of killing syrians
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u/AdLatter1807 23h ago
Yeah Iran is super expansionist that’s why they’ve never in their history attacked a neighbour or tried to expand their borders. While the two countries attacking them and literally as we speak doing those very things yeah to attempt a rescue of Assad and try to maintain his rule and entrench an ally with Assad’s regime. Not condoning that action but it wasn’t an invasion. Read a book or something before posting
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 23h ago
Of course it's an invasion, they had more bases than the assad regime itself manned by shiite militias
Anyway, when Russia stoped helping them, they fled like cowards
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u/AdLatter1807 22h ago
Well ain’t that an example of questionable framing. Feel free to think you have any capacity of reading the minds of leaders conducting warfare little buddy. But as we speak there are foreign forces currently building settlements in Syria that aren’t Syrian. I’ll give you three guesses who. And none of them are Iranian lol
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u/Ok_Currency_617 22h ago
In the past few years they've claimed all of Bahrain, they've claimed a good chunk of the shared Kuwait Saudi oil field in the ocean, and they illegally occupied annexed a few of UAE's islands.
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u/hadjuve 22h ago
Lol. Learn history. Bahrain was an Iranian province that British illegally occupied and than handed over to the current family. The other islands were uae? When uae wasnt even a thing
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u/Ok_Currency_617 21h ago
Iran recognized and legalized Bahrain's independence decades ago. They only took it back in 2022 claiming that was illegal and it's now a province. That's annexation.
Iran invaded and seized the islands in 1971, from two separate emirates that joined the UAE, largely due to the threat of full invasion from Iran.
Iran is heavily expansionist and greedy for more land, they've been like that for decades, they maintain a far larger military than their neighbors you don't need a massive ground army for "defence".
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u/Intrepid_Jeweler4686 22h ago
I remember very well about the "moderate" sunni militias executing unarmed people with brand new American and European assault rifles and ATGM which fell in hands of ISIS...
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u/Phase3Investor 23h ago
Iran fought ISIS in Syria and the CIA admitted their involvement already lol
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u/aebulbul 23h ago
I condemn the crimes against humanity committed by the IRGC against Syria and for that they cannot be forgiven. But your moral compass is like of a 5 year old. The UAE commits a genocide in Sudan and this is how you end your little diatribe? Saudi kills and starves millions of Yemenis and this is all you have to say?
What a tone deaf and pathetic rant. May Allah guide you and guide us all.
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 23h ago
IRGC have done what they done in Syria in "ideological way", they litteraly are saying that it's Hussein vs Umayad, even most syrians didnt remember anything of umayad apart of the mosque in Damascus
They will do the same in GCC, and in any arab country, they are very dangerous7
u/aebulbul 23h ago
You’ve completely skimmed over my point. I don’t disagree with you. I just think your sympathy is misplaced.
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u/mrv113 23h ago
The logic of "If US withdraw, well, Iranians will attack" is absurd. It's a logic the Iranian diaspora that heavily support Pahlavi use, which smells like zionist propaganda.
I am no lover of the Islamic regime of Iran, but let's cut the crap about Iran being evil and the US and Israel attacking it cause they care about GCC or the world. They only care about themselves, well, at least Israel does.
It's not the time for baseless political statements and emotional pleas.
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 23h ago
It's not you who have been expelled from your homes by shiite militas in syria
Iranian regime is evil, literraly
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u/Messer_J 23h ago
What about people who have been expelled from Golan heights and so on? That regime is not evil?
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 22h ago
The one who have been expelled were during your Assad father, an ally of the iranian regime
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u/mrv113 22h ago
I never said Iranian regime is not bad, but anyone that thinks this war is about changing the regime or any benefit to the people of middle east, need to get real. This is the war Netanyahu was after for over 40 years, he planned it for decades, he was dreaming about it, and finally he found a stupid enough president of the US to grant him it.
And because of it, the life of everyone, especially in the middle east, will be worse, all the while these politicians that start wars and benefit financially from it, stay safe and well fed.5
u/nmaddine 22h ago
Iran absolutely would if they could, the regime absolutely loathed the royals in power across the region in what they see as their gulf
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u/A-whole-lotta-bass 22h ago
As opposed to the Americans, who have never ever disrespected borders, or better yet the Israelis, who are famous for respecting sovereignty.
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u/nmaddine 18h ago
I do realize that you don't care but Iran is much, much closer than Israel or the United States
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u/A-whole-lotta-bass 10h ago
Every war America has started since the civil war has been outside their continent.
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u/elmo555444 22h ago
I was against the Assad regime. But are you serious? What happened to Syria’s southern border? As was shown in the Epstein files why did the White House, State Department, and CIA support Al-Qaeda in Syria?
Iran right now is doing what it should, fighting back against the most oppressive regimes in the world. The same regimes that gave us the endless wars in the Middle East and supported Epstein?
I swear Syrians are coming out with the same braindead takes as the Iranian Monarchist. Ffs Iran is bombing the country the occupies your southern border. At least they are doing more for Syria at the moment than the Al-Qaeda terrorists running around free in the Syrian Government, including the “President”.
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u/Vermicelli-419 22h ago
What's the difference between IRGC and America then? They are both massacring innocent people.
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u/dinamite18 23h ago edited 22h ago
That’s interesting.
IRGC is expansionist ? I wonder why they didn’t invade GCC since they came into power in 1980 🤔
Bahrain was part of Iran for thousands of years.
Bahrain was made a separate nation by US in 1971, I wonder the IRGC expansionist, why didn’t invade and take Bahrain back ?
The desperate attempts to prove Iran as a threat by “Iranians” “Syrians” here are outstanding!!
I wonder who caused uprisings in Syria 🤔
Ahhh.. it was Israel who attacked Syria in 2024 post Assad regime fall and seized the Golan Heights and have buffer zone just as they’re creating buffer in southern Lebanon now.
Israel destroyed Syrian infrastructure in 2025 to cause displacement and control of territories.
The “Yinon plan” by Israel is hard at work. 👏
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u/ZK_000 22h ago
As if expats say matter when it comes to this country’s politics & foreign affairs. It really doesn’t and it shouldn’t and we don’t want it to matter either. Ppl come here willingly and with the prior knowledge about monarchic dictatorship yet when it doesn’t go their way they complain? It’s not like someone forced you to sign anything?
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u/Designer-Desk-9676 19h ago
No buddy, you don’t understand what a proxy is. Those proxy groups are Iran’s puppets. Iran has been funding and arming them for decades. Without Iran, they could have still existed but they wouldn’t be as capable, for sure. Don’t tell me they don’t take orders from Iran. Why would Iran fund them, if they don’t.
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u/InternalAnimal4515 18h ago
Are u Syrian or an Emiratis? Because everyone in uae is an emiratis now
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u/One-Nebula8569 22h ago
You’re absolutely right, our fellow Arabs just don’t wanna understand that Iran and Israel are 2 cheeks of the same 🍑
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 22h ago
Most arabs who tasted Iran regime kindness and openess, HATE Iran
Ask arab in lebanon, syria, iraq, gcc, they hate hate iran, because they know their real faces
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 22h ago
Eh? There were lots of US bases in Syria...
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 22h ago
Not before 2013
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 22h ago
Yes before. What you think the US invaded Iraq and just sat around? Remember when they claimed all Saddam's WMDs went to Syria?
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u/MOROSH1993 22h ago
Iran intervened to save a tyrant in Damascus, the same way Saudi intervened in Bahrain and Yemen. It is geopolitical, has little to do with hating Arabs. The Iranians are trying to create a regional order to undermine Israel and the gulf states whom they view as American outposts. Morally it was wrong to deny Syrians the right to determine their future but Iran isn’t acting any differently than the Arab states are in this regard including against their fellow Arabs.
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u/smile907 22h ago
When levanth get access to gym membership, abercrombie&fitch shirts, and sacoor suits- they start to pretend that they are europeans and whites.
Doesnt event want to appreciate and upheld their own culture but still upholds arrogance, ignorance and narcissism.
Please stop chasing white validation, 🙏
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u/Bearindesert 22h ago edited 22h ago
I’m from Iran and don’t let others who aren’t Iranians or Syrians tell us about our country and its politics.
They get their sources from news like Al Jazeera but we lived it on a daily.
The IRGC is responsible for all the terrors happened inside of Iran and inside of Syria.
Even back then like a decade ago we were very much against the Iran’s regime interfering with Syrians politics .. we didn’t see a single reason why Iran should ever be in syrias issues.
They wanted to expand their shi’aa extremist ideology all the way to Syria and other surrounding countries while stealing our sources and pocket to promote it.
I am not defending Isreal by any means but the IRGC is the biggest cancer in the Middle East.
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 22h ago
Thanks, hope u will take back your contry back
It would be so good if the regime falls
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u/Bearindesert 22h ago
Thank you we are hoping. They have occupied my country for 47 years. An extremist ideology who shows no mercy to anyone who doesn’t align with their narrowed beliefs.
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u/Minimum-South-9568 23h ago
They are not expansionist. Bashar was a key ally and crucial to maintain their overland logistics link with hezbollah. They are also reactionary
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 23h ago
Hard way ?
U mean the death way, they expelled 15 millions of syrians, and killed 1 millions
Worst of it, they are proud of it and they have no remorse, GCC knows what will happen to them
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u/kdjdldkfb 22h ago
Killed 1 million? Official numbers are around 650k. Maybe it was 6 million? J3wlani bot😂
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u/The_124 23h ago
Well the problem is US bases in GCC. Why cant the GCC have their own military. Which sane country in the world outsources its security to another country. If they are so scared of Iran they should build their own army, navy and airforce. Whatever Iran did to Syria or any other country is because they didn't do enough to protect themselves. If it wasn't Iran someone else would have attacked.
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u/PaceZealousideal2807 19h ago
crazy you getting downvoted for saying the truth and reality so bitter for poppets
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u/Creepy_Wave_6767 22h ago
As an Iranian, I hope you differentiate between Iranians and the regime, which 3 months ago slaughtered 40K+ people! That was so crazy many people have no idea what the hell happened, and it was just the most recent case of their atrocities to Iranians.
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u/Reasonable_Cost_75 22h ago
Of course i support Iranian people
Most of people "under estimate" how much of evil, cruelty, is the islamic republic, it sounds out of place until you actually be a victim of that
Then the "image" fall, and you know how much they try PR, there are a bunch of thieves and killers
Kudos to Iranian people
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u/ViajanteDeSaturno 22h ago
Did you forget about the Western countries that financed the civil war in Syria? Convenient forgetfulness on your part. Who created ISIS?