The internal conflict over corruption, water issues and handling of the protesters had a decent chance to cause meaningful changes in government. Starting a war and attacking their civilians put those chances to bed.
replyExactly. And this also want' just a protest. They were protest in the big cities and uprising from suppressed minoritiesm which explain the death toll among people from the regime.
replyIran might have at best have a self-regime change, at worst split in 3. Now that the war is on, the regime consolidated.
Strategically, it makes no sense to corner and threaten people. Murdering their own citizens shows the degree to which they'll go to preserve their power. If anything, that's a reason to slowly bleed them instead of cornering and escalating.
replyThe evil of your enemy does not excuse your own strategic stupidity or cruelty.
Arguably the country that has done the most to cement the Iranian regime is the United States with its sanctions. If Iran had been left to develop into a normal Middle Eastern oil-rich country then things might have turned out differently. The more money people have the harder it is to control them.
replyAnd that gives US people the right to go there and murder a few thousand extra people?
replyHow does that compare with putting hundreds of thousands of people into cages for arbitrary reasons, I wonder. Or depositing them in random countries to be killed because they are e.g. homosexual.
replyAllegedly, according to the same political factions that aggressively bombed Iran just weeks later.
replyConsidering theyre now doing airstrikes, there was 100% pre-invasion action that included agitating these protests. Like they're literally bombing them now but we think we werent already doing CIA activity there 6 months ago? Im not saying civilians love the government they probably hate it but... its complicated, what if the person rallying and pushing 1000 people was actually a deep cover agent
replyBefore I get downvoted to hell Im not conding anything or taking any side, just pointing out an obvious deduction
You're being disingenuous - the "protestor" was caught on camera literally hacking a policeman to pieces. He murdered a policeman, and will now be executed.
replyCan you back this with linking the said videos and maybe some info on legal proceedings of the fair trial in which this person was convicted? I’m curious.
replyFrom that article, on CBS News which isn't exactly known for being a fan of this administration:
reply"Rights groups said the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture."