Didn’t we just see in Syria that’s not the case. It is supremely hard to nation build a large failing state no matter who’s attempting it. Having the guns to challenge the internal security forces seems like a necessary first step.
I assume you don't live in iran and don't converse with iranians who live in iran and have bombs fall on their homes. If you asked yugoslav people in argentina in 1945, they'd be very anti-communist too... the situation in yugoslavia was a lot different (just giving an example from home).
The statistics are well... just statistics, if you collected the stats on trump support in san francisco near colleges, you'd get a drastically different result then on the elections. Same thing is happening in eg. serbia, where "everyone hates vucic", but the second you leave urban areas or ask anyone above 50yo, the situation is much different.
Also, a good majority of Iranian people might despise the regime, but also have long enough memories (or their parents do) of what happened the last time the West tried to intervene in their internal affairs.
There is absolutely no way to know if it's true or not
That number was simply made up and comes from Iran International, a Mossad-funded Pahlavist site.
Additionally, the Iranian government states that 2-3,000 were killed, mostly from Mossad-armed insurrectionists killing Iranian police.
So who are you going to believe? Israel, or Iran?
The vast majority of people trust the Iranian government over the Israeli regime.
I guess you just have to reflect on how nice it is that the one thing we know for sure aligns with an ongoing justification for all the bad stuff that needs to happen! It's funny how it works like that, but we have to take their word for it.
I remember seeing those maps pointing to the WMDs in Iraq on NYT. I remember when it was unspeakable to be critical of the narrative. All you can do, I guess, is hope that they wouldn't do that again, believe that this time its different.
But making outrageous claims then replying with " why are you defending Iran " is the gimmick.
Its like a psyop meme mash-up of reddit arguments, ad infinitum
Iran likely was weeks away from a nuclear bomb - they had all the parts, materials and know-how. They just needed the final steps of enrichment, and hand assembly a bomb. They had been in this position of a long time without taking the final steps, but at any time they only needed a few weeks to the first working bomb if they wanted to take those steps. (if they wanted to do mass production that would take longer)
"Israeli military reportedly acknowledges 70,000 killed in Gaza after previously casting doubt on health ministry’s count" - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/30/middleeast/israeli-milita...
Hamas is a few thousand people and the IDF are still fighting them after 2 years. There are about a million in the IRGC/Basij/Army in Iran.
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