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this is more of a "let them fight", just grab popcorn and enjoy the show, not sure any side is really good.
except for the countless Iranian civilians the US/Israel will carpet bomb/starve.
would say I'd feel bad for the Israeli civilians, but goven how they mostly celebrated the genocide, and block arabs from their shelters. they have systematically exhausted any ounce of empathy I am willing to give.
And I am technically Israeli (was 100% zionists until I lived there and saw that the antizionist talk wasn't propaganda but the truth and left Israel). would love to return once apartheid collapses.
The image is of Khomeini, who is long-dead. Nevertheless, there is a strange current of 'critical support' (often lacking any serious criticism) for the Islamic Revolution and the resulting Islamic Republic of Iran, despite Khomeini's success being predicated on massacres of leftists, including the total purge of the Tudeh Party.
Despite the current flare-up, this is only related to current events by the strange tendency of some nominal leftists to simp for the Islamic Republic on campist grounds.
In terms of current events, I agree - except for the civilian population, which always suffers, there are no good guys (EDIT: in terms of the international situation; Israel is obviously the worst of the lot domestically, on account of, you know, genociding the occupied Palestinian territories) between the US, Iran, and Israel at current, even in relative terms.
Khomeini took power originally in 1979 after returning from exile in Paris, right after the deposition of the Shah? People either seem to praise Shah era Iran for its supposed liberalism (when it had really ruthless police system and crackdown on dissidents) or this wave of sympathy for the Islamic regime.
Ironically, it all stems back to 1953 when Mossadegh tried to nationalise some oil fields and was couped and Reza Pahlavi was installed. This led to this deeply unpopular regime and the mess we see today.