I have no love for the US, but Iranians deserve regime change.
Innocent people are innocent people. It doesn't matter if they're in the minority or lack the power to defend themselves against oppression.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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Regime change is pointless when all of the powers poised to take over are no better. They deserve regime abolition but I don't see how they get there from here.
If anyone in Iran learned about this by e-mail from a government address, hope they had read receipts disabled.
Why is Iran not allowing internet usage in the country?
To keep people from organizing protests.
And to cover up their atrocities. We still don't know if they killed 10,000 protestors or 36,000.
Surely to control information leaks (same way Palestine occupiers do to the press) and prevent cyber security risks. They know their infrastructure can be and was breached in many ways, be it the tampered pagers or the cctv network. First thing I'd if I knew I was hacked would be to pull the cable.
Reading the news and comments are so weird about this. Both countries are the good and bad guy, both supress and liberate their people, both censor their internet, both arrest and kill innocent civilians - can you imagine if the US and Iran teamed up? We'd all be fucked
If there is a long US war or occupation, that would surely be a disaster for the Iranian people. But Iran already has many of the core mechanisms of democratic government. It's not Afghanistan, it's not even Iraq.
People vote for leadership. There has just been the "revolutionary" guard that operates the shadow government with the real power. The religious fundamentalist government has had the right to choose the candidates, but people really do vote from among those choices.
If the people can succeed in transferring military power to the elected government, then there is a real chance for permanent and stable change. The people are educated, the economy is sophisticated and diverse, and there are functioning institutions.