[inamiyar]

It is also almost the anniversary of Iran shooting down and killing 176 Iranians/Iranian-Canadians, including people I know.[1] Iran is in its own right a regional imperialist, though it is nice to get some code interchange going. Me and my family no longer can go back to the country without risking imprisonment because of speaking out against the regime.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines...

[dhbanes]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

[AsyncAwait]

It's worth noting that this was after the U.S. killed their top general illegally and they expected a strike on Iran after hitting some Iraqi bases in response to the U.S. assassination.

[Siira]

> they expected a strike on Iran

So they made us, the civilians, their meat shield, just as they used us to clean minefields in the Iraq war. And then they were so incompetent they shot their own meat shield. After that, they launched massive media campaigns to say the plane had not been shot, but had crashed out of a "technical glitch." Even after the evidence became undeniable, and they issued public apologies, they still continued with their media campaigns, saying this was all because of a US cyber attack. And they did not let people organize proper funerals, and they imprisoned, threatened, and fucked the survivors' families, and they used tear gas and just straight opened fire when people protested at their sheer malicious incompetence, and ...

And random assholes on the internet defend them while seemingly caring for the Iranian people. I don't know, perhaps you're one the of the thousands who directly or indirectly get money/status from the IR?

[inamiyar]

1) Killing your own civilians is an interesting retaliation move against a foreign power.

2) In my family, the death of Qasem Soleimani was, and I don't mean to be insensitive, the death of a imperialist tyrant supporter.

Iran does not deserve the sympathy you give them.

[EB-Barrington]

"General Soleimani remains the most popular Iranian public figure among those tested, with eight in ten viewing him favorably."

University of Maryland conclusion to survey results of thousands of Iranians.

source: https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://cissm.u...

[Siira]

The gov comes down hard on people saying they don't like him, so the answers people give are biased. How biased, I don't know. I can tell you that even people who liked him still got outraged at the plane shooting.

[kortilla]

Before or after he became a martyr?

[girvo]

Iran’s government and their supporters don’t, yeah. The people with no stake in this fight, the Iranian civilians though?