[michelsedgh]

While IRGC killed thousands in Iran, and they killed some of the doctors who were helping the injured civillian protestors, Doctors Without Borders just refuses to say anything, anything at all about this situation. Sometimes you just lose faith in humanity...

[smallmancontrov]

Their work requires physical presence which makes them easy to threaten.

Do you have similar presence, vulnerability, and defiance in spite of it? Or are you casting stones from a position of comfort while doing, comparatively, nothing?

[omio]

"It's easy to be a saint in paradise." Cmdr. Sisko, ST:DS9

[throwawayheui57]

The real question is have they tried to “be present” and denied access? If not, what you’re saying is moot.

[vidarh]

It took me one search to determine that they have teams in Iran, and so face both direct physical risk to their teams, and face a direct risk to their mission if they are not careful about what they say.

[throwawayheui57]

That was a question.

From the source: “While we are not authorized to carry out activities beyond the scope of our projects — which focus on marginalized communities in Iran — we continue to offer medical support to hospitals.”

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/where-we-wo...

It seems that they are present physically but don’t have proper authorization for activities beyond the scope…

Compare it with their missions elsewhere (i.e. Gaza, which I’m not against btw):

“In Palestine, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides humanitarian assistance to people affected by violence and displacement, and has scaled up activities to assist people affected by Israel’s war and siege on Gaza.”

Why the difference?

Do you get the point of the original comment now?

[vidarh]

> Why the difference?

What exactly is complicated about this? It is very simple: Different governments allow them different access. This access is often precarious and dependent on not pissing off the government in control over whichever area they operate in. This is the same problem every humanitarian organisation operating in the field has to deal with.

[throwawayheui57]

So do you think they have wider authorization or autonomy in besieged Gaza compared to Iran? Why is that?

I think you’re getting closer to the point I’m trying to make here.

[michelsedgh]

I think you are the one that casting stones from a position of comfort rather than seeing and condemning evil for it is evil, same as all these NGOs and organizations. They could put themselves in danger its literally doctors without borders made to help the unrepresented populations. They were in Palestine and keep being against Israel, but can not say a word against IRGC? what are you trying to accomplish by your comment? I am doing what I can for my friends and family in Iran who many of them have had dangerous stuff almost getting killed by IRGC.

[YZF]

MSF is not filling its mission. I used to donate but I regret it now.

"Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence, and neutrality." - They are obviously not impartial nor neutral and this is just one example. Don't give them money unless they actually start acting as their mission statement states.

[rukuu001]

Because if MSF says anything they lose their access and can't get anything done.

[_DeadFred_]

Weird, MSF chooses politics and making statements all the time. They even choose to refuse to follow requirements and to be kick out of some host nations (though they chose to follow Iran's).

https://kagi.com/search?q=msf+statement

https://www.msf.org/msf-statement-sharing-staff-information-...

[toomuchtodo]

If it’s any consolation, it appears a strike by the US is imminent based on hardware that has been repositioned, with the backing or approval of the Saudis.

[undersuit]

Hooray more death, that'll fix things.

[kasrak]

Do you have a suggestion for a plausible alternative that can stop the IR government from continuing to murder thousands of its own people?

[pineaux]

It's not about the Iranian government killing its own. Then we should have seen a lot more interventions. It's about oil and regional power. The US wants that the region is in hands of their allies and Iran threatens this.

[tgma]

Everything is about self-interest. That does not mean there is no such thing as aligning interests.

[JumpCrisscross]

Yes. Iran’s territory includes ethnic minorities that could be joined to its neighbors, neighbours who are less brutal. Starting there might be a good first step since we’re now firmly back into redrawing borders with force.

[tgma]

Really? You are advocating regional/civil war, aligned with ethnic ties at that, instead of surgical regime change by the US? How would a regime change of the Mullahs equate to "redrawing borders?" No such thing happened when they were installed and won't need to happen now. Seems like that's what you are suggesting.

[JumpCrisscross]

> How would a regime change of the Mullahs equate to "redrawing borders?"

It doesn’t. Maybe there is a Delcy Rodriguez in the IRGC. I’m doubtful. If there isn’t, we have the option of creating a power vacuum or quarantining the problem.

I’m arguing for the latter. The Azeri-majority northnorth to Azerbaijan; the Turkic areas to its west to Turkey [1]. Balochistani southeast to Pakistan. Arab southwest to Iraq. Hell, if you’re ambitious, find a way to give Bandar Abbas to the Emiratis and secure the Strait of Hormuz.

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

[delusional]

I can accept that I don't have any better alternative while while not exactly being consoled.

[testing22321]

And billions spent on weapons that could be healthcare…

[learingsci]

Sometimes it does though, eg Hiroshima.

[delecti]

There's good reason to believe that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were essentially technical demonstrations warning the soviets, given the clearly imminent end of the war, to not start anything with us. There were already signs of a Japanese desire for surrender.

[nozzlegear]

> There were already signs of a Japanese desire for surrender.

I'm no historian but this point doesn't sound very noteworthy unless it was the leadership who wanted that surrender. It took two bombs to make them surrender; they didn't surrender after the first.

Edit: actually this is much more nuanced than I think either of us make it sound. Japan did send out "peace feelers", but they were more like "we want peace but we don't accept your terms." The Japanese required that the US allow retention of the emperor, no occupation, self-conducted war crime trials, and even possibly keeping some of their conquered territory. The US wanted an unconditional surrender.

[pineaux]

Probably the worst example, because Japan was probably going to surrender anyways.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Japan was probably going to surrender anyways

Well yes. The question is how many more would have had to die to get it. This question doesn’t have an easy answer. To the extent there are wrong ones, it’s anyone claiming confidence.

[C6JEsQeQa5fCjE]

A nonsensical false dichotomy of sorts. Between "Japan surrenders without a single further death" and "We have to nuke two cities for them to surrender" there are numerous steps of gradual escalation that could have been taken before arriving at the "nuke the cities" option. One such possible step could have been nuking a remote area, or at the very least sparsely populated area, to achieve the demonstration of destruction without hundreds of thousands of deaths.

I have no sympathy for the Japanese who killed tens of millions of people in their WW2 atrocities, and the two bombs killed orders of magnitude fewer of their people. I also see no reason to pretend that there weren't obvious alternatives to USA dropping nukes on their cities if we are to believe that the objective was merely getting Japan to surrender (an objective most difficult to believe). No need for pretense -- they wanted to demonstrate their new weapons, AND they wanted to kill a lot of Japanese.

[didntfixathing]

And it was followed by another bomb.

[didntfixathing]

Hiroshima didn’t fix anything because they dropped another on Nagasaki.

Furthermore they could have only destroyed only one city if Hiroshima had been an at sea demonstration instead, maybe even destroy zero cities.

[ben_w]

> Furthermore they could have only destroyed only one city if Hiroshima had been an at sea demonstration instead, maybe even destroy zero cities.

Given the immediate response to Hiroshima was disbelief, surely an at-sea demonstration would have been even less convincing than the observable absence of a city?

Even once the Japanese government confirmed that Hiroshima had indeed been destroyed by a nuclear weapon, part of the reason Nagasaki followed Hiroshima was that the Japanese forces estimated the US couldn't have built more than one or two more (they were correct, they just hadn't internalised what losing an entire city meant).

Even after Nagasaki, there were some who attempted a coup to prevent surrender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyūjō_incident

[JumpCrisscross]

> Hiroshima didn’t fix anything because they dropped another on Nagasaki

After which Japan surrendered.

This logic is like arguing 99% of a drug doesn’t do anything because the bug is only eradicated by the last effective molecule.

> they could have only destroyed only one city if Hiroshima had been an at sea demonstration instead, maybe even destroy zero cities

This was considered. The bombs’ unreliability (and cost) made it a non-starter.

[DocTomoe]

Hooray genocide.

[optimalsolver]

For those following along at home, that's the same US Gov which is currently killing civilians protesting against its own activities.

[michelsedgh]

I would not be surprised if a lot of these humaitarian organizations come out and condemn the said strike u are mentioning rather than the IRGC actios. Also the Qataris, the Turkey, Russians, Chinese and Pakistanis and Palestinians are all supporting the IRGC killing Iranian civillians. All over the world we are seeing their actions. Also Obama,Biden they had same opportunities but they decided to help IRGC than actually fight them and take them out of power. There's a video of Obama admitting he made a mistake when he was in power. But still even now he's silent on Iran. That's why everyday, I lose a little bit more faith in humanity. Even the EU, France, Spain, UK they barely put IRGC as a terrorist organization now, they did NOT want to do it. Iranian embassies and their personel are active in all said countries... Just terrible politics ad terrible people in power if you ask me.

[tgma]

Don't lose faith in humanity, just global institutions and NGOs.

Frankly, if you hadn't lost faith in those already...

[orochimaaru]

Humanity is violent. It’s a primal impulse. Tiananmem killed thousands as well but they have been forgotten and no one really refuses to do business with the Chinese.

So yes, I do feel sorry for those who died. But make no mistake - whatever the result, their death will be in vain. Whoever ends up taking the reins in Iran will be as corrupt and as bad as the mullahs. It’s just that they will acquiesce to US priorities.

[michelsedgh]

Ur last statement could not be more wrong, the Shah did not kill anyone and left the country when the protests became big enough.Thats a historical fact. You can not be any worse than those in power (the mullahs). Even Nazi Germany wasn't killing their own people. It rarely happens that a minority in power start mass killing people of their own population, AK-47's against civillains.

[orochimaaru]

The shah was a brutal ruler. His SAVAK police were responsible for widespread torture and killings. The only reason he fled is the army may have turned against him.

[michelsedgh]

There is not much evidence of torture in SAVAK, yes there was a SAVAK an intelligence/spy agency just like CIA, MI6, Mossad and they were trained in SAVAK by CIA, MI6 and Mossad, the army did not turn against him. The head of army gave him the option to kill Iranians and suppress the protests, the Shah declined and left himself.Even if for sake of argument what your saying was true, and Savak did torture, SAVAK had prisoned Khomeini and his followers, the same people who are now in power and killing CIVILLIANS. Those people in SAVAK custody were NOT civillians. Also they were alive after Shah left and Savak dismantled which means SAVAK wasn't killing...

[joe_hills]

You’re mistaken. The Nazi Party in Germany intentionally killed a lot of German citizens.

[orochimaaru]

Absolutely!! The intual Jews killed and sent to concentration camps were german jews.

[michelsedgh]

I just meant other than Jews obviously, the Pure Blood Germans if you wanna call them.