[SpicyLemonZest]

Spite against whom? Like most Americans, I have a number of grave concerns about the Iranian regime and the terrible things they've done. But on a personal level, Donald Trump has done a lot more to make me feel spiteful than either Masoud Pezeshkian or Mojtaba Khamenei have. I think everyone involved is well aware of this fact and it's going to continue to severely constrain Trump's options.

[bijowo1676]

Americans have zero concerns about Iran, they care more about inflation and gas prices, it is evident in all surveys.

the only people who have grave concerns over Iran are the ones who have monetary incentive to do so, or ethnical tribalism reason

[SpicyLemonZest]

It sounds like you agree with me that Americans do not feel that fighting theocracy in Iran is a particularly high priority, and that people who care about it care more about domestic issues. So I'm not sure why you've chosen to express that in such a confrontational tone. Perhaps I've misunderstood something.

[bijowo1676]

>>Like most Americans, I have a number of grave concerns about the Iranian regime

I didn't agree with "most Americans" part. This kind of rhetoric is false and is used to whitewash and launder war crimes and escape responsibility, for example for murdering 160 Iranian school girls in in Minab.

[SpicyLemonZest]

You don't think most Americans would say, if you asked them about the issue, that the Iranian regime is bad and oppressive? I don't think this has anything to do with whitewashing or escaping responsibility for war crimes; obviously we're getting beyond the level of detail most Americans would know, but I personally find it quite easy to believe that both Ahmad Vahidi and Pete Hegseth should be arrested and sent to the Hague.

[bijowo1676]

do Americans care enough about Iran, to murder 160 innocent girls ??

there are many ways to phrase a question and make it seem like very low stakes, while it causes actual human lives on the other end of the globe

[SpicyLemonZest]

No, they don't. Perhaps that's where the confusion lies? Americans mostly did not want to bomb Iran in the first place, which is why their representatives in Congress didn't agree to; the regime in the White House just issued illegal orders to start bombing without Congressional authorization. Even had Hegseth not murdered those schoolgirls, the war would still have been illegal, and I would still be calling (perhaps a bit less vehemently) for him to go to prison over it.