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gulliver

(13,725 posts) Mon Jan 12, 2026, 09:00 PM 5 hrs ago

Really hoping the Islamic Republic is destroyed

Young folks may not remember these lowlife taking over Iran in 1979. They took American hostages, and they destroyed Jimmy Carter's Presidency. To my mind, they still haven't paid the fiddler.

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Really hoping the Islamic Republic is destroyed (Original Post) gulliver 5 hrs ago OP

The USA was atoning for torture and disappearances Frasier Balzov 5 hrs ago #1

A bunch of homicidal, 7th-century... gulliver 5 hrs ago #2

Yes, I do agree. Frasier Balzov 4 hrs ago #3

Frasier Balzov

(4,890 posts)

1. The USA was atoning for torture and disappearances

Reply to gulliver (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 09:21 PM

5 hrs ago

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perpetrated under the Shah, whom our government previously supported.

But a religious government was doomed to make matters worse for that beleaguered populace.

gulliver

(13,725 posts)

2. A bunch of homicidal, 7th-century...

Reply to Frasier Balzov (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 09:39 PM

5 hrs ago

...hyper-patriarchal, homophobic, theocratic, torturing tyrants don't get to make the USA "atone" for anything in my book. It's just an easy call for those concerned with the good of humanity to choose the USA over the Islamic Republic bunch. Easy. (I trust you find it easy too. Not saying you don't.)

I agree the Iranian people don't deserve the Islamic Republic.

Frasier Balzov

(4,890 posts)

3. Yes, I do agree.

Reply to gulliver (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:09 PM

4 hrs ago

It was only our self-reflection and sense of shame which caused us to acquiesce in that revolution.

To Jimmy Carter it must have seemed like self-determination on their part.

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