Are people still rejoicing about Iran?

I wasn’t referring to any individual here - but this does feel like what the wider discussion has become, particularly online and with many of our politicians. We seem to be living in a nuance vacuum

My lovely Iranian friend has told me that it is is the first time many of her friends and family have felt hopeful - but they are also terrified. Two things can be true at the same time and anyone trying to score political points out of suffering, is just making things worse 😭

I think only a lunatic would rejoice the current situation in Iran: environmental catastrophe, chemical warfare against civilians through the burning of refineries, economic strangulation of the poor, sanitary crisis and water pollution, lower expected health outcomes via less medicines/personnel/infrastructure available, and the risk of targeting the nuclear reactors eg in busher which would cause an astonishing wave of radioactive molecules across the region.

That said, the misanthropic goals of the agenda 2030 are absolutely in line with the economic gains at hand: public-private partnerships for the privatization of profit, war industrial complex and war industrialization on the rise, politicians lining their pockets via briberies.

The stakeholders of this war only sees us, people, as biomass to be exploited at best, or collateral at worse.
It is only a matter of time until we are called to face the same situation here in the west.

I agree with this summary.
Iran’s new supreme leader exposes the US as just another Team America

I haven't felt as concerned about the world before either. But I think / hope this is as much a factor of the media saturated world we live in. I don't think our brains can cope with problems completely outside of our control happening 1000's of miles away. I agree with you about the 1930's although I suspect for different reasons. Sometimes I feel like choosing hope is a forced position. But thats the position I take.

This is a very bleak outlook?

Yes, BN and DT have the best interests of their nation's at heart, but so does every world leader ever in the history of humankind. Sometimes the best interests of 2 nations can run in tandem, I hope that is what we see happening here.

We dont know yet if the Iranian people have been poorly served or not. Yes of course currently destabilized, but it may still turn out to have been for the best. The ME wasn't exactly stable two weeks ago either. Iran via its proxies has been calculatedly destabilizing the whole region since 1979 all in the name of religious sectarianism, and hatred for Israel and the West.

I know nothing any of us say on here matters in the wider scheme of things but I swear it often feels like some people want the US and Israel to fail so that they can be proved right about how absolutely abhorrent DT and BN are.

I'm chosing hope myself 🙏🙏🙏

I'm not sad about the end of Khamenei, but there's nothing to rejoice about yet is there? No new less extreme regime, no visible from here moderate opposition, bombs and drones falling all over the ME...
I think the jury is still out on whether or not this'll turn out to have been a good idea... and I don't believe the vast majority of posters know exactly whats going on in Iran or what will happen in the future.
So. Happy Khamenei is dead yes. Rejoicing that theres a war on, no. Sure that it isnt going well for the US? Also no.

Still hopeful but no sure something good will come of this? Yes, of course, why not? The regime was hugely destabilizing to the whole region and supported and funded terrorism in many places.

What do you think OP?

I was never "rejoicing" over the war in Iran and I've not heard of "leftsplaining" until you just used the term.

How do I think it's going so far ... worse for the Iranians than for the US or Israel who have partially achieved some of their goals already.

But it's not over yet so I guess we will see when it ends what each country has won/lost from the war.

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