Let's face it Iran is indiscriminatly hitting Israeli civilians targets including schools using cluster bombs.....

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Iran is firing missiles into heavily populated Israeli towns and have abandoned the pretence of targeting anything military.....this is just pure terrorism and does make you think what would happen if Iran did manage to develop a nuclear weapon.

Just hoping more of the missile launch sites can be taken out and this terrorist regime falls.

@BelleHathorafter that interview you thought good the interviewer had this. The headline isn’t right though, it should say pro-IRGC. Most Iranians don’t want what they do either.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/social-media/article/pro-iran-trolls-targeted-me-with-rape-threats-after-interview-lrr3xb92p

I hope that Kate reports the threats to the relevant authorities who have the powers to get the details of the alleged perpetrators and I hope that they publicise who made the threats and what connections they have to Iran.

It shows what his violent rhetoric leads to. She probably thought a professor wouldn’t be so extreme but he was. I also question if his kind of rhetoric would be aired at all if the IRGC was proscribed.

What violent rhetoric? Marandi did not call for anything to happen to McCann, that McCann was unprepared for the interview and was embarrassed after repeating unsubstantiated "facts" speaks to her lack of journalistic rigour. That it trended is the nature of modern media.

That does not justify any threats, and we do not know who issued these threats, my feed was filled with people laughing at her, not threatening her. Like I said I hope that the police investigate and arrest any perpetrators (and fully publicise who they are and where they are).

Furthermore censorship is not going to get you what you think it will. It has already pushed a lot of young men to embrace far more violent and extreme ideologies and the likes of Nick Fuentes.

Don’t blame the interviewer for his aggression.

I’m happy not to hear support for the IRGC online or on the radio. It’ll be the same as for Hamas and other terrorist orgs. Sure it’ll be limiting for some but that’s the point.

Marandi was far from aggressive, here is the interview:

I’ve heard it. He’s speaking for the IRGC, aggressively so.

I can understand people not wanting the current action but not actively supporting what the IRGC do, but promoting this guy… what is your view of the IRGC?

He is speaking as an Iranian in Iran, who is currently getting bombed by 2 nuclear states. During other interviews you can even hear the bombing happening.

I'm not playing the IRGC game, my opinion on them is irrelevant, apart from noting what they're doing militarily.

No answer. Some support them, most don’t. Hopefully the gov will get it together and proscribe.

It is tiresome, especially as those posters know very well that noone supports the Iranian regime.

Of course they do. I just linked an article showing they do.

Same thing happened when Trump took Maduro.

Any questions regarding the objectives and likely outcomes of US action and we were immediately told we must support Maduro and agree with repressive regimes.

Of course Trump just maintained the status quo but with a more amenable leader, and a lot of oil and gold and the means to issue his own licenses to US companies. The regime is still in place, just working for someone else.

The posts are to other posters who support the radio interviewee or other specific claims.

It’s not actually relating to your posts.

Yes.

What's even more chilling is that they blamed AI, that's a scary precedent to set.

Marandi certainly does. The so-called march against the right today had lots of regime flags, as do 'pro-Pal' matches on a fairly regular basis, including also recently placards showing Khamanei, and we have had people on this board completely uncritically sharing Islamic Republic propaganda.

I was referring to MN posts

Are you talking about the anti Far Righ/Racism march?

Yes there are specific incidence where support happens. It’s incorrect that ‘no one’ supports them.

If this UN graph is correct, or at least within a margin of error, it puts into question the Israeli claim of existential threat and vulnerability as a fair motive, as many claim in this and other threads.

Note that this graph is only until 2020. An updated one would be very painful.

This graph only covers Palestinian - Israeli death toll.

Lebanon will have another, comparable story.

It does seem that there is an existential threat in the Middle East, but not to those shouting the loudest.

Sorry - here is the graph.

My point here is that it very hard to cut through the massive amount of noise the dominant countries make. It has always been thus though.

www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-casualties-by-in-gaza-and-the-west-bank/?srsltid=ARcRdnrzqTsM0nwDKRzzVpyAsScz6sR9WQH8tVvNwmDXIevEe5CtxZ6N

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0w1qxzd4xo

Do they have jury service in Iran. Thought they just slaughtered people they don't like.

Westerners supporting the Iranian regime. 🙄They wouldn't want to live there though. Supporting something that you don't have to endure, others do, sadly, the height of some silly Westerner hypocrisy.

Thank you for posting this.

Nobody on here is cheerleading the IRGC or the mullahs in Iran and we are well aware of what they have done to the tens of thousands of protesters in Iran.
However, I would like you to point out an Iranian backed terrorist plot in the last thirty years, carried out in the UK or mainstream Europe or the USA.
I will posts a list of killings carried out by Mossad/Israel in the MIddle East, in various countries, since the 1950's.
The list of Mossad killings, does however, seem rather insignificant, when compared to the 70,000 plus Palestinians wiped out by Israel in their genocide in Gaza since 2023.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations