• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Considering Iran shut the Internet off before the us/Israel attacked due to protests, I’m not sure we’ll ever know…

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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        5 hours ago

        before the us/Israel attacked due to protests

        Israel and the US aren’t attacking due to the protests. They’re attacking because Israel wants to be like Nazi Germany leading up to the world wars and the US wants to help them.

        I question whether Iran actually did this because it seems like an extremely convenient timing of events that almost perfectly mimics the “WMDs” the media harped on about for weeks before we invaded Iraq almost like they’re following the exact same playbook used in that illegal invasion.

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      19 hours ago

      It would be very odd if the US or Israel did it, because this started when Iran wanted to stop communications among citizens who were protesting the government.

      TL;DR, yes. It was Iran. It began before the attacks on Iran (back when it was Iran attacking its own people)

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        It began before the attacks on Iran

        Not true. Iranian people have been attacked by murderous US+EU sanctions killing tens of thousands of them every year for decades now. The protests were literally engineered by the US as a form of justification for the war, look at Iranian Rial exchange prices on the months before the protests. Hell, Trump literally admit a few days ago to sending weapons to the “protestors”.

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          Iran’s government has done plenty to deserve those sanctions. War is wrong no matter which side does it, and Iran is very guilty.

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            I wish you and your family never have to go through the “deserved sanctions” of the USA and EU, which together murder half a million people yearly since 1975 per latest medical research. I’m sure you don’t believe US citizens should starve to death for the actions of their government.

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              saddly nobody has found a better option. Iran has had particularly evil leaders for decades. (Why is interesting history itself - but not relavant to today)

        • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
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          Sure, and Iran isn’t under a regime now, right? They shut down the internet because they didn’t like what was said over it.