Yep. There’s a reason they cut the internet off asap.
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FedBySheep6 days ago
+184
This report isn't related to the recent internet cutoffs. It's about hangings - executions - in 2025.
The massacre of protestors in 2026 is estimated to be somewhere between 2k and 30k, depending on sources. Internet cutoffs have typically been during protest periods, and war.
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ISO_3103_6 days ago
+103
30k is the number of deaths confirmed by hospitals across Iran. It does not take into account dissappearances or kidnapping and summary execution (they don't return remains) by authorities during the protests.
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OMalleyOrOblivion6 days ago
+53
They killed a quarter of a million back in 2006, there's no way they 'only' killed 30k this time around.
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FedBySheep6 days ago
+17
What event are you referring to?
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OMalleyOrOblivion6 days ago
+38
Sorry, 2009,the Green Revolution.
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Wugo_Heaving6 days ago
+7
It was a Tuesday
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BasicMatter73396 days ago
+3
What happened in 2006?
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OMalleyOrOblivion6 days ago
+4
Sorry, 2009,the Green Revolution.
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BasicMatter73396 days ago
+32
Where'd you get the info that they killed a 'quarter of a million' people?
All sources i found said that the death toll ranged from ~40 to ~100-200
Which is still far too many, but way less than _250 000_
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GreenFox15055 days ago
+2
They have decided that allowing their citizens to post about America bombing is less helpful than allowing their citizens to post about the government's actions would harm.
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WrongAssumption5 days ago
+4
Yes, that’s what “at least” means.
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BasicMatter73396 days ago
+471
4.5 people a day on average. Horrifying
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DiscipleOfYeshua6 days ago
+125
For the crime of speaking truth, wanting a future, basic human rights and loving your country. All of which are not what IRGC terrorists and dictators are interested in.
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bluechewdotkom5 days ago
+5
Actually the article says the 6 executed ad the war was going on were accused of being MEK members, and the people executed in 2025 weren't punished for protests happening in 2026, Minority Report technology hasn't made it to Iran as far as I'm aware. The report clearly says half of these executions are drug related, which is its own messed up issue, completely unrelated to protesters.
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Dlinyenki6 days ago
+24
It's *horrifying*, not mortifying. Unless this causes you extreme shame and embarrassment instead of horror, which I doubt
Sorry, I see this everywhere and it drives me batshit
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BasicMatter73396 days ago
+33
Ah i see, English isnt my first language so my mistake here
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GMBethernal6 days ago
+10
Native English speakers tend to get mortified when non natives make mistakes (not this guy though)
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Dlinyenki5 days ago
+3
Oh, got you. My bad then. Hell, I see this even with native English speakers.
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D_Simmons6 days ago
+21
This comment is mortifying
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ianf2k135 days ago
+9
People are literally dying. But yeah…you get annoyed at the wrong word
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Next_Instruction_5286 days ago
+450
Yea great guys
Iran executes more people per capita than almost any country on earth — averaging more than one per day. They do it publicly, by crane, using a thick rope designed specifically to prevent the neck from breaking, so death comes slowly by strangulation over 10-45 minutes while crowds watch.
The victims include children. Iran is the world's leading executor of minors — imprisoning them until they're just old enough to kill legally.
A 16-year-old girl with bipolar disorder was hanged for "crimes against chastity" (running away from home). Her death took 45 minutes.
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Saberinbed6 days ago
+162
Dont forget that they also have to r*** every single women before they get hanged.
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OSUfan886 days ago
+49
Wait, what?
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CookieCutter90006 days ago
+161
The Iranian regime believes that virgins still have a chance to join Allah, so they r*** them before executing them, which is the claim. Many reports coming out of the regime from human rights watch orgs do report systematic r*** from security forces in prison, especially against ethnic and religious minorities.
[HRW](https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/iran)
[Iran International](https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602031576)
[Amnesty International](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/iran-security-forces-used-r***-and-other-sexual-violence-to-crush-woman-life-freedom-uprising-with-impunity/)
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applehead17765 days ago
+55
If you believe there is a god, and believe that that god would eternally punish women for being raped, why would you worship that god?
People baffle me sometimes.
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Iron_Disciple5 days ago
+22
The same reason they r*** women thinking it will earn them eternal damnation?
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mymemesnow6 days ago
+29
That’s seriously fk’d up. Just when I thought the Iranian regime couldn’t be more evil.
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RaphaTlr6 days ago
+25
Islamic regime. Don’t blame the innocent Iranians
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Probably_immortal5 days ago
+4
Eh Iranians are part of the regime. As much as people like to build this narrative that majority do not support the regime if it wasn't the case the regime would have been gone by now. Men and people in power support this regime. The protesters are largely youth and women. This is the same situation as in Russia. While it looks like 40% are against Putin and outspoken the 60% are the adults in charge who are more than happy to look away and not intervene in anything political. I have relatives (I am part Ukrainian) in Russia who are regular working people and we used to consider them family but no longer talk to us cause of the war and want Putin to finish the job with Ukrainians and kill all of them. Indifference is support in a totalitarian regime but you'd be surprised how many people are unhinged in these countries.
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RaphaTlr5 days ago
+7
By your logic Trump’s behavior is the American regime and Americans are to blame. Even the ones he’s killing and deporting. Majority disapprove so he should’ve been gone by now, according to you. Seem fair? No. Life doesn’t work that way. Stop vilifying ‘other’ people just because you don’t understand them
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Kalthiria_Shines5 days ago
+7
> By your logic Trump’s behavior is the American regime and Americans are to blame
I mean, yes? Do you think we're not complicit?
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Y0D985 days ago
+4
Obviously Americans are to blame. They voted him and put him in a position where he can do what he does
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ChaLenCe6 days ago
+8
This is horrifying
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OfficerBarbier5 days ago
+15
Makes sense why many Iranians have said they actually want foreign countries to attack, they're beyond desperate to have the ruling regime destroyed
Regardless of whether foreign intervention is right or wrong, this is a very common sentiment among millions of Iranians worldwide
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the_original_kermit5 days ago
+5
This needs to be heard more.
Iranians are so opposed inside of their own country that they are literally begging for foreign intervention by form of war as a way to get out of it.
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Nautical_Disaster15 days ago
+4
I'm not saying that doesn't happen, but I read all three of those links and none of them mentions raping before an execution.
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sproge4 days ago
+2
None of those link say anything at all about the claim you're making about raping "virgins still have a chance to join Allah"...
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Proper_Card_55206 days ago
+37
So they won't go to heaven
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andrerav5 days ago
+5
This is so insanely dark and depressing to think about. Absolute horror. There is no heaven or hell. Your mind disappears when your brain dies. We get one chance to live a life. Just one. We are so f****** hopeless as a civilization. Komm, süsser tod.
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Sprinkle_Puff5 days ago
+2
Humanity couldn’t handle that simple truth, so they created religion.
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OSUfan886 days ago
+9
Is this true? Is there a source? Genuine question.
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Proper_Card_55206 days ago
+16
They believe women who lose virginity before marriage go to hell, so if you r*** her it full fills the condition for her to go hell (they just want sex so they came up with builshit exaus)
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shady000415 days ago
+3
No, it's not true. It's just a ridiculous accusation.
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avatinfernus6 days ago
+9
Yeah virgins go to heaven or somethin'
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Settra_Rulez6 days ago
+3
It was a policy publicly advocated by the original supreme leader.
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J0hnGrimm6 days ago
+7
Did you also happen to watch the Into to Shadows video on YouTube?
The article says the majority of the hangings were carried out in prisons so they might not have used cranes. I doubt they switched to drop hangings though and still let them suffer.
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Bradley2715 days ago
+2
Are you quoting from an article?
EDIT: The only record of a 16-year old girl being hanged I was able to find was Atefeh Sahaaleh. She was hanged for "crimes against chastity", but the "charges/trial" were legitimately even more unjust than what you've described.
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abeBroham-Linkin6 days ago
+87
There's a reason why they cut their Internet to the whole country
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rubber_moon6 days ago
+143
You can be against the action of Israel and the USA but still feel a bit justice being served when some of those who ordered these executions are dead now.
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IAmANobodyAMA6 days ago
+51
What an achievement. The UN should nominate them for the human rights council!
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DeeperMadness6 days ago
+18
Could be candidates for the next fifa peace prize.
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LilyBelle5045 days ago
+2
I like how the irony of this will go over many people's heads.
>Commission for Social Development: In February 2026, Iran was elected as a vice-chair of this commission.
Human Rights Council Advisory Committee: Iranian official Afsaneh Nadipour served as a full member during the 34th session in February 2026.
Right as Iran was cracking down on the protestors.
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IAmANobodyAMA5 days ago
+2
The UN is a joke, sadly
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LilyBelle5045 days ago
+3
I remember when this was happening in the middle of the ongoing crackdowns.
Oh, and don't forget when the head of the UN, Guterres, congratulated the regime on their 1979 revolution day (February 11 2026)... also during the ongoing crackdowns.
Real brave that guy.
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xmuskorx6 days ago
+26
we all know that Trump shit the bad, but it does not make Iran the good guy
they remain a giant security problem to the region, the world, and a menace to their own people
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EducationalPlay62695 days ago
+7
You are expecting logic to exist on Listnook.
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Shebalied6 days ago
This is the problem with listnook currently. Everyone is a bot or a moron who gets their info from tiktok. Two things can be true and both can be right.
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aedroogo6 days ago
+222
Article: Iran committed atrocities against it's own citizens and continue to do so with no signs of remorse whatsoever.
Listnook: America sucks.
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SP0oONY6 days ago
+117
I swear some people on listnook are the dumbest. One thing being true doesn't mean the other is false. Iran sucks, but the US' actions under Trump also suck.
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ViolenceAdvocator6 days ago
+11
I f****** hate the iranian regime. Now iranians can be victims of two awful regimes at the same time!
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CILISI_SMITH5 days ago
+5
I've seen a couple of these "Look Iran bad! So why Listnook like them so much?!" threads recently with these comments in. I think it's an attempt to shift anger away from the US and Israel by implying their war is against an evil regime so it must be a good thing.
Simple logic, except it Ignores the war is a f****** failure, it's made the regime more evil, powerful and soon richer.
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aedroogo5 days ago
+8
So we're agreeing that the Iranian regime needs to be dismantled and just quibbling over what nation does the dismantling?
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TastySpermDispenser75 days ago
+6
Yes it does. By Iranians.
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CILISI_SMITH5 days ago
+3
I don't care what nation does it (although I'm prefer no external nation at all, since purely internal change has a better chance of longer term success) but I do care how it's done. Or in the case of the US and Israel, not done just made worse.
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aedroogo6 days ago
+1
And yet look at these comments. The default, overwhelming response here to an article about Iranian executions was to condemn the U.S. government. Let's see how many answers I can get to this question without a 'but': Do you feel the nation of Iran enough of a threat to it's neighbors and it's own citizens to warrant intervention by an outside party?
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SedatedSpaceMonkeys6 days ago
+10
The most upvotes are just saying how horrible it is and then yours. How is that an “overwhelming response to condemn the U.S.?”
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mmoore3276 days ago
+89
Both can be true
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Used_Butterfly39595 days ago
+9
Yeah, but to put it in perspective... this is the amount of people the US prison system has executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Iran did this in a year, not 50
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SteveJobsDeadBody5 days ago
+6
Perspective? I have one of those. How many Americans die each year because we allow companies like United Health to deny them covered care? Why are deaths by fanatical Muslims highlighted but deaths by fanatical capitalists skipped over?
The answer is "it varies" and it is in the range of 22,000-400,000 a year.
Now lets talk prison. America is the richest nation on earth, we could and should reform prison so it is rehabilitative. About 4000 Americans die needlessly in our underfunded prisons per year, because we refuse to reform and improve them. That's more than this "1639" people as well.
When you are very specific about the cause of death you can make Iran look bad. When you step back and look at overall preventable death the US looks like 100x worse than Iran.
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Used_Butterfly39595 days ago
+5
Cite your sources. I don't have a single source that has 4000 Americans dying in custody each year from preventable issues. In fact, the only stat I can find is about 500 across the entire US. It's important to note that you won't be able to find a source for either the US or Iran that's definitive because neither country records those stats particularly well.
You're also bringing up unrelated stats that have zero bearing on the discussion, which is about the amount of people sentenced to death and executed by either state. The US carried out 47 executions last year. 47.
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bobdob123usa5 days ago
+4
Police shot and killed 1,278 people in 2025 according to this obviously biased site: https://policebrutalitycenter.org/police-brutality/statistics/
And another 3,825 died in police custody in 2024 of something other than natural causes: https://bja.ojp.gov/program/dcra/reported-data
So yeah, Iran sucks, but the US isn't all roses
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Used_Butterfly39595 days ago
+5
Did I say that?
You, like the other person, brought up unrelated stats. This is about the number of public executions.
Speaking of police brutality....
[https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/01/16/iran-growing-evidence-of-countrywide-massacres](https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/01/16/iran-growing-evidence-of-countrywide-massacres)
If you can cite a biased source, I can too!
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MasterGrok6 days ago
+22
Are you unironically saying this without a hint of awareness that two things can be bad at the same time? Hey guys we found one easy secret that erases all of your bad deeds. Just invade a country that is worse!
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bigsampsonite6 days ago
+3
Arab and Islamic countries have not done much to help Iranian citizens. That's really sad. Trump doesn't give a shit about their lives at all. Just a huge mass of people who have no real help at the moment. Israel has already wiped out Palestine. I dont see anything getting better in the long run.
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cheesaremorgia5 days ago
+3
America does suck. So does Iran. And?
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artisticbus6 days ago
+5
It doesn’t have to be one or the other, 2 things can be true at the same time. When you grow up hopefully you’ll understand.
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Secret-Ad-21456 days ago
+3
It is possible to both dislike the Iranian regime, acknowledge the difficulty of on ground reality of regime change, and also dislike the dictatorial conduct from Trump - all three at the same time.
Lets not act like children.
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Playful_Rip_12806 days ago
+3
Yup. Zero tears shed for dead regime bodies here!
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LilyBelle5045 days ago
+5
listnookors: "I don't support the Iranian regime"
listnookors seeing a post criticizing the Iranian regime: "Yea, but what about the US!"
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sovietarmyfan6 days ago
+287
Activists when Iran executes people:
Activists when Iran forces gay people to have gender reaffirming surgery:
Activists when Israel does anything: NO! NO! DON'T DO IT! ITS EVIL! ABSOLUTELY EVIL!
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Darth_Hamburger6 days ago
+131
I’ve seen multiple threads with listnookors discussing the merits of Iran having a nuclear weapon. Just absolute insanity, hopefully bots.
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dragon_idli6 days ago
+32
There are no merits for anyone having nuclear weapons. We have seen unstable people holding positions of power.
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Dismal_Buy35805 days ago
+11
Any country on earth paying attention to the last 3 years should be frantically, furiously trying to achieve a bomb.
Only f****** way to ensure security, apparently.
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Darth_Hamburger6 days ago
+8
Unstable people will hold positions of power whether we have ICBMs or not, but the existence of these weapons may be the only reason you’re not fighting a war in Eastern Europe right now.
The powerful don’t have to fear a war of attrition, but they do have to fear nuclear annihilation.
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Suitable-Annual-87166 days ago
+129
I can condemn all those things. It’s actually way easier than having to twist yourself to justify actions based on who did them.
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milespoints6 days ago
+32
Same here but i think what they are getting at is that there is very little actual discourse on this. You never hear about the constant march of crimes regimes in countries like Iran and North Korea commit against their own people every day. Most of us know that bad things are probably happening, but more or less accept it as “that’s just the way it is”. It’s rarely in the news etc
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Monteze6 days ago
+35
Probably because we don't have a bunch of assholes going "Iran is our greatest ally!" and giving them a ton of money for no good reason.
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Healter-Skelter6 days ago
+18
Yeah how is this not obvious? I have a problem with human rights abuses wherever they happen. In Iran, it isn’t MY MONEY funding the regime. In Israel, it is.
So it makes more sense to loudly complaign about Israel doing war crimes, because I’m mad that *I’m* being compelled to participate through taxation.
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altcntrl6 days ago
+3
It’s obvious if you’re paying attention and not if you’re only scanning through headlines.
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9867543216 days ago
+1
People from countries who don't send any money there seem just as obsessed. It's about ideology, not tax dollars.
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WhosThatYousThat6 days ago
+4
> You never hear about the constant march of crimes regimes in countries like Iran and North Korea commit against their own people every day.
Is this a joke? We hear about these things all the time.
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LordAmras6 days ago
+2
Is the classic discussion there was between Hitler vs Stalin.
If you kill your own general international policy is not to interfeer, is when you kill other people that then everyone get uneasy, because they don't know where you will stop.
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Frozen_Thorn6 days ago
+19
I don't remember my taxes paying for Iranian rope. I do know my tax dollars pay for Israeli bombs.
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reivers5 days ago
+2
"I can't believe this unfounded war Israel and the US brought to Iran!"
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yolonaggins6 days ago
+11
These comments always ignore the reality of the situation. In the US, everyone knows Iran is bad. The difference is that our country actively supports and supplies Israel with weapons to carry out their atrocities. They're our allies. We don't supply Iran with the tools they use to slaughter innocents.
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FedBySheep6 days ago
+60
> In the US, everyone knows Iran is bad.
This is not remotely true. There are no shortage of useful idiots in the US who will do their best to portray Iran as an innocent state.
> We don't supply Iran with the tools they use to slaughter innocents.
One could argue that making deals with Iran, lifting sanctions, etc, is turning a blind eye to their oppression of millions.
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electrorazor6 days ago
+2
Yes and people were pissed when Trump lifted sanctions on Iran. I don't see the contradiction
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ThisWillBeFunny14696 days ago
-8
First example: What a country does to its citizens and inhabitants
Second example: What a country does to its citizens and inhabitants
Third example: What a country does to other countries' citizens and inhabitants and labels it as defense
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ColdCauliflour6 days ago
+34
All three examples: innocent lives are lost.
I hope I cleared that up for you.
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Fr0st3dcl0ud56 days ago
+19
*The UN does not enter the chat*
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TheBBBfromB6 days ago
+11
what about 2026? wasnt it some 12,000-30,000?
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fckingmiracles5 days ago
+4
Those were Iranians being killed in the street by the government.
This now is the number of death penalties the regime enacted additionally.
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____DEADPOOL_______5 days ago
+3
My aunt and cousin had arrest warrants to be hung for teaching Baha'i children's classes in the 80s. One of my aunt's students was [Mona Mahmudnizhad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Mahmudnizhad). Many people are experiencing this kind of death. My aunt and cousins had to flee the country through ways that deeply affected my youngest cousin's mental behaviour.
What can a Baha'i do? How do we escape this persecution? Well, they offer a way.
The way out is to force the member of the religion to denounce their beliefs publicly and then do harm existing members who already live as second class citizens with no access to higher education.
These people are vile and disgraceful. I am so afraid for them. Some of my relatives are still there. Who knows what they will do to them if this war ends up leaving them more empowered and emboldened.
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Areltoid6 days ago
+67
surely America/Israel stepping in to bomb civilians and destroy critical infrastructure will fix this issue
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the_joker30116 days ago
+57
That's another conversation. Try to hold more than one thought in your head for once.
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hurdurnotavailable6 days ago
+20
Hengaw data show 8-1 military to civ casualty rate. So, in reality Israel and USA are killing the regime goons that prevent the Iranian people from taking their country back.
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stealth-136 days ago
+7
That make it worse. It has created nationalism that Government need the most. People ignore internal conflict to fight external enemy.
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theoceansknow6 days ago
+20
Nationalism was already present. It hasn't created anything.
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Used_Butterfly39595 days ago
+1
No, war inherently creates a stronger national identity. This is what you learn in International Politics 101. Literally.
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dja10006 days ago
+10
Large parts of the world love these guys thus enabling them, pure evil and a stain on the earth,
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Opening_Dog_5706 days ago
+41
Should we feel sorry and that's it or should we act and stop it by destroying the regime?
Question for AFK listnookors
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HDauthentic6 days ago
+72
We stop trying to assign binary sets of options to major geopolitical situations. The US already picked “destroy the regime”, it isn’t working very well from a “new regime” point of view.
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shes_a_gdb6 days ago
+11
Destroying the regime doesn't even seem to be on the table anymore. They just want to open the Strait of Hormuz... honestly this entire thing was completely pointless if they come to an agreement and the regime stays as is.
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hahaz136 days ago
+46
The logical fallacy that people keep parroting is that because we don’t support the way America is dealing with this, we must be in support of the current Iranian regime.
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pmormr6 days ago
+5
Personally, I think we should let them blow each other up over there and spend the $400 billion on stuff like energy independence, infrastructure, and healthcare. But apparently I have an unpopular vision for america. Instead the Republicans care so much about brown people halfway around the world that they're willing to blow a hole in the little of what's left in the government's wealth to defend "justice" halfway around the world. Apparently. Since all you defenders of this BS care about that shit now, it's just DEI and woke bullshit over here when we talk about justice for Americans
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dbratell6 days ago
+7
This is about Epstein, oil and Trump's ego. If you think that Trump actually cares about anyone in Iran, I have a really nice bridge to sell you.
For Israel it is a bit different, but you are clearly talking about the US.
Best case, something good comes out of this. The most likely case is that everything becomes worse for the people in Iran.
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Equipmunk6 days ago
+49
Saudi Arabia executed 356 people last year.
Should the US and Israel bomb them too?
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Skele_again6 days ago
+33
I havent googled but, Im sure the number of people executed on death row or killed via cop in the US isn't zero. Maybe the US should bomb the US?
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Next_Instruction_5286 days ago
+10
Iran executes more people per capita than almost any country on earth — averaging more than one per day. They do it publicly, by crane, using a thick rope designed specifically to prevent the neck from breaking, so death comes slowly by strangulation over 10-45 minutes while crowds watch.
The victims include children. Iran is the world's leading executor of minors — imprisoning them until they're just old enough to kill legally.
A 16-year-old girl with bipolar disorder was hanged for "crimes against chastity" (running away from home). Her death took 45 minutes.
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Fubi-FF6 days ago
+7
So is there a threshold where we go “ok this number is too high, we bomb them” vs. “Ok you are not executing enough of your own people, we let it go”? If so, what’s the number and why?
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espinaustin6 days ago
+10
Damn we should probably just bomb the whole country to smithereens and invade *and run the country ourselves for around 10 years, to save them, amirite?
(/s)
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Daedalus816 days ago
+5
Well, we did get a new more hardline Ayatollah so surely things will improve now!
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[deleted]6 days ago
+2
the one thats disfigured, and in a coma?
what a hol(e)y leader
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arontmt6 days ago
+2
[ Removed by Listnook ]
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Lefaid6 days ago
+3
The US probably should stop sending them so many weapons and so much money, yes.
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gamas6 days ago
+23
No, we recognise pragmatic reality that trying to destroy the regime the way Israel/USA have done was clearly never going to work - and if it did would have likely resulted in an Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya-like situation. Because it turns out simply toppling a nation's government doesn't tend to lead to good results if you don't plan on helping them sort out the resulting mess over the next decade.
Basically "destroying the regime" and creating a democratic free, US aligned Iran is pure fantasy. And everyone who is not the US/Israel knew that a military intervention of this sort would either entrench the regime further (as it has) or lead to something much worse.
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ohnohelpwhereamI6 days ago
+26
It sucks. The place is BAD. Not gonna say it isn't. But there are a LOT of bad places in this world and we aren't the damn world police. Also there is the issue of us all knowing damn well that is NOT what this war is about.
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[deleted]6 days ago
+7
we are the world police. we tried isolationism twice.
each time we went back to doing our own thing, europe kept getting into wars with itself. that entire ideology flipped after WW2
the US had the economy, the military, and the allies to become the world’s global policeman. while europe rebuilt (with the US’s help), the US projected its power across the world so that nations could rebuild without being totally broke, and so that they wouldnt attempt to annex one another
this stuck around to this day
fun fact: now is currently europes record for relative peace, 1945-present. 81 years makes it the longest stretch without a general, continent-wide war in europe in recorded history
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pseudowoodo36 days ago
+1
Ding ding ding. Every time America tries to play world police it makes things worse. This is the point the left tries to make but any criticism of starting this war makes the right hysterically call you a jihadist Ayatollah supporter or whatever.
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DexJedi6 days ago
+25
The idealist would say "destroy the regime". But in reality the world does not work in that way. Experts knew as much. Only naive fled Iranians and Trump thought otherwise.
But you present it as if there are only 2 options. There is a wide array of possibilities in between.
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Wonderful_Discount596 days ago
+11
After the debacles of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, what makes you think that (attempting to) destroy a regime will actually make things better?
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forchinski6 days ago
+2
Well let's first consult the United States track record for regime change in foreign countries.
Banana Republic banana Republic banana Republic safeguarding us foreign oil interests banana Republic safeguarding us foreign oil interests democratically elected leader overthrown democratically elected leader over...
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the_monkeyspinach6 days ago
+2
Do you mean "act" by bombing civilians before they can be executed?
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steveycip6 days ago
+6
Iran is horrble to their people and this war is also pointless. Both things can be true.
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nyjets106 days ago
+11
But the lefty idiots on here are cheerleading for the Iranian regime because orange man bad
by the way, do you know who funds everything in Gaza/Hamas? Yeah, same regime the entire world cheerleads for.
Its insane.
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Sometimesmaybegay6 days ago
+5
Manufacture that consent baby
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Slight_Owl23266 days ago
+5
Usa kills its people through incompetence mostly. How many hunderds of thousands died pointlessly to covid thanks to Trump giving dumbass advice...
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BuddhistGamer956 days ago
+4
I’d love to clutch my pearls but we kill people here too.
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theoceansknow6 days ago
-1
This is the type of government palestinian supporters aspire to
Snark aside, I read a wiki on Palestinian elections in the early 2000's and it's cool to read there were one or two political groups in the mix that supported peace and progress. They got less than one percentage point of the vote total, but damn I wish their platforms could get amplified by the sign wavers on the US streets
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electrorazor6 days ago
+5
Is peace and progress even possible with Israel as your neighbor? Or is that just a road to total oblivion? At least that's what I would be thinking if I was Palestinian.
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Trappist16 days ago
+7
I feel like you're trying to push something if the entire article was about Iran, and you only mention the US and Israel in your comment.
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cetootski6 days ago
+2
Define self determination.
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Alleandros6 days ago
+3
The US was 47 in 2025. As of August 2025, there were 2013 inmates on death row. All countries should eliminate state sponsored executions.
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victorspoilz5 days ago
+2
How many did America kill to install an even more extremist government?
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Ultra_Metal6 days ago
+3
Shame on France, shame on the UK and shame on Spain for defending that evil regime.
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electrorazor6 days ago
+8
Most of the shame lies on the UK and US, for causing this regime in the first place
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2harveza6 days ago
+2
Lmao make it less obvious
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SkyeLys6 days ago
+2
Yep, Iran is awful. Yes, they are still in the right with regard to us attacking them. They are still a sovereign nation. If you invade a sovereign nation, they have a right and a duty to their people to defend themselves. We are wrong for being there.
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LunchBoxMercenary6 days ago
+2
lol right? And the idea of “liberation” goes out the window when you threaten to bomb Iran back to the stone ages.
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