Probably the point. Make Weatern countries more toxic and increase tensions, security budgets, and potential violent outcomes.
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Current-Revenue-now7 hr ago
+1
No. This will make the population be more against Iran and the support for the UK to support US aggression in Iran. So it does not make sense for Iran to actually want this to happen.
The UK already has issues with how they handle the illegal immigrants.
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Not_Tom_Jones9 hr ago
+144
FWIW:
I think most Iranians in the UK are there *because* they fled this regime.
The embassy isn't rallying the diaspora, it's fishing for a tiny hardline fringe and identifying who's still loyal to Tehran.
The real question is why the UK still hasn't designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.
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EquivalentOne2419 hr ago
+44
Do you know kids and families of many IRGC officials live in the Western countries?
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Every-Development3989 hr ago
+45
same with china, hate the west publicly send all your kids and family there lol.
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Bounty_hunter_9 hr ago
+14
Like Putkin daughter living in Paris ?
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Bitter-Train-59618 hr ago
+1
Yeah even Xi jinping's daughter studied in Harvard
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notsocoolguy427 hr ago
+1
Where do you get the information that China hates the west? The only time their government make comments that are close to "hate" is when it's about Taiwan, even then it's closer to "Taiwan is a part of China" or something like that.
Chinese people also don't really hate the west either.
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HockeyHocki8 hr ago
+1
The son of an IRGC official just assaulted their former crown prince in Germany
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travestyofPeZ8 hr ago
+1
I mean, let’s be real, *they* won’t be the ones required to martyr themselves. It’ll be the poor bastards without powerful connections.
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medicatedadmin8 hr ago
+1
As someone who has a number of iranian-migrant friends, i can say you are very likely correct. The IRGC has sewn such an insane level of paranoia amongst its people that even when an iranian ex-pat meets another on the other side of the world, they are instantly consumed by the thought that this new person might be an agent of their former overlords.
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aviemzur9 hr ago
+1
Why do they have an Iranian embassy is another question.
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Automata-Omnia9 hr ago
-8
Because unlike US diplomacy, normal countries maintain dialogue rather than bombing schools and late night twitter rants/threats.
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OkBuyer-9 hr ago
+7
why did we bomb that school? was it close to a target of interest and ended up collateral?
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philtjz8 hr ago
+1
From what I understand, the school building used to be part of an adjacent military base but was separated from it a few years ago and converted into a school. Both the school and the base next to it was targeted in the same strike, so it’s likely a case of outdated intelligence exacerbated by the use of AI in target selection without stringent human oversight.
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OkBuyer-8 hr ago
+1
so clankers saw the back rooms and noticed there was a threat there, too?
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earazahs8 hr ago
+1
No, Ai likely saw that it had a target designation and put it on a list. No human double checked the list to see the target was deprecated.
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nerdyPagaman9 hr ago
+2
I suspect that an AI targeting system fucked up.
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aviemzur8 hr ago
+1
Something, something.. von Clausewitz.
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Remote_Reality_62359 hr ago
-18
Then the IDF and while you're at it the US military should have been declared terrorist when they murdered 1 million civilians in Iraq. Shit they would need to declare themselves terrorists for what they did in India, Ireland and Palestien to name a few.
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foopirata7 hr ago
+1
The IDF was active in Iraq, India and Ireland?
Were they in the "I" page of the atlas at the time?
Is the IDF in the room with you right now?
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otclogic8 hr ago
+1
When did the US murder 1 million civilians in Iraq?
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cyberianscribe8 hr ago
+1
The UK government is set to officially define the IRGC as a terrorist organisation (in July). Given the extensive and powerful network that that regime has been allowed to build in The UK over decades - all people connected to or who are part of that network in The UK stand to lose a great deal. I think this call for sacrifice, by the regime, is a desperate reaction to their imminent definition as a terrorist organisation.
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misnomer888 hr ago
+1
But why is it taking so long to proscribe it? We’re not just lagging behind the US here, we’re lagging behind the EU which proscribed it months ago.
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cyberianscribe8 hr ago
+1
The network the regime built in The UK is the most powerful and influential amongst all its other networks in other countries - extending into the political realm via its lobbying elements.
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scrambledhelix8 hr ago
+1
> The UK government is set to officially define the IRGC as a terrorist organisation (in July).
What took them so long?
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cyberianscribe8 hr ago
+1
The network the regime built in The UK is the most powerful and influential amongst all its other networks in other countries - extending into the political realm via its lobbying elements.
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BetSquare71909 hr ago
+54
Probably with the full support of the "Globalize the Intifada" useful idiots, who rooted for Hamas and Hezbollah.
Perhaps some will change their tune when experience Islamic terrorism more directly.
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ApologiseMeowMeow9 hr ago
+12
Not a chance they've already convinced themselves that these terrorist are just suppressed people. Just look at how these people react to none Israel Jews living in the UK who have been targeted, they are all guilty by association.
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Shawn_The_Sheep7779 hr ago
+12
I’d shut the Iranian and Russian embassies. They are just control centres for spying and terrorism.
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northbayy7 hr ago
+1
I assume that in some ways, that’s useful to know
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Shawn_The_Sheep7777 hr ago
+1
Im sure there are legitimate reasons why they don’t but I do wonder if they outweigh the benefits of closing them down.
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northbayy7 hr ago
+1
I’m just one of your ignorant cousins from the other side of the pond so I don’t know the answer to this, but do their delegates ever get called before parliament or anything?
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Street_Anon8 hr ago
+1
There is a reason why the vast majority of Iranians leave Iran and it is the regime and they are not going to help them
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therealallpro7 hr ago
+1
This isn’t possible Listnook told me Trump was bad guy and that’s ALL THAT MATTERED.
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Due_Ad_32007 hr ago
+1
The Iranian regime is bad
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/iran-massacre-of-protesters-demands-global-diplomatic-action-to-signal-an-end-to-impunity/
Trump appears to be waging war without a proper plan for ending the war.
These can both be true.
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CorgiKnightStudios7 hr ago
+1
This is the situation eveyone was TRYING to avoid.
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Ro-ftw8 hr ago
+1
I mean, f*** the Islamic Republic and the IRGC and I hope the US/Israel resume the process of wiping them off the earth, but this is just a stupid word by word translation issue. The "Jaan Fada" initiative is something the Islamic Republic started in Iran to recruit people from the general public to join the army/IRGC to defend Iran. It's more of a PR stunt tbh because they're just inflating the numbers on the system by publishing fake numbers or using bots and stuff.
The direct translation is "one who sacrifices their life" but it doesn't mean they're suicide bombers - it's just the Persian language being over dramatic.
Assuming the embassy in London is just trying to get some more people to go sign up on the online system so they can brag about it to the media...
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Lets_getouttahere7 hr ago
+1
It's only for PR as long as no one signs up or adheres to the orders/wishes of the Islamic Republic.
To say the Islamic Republic uses its foot soldiers only to "defend" would be disingenuous.
"Defense" is how they try to sell it internally, but look at the Iran-Iraq war, when Khomeini rejected a truce offer two years into the war, and sent hundreds of thousands of Iranians to their death, because "The Road to Jerusalem Passes Through Karbala".
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Street_Anon8 hr ago
+1
Iran could appeal to Western Far leftists, they would something like this
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FatefulDonkey8 hr ago
+1
And then people defend Iran..
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JeelyPiece9 hr ago
+3
I guess that "fighting aged men" theory's going to be put to the test, then, eh?
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tupe128 hr ago
+1
Sounds like an abuse of diplomatic privileges
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skynet3457 hr ago
+1
They’re intentionally going after the UK and not the US or Saudi UAE because they know UK is the weakest link politically, and the one least likely to hit back
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Gackey7 hr ago
+1
UK when Ukraine calls for refugees to return to the country to defend against a genocidal invasion: 😁
UK when Iran calls refugees to return to the country to defend against a genocidal invasion: 😡
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Personal-Fix-27139 hr ago
-11
Iran currently has (most) of the world's support, why would it want to change that.
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Less-Most-28618 hr ago
+1
Sympathyzing with the Iranian side more than with the American side in the current conflict and admiring/supporting the iranian regime are different things. Many people who sympathize with iran are also secular progressive leftists, and they obviously wouldn't admire the conservative right-wing theocratic government of iran where executions are common and the punishment for same-sex relationships is death.
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scrambledhelix8 hr ago
+1
> Many people who sympathize with iran are also secular progressive leftists
Wearing a pin to support a cause you nothing about isn't a political position, it's a show of compliance.
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