Trump calls on Pope Leo to address protest deaths in Iran

Way to completely miss the point.

Which is all tragic. Also I’m not American, so you don’t need to refer to me as such. I am Iranian. As awful as ICE is, it still is not comparable. ICE didn’t come into the streets and shoot 30,000 Americans dead in 2 days. They didn’t. No matter how bad the conditions are for their detention centres, they didn’t do the brutality of what IR did. ICE don’t systematically gang r*** American women as sanctioned by the American government for punitive purposes. ICE don’t have daily hangings of dissidents from cranes. ICE haven’t legalised the marriage and r*** of schoolgirls as mandated by the American government. ICE don’t mutilate women for wearing the wrong clothes. Take the very recent No Kings protest. Thousands and thousands of Americans flooded the streets, then went home at the end of the day. Look at Iran in January - thousands and thousands of Iranians flooded the streets and were gunned down in cold blood by the regime. 30,000+ in a matter of days. No matter what you said about America and how much you criticise it (fair and agreeable criticism might I add), it still is not comparable. Without legal oversight, and impunity from law - could there come a day when something like that happens in America? Yeah of course. But that level of brutality has been a reality in Iran for decades, as opposed to a potential.

I’m not American, I’m Iranian. The case of Minab is tragic, but I hope you’re as vocal about all the girls that islamic republic have killed, raped, prostituted. The school that it gassed in order to suppress a feminist uprising. For every girl tragically killed in the school bombing, a thousand more have been killed by islamic republic. Does your zeal extend to them too? Or do you only find a voice when US is at fault?

Which is horrible too. Is it mandated and sanctioned by the US government? Does the US government say that American women must be raped before they’re executed so they don’t go to heaven? Because islamic republic does about Iranian women. Gang r*** of Iranian women happens at all levels of the corrupt regime. Do American women get gang raped in normal prisons by prison officers on a wide scale? I’m not talking about few cases here and there. I’m talking about a systemic, government sanctioned scale.

Disingenuous reply. They are different. You can criticise both countries, and still acknowledge that the IR’s human rights violations are far more extreme and brutal than the US.

Not at all, but when he has decided to be vocal about one aspect of it and directly criticise something, I expect him to denounce a terrorist organisation that enacted one of the biggest democides since world war 2, and bring actual awareness to the brutality of islamic republic. If he had decided to say nothing at all about the situation, then I would be okay with it. But you cannot pick and choose moral grandstanding if you get involved with something - especially if you are the head of an organisation that claims to follow a doctrine built on moral scripture.