This hits home as an Iranian. Tankies seem to really like the Islamic Regime because it opposes Israel.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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It's especially bizarre considering what lengths the Islamic Republic has went through to suppress leftists.
Khomeini used leftists' help to overthrow the Shah and get in power and then got rid of them. They are supporting the regime that backstabbed them. What's even funnier is that Iranian leftists sometimes praise the Islamic Republic for being "anti imperialist". Like the Islamic Republic didn't help Asad remain in power in Syria, or use Hezbollah to meddle in Lebanon. The Islamic Republic fights against western imperialism because it wants to create its own empire.
The absolute conspiracy brain of tankies to believe that the U.S. propaganda machine is so powerful that everyone in it knows the exact opposite of the truth about the rest of the world but somehow the correct facts made it to the public forums the tankies browse.
Pretty impressive considering the US is literally a failed state with an economic system due to collapse any minute now from the internal contradictions
Which is odd because the Iranians I've talked to are against US imperialism because it led to the current Iranian government
Opposing Israel is cool. Wish more countries would do it
Still, opposing Israel is not an excuse to ignore the crimes committed by the Islamic Republic. As an example, The Islamic Republic was allied with Assad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war