Iran says it has launched retaliatory strikes against two US military bases in Jordan after US forces hit rocket launchers on Iran’s strategic Larak Island.

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    Turns out freedom bombing doesn’t actually bring freedom, who woulda thunk?

    PS: This is not to say the Iranian regime is good, only that American puppet regimes don’t bring freedom. Iranian freedom will have to come from Iranians themselves; foreign interference only serves to strengthen the regime, as it already has.

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      USA relied on France to gain independence from Britain. Hell the former Iranian president was working with USA to free his own country from tyranny

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        Ho Chi Minh thought the US would help him liberate his country from French colonial rule because the US claims to care about freedom and self-determination

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          Perhaps everyone should have seen that the liberty and justice for all was not true from the start. Yes, better than others at times, but still so much violence, betrayal, lies, brutality, etc. which was hypocritical to the supposed values, others they failed to do: turn the other cheek, help the needy and outcasts, first will be last, love thy neighbors…

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        Ahmadinejad was picked by the US to be the next head of government. Until they bombed him to shit. There is no evidence beyond that for collaboration. Hell, Ahmadinejad was one of the most oppressive PMs Iran had, not that PMs have much influence on day to day politics anyway.

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        Mohammed Pahlavi was Shah, not President, and he was a tyrannical autocrat himself. One of the royal titles for the Shah is literally “Center of the Universe” lmao

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          Wow you are not current with your events. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in communications with the United States about becoming leader when the government was toppled

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        The USA got it’s freedom from Britain hundreds of years ago. The world has changed a lot since then. It’s also one thing to get help from a country when requested or they a offer and it’s accepted, vs blowing up a country and claiming it’s providing them freedom. It’s not an apples to apples comparison.