Seriously though, Iran has repeatedly declared that the U.S. and Israel should cease to exist. It funds militant groups across the Middle East. It claims its nuclear program is for “peaceful purposes,” yet has produced highly enriched uranium at levels far beyond what is needed for civilian energy - levels that could only be used for nuclear weapons.

Iran’s hostility toward the U.S. and Israel is so overt that American and Israeli flags are sometimes placed on the floors of certain facilities so officials can walk over them as a symbolic gesture of contempt.

Iran killed their own people in numbers anywhere between 3000 to 30000, shooting live ammunition onto civilian protests.

The funny part of this narrative that I'd expect pro-protest journalists and anti-protest journalist to like it. It shifts responsibility from both parties to some outside parties. But still for pro-government journalists the narrative is more convenient: government just likes to blame outside players, it just can't resist it. So my bet is the journalists you refer to are working for the government.

> Israel is far more extreme. They do have nuclear weapons. Their president is kept in power with eternal war.

Changing the topic by pointing at someone who is presumably worse is a classic technique of propaganda. It is the technique people learn to use in kindergarten, trying to shift responsibilities and to distract adults from their failings. It is the technique Adam and Eva used when trying to shift responsibility and to distract God from their own failings. The technique so simple, that propagandists just can't stop using it.

So my bet, that you are from the same group as journalists you mentioned. Maybe they and you are the same person, really.

Have you seen a dead body in your life? Have you seen a street stained with blood being washed with high pressure water? Have you seen parts of the brain of a fellow citizen on the sidewalk, the same guy who was standing next to you 30 seconds ago? 36'000 people were killed in just two nights. It was like 5 battles of D-Day, but in a shorter amount of time.

And you are conveniently forgetting the fact that most of the people came out when Reza Pahlavi requested a mass protest.

And then you portray it as if the people had no agency in this, they didn't know that 1500 were killed in the 2019 protests. And a similar number in 2022-2023 over Mahsa Amini, for protesting the actions of the "ethics police" killing a young girl over a few strands of her hair.

In the end, everyone is responsible for this other than the actual tyrants running the régime and the blood thirsty mullahs doing the actual killing.

This was true in the beginning. Now every protest chants “Javid Shah”, “death to Khamenei”, etc, which are political chants.

> And they have an Apartheid system.

The only apartheid system that allows the minority they discriminate against to achieve highest positions as judges, academics, celebrities, etc.

> And they are actively depopulating the original population.

This is not true. You can simply check how number of Arabs grew, and in many cases, outpaced in their growth the Jewish population.