Iran hasn't invaded another country for over 200 years. During that time, the UK drew the Eastern border with occupied India (1857). Persistently interfered Invaded 1941 Overthrew its democracy 1953 Got Saddam Hussein to start a proxy war - ThreadSky

revoltinghippie.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Iran hasn't invaded another country for over 200 years.
During that time, the UK drew the Eastern border with occupied India (1857).
Persistently interfered
Invaded 1941
Overthrew its democracy 1953
Got Saddam Hussein to start a proxy war

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canadian9999.bsky.social•6 days ago

Invade no, instigate yes, do people wind up getting killed in the second scenario…..yes

What’s your point ?

bluzcoh.bsky.social•6 days ago

Defending Iran, no matter how much the current regime in Washington sucks, is a fools errand. Iran’s government is not some positive influence in the world that deserves praise. It’s actually kind of sick to defend one autocratic regime with whataboutisms.

suhails.bsky.social•6 days ago

I agree but what world is this where the ayatollahs are looking like the paragons of virtue and decorum?

peter0dactyl.bsky.social•6 days ago

But they aren’t, you’re just choosing to draw the line for evil at borders. We can do better than this.

bluzcoh.bsky.social•6 days ago

We can if it was a perfect unified world. It isn’t unfortunately and you just choose sides.

suhails.bsky.social•6 days ago

Sides are chosen. We are in error when we divide ourselves from our kith and kin.

peter0dactyl.bsky.social•6 days ago

We don't need sides beyond we should support people when they do right, and oppose them when they do wrong. Pretty simple.

If two sides intentionally bomb and kill innocents, two sides are wrong. If we must fight for anything, let it only be for decent, free lives for everyone, and nothing else.

suhails.bsky.social•6 days ago

We have no borders anymore O’Dactyl, neither in our minds or in the sand. I agree, we need them.

peebsy0.bsky.social•6 days ago

We aren't defending Iran.

We're just noticing facts.

truegradient.bsky.social•6 days ago

Anybody defending the Iranian regime is either an idiot or a fanatic.
But the US or Israel invading Iran, or bombing it, will only create misery and make people rally behind the ayatollahs (as awful as they are). It just helps Khamenei and his band of murderers.

musk-banned-me.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yup, we ( the dipshits in power ) need to come to some sort of agreement. Oh that's been done and some fuckwit who SOMEHOW gains power begs otherwise.

babethelogbuilder.bsky.social•6 days ago

And that's just scratching the surface.

jaugustine82.bsky.social•6 days ago

Are there really people defending and supportive of the regime in Iran? Really?

How ass backwards are you people?

vpeveryhome.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://byvn.net/BBO7

esybilla.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not to downplay anything that happened with the western countries but - Iran doesn't invade. It uses Proxys (and yes. Obvioslusly it's not the only one)

megan-lo-mania.bsky.social•6 days ago

💯

tenslady1939.bsky.social•6 days ago

IRAN could have gone a different way if the SHAH
Who was supported by the US had not been another AUTOCRAT. Instead he ruled with Cruelty. The THEOCRATS saw a way to topple him and grab that population. Another failure of US Foregn Policy.

hal90001969.bsky.social•5 days ago

So what?

lecohonah1.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/lecohonah1.bsky.social/post/3llo535x6pc2y

kokaneejohn.bsky.social•6 days ago

What eastern border in 1857? Between India and which country?

revoltinghippie.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran aka Persia. Iran's S. E. Border is with Pakistan

jason2759.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran supports Russia invasion.

jmipuck.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran has invaded Iran in 1979.Women are suppressed are not allowed to love in any way a normal life..They are flocked if they don't wear a scarf or long dresses..And Iran has not invaded any country? No they kill their own.

revoltinghippie.bsky.social•6 days ago

France allowed Khamenei to return home & subvert the revolution.
I prefer Mossodech to Palavi or the mullahs

jmipuck.bsky.social•6 days ago

Did France allow the return of Khamenei? I doubt that. France roll wasn't that big. I favour a democratic Iran. Where women can live a normal life with every human right. And not being afraid for every man.

rasiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran is surrounded with nuclear countries, some hostile (Russia, India, Israel, US fifth fleet, Pakistan...).

Iran watched a US warship enter their territorial water then decide to "feel threatened", so it gunned down an Airbus airliner taking off from Tehran international airport.

rasiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

The ship commander got a medal while Bush shouted "USA will NEVER apologize!!!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

Iran watched its top general assassinated by a US drone while on an official visit to Iraq in 2020.

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•6 days ago

The 'other Lockerbie' funny how in the UK no one wants to hears this story!

rasiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

Through the JCPOA in 2015 Iran shipped its uranium stockpile to Russia, destroyed two thirds of its centrifuges, and destroyed its sole nuclear reactor in exchange for progressive sanction relief. Trump got elected in 2016 promising to tear JCPOA to shreds on day one then added more sanctions.

rasiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran is on constant threat to get nuked/invaded.
Iran's missiles dont have the range to hit any US or EU territory.
Iran's air force is a joke, their last president got killed in an helicopter crash.
Iran watch Putin & Kim getting away with anything thanks to their nuclear weapons.

rasiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

We are now in 2025 with a fake "oh noes" face as the US war hawks are explaining us the total destruction of Iran is the only option on the table.

knighthawk899.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'd say leaving out the fact they are currently funding and have been funding terrorist organizations all around the world is quite misleading -- making them out to be an innocent party that does not do harm to anyone.

trump-is-a-virus.bsky.social•6 days ago

But hanging 16 year rape victims for being raped is ok? Killing women for being raped, killing political dissidents, killing protestors, beating women on the streets for wearing what they want is ok?

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is wrong but the US is not much better these days.

trump-is-a-virus.bsky.social•6 days ago

None of those things are happening in the US. None!

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•6 days ago

No one in in the US goes for a shit either?

jamesjdominguez.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah, but they're white Christians.

oddball67.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran support Russia, houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, iraki chiites, and I might miss some.
They're no angels

sturmlliouville.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don't know if it escaped your attention, but Iran is, for instance, the proliferator of Shahed drones to russia, used for terrorising energy infrastructure, hospitals, homes of Ukrainians for 3 years and the diaperheads in Teheran know this and keep supporting russia

kryspee.bsky.social•6 days ago

You just took first place in “the dumbset thing I have seen posted on blue sky” race.

mariekalevala.bsky.social•6 days ago

Invaded Ukraine by proxy. Invaded Syria by proxy.

Trump is a dump but defending the horrific Iranian government is pushing it, comrade.
They're both piles of shit, sometimes there's just no good guy in the equation.

kikelt.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is not true.

Iran has been attacking other through proxies.

Not only neighbours, also europeans, americans and else.

If you want to do a truthful analysis you need to be honest.

greatfausto.bsky.social•6 days ago

They want to be left alone…

weirdowlflying.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran has sponsored vile terrorist groups for years. It is an imperialist power with plenty of innocent blood on its hands.

fourtacos.bsky.social•6 days ago

I personally think the United States should drop Israel as an ally and court Iran as one. sure, screw Iran's government; lol but right now we're not anyone to talk lol. Iran is a much more consistent and rational geopolitical actor than most other nations in the Middle East. beautiful language too.

schorty.bsky.social•6 days ago

Crazy

fvangeuns.bsky.social•6 days ago

Believe Iran invaded Irak in the early eighties -
of course after having been invaded by Irak a few years before?

johnwjaggard.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump tore up the agreement with Iran of the development of it's nuclear capability.

megan-lo-mania.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Islamic Republic (not to be confused with Iran, because many Iranians make the distinction) doesn’t invade because they recruit proxies in other countries to do their dirty work. They created, fund, and control Hezbollah, who assisted Assad in murdering 500k Syrians during the civil war.

oscarwoofs.bsky.social•6 days ago

Don't forget UK (& US) involvement in regime change in Congo... no doubt amongst others...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Y2ZkjiOi1vbJ5eqAbuMku?si=wiHQ8CXhR2q0bila12MlyQ

boover.bsky.social•6 days ago

Sad, when thinking that at one time Tehran was considered the intellectual capital of the Arab world. All destroyed by western tinkering.

allerman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not to mention what we did in Australia to the aborigines and Africa with slavery, funny how it was never deemed important enough in History lessons when I was at school in the 50s/60s.

jaugustine82.bsky.social•6 days ago

"and Africa with slavery"

You mean what Islam did to it?

oldhippie420.bsky.social•6 days ago

Welcome to the "Whitewashed history"
#resistance

darkarts1066.bsky.social•6 days ago

Are you old enough to remember the 1980’s ?

revoltinghippie.bsky.social•6 days ago

I hitched around the Middle East and India in the 1970s

darkarts1066.bsky.social•6 days ago

Then your comments should be better informed. If you are going to reference periods in history, at least offer a balanced opinion please.

joczechowska.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran invades the rights of women.

oldhippie420.bsky.social•6 days ago

So does America, now.
#wethepeoplearepissed

jaugustine82.bsky.social•6 days ago

Says the person who probably never spent 1 day outside of America or a Western country.

ros14.bsky.social•6 days ago

There's a rapist in charge telling women what they can and can't do. Filthy crook, soiled and sullied. Utter trash.

jaugustine82.bsky.social•6 days ago

No, Biden is no longer president.

revoltinghippie.bsky.social•6 days ago

I agree, but remember what happened in Afghanistan

istillsaytwitter.bsky.social•6 days ago

Your racism is showing

icydefiance.bsky.social•6 days ago

Your sexism is showing. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/iran-new-compulsory-veiling-law-intensifies-oppression-of-women-and-girls/

beyonddriveneh.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran has and continues to fund terrorist organizations and regimes that have invaded plenty of countries.

at1c.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes most people don't really follow history if they did everyone would know why the world is the way it is. Thanks I like being made aware of pasts events that cause future problems. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prisoners-Geography-Everything-Global-Politics/dp/1783961414

enstigator.bsky.social•6 days ago

Your post is fictional, Iran got Iraq to do nothing at all. Did you forget about the Iran-Iraq war ? Iraq and Iran were mortal enemies. When Saddam was asked if he used poison gas on the Iranian human wave attacks he replied,"For every type of insect there is an insecticide." the USA gave the gas

angrypersiangardnr.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don’t think they were mortal enemies. My parents used to go shopping in Bagdad on weekends in the 1960’s and 70’s when we lived close to the border. The US and USSR pit them against each each other for that proxy war in the 80’s. I never heard of them being enemies until western media said so

enstigator.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Iran-Iraq War,from 1980 to 1988, over territorial disputes, religious differences, and Iraq's desire to prevent the spread of the Iranian Revolution.The war resulted in an estimated 500,000 to over a million deaths, with both sides suffering heavy losses.

angrypersiangardnr.bsky.social•6 days ago

Bro I lived it

dreamingcrone.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran did overthrow its successful political organisation to subjugate everyone to medieval rules and women to slavery

galsh.bsky.social•6 days ago

anderbergskan.bsky.social•6 days ago

📌

3k0bolds.bsky.social•6 days ago

#ThanksCIA

angrypersiangardnr.bsky.social•6 days ago

Technically they overthrew a CIA puppet

jeangirard75.bsky.social•5 days ago

And?

angrypersiangardnr.bsky.social•6 days ago

Technically it was the US that overthrew and eventually assassinated the democratically elected PM then installed the Shah as a puppet

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•6 days ago

Was it not the British that installed the first Shah during the oil boom around WW1, when he would not support the British during WW2 they bumped him off and put his son in place then when Britain lost its empire the US took control until the revolution?

angrypersiangardnr.bsky.social•6 days ago

That was the father, Reza Shah, that the British programmed in. The son, Mohammad Reza Shah was the one the CIA installed in the 1950’s after the coup that took out Mosaddeg

mostlyvp.bsky.social•6 days ago

Good to know - I had assumed it was a British FO blunder, as they had already done so many of those, not only in the Middle-East but India and what was formerly Rhodesia.

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•6 days ago

No need to look that far out, look what the UK did in Ireland, we still have the issue going on today.

mostlyvp.bsky.social•6 days ago

I know brother. We at least didn't let them mess us up any further except for the Collins/De Valera situation with the north. Was going better until Brexit Boris steamrollered the GFA. Welsh and Scots too had their own share of suffering under that crown. It'll be a small and lonely country soon.

angrypersiangardnr.bsky.social•6 days ago

The British and French started the fuckery. The Americans said hold my beer, and put the fuckery into high gear the way nobody but Americans can

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•6 days ago

It didn't work out well for the yanks in Vietnam or Somalia.

mostlyvp.bsky.social•6 days ago

I hear you on that - whose upcoming fascist haven't they been supporting across so much of the world nations during the span of decades since WWII. Been reading about how they annexed Hawaii after an unsuccessful coup by business owners in 1898. Japan wanted to aid the islanders

motorthing68.bsky.social•6 days ago

**The Lebanese People have entered the Chat**

rortysorbet.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Islamic theocratic regime of Iran rules through fear & bloody oppression of its own people, especially women. It kills and tortures Iranian citizens, actively supports russian genocide in Ukraine, sends its military to assist in foreign conflicts and widely funds proxy wars.

Stop whitewashing!

blackeyedddog.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wouldn't have happened if the CIA had not interfered and restored the Shah.

sturmlliouville.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not an argument

blackeyedddog.bsky.social•6 days ago

Would be a democracy today without the interference of the USA and UK.

sturmlliouville.bsky.social•6 days ago

Everybody knows this.

rortysorbet.bsky.social•6 days ago

Quite possibly, but the fact of the matter remains that Iran is now ruled by an evil despotic regime of Iranians, who have the freedom to choose how they act. Overthrowing the Shah could have resulted in a flourishing & peaceful democracy, if they'd chosen it.

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•6 days ago

As soon as the Shah was diposed the US cut all ties and the rest of the west followed, any non-white ally of the US were bullied into following them or the same would happen. If your country cannot trade with the world it falls apart quickly.

blackeyedddog.bsky.social•6 days ago

Overshoot. Just like Trump in the USA.

revoltinghippie.bsky.social•6 days ago

"Iraq has WMD"
Afghanistan...
This is about Israel not human rights

revoltinghippie.bsky.social•6 days ago

I agree. But hasn't the west discredited itself with endless wars and if women's rights are an issue why were they betrayed in Afghanistan

conspiranon.bsky.social•6 days ago

Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Wreaking Havoc on Nuclear Safety: DOGE has gutted the nuclear safety agency.

https://bsky.app/profile/conspiranon.bsky.social/post/3llibayufzs2u

madtowntom.bsky.social•6 days ago

You mean england - there's many "UK's" around the world, england is not "the UK"

macetalia.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Islamic Republic has funded terrorism responsible for tens of thousands of deaths all of its existence. Just off the top of my head, they’ve got that going for them. From my experience, these “hasn’t invaded/colonized/subjugated…whatever” proclamations don’t end well. No peoples are innocent.

blackeyedddog.bsky.social•6 days ago

The USA shouldn't have got rid of the democratic govt in 1953.

macetalia.bsky.social•1 day ago

That is completely true, but doesn’t excuse the Islamic Republic’s actions.

blackeyedddog.bsky.social•1 day ago

The USA's meddling has only made things worse. They still think Iran's oil belongs to BP.

merrillandia.bsky.social•6 days ago

I suspect Donald Trump, who believes only in mammon, has a larger nuclear arsenal at his little twitchy fingertips than any entity on the planet irrespective of their religious beliefs. That is what I worry about most.

anson343.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iran had a democratically elected President which the CIA ousted in a coup and installed the Shah who then plundered the country for 20+ years sowing the seeds for an Islamic theocracy to rise to power.

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