Following the deadliest crackdown on protestors in Iran’s modern history, hundreds of thousands marched in Toronto last weekend, with protest organizers calling for U.S. military intervention—something the Canadian government has refused to rule out supporting.
Iranian-Canadians Donya Ziaee and Samira Mohyeddin break down the history of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran—and why what Iranians need is international solidarity, not a right-wing monarchist revival on the heels of violent western intervention.
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The Iran issue is extremely complicated to the point where even Iranians could be unsure of who is doing what to whom. I follow geopolitics almost hourly eschewing propagandist mainstream media. Below is the most thorough and objective assessment I have observed anywhere.
https://youtu.be/xXekvuJ7_fA?si=GHdM_7g2GzZYPN_F
This was a very interesting interview. However, I do feel that not enough was said about the sanctions that Iranians are forced to live under. If we in Canada were sanctioned and our economy was being torn apart by foreign powers, what would our society look like? It would get ugly pretty fast. This is the aim of sanctions, divide and rule, it’s the old colonial playbook.
Having said that, the insight provided by these two people was wonderful, and much appreciated.
This support for American aggression by Carney lays bare his supposed rally of “middle powers” – against whom? And Carney, hear this – when they come for YOU, you are on your own now.
I’ve read reports that it was Israeli strikes that killed Khamenei. Why are media attacking Trump for the assassination, but not Israel?
Fair point that leftists need to support the Iranian resistance to their own government AND resistance to US imperialism (direct and via Israel). My question, though, is what is the strategy for doing that when the two opposing forces are materially strong enough and willful enough to sacrifice the citizens of Iran to their geopolitical interests? Does it not behoove us to notice that one of the oppressions in question (imperialist global domination) is stronger and more primary than the other (national theocratic brutality), and in fact at least part of the explanation for the secondary oppression? You yourselves point out that there is no real ideological support for Iran’s government among any Westerners, yet you call this kind of big-picture analysis lazy and dehumanizing, as if some of us are just blindly cheering on the Islamic Republic. You also admit that support for resistance within Iran is being widely used to manufacture consent for a war that would destabilize the country and leave its people worse off than they already are. What do you see then as concrete action that can help the people topple their oppressive government without leaving themselves and the region open to the domination America has been waiting for since 1979? Because I don’t personally see a possible middle path.