He added that physical and psychological damages “inflicted on each individual of the Iranian nation in the 2nd and 3rd imposed wars, from child killings and war crimes in Minab and Lamerd to attacks on medical centres, is each a legal file that must be pursued in both domestic and international courts.”
He further stated that from the “murder” of newborns and the elderly to the assassination of his father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “each is a file among thousands of major legal cases that must be earnestly pursued in domestic and international courts”.
“What is definite is that these criminals must be seized by the collar and brought to justice for their criminal deeds,” he asserted.
Never in my life could I have expected to agree with the Iranian government. But, on this specific issue? I do. There needs to be accountability for this.
I’ll take ten Mojtaba Khameneis over one Pete Hegseth. Hell, I’ll take a Khamenei over Keir Starmer, at this point.
Of course, he’s little more than a figurehead under the current Iranian government, given that their Parliament can’t safely convene and their military is fully operating via the Mosaic Strategy of decentralized retaliation against ongoing US/Israeli bombardment. I’m not sure why people have decided he’s a bad leader, given that he hasn’t made any meaningful leadership decisions since taking office.
But I guess he’s Muslim and unseasonably tan, so that’s enough to make him a bad guy.
Probably something to do with the fact that he was in a position to become the leader of such a repressive government to begin with. Maybe he will break with past policies and be a champion for women’s rights and LGBTQ+ causes, but if someone was already tipped to take over the reigns of such a government, I assume vetting processes mean he’s generally onboard with what the government was doing beforehand unless I see them taking actions that show otherwise. At this point, who knows how he’ll be, as he’s been set up with something of a PR softball in responding to an aggressive war lead by Israel and the US. Postwar, we’ll see how he shakes out domestically.
That said, I’m still hoping the Iranians just trounce their enemies in this conflict. Whether he’ll ultimately represent an improvement for the Iranian people over his predecessor or not has nothing to do with the fact that he’s on the right side of the current conflict and crushing it at the moment.
I think it’s a trap to think of countries which haven’t been allowed to thrive by basically the entire west as failing on values that they virtually never think about. Is it really that surprising that sanctions lead to regression or stagnation on civil rights of minority groups? They have been under sanctions since 1979. In 1979 how did our LGBTQ+ representation look?
I’ll be the first to accept that Iran, just like Cuba and any other country under long term sanctions from the US for refusing to kowtow to US demands, is essentially crippled from the start and unable to function as well as they could have without that ongoing interference. However, that doesn’t negate things that they’ve done on their own, like harsh repression of protests or that lady who was sentenced to being whipped for singing a song without wearing a hijab the other day.
I’m basically saying that my view of him is like my view of whoever wound up being Putin’s handpicked successor would be. I find them suspect by virtue of passing the screening process to even wind up in that position to begin with, and that will only change if they start taking actions that are at odds with their predecessors’ once in power. If his other positions turn out to be even half as good as his stance against Israel and the US in the current war on Iran has been, I will be happy to realize that my suspicions were unfounded. At the same time, just because they’re in the right on this specific topic doesn’t mean they are flawless in other aspects. Like, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church was surprisingly progressive for civil rights for African Americans for a white guy in Kansas in the 1960s, but you won’t catch me singing Fred Phelps’ praises in light of all the other heinous stuff he’s done in his life.
How do sanctions prevent civil rights? That’s kind of a nonsense connection, do you have any actual direct evidence of such a connection and I’m pretty sure it’s in this case pretty much totally related to the regressive theocratic regime. Sanctions aren’t forcing this regressive theocratic discrimination, the regressive theocratic culture is. Admittedly sanctions created conditions for them to take power but they were already there already discriminating to the best of their power.
I’d take a khamenei ruling under current day British law over keir starmer ruling under the current day judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran though. Be careful what you wish for.
The state of Reform UK and it’s enormous polling advantage suggest we might get exactly that
Its simple He’s a muslim… Thats what makes him bad. 👍
Well, he’s the wrong kind of Muslim. If he was a Saudi or a Jordanian or one of Israel’s pet Muslims in Ra’am, all these critiques would vanish.
The Iranian regime are misogynistic, homophobic warmongers.
A female singer was recently whipped for openly singing without a hair covering.
The urban Iranians have been calling for these leeches to fuck off for years and are murdered en-masse for standing up to them as a result and their dead cold bodies hung from street lights as a warning to everyone else. We have seen huge mass demonstrations constantly attacked by the regime’s thugs on motorbikes.
Israel and the US were wrong to attack Iran back in March, and were wrong to have murdered anyone. They are equally violent, warmongering murderous regimes probably more so.
But let’s not infantilise the Iranian islamic regime and system, it’s a system where a violent, corrupt theocracy that refuses to listen to its own people.
The American media paints them as such to whip up domestic hate and justify mass murder.
It’s so much easier to show a flattened building or bloody backpack if you can tell yourself “these are savage animals, not people, and they got what they deserved”
A story about an appeals case centering on a 2024 indecency conviction was resurrected by the US media to justify the ongoing war.
The singer wasn’t “recently whipped”. She was recently in court contesting the charges.
What do you think “infantilise” means and why does it justify sponsoring terrorism inside the country?
Are you equivocating for a regime that can’t be removed from power whipping women for singing without wearing a hair covering there.
You’re right she wasn’t whipped she was found guilty and will be whipped.
it’s a barbaric regime and the Iranian people are sick of the tollahs wasting their nations wealth on funding wars in other countries while cost of living consumes them, if they protest they get murdered by the state.
The clerics have been filling their own pockets with the country’s wealth since 1979, they are as crooked as trump and year after year the Iranian people bravely go out on the streets to protest them and are gunned down.
Islamism is a terrible political solution that can only be kept in power by force and repression.
Fuck the Iranian regime.
Do you know how the IRGC got into power to begin with? And does the existence of Regime Change make corporal punishment acceptable, somehow?
How quickly we’ve moved from the inhumanity of prisoner abuse (in Muslim countries) to the inhumanity of Iranians spending their oil money wrong.
Crazy how it all comes back to money with you sick fucks.
Trump rapes children, stop it, there is no comparison we’re the bad guys here.
I don’t actually believe this is true but I’m willing to reconsider if there’s actual proof. If he’s actually a pedophile I’d advocate for his killing as I do for everyone who hurts kids.