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Iran used to be a Democracy
In 1953, the United States overthrew the only democratic leader Iran ever had. ...
CapitalistHolocaust on 10 October 2008 | 4 comments
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Iran funded U.S. Terrorist Attacks
In 1986 America was charged with International Terrorism by the International Cour...
StaithesLass on 09 October 2008 | 4 comments
No wonder the world is such a mess. People like Bush & Blair would talk of the utopia of a world democracy, but successive UK & US governments (their own governments included in the case of the elected Hamas in Gaza) have been willing to employ state sponsored terrorism and murder to destroy any democratically elected regimes that don't fit in with our own greedy capitalist idealism.
Whether they wanted it or not, the poor Iranians have the US & the UK to thank for the Revolution. I wonder how much more peace, love, harmony and prosperity could exist there today if we hadn't interfered (as we always do) all those years ago, when we destroyed their democracy.
Perhaps now with the appointment of Barack Obama and hopefully Mohammad Khatami come the June elections, there is light at the end of the tunnel re: the 30 year face-off between the two countries.
2 things I wish for: 1. Closure of all US strategic bases and withdrawal of all forces from the middle east that are not required to fight the Taliban, along with a fundamental change in US foreign policy direction. 2. A more moderate Iran with equal rights for women, a freer press and freedom of/from religion. Is that too much to ask??
Well..... nothing wrong with a bit of optimism!!
This is right on and all the facts are dead right. Keep saying it! Shame about the apostrophes...
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Geoffus Weoffus
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dontsurf
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StaithesLass
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dontsurf
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StaithesLass
over 3 years ago
View all comments (5 more)I feel that it is vital to keep exposing the past (and present) culpability of forces outside of the middle east in creating the undesirable circumstances which exist for so many across this diverse region. This is not simple point-scoring, it is necessary in order to destroy xenophobic assumptions about who is and who is not civilised.
I think the video is as boring as hell. I think it's extremely pedantic and disappointing that people feel the need to head back twenty years into a country's history to rake up misdeeds by previous administrations. I think it distracts from present-day issues, and I think you're trying to excuse behaviour from the Iranians by trying to show hypocrisy in American actions, when both countries are equally guilty of horrendous human rights abuses.
What am I doing on Amnesty? Well, I'm carrying on donating my money, time and trying to do what I can to raise awareness in line with common sense, instead of wasting my time producing poor quality videos that contain very little but pointless, repetitive, reductionist rhetoric that provides very little in the way of actual action relating to actual situations. Amnesty isn't your political vehicle for your "Capitalist Holocaust", or whatever - it's devoted to applying the same standards of human rights globally, not attempting to excuse anyone for abuses.
To dontsurf: It's extremely pedantic to point out a typo. What about the content of the video? Do you refute any of the facts raised? Do you really think semi-colons are more important than the lives of people? What are you doing on Amnesty International?
It's spelled "Nicaragua". Also, terrible use of the semicolon. Don't make any more until you have your English GCSE.
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