Most people's definition of freedom isn't being bombed by the US and Israel.

US is to out of touch with reality, they want to put a Zionist who is generally hated by Iranians in power. Will never happen.

> who is generally hated by Iranians in power.

So that’s why said Iranians chant Javid Shah?

Iranian here, the Shah has surprisingly many supporters, both inside and abroad.

Iran is a big complex country and is more diverse than people think.

When someone from the ME comments on a story about the ME, it is customary on HN for the community to downvote them into oblivion.

They are not downvoted into oblivion as far as I can see.

Why do you say it's customary?

When I left the reply, the comment was light gray.

I quipped that it is 'customary' based only on a few previous instances I noticed on HN. They drew my attention because with ME issues, I feel like most takes here (including my own) are based on received ideas, rather than first-hand experience.

Exactly, I have a hard time seeing how that will ever play out how they want.

The whole reason the 1979 revolution happened in the first place was because the Shah was a blatant US/Israeli puppet

You've missed the part where islamist butchered the leaders of the actual 1979 revolution. In reality it was:

unpopular shah -> 1979 revolution -> islamists take control, prison and kill the leftists of 1979 revolution.

That is true but that’s often how these things go, you pull together a coalition of factions to overthrow the existing elites and then afterwards it devolves into infighting

It had nothing to do with religion, that element is used to distract.

If Iran is unhappy with their government, they can deal with it. It is not a US problem in the slightest. Going to war with another country puts Americans at risk.

> if Iran is unhappy with their government, they can deal with it. It is not a US problem

If Tehran contented itself with oppressing its own, it probably wouldn't garner too much attention. The problem is its regional proxies constantly causing a mess. It lacks anyone willing to come to its aid right now in large part because of that foreign policy.

Which successful country does not covertly monitor and try to influence the politics of neighboring non-ally countries ?

Small not, but the US hasn't declared war. That requires an act of congress, and congress has continued to neutered itself more and more for decades.

Amazing the Pete Hegseth is even a person that anyone would ever need to take seriously.

The US Government is such a bunch of clowns - it's hard to take their nonsense seriously... well except that their stupid policies kill people...

Well, in this case, they are correct

suuure

I don't understand. If US, Israel, Pakistan, etc can all have nuclear weapons, why can't Iran?

Pakistan did it secretly. Today I doubt that Pakistan would have been allowed to have nukes. Moreover, just because they have nukes it is huge pain in the ass and that why the US and other countries support Pakistan financially — no one wants collapsing state with nuclear weapons.

If Iran gets nuclear weapons, all big Sunni countries will get them too: Saudis, Qatar, etc. we do not want it to happen, as the next Arab spring can collapse those governments, and you can count on any Muslim radical group getting hands on one of those.

Anyway, there are countries that have nuclear weapons, and this Jinny is out of the bottle. But, it doesn’t mean we want to have more of this crap lying around. We need less.

Because Iran has oil.

I think it has more to do with nukes than oil. North Korea is a good example that once you have nukes, no one can touch you. No one wants more nukes, especially in the hands of IR, in this world.

I have no sympathy for the Iranian regime but the US' unilateral actions are worse. At least the Iranians mind their own business.

At this point, every country which has natural resources which the US might want to steal should have nukes.

> At least the Iranians mind their own business

Except they don’t.

North Korea minds their own business.

Neither Iran nor NK interfere with India. I don't see how they interfere with the US. Last I checked it was the US which has bases in the Middle East.

When Iran builds a base in Mexico or Canada, we can talk.

> For whatever reason…

Seems like you acknowledge your own lack of understanding of the subject (admirable!). Why then do you make such bold claims?

Well, the reason is the US president is PDF-file who is totally compromised...

You can use Claude CLI as a relay - yes, it needs to be there -but its not that different than use the API