• BombOmOm
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    525 days ago

    As the country is already in economic turmoil with the national currency collapsing and inflation soaring, many Iranians are increasingly questioning the government’s priorities, feeling the weight of a regime that appears more focused on foreign conflicts than addressing the dire needs at home.

    Yep, as another put: it’s the economy, stupid.

    It’s the basic building block of keeping domestic peoples happy. Otherwise everyone questions why money and effort is being spent on x, instead of fixing the economy.

    • Flying Squid
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      525 days ago

      And they’re already pretty tired of living in a theocracy.

      A lot of people on Lemmy seem to hate that I try to find something positive even in extremely negative situations, but I’m going to do it again: I hope that an upside of this will be a toppling of Iran’s theocracy.

      And because I apparently have to clarify this every time I say this sort of thing, this is in no way an endorsement of anything Israel has done. Fuck ethnostates and fuck theocracies. I am team no one in this war.