• @Buffalox
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    4 days ago

    Of course by international law they shouldn’t be doing that.
    But can you really blame them? Where is the international law that protects the people from a dictator? And prevent outside interference to keep that dictator in power?
    If international law doesn’t protect the people against oppression, then the people has little use for international law. And they definitely don’t need an outside influence that support their oppressor.

    For the same reason USA shouldn’t have held such a grudge against Iran for their attack of the US embassy during the rebellion in Iran.

    Unfortunately the ship has sailed on that one. And Iran is now a Russian ally.

    • partial_accumen
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      93 days ago

      Of course by international law they shouldn’t be doing that.

      International law is a product of, and supported by, nation states. If the previously ruling government has fallen, it effectively doesn’t have a nation that respects the binding of international law. When a new government forms, that government will most likely take up the mantle of support for international law in exchange for international recognition. Right now on the ground its a bit of a free-for-all, I’d imagine.

      • @Buffalox
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        13 days ago

        That’s a good point, and I think that was kind of valid in Iran in 1981 too? USA has held a grudge against Iran for more than 40 years for that!

        • partial_accumen
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          93 days ago

          The USA grudge against Iran wasn’t because of the storming of the embassy. It was holding Americans diplomatic staff hostage for 444 days and threatening to “put them on trial” if Iran didn’t get what it wanted from the USA.

          I haven’t heard any reports of Syrians holding Iranian diplomatic staff hostages yet.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 days ago

      For the same reason USA shouldn’t have held such a grudge against Iran for their attack of the US embassy during the rebellion in Iran.

      Isn’t it odd how the US doesn’t trust a country that encourages people to chant “death to America”?

      • @Buffalox
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        43 days ago

        To be fair USA did sabotage Iranian democracy until it collapsed under American lies and Propaganda designed specifically for that, and then they instated a dictator.
        But Iran has clearly gotten worse which was to be expected with a theocracy.