• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    16 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.

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      16 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.