Comment on Iran’s Protest Crackdown Followed a China Playbook. There’s a Reason for That.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 days agoYou don’t need to convince me that Iran’s or China’s supression of their people is bad. From supression of speech to repressive woman rights and various human right abuses. I wholeheartedly oppose that. I’m against all authoritarian regimes, but it’s not up-to foreign countries, but people of those countries to overthrow them if they desire. In accordance with international law we have no right impose our beliefs on them.
My post was about Kharon site which is run by former U.S. Treasury Intelligence Officials who have active contracts with U.S. Treasury Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In many respects US is worse than Iran and China combined when it comes to human rights and so everything they accuse others of just comes off as hypocritical and whitewashing. I despise US superiority complex and hypocrisy.
Me agreeing with China stating that international law should be followed is not in defense of China, but the aforementioned international law.
Also, the economic crisis in Iran is mostly created by Western sanctions, so if we really cared about Iranians, we would stop that.
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Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Yes, the Western sanctions hurt the Iranian society, and I am all in for ending this. I have not looked myself into the data and my knowledge of the Iranian economy is very limited, but what I hear and read from those who do is that ordinary citizens in Iran wouldn’t benefit much from the country’s wealth even if sanctions were lifted. This is one reason why people demand a regime change.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Sanctions directly devalued their currency by 99% of the value. Removing sactions would have enormous effect on ordinary citizens.