Just because the US launched one of the stupidest and least planned wars in a century, does not make the Iranian government good.
Just two months ago they were killing thousands of protestors.
The saudi regime is as bad we don't have any sanction on them. Israel is doing the worst crime in humanity a fucking genocide we don't have sanctions on the state itself. Any kind of sanctions in the war makes it harder for iran to defend itself for being genocided too. So please stop with your hypocrisy
Ah, but the Saudi regime has dumptrucks full of money.
And just because the Iranian government is an ass doesn't give America the right to bomb them. Or why don't they go after every other country whose government does bad things. Sorry in this case the US is the "bad guy".
And Israel.
I'm basically watching 3 "bad guys" beat on each other. You can't be sure who you want to cheer on, or complain about more than the other. It's a strange feeling, to be sure.
Iran was being sanctioned before the attack too. A lot of people act like any enemy of Trump is their ally, but this is not so.
Nobody is claiming that. This is just an idiotic straw man. You don't have to support the government in Iran to understand that invading countries is wrong. What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Americans...
I did not claim that starting a war on Iran was OK. I said that sanctioning them is OK. Sanctions on Iran should not stop just because of Trump's idiotic war.
The Lancet has published data concluding that US imposed sanctions cause the deaths of more than 564,000 people each year. More than half of the dead are children under the age of 5. If that's what you support, you're utterly sick.
With the express and publicly stated purpose to bring so much physical economic pain to the people so that they revolt against the gov't.
People ruled by pedophile oligarchs don't get to decide which governments are 'good' and invade countries based on that.
Ok but who is being ruled by pedophile oligarchs? This is a Canadian sub. What is your point here, that we sanctioned Iran? While maybe we don't all wish that there's bombs falling on people's heads, at the same time the regime in Iran are far from sweethearts...
So when is Canada invading America? If not being sweethearts is the requirement.
Just two months ago they were killing thousands of protestors.
If they killed thousands in a few days, how many were killed during 4 weeks of US bombing?
This post and particularly the ml comnents are again the worst propaganda: low quality, sowing division, inciting anger - it's the propagandists' recipe to destroy a community.
The announced sanctions target individuals and entities with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp’s weapons production and transfers of arms and technology to malign actors, including to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine.
Canada must now address the Islamic Republic of Iran’s escalating domestic repression and flagrant human rights abuses.
A reminder that Scotty here is projecting as usual since spreading racist propaganda to sow hatred and division is his specialty. https://lemmy.ml/post/39655060
Canada, which practices literal slavery according to the UN and runs an apartheid state where First Nations rights are not respected, has no business sanctioning other countries on human rights, and should instead address grave human rights concerns domestically:
Same arguments can be used to counter the anti-Chinese inflammatory comments being used to deny China-Canada trade.
It really does and it skewers even my perspective. It's important to note what they're doing.
And then there is Cuba. Conundrum after conundrum. Oh for the good old days when you could tell the bad guys from the good without a playlist.
Wait, in the 'good old days', there was Vietnam.
What some people mentioned really makes the point: Sanctioning Iran makes sense, but if we’re truly doing it to be good people then there should be sanctions on Israel and Saudi Arabia and other places as well. It’s not Iran being the target that’s the problem, it’s all the people that aren’t targets. The US is literally a violent neighbour who has expressly stated that they want to hurt us and who is doing so many blatantly evil things to not only its own citizens and immigrants but even to our people who are there and Carney’s on his knees for them.
If we sanctioned the US for blockading Cuba I would be so damned happy, but people would lose jobs and whichever politician pushed for it would be strung up and flogged.
Yes, unlike America, who just bombs them and pretends they are "in talks"
Let's not defend evil just because another evil bonked it on the head, shall we?
Iran doesn't need USA to kill their people. Iran killed Thousands of Iranian protesters themselves before the war.
Not sure what to make of this. I think it's either an attempt to placate someone, perhaps the Canadian Iranian diaspora to keep things calm domestically, or they think that there's a real possibility for the IR to fall under the weight of more sanctions. The latter seems so unrealistic though.
E: But yeah, def not a good look.
Just seems to be another case of Carney crawling further up Trump's ass.
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