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[-] Scotty@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 13 hours ago

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 Raoul Wallenberg Centre For Human Rights welcomes Canada’s recent announcement of additional sanctions against the Iranian regime

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.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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:

UN expert sounds alarm over ‘contemporary forms of slavery’ in Canada https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1140437
Canada’s temporary foreign worker scheme ‘inherently exploitative’: Amnesty International https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/30/canadas-temporary-foreign-worker-scheme-inherently-exploitative-amnesty
‘This is the new slavery’: Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused and injured https://ijb.utoronto.ca/news/this-is-the-new-slavery-migrant-farm-workers-underpaid-abused-and-injured/
Systemic racial discrimination via discriminatory funding causing "Millennium Scoop" class action certified; long-term reform negotiations ongoing. https://decisions.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/chrt-tcdp/decisions/en/item/521231/index.do?iframe=true
Indigenous patients face discrimination, abuse, and wait times up to 20 hours for emergency care. https://www.ndpcaucus.sk.ca/first_nations_health_ombudsman_report_another_sign_sask_party_is_failing_first_nations_people_in_the_north
https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/law-library/decisions/recent/2025-bchrt-258/
Crisis fueled by human trafficking linked to resource extraction "man camps"; systemic inaction continues. https://afn.ca/all-news/press-releases/assembly-of-first-nations-afn-releases-2025-progress-report-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-mmiwg-calls-for-justice-highlighting-human-trafficking-crisis/#to-top
https://manitobachiefs.com/press_releases/new-report-confirms-mmiwg2s-crisis-is-fuelled-by-human-trafficking-and-inaction/
Failure to legislate a human right to safe water and diversion of settlement funds from critical services. https://siksikanation.com/carney-government-reaches-new-low-on-first-nation-safe-drinking-water/
UNDRIP ignored in project approvals; Aboriginal title affirmed over private property, creating legal tension. https://www.firstpeopleslaw.com/public-education/blog/2025-indigenous-rights-year-in-review

[-] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 1 points 50 minutes ago

Same arguments can be used to counter the anti-Chinese inflammatory comments being used to deny China-Canada trade.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 46 minutes ago

As they should be.

[-] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Canada has no right to talk about human rights after the first Nations and residential schools.

[-] Soleos@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

I mean, isn't the whole point of Truth and Reconciliation to talk about human rights and action that promotes it moving forward?

[-] tangonov@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

We're too shitty to put an end to shitty things?

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

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

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Ah, but the Saudi regime has dumptrucks full of money.

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[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

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".

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

And Israel.

[-] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

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.

[-] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago

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?

[-] Soulg@ani.social 8 points 18 hours ago

Both are bad. Neither should have/be happening.

[-] AGM@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Only going to sanction one of the perpetrators though. The other we won't even condemn. We are just desperate to stay business partners with them.

Principled when pragmatic, but not principled if not pragmatic. That's what we call "principled pragmatism."

[-] turdas@suppo.fi 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

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?

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Americans...

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

People ruled by pedophile oligarchs don't get to decide which governments are 'good' and invade countries based on that.

[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

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...

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

So when is Canada invading America? If not being sweethearts is the requirement.

[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Canada's not really an invader. We don't invade people, we just want to exist in a world not full of maniacs.

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[-] Soup@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

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.

[-] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, unlike America, who just bombs them and pretends they are "in talks"

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

no noo no nono noooo... we invite them to talks, then bomb them.

the ol switcharoooo

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.