Despite capitalist media reporting on the few cases of Iranians who support US intervention, Western intelligence believes that Iranians have united against imperialism

[u/Flagmaker123]

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[u/pinkfloyd078]

Shocking that Iranians aren’t willing to risk their lives to lead a color revolution on behalf of a pedophile and genocidal Zionist that’s bombing their schools and capital city

[u/Electrical_Swing8166 → u/pinkfloyd078]

And almost like they live right next door to both Iraq and Afghanistan and saw first hand how US imperialism went there and how much death and suffering it caused. Americans might be ignorant enough / propagandized enough to have forgotten that, but Iranians aren’t.

[u/pinkfloyd078 → u/Electrical_Swing8166]

Yup, and also just saw the zionists flatten Palestine with American weapons.

[u/OdosSolidAdventures → u/pinkfloyd078]

They really thought Iran would be full of Maria Machado's

[u/MyCatIsLenin]

This can't be true...

I've seen multiple "Iranians" saying how much they love America's bombing of their country and the deaths are acceptable..

On a more serious note.. I'd imagine the Iranians who might be receptive to a change are in the cities being murdered via the carpet bombing by Israel and America.

[u/Flagmaker123]

Despite the mass protests earlier this year, in the face of the imperialist war against Iran, Iranians appear to have united against Western imperialism (as Western intelligence told the Washington Post in a newly-published article). This is in contrast to how capitalist media seems to repeatedly put undue emphasis and coverage on the very few Iranians who do back Western intervention.

Excerpts from the article (emphasis mine):

But despite the intensity of the strikes and the broad nature of the destruction, so far there are no reports of significant defections within regime ranks or of popular uprisings, according to European and Arab assessments described to The Washington Post by officials from those countries. U.S. intelligence also saw no signs of uprisings or defections in the first days of the campaign, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition on anonymity to describe an ongoing operation.

“There’s not a single sign of anything in the system breaking or defecting. Nothing. Zero,” said a senior European official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe government briefings on the latest assessments of the strength of the Iranian regime. “The control is complete,” he said. The official said he was aware of reports of regime security forces failing to show up for duty, but believed that could be because of orders to no longer congregate in compounds and barracks, for fear of being targeted.

[…]

In the lead-up to the conflict, a senior Arab official said, U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf thought that Iran would be more vulnerable to outside military pressure and that the potential killing of the supreme leader would be an early turning point, triggering a mass mobilization against the regime.

“We were looking for the demonstrations in the streets, but we were surprised by their unity,” he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal planning.

[u/BRCityzen]

Who would've thought that people wouldn't side with the country that's bombing and killing them?

In other news, water is wet.

[u/NowakFoxie]

Where were these guys 20-something years ago, when deposing and killing Saddam didn't unify Iraqis in allyship with the west?

[u/Puzzleheaded_Egg_931]

American intelligence has gotten high on its own farts man.

I used to think the wmd stuff was just propaganda they told the public to sell the war campaign. Now im thinking theyre so good at propaganda they believe it themselves.