You call someone who continued occupying & bombing multiple countries, increased the killing of civilians, unconditionally supported Israeli colonization & apartheid, assassinated a high-ranking foreign official & attempted regime change in Venezuela & Bolivia an isolationist.
And you assess that Reagan and W were guided by "values." Pray tell, which values were the ones Reagan deployed to make the rich richer while gutting social services, expanding the racist and imperial "war on drugs" and supporting death squads in Latin America?
Are those the same values that led W to commit the supreme international crime of initiating a war of aggression, destroying millions of lives around the world, expanding a limitless surveillance state and pursuing corporate-friendly deregulation that exacerbated climate chaos?
Which values were the ones behind Reagan's refusal to support divestment from Apartheid South Africa and Bush's torture regime?
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Pay attention to the media coverage and narrative about the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and remember:
- Iran has exactly zero nuclear bombs.
- Israel has a stockpile of 80+ nuclear bombs.
- Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
- Israel has an active nuclear weapons program.
- Iran is an original member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
- Israel has never signed the NPT and refuses to do so.
- Iran's non-military nuclear energy program is the most rigorously monitored on earth.
- Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal is not regulated at all.
- Iran, which has zero nukes, has never threatened an unprovoked attack on Israel.
- Israel, which has lots of nukes, frequently threatens unprovoked attacks on Iran.
- Iran does not assassinate Israeli scientists.
- Israel has assassinated numerous Iranian scientists.
Historically and systemically oppressed people are always expected to display quiet grace and dignity in the face of violence, terror, and intimidation. Think about why that is.
If Nathan Philips had punched that stupid fucking kid in his stupid fucking face like he probably should have, the news cycle would be quite different right now. The onus is always on the oppressed to maintain decorum; never are the colonists expected to behave differently.
Empathy and perseverance, non-violence and dialogue - these are always demanded of the victims of violence, never of the perpetrators. This is how resistance is twisted into terrorism, self-defense and survival redefined as aggression and savagery.
Certain facts are routinely omitted from all reporting and commentary on Iran and its nuclear program. What follows is just a bit about what the media either doesn't know or won't tell you about Iran's activities prior to 2003.
The false narrative that Iran had a "robust," "clandestine" & "active" nuclear weapons program prior to 2003 relies on the assumption that Iranian black market purchases of dual-use nuclear equipment (all nuclear tech is dual-use, folks) reveals a "secret" program to build bombs.
This willfully omits the fact that, since the early 1980s, the Iranian government sought international partnership and trade for its nascent nuclear energy program, only to be deliberately denied access to nuclear tech by the US (a violation itself of the NPT).