As always no one bothered to ask how actual Iranians feel about events in their own country so let me clarify:

We have been praying for this attack since the revolution started in December and the evil mullah regime killed 60000+ of our people in just two days

We are celebrating the death of Khamanei

This is not a war for us, we consider it a rescue mission. The casualties of IR remaining in power would be much more than this so called war

And yes, US and Israel are actually only targeting regime centers. If they really wanted to harm civilians they would have acted the same way the regime acted in December by blindly shooting people with military weapons

If you stand by Iranians, listen amplify our voices instead of playing in the regime’s court

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There was a recent news segment that ran— second night of Ramadan. About a neighborhood (Los gatos?) in Cali complaining about a mosque in their area. Because of nightly traffic for prayers or something. Def bigoted undertones there (the Christmas light traffic seems fine).

But what struck me is the videos on TikTok talking about it— millions of views. 50k-150k likes, from what I’ve seen. Pretty decent comment sections—- very supportive. A few bigots who get shouted down by the vast majority.

and just. Like. That’s nice! That’s good. As it should be. But…we didn’t even get that when there was a mass slaughter of Jews in Australia? We kept getting yelled at for “making it about Jews” and the gunmen were secretly IDF and how this was obviously bad—but *israel* is obviously at fault.

Social justice leftists: Believe women! She deserves justice! She’s so brave!

Woman: Is an Israeli Jew repeatedly assaulted in captivity.

Social justice leftists: Well, obviously she’s lying or exaggerating, those poor misunderstood terrorists freedom fighters would never do such a thing and even if they did, she deserves it for being a colonising genocidal baby killer. Who cares? Resistance ✊

hamas documented their own actions because they were proud of what they were doing.