Do you have some ideas as to what US intervention could contribute to a good outcome for the people of Iran. The most important things would be providing communications and cutting off weapons and other support to the current regime. The sanctions are supposed to be doing that, could they be made more effective?
"ideas that totally ignore the agency of the Iranian people" This seems quite a common thing. One also sees it in claims that it is western governments that are behind the resistance the Ukraine people are putting up to Russia or the claims today that the coastal First Nations in BC are somehow being manipulated by American interests. Denial of agency is how those who want to embed the status quo try to make people working for change illegitimate.
I hear your call to repeat Erfan Soltani's name. See my Bluesky feed.
What parts of western intelligentsia and media have given the Iran regime support? It would help to understand who these people are and what the support has been.
The problem with intervention - see Venezuela - is that you need to have an alternative, an existing power structure that can step in. Ceaucescu's removal in 1989 was a good example, it was internally orchestrated and the people power was actually secondary. Same with Aquino in The Philippines. The Americans don't have that sort of connections inside Iran, at least that is what I am reading. So any intervention would need to come in tandem with organization on the ground if is to get real results which would include a road to democracy.
The voices that are undermining it in media: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, Max Blumental. On the foreign policy side Ben Rhodes (foreign policy strategist under Obama) was seen as the architect of appeasement towards Iran. I am sure there are many more that have consciously or subconsciously facilitated Iran's stature in the West.
Do you have some ideas as to what US intervention could contribute to a good outcome for the people of Iran. The most important things would be providing communications and cutting off weapons and other support to the current regime. The sanctions are supposed to be doing that, could they be made more effective?
"ideas that totally ignore the agency of the Iranian people" This seems quite a common thing. One also sees it in claims that it is western governments that are behind the resistance the Ukraine people are putting up to Russia or the claims today that the coastal First Nations in BC are somehow being manipulated by American interests. Denial of agency is how those who want to embed the status quo try to make people working for change illegitimate.
I hear your call to repeat Erfan Soltani's name. See my Bluesky feed.
What parts of western intelligentsia and media have given the Iran regime support? It would help to understand who these people are and what the support has been.
The problem with intervention - see Venezuela - is that you need to have an alternative, an existing power structure that can step in. Ceaucescu's removal in 1989 was a good example, it was internally orchestrated and the people power was actually secondary. Same with Aquino in The Philippines. The Americans don't have that sort of connections inside Iran, at least that is what I am reading. So any intervention would need to come in tandem with organization on the ground if is to get real results which would include a road to democracy.
The voices that are undermining it in media: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, Max Blumental. On the foreign policy side Ben Rhodes (foreign policy strategist under Obama) was seen as the architect of appeasement towards Iran. I am sure there are many more that have consciously or subconsciously facilitated Iran's stature in the West.
Morally bankrupt. That’s all I can say about the left wing blob.