Trump's Iran policy in three panels

[mattsheffield@mastodon.social]

Trump's Iran policy in three panels

[peluchecero@xarxa.cloud]

@mattsheffield I laughed and I shouldn't have

[chigaze@mstdn.ca]

@mattsheffield

Pedantry: It's Khamenei.

Khomeini died in 1989.

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@mattsheffield
Part of the absurdity is the idea that they can just take out one or two people and the government is somehow gone... But #Iran is not Russia or North Korea, where the government revolves around a single dictator, this is a whole structure with thousands of people involved in keeping it going, with a significant chunk of the population, even if they're a minority, willing to pick up weapons to support it. Reforming them diplomatically, by stopping the constant aggression, was always the best option. Replacing them by escalating the decades-long violence against them is not likely to work, certainly not overnight.

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@mattsheffield Khamenei is not Khomeini. Different blokes.

[nico@lepoulsdumonde.com]

@mattsheffield but 30 years younger !