Whaaattt?

I didn't mean it was an old Peta story, just that the situation itself is "old" @NigelJ

 

I am fully aware of that and I suspect it's the same film as has been shown in cinemas recently.

 

What I find hard/devastating to understand is that it would appear that the majority of people think it's OK.

 

Has the number of protesters killed during Iran's crackdown recently ever been verified ? The figure given previously was 30,000 plus. I suspect it is practically impossible to get anywhere near the truth about that once you get into the tens of thousands. As for Trump telling the citizens of Iran to stand up to the regime, I'd like to see him personally join in the protests and risk torture and death himself.
Add Trump to the list of those who do not consider international laws apply to them.

 

They don't know. The WTA is looking into it!

 

Iran has every reason to be angry at and mistrustful of the USA and its local allies as well as the UK. In 1953 the US and UK conspired together - Operation Ajax - to remove a democratically elected PM who had the audacity to nationalise Iranian oil and take it out of British control. That was under a Labour government led by Attlee.

They installed the man known as the Shah who ruled for the next 26 years using his brutal SAVAK secret police to quash opposition with the support of the US and UK because he kept the oil flowing. Then he ceased to be useful and we got the Ayatollahs in charge with their own extremist views about oppression.

It's no wonder they allied themselves with Putin and have been supplying oil to China altho Putin has not helped except with intelligence. China, meanxhile, is playing its long game and has introduced more solar and wind power in the last few years than the USA has altogether. It's shutting down its dependence on coal and oil, planting millions of trees to reclaim desert and change rain patterns and making new trade deals with Canada and south America to bypass US tariffs and trading leverage.

The entire US operation in Iran is illegal in terms of both the US constitution and international law and cocaine fuelled Hegseth is treating it like a computer game, boasting how many people and resources the US plans to take out each day with no thought to innocent victims or future complications and, least of all, rebuilding.

I've got to the point where I wonder how any sane politican in the rest of the world cannot be seen to condemn utterly the US and Israel assaults and refuse to comply or condone.