Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.

The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.

But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.

“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.

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    why the fuck would a facist regime enrich so much uranium to such high levels? death to the iranian regime I say. follow reza pahlavi and not the pervy mullahs.

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      why the fuck would a facist regime

      Citation needed.

      follow reza pahlavi and not the pervy mullahs.

      The son of the Shah? That’s… uh… a tenuous proposition, to say the least.

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        Are you seriously defending the mullah regime? Do you know anything about what’s happening in Iran?

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          Yes, and I know it’s not fascism. “Fascism” is a word that has a meaning, and that meaning is not “authoritarian regime I don’t like”.

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            I would say most if not all boxes of fascism by definition are ticked in Iran.

            Dictatorial leader, forceful suppression of any opposition and/or critics, strong militarism, centralized autocracy, nation above the individual, a strong regimentation of society, …

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              I’m not sure how militarized Iranian society is, but most of what you said applies to most dictatorships. On the other hand,

              Ultranationalism, combined with the myth of national rebirth, is a key foundation of fascism.[271] Robert Paxton argues that “a passionate nationalism” is the basis of fascism, combined with “a conspiratorial and Manichean view of history” which holds, “the chosen people have been weakened by political parties, social classes, unassimilable minorities, spoiled rentiers, and rationalist thinkers.”[272] Roger Griffin identifies the core of fascism as being palingenetic ultranationalism.

              -Wikipedia. The idea that there are undesirables in society who must be purged or suppressed to achieve national (as in racial) unity and greatness is a core tenet of fascism that is conspicuously absent from Iran. I mean hell, if Iran was running anything like this they’d go after their Jews (which they have a small number of), Christians or Sunni Muslims to rile up the Shia majority, but they don’t.

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        do you read news at all?

        https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sktf6cyegg

        he is calling for days, all media covers it and you think saying it in the fediverse is tenuous? maybe telegram groups are more your thing.

        and on the facist regime i want to quote: “Iran has insisted that it is not developing a bomb and that its nuclear program remains non-weaponized for peaceful energy purposes, though international inspectors have found increasing evidence to the contrary. The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog reported that Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium—just below weapons-grade—has grown large enough to produce multiple bombs if further enriched. Analysts say Iran could theoretically produce a bomb’s worth of material in as little as a week, and that no other country has that level of uranium without a nuclear weapons program.”

        https://time.com/7294133/iran-israel-nuclear-program-attack/

        what else than a facist would do that? shitty mullahs behave like patrick star “nO. mAybe wE wAnt to wIpe all Jews. tihihihihi.” irans regime should just die and anyone who thinks their childish shennanigans still fly ist just dumb. follow pahlavi.

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          You support the son of the shah who’s killed Iranians. You do not care about Iranians and are happy to sacrifice them so israel put a puppet regime instead. The history show us how it always back fire and lead to creation of resistance group who hate the west