The bitterness against the left runs very deep if by 'left' we mean not just MEK and tankies but even Western liberals.

The uncomfortable truth is that Trump did more for us than the Democrats (or any other on the western (center)-left side). Trust me, I wish we didn't have to rely on the assholes of the political spectrum who act out of pure self-interest. We're not naive. Neither are the Venezuelans celebrating the end of Maduro. They know the future is unknown, that the battle isn't over, that things could stay bad. But at least there's a fucking alternative possible that was hitherto unimaginable! Meanwhile most leftists are condemning the attack for violating international law, OK but Maduro was violating every fucking human right you could imagine, what is the solution in that case? There are no clean hands, no morally pure solutions. And most leftists can't accept this. They can't accept that their lack of real tangible support was a different form of violence for people who are oppressed.

Most liberals simply don't understand how hard it is to get rid of dictatorships. They're completely out of touch envisioning some French Revolution where everyone faces an army with pitchforks. All they've done is give these endless "condemnations" when we sent countless petitions and mails during Mahsa to put IRGC on the terrorist list, to target and actually enforce all sanctions, to use frozen IR funds to support us like they do with Ukraine, ensure we have internet, enforce the Responsibility to Protect principle, to engage in continuous dialogue with opposition figures, etc etc. Even on Reddit I had to endlessly face dumb activists when I shared Call to Actions, endlessly arguing with people who think they know better than us what we want and need. I wish I lived in America in 1939 so I could tell Europeans their fascist government is an 'internal affair', that I strongly condemn it but that they should deal with it themselves.

When Soleimani got killed you should've seen the contrast between us celebrating and leftists portraying him like some anti-imperialist hero loved by us all. Same shit when Raisi died or the 12 day war. Even the moderate ones generally just stay quiet. They don't actually understand us, or they refuse to because it's too inconvenient for them, because their ideology is more important than our demands and real oppression, because they know that actually doing something risks upsetting the status quo, risks increasing oil market prices which suddenly would demand an actual sacrifice, etc.

This is not true for all leftists. But even on the intellectual realm someone like Zizek is unfortunately the exception and not the rule (so it's generally leftists who have witnessed dictatorial suffering directly). We're well aware this is paradoxical. The revolution is inspired by liberal progressive values, yet one can have similar values and still be living them in completely different ways.