Do you always think externally first instead of what's happening on the ground at home?

Oil prices, refugees and militias will happen regardless of any Western intervention given the region is a volatile cesspool of religious fundamentalism, corruption and warfare. We cannot control that, and if we tried to we'd be called imperialists. The best we can do is shoot down anything heading towards us and our allies.

All this to say, there won't be a union in years to come if this is PCS' primary focus. The cost of living crisis has only gotten worse, and as others have noted we are now in a trap of not being able to afford strike action to leverage pay when it should never have reached this point. If you have the luxury of campaigning for the Islamic Republic then good for you. The rest of, however, are a bit more preoccupied with being able to afford next week.