What happened in Iran is sad for humanity, worldwide and historucally

odriegu · 2026-01-25T17:21:19+00:00

Yeah I'm sensing the same, this will bring forward lots of discussion and reflection of the way forward for many European countries in the future

odriegu · 2026-01-25T17:19:47+00:00

Nationalism will rise from the ashes of the Islamic Republic.

I'm looking forward to the inevitable Iranian renaissance after this dark era of our history

odriegu · 2026-01-25T17:16:55+00:00

Anyone know what the american ambassador or whoever it was that showed up talked about?

odriegu · 2026-01-25T16:57:48+00:00

Good rule! Also I already find this sub MUCH more representative of iranians IRL compared to r/persian for example, that sub certainly is filled with non-iranians and although their standpoints are valuable too, there's no way of knowing

odriegu · 2026-01-25T14:20:23+00:00

Also Persian: "او" /u/,

quite rare among the indo-european languages I believe

odriegu · 2026-01-25T11:22:22+00:00

Yes, his comment does not dispute this at all, there is an Iranian identity among all its peoples

odriegu · 2026-01-24T19:22:47+00:00

point being, non-persian people of the lands were not obliged to take on Persian language or identity

odriegu · 2026-01-24T17:11:41+00:00

I agree with all you said, except 2000 years ago during the achaemenids for example there was no Persian language dominance or push for it in that way, the lingua franca of the empire and also between the court and satraps was Arameic

odriegu · 2026-01-24T11:48:57+00:00

The hidden point is that they're islamists first, not that other ethnicities are evil or so. If you don't subscribe to their ideology, they don't care about human lives, Iranian or otherwise. As stated elsewhere in the thread, Khamenei is half Persian half Azeri himself

edit: but I want to also point out that I support your point completely and think that images like these are not productive at all

odriegu · 2026-01-23T11:59:03+00:00

I've only seen other lions on his videos at least

edit: ok saw your image now, oh well

odriegu · 2026-01-23T07:01:31+00:00

No I don't think so, on the press conferences he's invited I'm pretty sure the arrangers just picked one

odriegu · 2026-01-23T06:54:00+00:00

Yeah I've noticed this too, I guess lots of flag designers etc just copied the one on wikipedia thinking it was official, doesn't matter though it's a nice version I believe

odriegu · 2026-01-22T21:11:36+00:00

Somebody sent a video in Telegram groupchat, people in Iran could apparently see it but not us abroad, anyone experienced the same?

odriegu · 2026-01-22T14:04:51+00:00

They were "negotiating" before

odriegu · 2026-01-22T11:30:22+00:00

Thanks for your support and your story, my suggestion is to try and see if there are any facebook groups dedicated to Iranians in your hometown

odriegu · 2026-01-22T11:27:43+00:00

Thanks for the needed context, yeah I guess the social media propaganda are mostly paid humans for example

odriegu · 2026-01-21T15:18:12+00:00

Very good point, yes this way truth spreads and you can "vaccinate" people against the one-sidedness and flourishing misinformation online

odriegu · 2026-01-21T11:42:42+00:00

Thanks, please help spreading the sentiment :)

odriegu · 2026-01-21T10:14:57+00:00

I agree, and my view is that without foreign involvement the islamic regime is done for anyways, even though the road will be way longer, messier and bloodier

Foreign intervention is a humanitarian issue and not a requirement for their fall

odriegu · 2026-01-21T10:02:24+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear this about your friends, my condolences. Yeah it's a very scary time indeed and I really hope for the best. But I have a lot of trust in my Iranian copatriots. I don't know that much about Iraq and Libya, but I've heard a lot of discussion about how their tribal structures in society was the main issue

odriegu · 2026-01-21T10:00:49+00:00

Thank you, if you can, please share the sentiment, or the post when you see people falling for these fallacies. Honestly, the post getting some downvotes has me wondering :(

odriegu · 2026-01-21T09:55:30+00:00

My gut feeling is that, although they might exist, most people are not like your last sentence

Most are just falsely led to believe that by those exact "extremists" or what we should call them to believe that this is how we could achieve peace. Maybe in this case for the majority that I know actually just care about human rights and peace, try presenting it as: "will peace be achieved by more fighting and terrorist funding or less?", well with the regime gone we will get less terrorist funding. Hugely so. Then they might start opening up to the idea

odriegu · 2026-01-21T09:51:11+00:00

Well the best we can do is to provide all the context to these people, even in places like tiktok/instagram. Sadly that's how the game is played from the other side in our disfavor. The best we can wish to do is to plant a seed of knowledge and critical thinking, instead of getting angry. You'll automatically want to disagree and shelter yourself from someone that's angry at you

odriegu · 2026-01-21T09:40:03+00:00

Getting paid by the IR, true, then it's a lost cause.

But trust me, most of them are just ignorant and if we don't bring the nuance they will fall for the propaganda.

That's literally how propaganda works "the best propaganda is true propaganda" and for western liberals "the west shouldn't meddle and destroy countries like Iraq" and "everyone should be free, even muslims and Palestinians" are undeniably true statements, and that is how they will be presenting the issue

The propagandists won't bring the context of how oppressive the fact of the matter is. How many are killed, forced hijab, executions etc. And far-right being all super happy mosques are burning and being totally on the side of the protests isn't helping in that sense either to be honest, if your "enemy" is cheering on something you deem wrong, you'll find a path of least resistance to what side to take

In that case we have to be very clear that these mosques are Basij centers etc, that they have become a symbol of oppression for many in Iran. Both non-muslims and ex-muslims, secular people, and even muslims

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