>One Tehran-based civil-society activist and former political prisoner said Iranians were truly hopeful two weeks ago as the war began. Now, the person said, they feel betrayed. An English-language Iranian teacher living in Tehran who is opposed to the government but also the war was more blunt. “We were so fucked over,” the teacher said, saying they were turned into an excuse to launch a devastating war. “It’s like we have gone back a hundred years in time.”
>The fear is that a government emboldened by its survival and aggrieved by the punishing airstrikes will become a fiercer oppressor.
“This regime will become stronger, crueller, more monstrous even than before,” said a Tehran resident who supported the war. “People don’t have the weapons to fight back.”
dweeb93 on
They may get it in the end, this is not Venezuela, the regime is not cooperating.
Highlightthot1001 on
Never assume Trump will help you. Especially if you’re foreign
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>One Tehran-based civil-society activist and former political prisoner said Iranians were truly hopeful two weeks ago as the war began. Now, the person said, they feel betrayed. An English-language Iranian teacher living in Tehran who is opposed to the government but also the war was more blunt. “We were so fucked over,” the teacher said, saying they were turned into an excuse to launch a devastating war. “It’s like we have gone back a hundred years in time.”
>The fear is that a government emboldened by its survival and aggrieved by the punishing airstrikes will become a fiercer oppressor.
“This regime will become stronger, crueller, more monstrous even than before,” said a Tehran resident who supported the war. “People don’t have the weapons to fight back.”
They may get it in the end, this is not Venezuela, the regime is not cooperating.
Never assume Trump will help you. Especially if you’re foreign