Looks pretty nice. Progressive.
It's not very progressive to have 25-100 thousand political prisoners every year, practically arbitrary imprisonment, and the highest rate of death penalties in the world. That's what these terrible articles always omit, they show a bunch of pretty pictures and whitewash a brutal dictatorship because they want to make people think it's actually a really good idea for the US to invade and "liberate" them again, just like they liberated them from the democratic government they had in 1953.
I cant find much mention of what you say of the government prior to the Islamic revolution. Do you have a source I can read? I can only find that executions became common place and in public since the Islamic revolution in 1979
I find it strange though..... Some of the reasons for the revolution was "outrage against government extravagance, corruption, brutality, and the suppression of individual rights, before being taken over by Ayatollah Khomeini."
The very same reasons you could apply to Iran now
but the caveat is that a lot of the problems within Iran could be eliminated if America didn't sanction the fuck out of it because America doesn't like/respect sovereignty existing in the Middle East
If Australia decided it no longer wanted American military presence in Australia anymore (eg Pine Gap), we should be allowed to tell them to leave. But I bet America would do everything it can to cripple us and forbid any other country including our allies from doing business with us until we relent and let them back in.
America hates the idea that Russia may have or did indeed meddle with their democracy and elections. So why cant the Middle East feel sore about Americas meddling? And its not just meddling with shitty Facebook memes. It's bombing and executions.
is it any wonder there is so much hatred towards America in the Middle East? Hate breeds more hate and eventually 'terrorism'. 9/11 probably would never have happened if America kept its nose in its own backyard. If the Middle East is a shithole destined to fight each other till the end of time, so be it. America's 'help' isn't helping