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> Don't like it Iran? Then don't start shit with other people and nations then.

So what was our excuse?

"During World War II, the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran forced the abdication of Reza Shah and succession of Pahlavi. During his reign, the British-owned oil industry was nationalized by the prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who had support from Iran's national parliament to do so; however, Mosaddegh was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, which was carried out by the Iranian military under the aegis of the United Kingdom and the United States. Subsequently, the Iranian government centralized power under the Shah and brought foreign oil companies back into the country's industry through the Consortium Agreement of 1954."

@The_Fluffbringer @Sovereign imagine a man takes his family to some forest where people are regularly attacked and killed by bears, past signs saying "WARNING: BEAR ATTACKS", dodging a checkpoint where police take care to explain to visitors that the bears here are not big Russian dogs but actually just kill people - and then this man's daughter is killed by a bear.

It's natural for your sympathy to be muted by these circumstances. You don't hate the daughter, you're not happy she died, but her dying is so expected that it might as well have been the man's intent to feed her to a bear.

We're blessed to live in an orderly and just universe, and we have a great deal of accumulated knowledge about how it works and what the immediate and long-term consequences are likely to be from different kinds of actions. So for Iran to murder six million members of your family, obviously Iran will have some unpleasant consequences from that.

And just as obviously the US will have some unpleasant consequences from murdering lots of children like in this picture. Which isn't something you have to worry about. You're just enjoying yourself, watching a fire rage across a river. You might enjoy yourself less if the wind starts blowing the fire over to you.