Well I’d say there is a difference between opposing war and sanctions against the Iranian people and supporting them internationally, of course. I think any sensible person-even a liberal-opposes these things.
But I certainly don’t support, say, Iran’s full influence in Iraq (most Iraqis-including Shia-hate both Iranian and US meddling-hence why Sadr’s populist message of Iraqi sovereignty is so popular), I support(ed) the Jina Ahmini protests and the Kurdish liberation movement in Iran, support the linguistic + cultural rights of the Balochi, etc etc.
This, of course, is IMO the moral way to go forward alongside acknowledging + insisting that western interference cannot and will not make things better for Iranians of any stripe because it is simply not in the logic of states within the capitalist world-system to interfere here or there purely for the good of humanity.
We don’t support Iranian domestic policy (the direct result of British and American interference btw).
We do “support” Iran internationally because we realise that sanctions and bombings, if not worse, by the west do nothing good for the Iranian people.
Well I’d say there is a difference between opposing war and sanctions against the Iranian people and supporting them internationally, of course. I think any sensible person-even a liberal-opposes these things.
But I certainly don’t support, say, Iran’s full influence in Iraq (most Iraqis-including Shia-hate both Iranian and US meddling-hence why Sadr’s populist message of Iraqi sovereignty is so popular), I support(ed) the Jina Ahmini protests and the Kurdish liberation movement in Iran, support the linguistic + cultural rights of the Balochi, etc etc.
This, of course, is IMO the moral way to go forward alongside acknowledging + insisting that western interference cannot and will not make things better for Iranians of any stripe because it is simply not in the logic of states within the capitalist world-system to interfere here or there purely for the good of humanity.