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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

It was an opinion piece and one with a lot of inaccuracies.

The West entered Baghdad as liberators against an evil dictator (notice its always America who gets to choose who’s evil). The same evil dictator the U.S put into power. The same evil dictator the U.S supported throughout its long war against Iran.

They didn’t enter Iraq because there was a load of Muslim warring tribes. The entered Iraq to get rid of Saddam who had just declared to the world that he was going to start a gold currency which would inevitably affect the U.S economy. They went into Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction, even though they knew there weren’t any.

If the West were liberators then why did they spend months prior to entering Iraq stirring up agitation amongst the Iraqi people? why after the West destroyed Baghdad did it stop Iraqi companies getting the tender to rebuild. (ensuring their economy couldn’t recover)? Why did the U.S stand back after destroying the forces of order and allow chaos to prevail? Why did they hang the US flag and not the Iraqi flag over Saddam’s statue?

Religion is irrelevant here. The vast majority of Iraq is the same religion as the Gulf states. The invasion of Iraq was a war of aggression to secure resources and stop a gold currency. It was an illegal war and a war that needlessly killed hundreds of Western troops and thousands of Iraqi civilians.

In your anger at the big bad west you are forgetting that Iraq attacked Kuwait which is what started the whole thing.

There is nothing wrong with a well written opinion piece most journalism has elements of opinion in the reportage. All you are expressing is an opinion after all.

However we aren't even talking about Iraq in this thread. It's about public dissent in Iran.

The religion has everything to do with the repression, power and control of the region which is a great deal of the problem for the people who live there. Religious governance, religion dictating to state, does not work and often leads to very repressive rules pushed onto the people. If you look at Ireland they began huge change in separating religion from government in recent years.