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Sure, except the OP was not condemning each active warcrime as being independently abhorrent, they were only condemning Israeli warcrimes as being abhorrent. I was just independently reminding folks that Iran is also committing abhorrent warcrimes and those need to be condemned very vocally.

> The semblance of an international order post world war 2 at least suggested that we as a species were attempting to move toward a better place.

Unfortunately neither Russia, China, Iran (Hamas/Palestine, Hezbollah, Houthis, &c), North Korea, Cuba nor other anti-western actors valued that order and instead have sought to destroy it. The world we live in today and the issues we are seeing are primarily due to their actions. In each circumstance the above list (and there are others) demonstrably took actions under their authoritarian anti-democratic governments or societies to break down the order you value.

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No-one alive more than a few years needs reminding that Iran is part of the 'axis of evil'. However, there are a large number of people unaware that my country and allies are also currently committing warcrimes.

You have the right to believe what you like, in my opinion the consequences for blaming our own crimes on others is dire.

No, people do need to be reminded. When all you do is talk about alleged bad actions by the West folks forget about the bad actions that precipitated this conflict and others.

> You have the right to believe what you like, in my opinion the consequences for blaming our own crimes on others is dire.

Nobody forced Iran to kill 30,000+ of its own people, try to build nuclear bombs, fund terrorists who have and continue to kill innocent people throughout the Middle East, and more. Those are their crimes that they are blamed for and those are the ones that we should be talking about mostly because that’s what matters.

It’s rather strange for you to try and take away the agency of others people, countries, or civilizations or infantilize them.

I can't reply to your latest comment as we reached the end of the thread. It's all good, let's agree to disagree on a few points. Discussions like this are difficult enough, and through text on a site like this even more so

Sounds good. I hope you have a nice rest of your day

So many assumptions. Have I now ascended to become the embodiment of everything you hate in the world? As the kids say, touch some grass, and then thank God you weren't born Iranian

I really have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t really hate anyone or anything except murderers and child molesters and such, those airplanes that fly around with big advertisements trailing behind.