Nation of Iran Celebrates 33 years of Independence and Self-Determination

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65. What indefensible thing am I defending, here?

The pro-Israeli folks defend apartheid, international assassination, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and seem to be constantly hoping for nuclear war and full-out extermination of not only everyone else in the middle east, but also lust for the death of as many Jews as possible, on top of all that.

I'm making the point that one can speak of the Iranian revolution as the event that it was. This is not any sort of blanket forgiveness for the current regime, it is not a whitewashing of their crimes against the Iranian people. It's a statement that the goals of the revolution were actually very understandable and, for better or worse, it was exactly what the OP states it as - the beginning of Iranian independence.

Instead we have a flock of people who - while knowing absolutely nothing about Iran aside from what WorldNetDaily and ynet tells them about it - seem intent on equating the theocrats with all Iranians, and extending the actions of the current regime into the revolution itself, both of which are quite inaccurate. This is a pretty simple sort of demonization.

Think of a hypothetical thread about the US' Declaration of Independence that got swamped by a lot of people who can only talk about Jim Crow and the Iraq war, and equate all Americans through history with the fundamentalist right wing, and then you have a pretty basic grasp of what's going on here