Australia has taken the unprecedented step of expelling several Iranian diplomats.
According to Canberra, the diplomats coordinated violent, antisemitic attacks and now have seven days to leave the country.
Iranians also got caught in Thailand.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17026007
And in India
And in Sweden
Iranians are shias. They are the little black sheep of the Sunni Middle East. If you carefully study the history of Iran, you will notice that for centuries, the obsession of Iranian elites was always to be admired, respected, by the Sunnis. They are extremely self-conscious about being the only shia country.
Screaming “Death to Israel” is basically their shia soft power strategy to conquer the heart of sunnis
Every year, they have an event called Quds Day. There is a giant factory near Tehran that only produces Israeli flags. The flags are then burned. Ordinary Iranians are encouraged by authorities to upload pictures and videos in arabic on social media. The only goal is to have reaction such as “Wow! The Iranians are so cool :3” on arab social media. If they were actually honest, they would call Quds day “Iran Soft Power day”.
The Iranian Regime has been shouting "Soon, very soon, we will destroy Israel 🤡" and “Holocaust is a manufactured event 🤡” for decades now.
Their problem is that it just keeps blowing up in their face
You know, this would actually be hilarious if the lives of millions of people weren’t at stake
Their issue is that it just keeps blowing up in their face
Is it? Iran is hated by the West not for being antisemitic (ask the Saudis how they feel about Jews), but because they don’t like its independent foreign and economic policy. As long as Iran refuses to play ball with America and co, something close to the current situation is inevitable. In this situation, playing for regional soft power (by, you know, opposing genocide) is just smart.
Note: This doesn’t mean that Iran’s government isn’t absolutely terrible, only that that terribleness and Iran’s treatment by the West are unrelated.
Israel isn’t great either, has many lobbies harrasing anti zionists and anti genocide people. They are comiting a genocide is gaza, they arms terrorists in the west bank to attack palestinians. Israeli march call of desth of arabs (not just desth to arab countries) , Has a history of terrorism against many people including jews
Australia recognizing Palestine and having beef with Netanyahu while protecting their own jewish community from iranian organized attacks seems based.
Congrats, you got fooled. https://acij.org.au/despite-government-claims-australia-still-exporting-lethal-arms-to-israel
