I’ve been abroad and the only channel in english is CNN and they’ve been blasting this “Crisis with Iran” segment nonstop with emphasis on Iran meant to miss, Iran informed Americans, etc. You would think a news agency would allow the Iranian government to sell their attack as damaging and a slap in the face knowing that the Iranian people are watching this.
On a different note, it’s really hard to want peace with a country that continuously chants Death to America while burning our flag. I have many persian friends from wrestling so I know the entire nation does not think like this (and vice versa) but even a measured man like myself sees RED when these clips are played. When you see a clip like the one below it begs the question - do you want peace?
The people of Iran are cool in my experience. They’re pretty progressive and the women can be stunningly gorgeous (not that it matters, but we shouldn’t bomb beautiful people). Just like us, they have extremists too, though.
Had the US not screwed everything up, Iran could still look like this:
Yeah funny indeed until you realize the stakes are a drone making you one with the earth.
I don’t speak Farsi but I do have friends who do and the literal translation is Death to America. They said it could also be interrupted as Down to America, but either way when you have a large group chanting this slogan over and over again while burning the America flag it’s pretty hard to shrug it off.
I also think the flag burning and chanting is funny. It’s a bunch of backwater politicians gathered in a room in front of a video camera chanting and burning flags poorly printed on copy paper for spectacle, even they find it funny, you can see one of the dudes break a grin about the situation towards the end.
Most of these people are probably pretty wealthy and well educated tbh, probably realize its theater and its not alll that different from any other political non-sense. Take US senators chanting “shame” when GOT was a thing or any of that laughable grandstanding. It’s meaningless jokes for audiences that buy into political theater, best to just laugh along.