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  • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    4 days ago

    The reformists used this playbook before. Agree to concessions that they know the leader won’t accept, then when the negotiations fall through, the reformists use it to paint the principalists and IRGC as unwilling to make concessions. From there they use the various media outlets the oligarchs own to stir up their supporters into a frenzy.

    This the time though, they don’t have a support base among the population, especially compared to the very agitated and mobilized public that currently exists in Iran.

      • Lenin's Dumbbell @lemmygrad.ml
        8·
        3 days ago

        Tbf this is what reformists across the world have always done. This is why during imperial wars of aggression, reformists need to be stripped of power. Let them have a voice, but their hands should be tied, because when they’re not, they always sell out their people.

        I hope the reformists responsible for this are hanged in a public square in Tehran. No reformists in Iran should ever have the balls to betray the Iranian people ever again. Make them spit blood and show everyone else what it means to betray the Iranians

    • Magnanimuzedong@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      3 days ago

      And there have been several important people like the relative (or son) or Ayatullah Khomeini saying that “anyone that negotiates with US empire is a traitor”. Let’s hope the Reformists actually try to do something like this and then get their asses handed to them by the public