I really wish people would stop using "Iran" to mean the Islamic regime that currently rules over it.

[Seeking Serenity]

Iran is her people. While I admittedly don't have any reliable polling data, I truly believe that the majority of Iranians want done with that theocractic regime that has held them under repressive subjugation for 47 years.

People here are easily able to separate Trump from the United States of America regarding his actions. I wish those same people would grant the Iranian people that same courtesy.

Thank you.

[Blues Heron]

1. We are literally bombing Iran right now

[Seeking Serenity]

2. But "Iran" is not bombing Tel Aviv; the IRGC is.

The IRGC is NOT Iran.

And from videos I've seen, a lot of the people in Iran are happy about the decapitation of the regime's leadership.

[Melon]

7. The IRGC is just a branch of the Iranian military. Iran is shooting missiles into neighbors.

Nobody is saying “ The United States didn’t shoot missils into Iran, the Air Force did.”
Iran is firing missions right now. It’s Iran's military. We all know there are innocent civilians.

[wnylib]

8. So, we should also not say that the US is bombing Iran, then?

Not all Americans agree with or approve of the attacks.

[womanofthehills]

11. But according to videos, not so happy!

⚡️BREAKING:

Massive protests in Iran right now demanding revenge following the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei by the U.S and Israel. Killing little elementary school girls does not go over big in Iran either.

Link to tweet

?s=46

[Gaugamela]

3. Numerous commentators have stated that the regime is massively unpopular with the Iranian

people. That’s why they had countrywide protests that led to the recent brutal crackdown.

[tirebiter]

4. I had a a history prof in college who was Jewish and from Iran

She referred to it as Persia.

[Seeking Serenity]

5. I had a 2d cousin who married an Iranian woman who had fled Iran just before "the 1979 coup."

She went to her grave maintaining that she was Persian and hoping she could have returned to the land of her birth with Reza Pahlavi on the throne. She was one of those one-of-a-kind kind of ladies.

[usonian]

6. Government, shmoverment. You know what this is about.

No matter how smart bombs are (and rumor is that the military used Anthropic) they kill somewhat indiscriminately.

Just like those atomic bombs destroyed the Emperor of Japan. (as a side effect)

[fujiyamasan]

9. I understand what you're getting at

But it’s a little hard when we’re bombing their territory.

I agree that the regime is not the country; its rich history, culture and people.

[womanofthehills]

12. During 911 - all Americans were on the same page

I’m sure murdering 7 to 11 little school girls is uniting Iran.

[stopdiggin]

10. just a little bit unwieldy to say, "the U.S. has just bombed the land mass, and denizens, currently ruled by

a repressive religious regime .. " (as opposed to other land masses ruled by other repressive leaders .. ) Yeah?
The schoolgirls were Iranian - to their mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers - as well as the rest of the world.

[ColoringFool]

13. Understood. But That Simply Is Not How People Think Or Speak.....

IN COMMON PARLANCE:

We almost never said, e.g., "We're at war with the Third Reich"; we said we were at war with Germany.

We declared "V-J Day"; not "V-Hirohito's Imperialist Government Day."

We say that "America" was attacked on 9/11/01; not "a few buildings were or were intended to be attacked."