I don’t think people are cheering them on in general. Just cheering them on against Israel. Which, like…yeah. One of these countries has been committing outright genocide and murdering journalists and aid workers en mass for the last 2 years, and then provoked this latest attack by firing missiles at the other.
Not cheering on their domestic policy, but ppl are xheering on their choice to defend themselves from attack.
Well said
And Iran has been supplying drones for Russia so they can do the same in Ukraine.
They are both shit countries committing genocide directly or indirectly, they should fight each other to extinction.
Israel has also been supllying drones to Russia. They even demanded Ukraine to surrender to Russia.
This is not to challenge your statement. I find it important to understand that Israel is neither on the side of Ukraine, or on the side of NATO. Israel has no allies, it only has bitches doing its bidding.
Israel is not on the side of NATO
The things I have to read on this website, I swear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Russia_relations#Drones
In April 2009, Russia purchased its first package of drones from Israel (the Bird Eye-400, eight I-View Mk150 and two Searcher Mk.2 UAVs). The deal was worth $53 million.[231] In a second deal, at the end of 2009, Russia purchased an additional 36 drones from Israel, in a deal worth $100 million.[228]
In October 2010, in a third deal, Russia purchased an additional $400 million of drones from Israel Aerospace Industries. The Israeli drones are to be assembled in Russia.[232] The production of the Russian-Israeli drones began in 2012, and delivery to the Russian military is scheduled for 2014.[228]
In 2015, one of the drones was reportedly shot down by the Ukrainian military near the city of Donetsk, Ukraine.[233]
In September 2015, the Russian Army purchased another $300 million package of drones from Israel, its fourth purchase of Israeli drones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Russia_relations#2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, stating “Russia’s attack against Ukraine is a serious violation of international order,”…
Lapid’s remarks were criticized by Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who urged the Israeli government “to speak less about what they don’t need to talk about” on Russia and accused the government of “too many unnecessary expressions and too many false predictions”.
Israel declined to co-sponsor a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Russian invasion, leading to an expression of disappointment by the United States.[118] Israel later voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the invasion.[119] At the request of the United States, Israel also pushed the United Arab Emirates to back the resolution.[120]
An unnamed senior Ukrainian official accused Bennett of having “proposed that we surrender”, claiming that Bennett urged Zelenskyy to “take the offer” of a peace deal from Putin. This report was subsequently denied by both the Israeli Prime Minister’s office and a senior adviser to Zelenskyy.[125]
Following the Bucha massacre, Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman condemned “war crimes” but declined to condemn Russia specifically, describing “mutual accusations” where “Russia blames Ukraine and Ukraine blames Russia”, drawing a rebuke from the Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel.[130] However, Foreign Minister Lapid stated that “Russian forces committed war crimes”.[131] Israel subsequently voted for a resolution to suspend Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
in February 2025, Israel joined Russia in voting against a UN General Assembly resolution reaffirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity.[189]
In February 2025, Israel lobbied the United States to allow Russia to maintain military bases in Syria, as a counterweight to Turkish influence there.[190]
In March 2025, Russia invited Israel to attend its 2025 Moscow Victory Day Parade, despite excluding most Western nations.[191]
Again, Israel has no allies as it extends no loyalty to anyone. It only has bitches doing its bidding.
Israel’s only loyalty is to the United States of America, let’s not forget that.
Did @[email protected]’s comment bring that claim into context or is it not a fully proper response to your complaint?
(PS: Jewish people are cool, genocide is bad, not tricking you - srs & honest in spite of my username)
A few isolated events of drone purchases aren’t enough to make such a claim IMO. E.g.:
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/eu-states-exported-weapons-to-russia
This data from all EU-27 official arms exports registers shows that between 2015 and 2020, at least 10 EU member states have exported a total of €346 million worth of arms to Russia.s. France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Finland, Slovakia and Spain – to different extents – have sold “military equipment” to Russia
So apparently Spain, France or Germany, full members of NATO, aren’t Pro-NATO because they did arms deals with Russia at some point in the past 15 years. Not good analysis in my opinion.
Governments != Citizenry.
Both governments should fight each other to extinction, excluding citizens.
Unfortunately, both Israel and Iran have been targeting civilian centers, starting with Israel, which is depressing.
I don’t think people are cheering them on in general.
I wish that was true, but I’ve seen plenty of people cheer Iran on in general.
Campism is utter brainrot.
Yeah, I’ve seen a ton of flat-out support for Iran and Hamas on here, and it just hurts my head. Particularly when it comes from members of the LGBTQ communities.
Like… do they not realize what these people would do to them if they had the chance?
Particularly when it comes from members of the LGBTQ communities
So, you, the (likely white and straight) saviour has to tell the gays what to do and who to support?
Israel, by shielding all its genocide in fake rainbow flags and under the guise of “western values”, does SO MUCH damage to LGBT communities all over the middle East. When you’re seeing “the self-proclaimed gay-friendly Jews” steal your land and attempt to murder your entire people, don’t you think there might be reasons why the oppressed end up having negative feelings about gays and Jews? Obviously LGBT-phobia is bad, but it is literally the west who forced this.
In the particular case of Iran, in the mid-20th century, the country democratically elected Mosaddegh, a secular and progressive leader who believed in feminism and who was in a coalition with broad leftists. What did the west do? Economic blockade to Iran because it wanted to nationalise IRANIAN oil fields that belonged primarily to BP, and staged a coup against him.
It’s literally the fault of the west that Iran didn’t develop as a better-functioning progressive, secular democracy.
Why are we dumbing down the situation here? Life isn’t about single issues.
Maybe we’ve seen different posts, but don’t conflate the need to stop Israel’s mad crusade with supporting Iran’s regime.
The OP is literally talking about cheering Iran. So it is definitely about single issues for a lot of people.
Do you not realize what Israel would do to you if you went to Gaza and tried to protect Palestinians?
The brainrot here in these comments is the blatant disregard for genocide of Palestinians by Israel.
You say that as if half of the people in their home country don’t want to do the same shit?
80* years
How long has Iran been killing gays?
I’m guessing it really picked up after the 1979 islamic revolution, so 46 years.
The state of Israel was recognised by the US in 1948, so 77 years ago.
How does this plays out in your head now? Please explain, but I’m really curious how one thing related to the other.
I would have guessed they have been killing gays for millennia. I like to flip the religious nutcase rhetoric on its head and say this is what happens to evil people, they brought it on themselves. It’s what they say when a western country gets attacked or has a natural disaster, they say things like this is god punishing them for accepting gay people. I say this is what they get for killing gays, they are pure evil. Also Israel get what they deserve for their oppression and genocide. Lesson to everyone is stop being evil.
Iran experienced an unbelievably dramatic pendulum swing back and forth in the 20th century.
History is complicated, culture is complicated, societies are complicated. Many of the people of Iran are not perpetrators of evil, but victims of it.
This is why you shouldn’t reduce entire nations and peoples to “evil,” not least because in doing so you reduce them and separate them from a vague sense of “not evil,” which will only inevitably lead to more evil.
Evil is found in every history. It is always present, always waiting, always possible in every corner of the globe. To face and fight evil is not just to face and fight an individual enemy or even a nation, but to stand vigilant at all times against this very same evil finding root in your heart and your home.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/iran-before-revolution-photos/
Israel has killed more gays in the last year than Iran has in its existence
Really? Source for that, seems very hard to believe
Last year, Lancet estimated the dead in Gaza at about a quarter of a million. A year has passed since then, and the killing has only increased, so it’s plausibly at at least twice that now. Approximately 5 percent of people are gay, and Israel makes no destination in killing them, so that’s about 25,000 murdered gays.
Exact numbers for Iran are hard to find, but its of the order of magnitude of less then 1 a year, plus 20 in the immediate aftermath of the revolution.
So it’s a two digit number vs a five digit one.
That’s quite a leap in logic. Israel hasn’t killed any of these people because they are gay. I do see the point you are trying to make but defending the systematic killing of gay people undertaken by hamas or iran with whataboutism doesn’t help anyone
No, 2 years. To go with the “en mass” part in particular.
This is a “let them fight” situation
Agreed. The the enemy of my enemy is my, uh, enemy? They both suck lol
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s other enemy.
Nothing more, nothing less
Realpolitik is German for “short-term thinking that will eventually bite you in the arse”.
That’d be pretty swell, but then maybe please don’t go defend Israel from the consequences of its actions?
I guess but it sucks for civilians caught in the crossfire. Can’t we just have a Khamenei/Bibi cage fight instead?
And then we just don’t let the winner out of the cage.
The “settlers” aren’t civilians, they chose this fight and hopefully they get what they deserve.
No uninvolved civilians huh? Where have I heard that before…
The “settlers” have used force for political reasons so they’re terrorists.
Terrorists aren’t civilians so they’re all valid targets.
So what you’re telling me is if you lived in Israel you’d be pro-genocide lol. You’re using the exact same logic as a transparent fig leaf for your anger and hatred, just like many Israelis do against Palestinians.
You can’t make blanket statements about people based on where they live or what family they were born to. They’re all different individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds. Not all Israelis support the violence, not all of them are settlers, many were born there. Some even lived there for generations. This is nonsense.
I never mentioned all Israelis. I said the settlers are terrorists, which they are per the definition.
Also what anger and hatred? I’m simply calling it as I see it.
The settlers use violence to destroy Palestinian communities, bulldoze them and then build their homes on stolen land in pursuit of a political agenda.
They’re terrorists and strikes on terrorists should be recognised as such.
Contextually I thought you were just calling all Israelis settlers. All Israelis (and all Iranians) will be threatened by a war between their countries. But OK, if that’s not what you meant then what I said doesn’t apply. Just a weird thing to focus on since it’s unlikely Iran would specifically target settlers.
The problem is, large parts of each country are supporting their government in what they’re doing.
I’d be down for that. Let the leaders fight!
kinda like an inverse hunger games?
I’d hope for some good old celebrity death match entertainment.
Make it a knife fight.
There are no winners in a knife fight.
IMO a major reason that Israel is levelling Gaza is that it’s a one-sided conflict where Israelis are not getting killed. There are apparently 53 Israeli hostages right now, but more than 20,000 Gazans have been killed. There is some pressure to end the conflict, but not enough. If it were a war where Israelis were being killed too, it would end a lot quicker.
I know the Iran / Israel conflict is a different one, but if enough Israelis stop supporting Netanyahu, both conflicts might end. Israeli civilians dying might be the only thing that will stop Netanyahu.
Just to add that I have become quite allergic to the “pre-emptive strike”, “weapons of mass destruction “ justification for war. Have we learned nothing?
We did learn that orchestrating these gets you paraded around by the “progressive” party in the US during the last election…
Iran has the right to defend itself, as they like to say
According to Veritasium and Game Theory (The prisoners dilemma) a retaliation is what should be done in this case
I personally prefer the more complex setup discussed in https://ncase.me/trust/.
The prisoners dilemma is a single decision game: you can tattle or stay silent, and as you don’t know what the other does, and due to how things are set up you would prefer to tattle, even if both staying silent yields better results for both parties.
Politics like this is more of a repeated game, like the one described in the link. You can trust one another, in spite of this single iteration Pareto optimal setting favoring betrayal, and work together. But also; show that you are not an easy mark that can be exploited.
Another reason to hate Israel. They’re making me agree with Iran.
Ew.
Maybe you should reconsider your prejudice, then. Why are you so spiteful towards the country geopolitically opposed to the genocidal entity and doing something about it? Do you treat western countries (all of them maintaining economic, diplomatic and military ties with Israel) with the same contempt?
Exactly. Stop giving Israel weapons.
You would have said the same thing about World War 2.
Which side is supposed to be Poland in your shitty analogy?
The one being attacked, obviously.
Israel is executing gay people, and straight people, and fathers, and mothers, and babies, and the elderly, and the sick, and the disabled, people in hospitals, and in refugee camps, and Muslims, and Christians, and Jews, and on, and on.
So are you contending that gay people should be openly supportive of Isreal, a country actively engaged in a genocide?
You see the problem here, right? These aren’t black and white, one side good, one side bad situations.
Iran is a terrible country. My partner and I would both be stoned to death there. But there are also queer people living in Iran, in spite of their intolerant regime, many of whom would likely suffer greatly if Isreal manages to force Iran into a war.
Reality is more complicated than just assigning “good guys” and “bad guys”. That shit is for Star Wars.
In this specific situation, there is no justification for what Isreal has done. Their attacks on Iran have been unprovoked, and in clear violation of international law. These must recent attacks, by Israel’s own admission, include non-military targets which makes them war crimes. Iran on the other hand has responded carefully and proportionally. Does it feel weird to be giving props to such a horrific regime for their behaviour? Absolutely. But it’s impossible not to recognize that in this specific situation they are being the adult in the room.
Isreal is actively trying to provoke a war with Iran precisely because they believe it will turn international opinion in their favour, distract from the holocaust they are enacting in Gaza and shore up domestic support for their government. I’m not a fan of anyone involved in this situation, but I sure as hell am not going to express support for the country trying to start a war to distract from their genocide.
Where did he say that he supports Israel?
So are you contending that gay people should be openly supportive of Isreal, a country actively engaged in a genocide?
No, as evidenced when I said “Me when people are cheering on Iran, a country that literally executes gay people” instead of “Gay people should be openly supportive of Israel”. As you did not read what I wrote, I did not read your further paragraphs about something I did not say.
If you can’t understand why your post comes across as potentially saying people should support Israel then you probably shouldn’t be speaking out on issues like this.
When you say to someone, “Oh, you support [thing]???” In a negative way, and that thing is something that is diametrically opposed to another thing, it is almost always going to come across as implying support for the diametrically opposed thing. Your reply then comes off as a very bad faith response at best, if not a full stumble into narcissism.
It sounds like you’re projecting a lot.
They clearly stated twice that they are a gay person that does not support Israel. Learn to read instead of just seeing what you want to see to justify your anger.
That explanation came after the fact. The original comment is a reply to the original post, which does not include any of that context. You need to learn how the progression of time works before you try to talk down to me about reading comprehension, because you can’t even comprehend what order things arrived in.
I think this says more about your limited perspective than ops, truthfully.
Exactly how is my perspective limited when I am literally empathizing with the perspective of someone else?
It’s possible to not support both sides of a conflict, and wish that nobody supports or cheers on either side. Peace is when Iran and Isreal don’t fight at all, not when Isreal is retaliated against for something terrible they did.
Reality is more complicated than just assigning “good guys” and “bad guys”.
You wrote that, which you ironically follow with your straw man of OP
Lmao are you actually on tranquilizers or something? I literally, objectively, and demonstratively did not write that. You utter fool, you buffoon, you silly silly person, I am not the writer of the comment at the top of this chain. You are actually arguing with the wrong person.
Pity. Reading the further paragraphs would have made you realize that I wasn’t actually saying the the thing you assumed I was saying. But taking the path of least consideration seems to be your thing, so I can’t say I’m surprised.
Basically, it’s like watching two of the worst people you know go at it in a fight.
Iran has problems, for sure, however it’s hardly the worst state in the region. In fact, on multiple occasions they’ve been willing to work with the UN and US to try and rejoin the international community.
The issue is both Israel and the US have acted like utter asses towards them.
Obama’s nuclear deal showed just how willing they were to engage in diplomacy. Even after Trump killed the deal, Iran was saying they’d be willing to renter again.
And frankly, the reason for Israel’s attack was almost surely because the Trump admin was again getting close to signing another nuclear deal.
There’s way too much conflating of Islamic nations and their policies. Iran isn’t perfect or great, but it is better than a fair number of the regions governments including many current allies.
Honestly when I read this it’s just like “you think Iran is bad but really the whole area is a cesspool” not that I personally disagree with that take but not sure you meant to throw the entire region under the bus, where it belongs
That would be the US fighting Israel
Yeah like, can they both lose please?
I think that’s how wars usually go
“Can the British Empire and Nazi Germany both lose please”
Very well said and 100% accurate.
there is absolutely nothing in the post that’s pro-Israel. it’s purely to remind people that two different things can both be bad.
both states, Israel and Iran, love doing crimes against humanity, and neither should be celebrated.
You nailed it
L take dude. I’m cheering the trump elon beef too but I hate both those freaks.
I personally dislike it because civilians will die over it but maybe less than if they didn’t fight back and show isreal consequences? Idk I’m just an idiot. But fuck the leaders tho.
L take if I called out people suddenly being Pro-Muskrat because he’s beefing with Trump? Both sides suck here, and I see so-called leftists rooting for a hyperconservative country that exterminate their LGBT population.
Israel would kill order’s of magnitude more LGBT Iranian if Iran didn’t fight back
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Explain how pointing out Iran is a monstrous government that shouldn’t be cheered for makes me a “genocide apologist”.
You leapt directly to personal insults because I pointed out that Israel would do far worse to the people of Iran if Iran didn’t fight back. It’s obvious you’re just trying to downplay Israel’s genocide.
You’re doing the equivalent of squealing about people cheering for the British Empire to defeat the Nazis in World War 2.
Explain how pointing out Iran is a monstrous government that shouldn’t be cheered for makes me a “genocide apologist”.
So then what we have here is a conflict between unrepentant, even gleeful genociders, and a bigoted theocratic terrorist state… I mean. They’re the same picture.
You’re trying to whatabout the unjustifiable barbarism of the Israeli state Zionists who are hell bent on tying practicing Jews and the diaspora to their psycopathic crimes against humanity. Whether you realize it or not.
'Cause of religion. Don’t leave that part out. Also, remember, the US has an office of faith now. lmao
Bro we’ve had a faith office since Bush 2.
you have a what now?
OfIcE oF fAiTh! Saddly that really sums up what we have.
'Cause of religion. Don’t leave that part out
Very much not because of religion, and I say this as a staunch atheist. Iran was well on its way to progressive and secular reform, separation of state and church, and leftism, during the government coalition that put Mosaddegh in the government somewhat above half a century ago. It was the US + UK who militarily embargoed the country and bribed authorities, mafias and religious leaders, as well as paid actors to destroy private property and pretend to be progovernment, in order to (sadly successfully)'coup the president because British Petroleum wanted absolute control of Iranian oil.
The west destroyed Iran, it’s not religion that did. We literally supported the Shah at the time.
'Cause of religion.
Oil, actually.
Did you know you can do both? Cheer the dick holes getting bombed by the dick holes? True story. Cheering dick holes is bad mmmkay.
Is it possible they are both just very very bad?
I was just banned from world news by @geneva_convenience for daring to voice this outrageous opinion. This conflict is Gilead vs Nazis. Neither side is the ‘good guy’. Whoever wins, freedom and equality loses.
lmao, I think I’ve had a conversation with that account holder before
is this the definition of a straw man argument?
You guys also realize gay people in Gaza are also persecuted, right?
Lesser evil
“Lesser-evilism for me but not for thee”
The Christian Right that faithfully facilitates Israel’s decades of war crimes surely has no problem with gay people.
