I almost feel sorry for the left. For today they’re going to have to pretend to give a damn about Iranian life despite having ignored the slaughter of thousands of Iranians by the demented Islamic regime literally just last month. They’re going to have to take to social media and cry ‘Oh no, Iranians might die’, despite having said nothing when Iranians did die in their thousands at the hands of the theocratic tyrants who rule over them. They’re going to be forced, by events, to make a spectacle of their own depthless hypocrisy, to expose to the world the cant and outright inhumanity that too often fuels what passes for ‘anti-imperialism’ these days.
It’s happening already. No sooner had the US and Israel launched airstrikes against regime targets inside Iran than the anti-war left was fuming all over the internet. They’re raging against these ‘rogue states’ that have declared war not only on Iran but on ‘the whole world’. It’s an ‘illegal war of aggression’, they say. ‘It’s US imperialist aggression’, they cry. Early reports that there have been small numbers of civilian casualties have got them hollering about ‘murder’. So it’s murder when Iranian innocents tragically die as a result of war but not a big deal when Iranian innocents are intentionally butchered by Islamist monsters who loathe them for wanting freedom?
Protests are already being planned. There’s an ‘emergency protest’ outside Downing St today. ‘Hands off Iran’ is the rallying cry. I’ll say it: if you didn’t say ‘Hands off Iran’s dissidents’ during the revolution of the past two months, then I don’t want to hear a damn word from you about the striking of the regime. If you didn’t say ‘Hands off the freedom fighters’, ‘Hands off women’s hair’ or ‘Hands off their throats’ as untold numbers of Iranians were massacred by the regime and its religious heavies from Iraq and Lebanon, then spare us your moral posturing. For you have already made it clear that Iranian life and liberty are utterly meaningless to you.
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