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Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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The source (Iran International) is backed by Saudi money and has a bias to dunk on Iran. That said, I'm sure the death count numbers from the Rasht Massacre are staggeringly higher than the initial tallies of 2-5k.

There are other sources, like this: https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-...

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Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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I can't comprehend how a population can kill that many of their own people. They aren't even an "other" people, which has been the most common scapegoat lately. Same skin color, same religion, same language, same homeland.

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It looks like you were downvoted, but you’re absolutely right. “Their own people” is a silly trope - people are always “othered” by something - if not race (I guess what is mean by “thier own people”), then by religion, political persuasion, etc.

Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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Such a ridiculous take. Get off your hate wagon. Also I argue no "leftists" support opposing ICE or Palestine out of "leftism". Only hateful bigots would support the execution of our people on our streets, or denying Palestinians their rights to exist and to freedom, free from a zionist ideology that has no respect for property or for life. Maybe if our "right wingers" and "Zionist" friends put humanity first and not politics or racist judaism first, they would not sound as hateful as you do now bud. Your comment is vile, and I can only imagine the hate you have in your bones. Although I will exclude right wingers here, since they are as of late huge supporters of the palestinian cause.

Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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I can't comprehend how a population can kill that many of their own people. They aren't even an "other" people, which has been the most common scapegoat lately. Same skin color, same religion, same language, same homeland.

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It’s not necessary to bring American politics into things that happen anywhere in the world.

Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s quite the claim. Do you have any examples?

Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/NewIran/

How can I know if this subreddit is populated by college students, let alone leftists?

Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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post #50

The source (Iran International) is backed by Saudi money and has a bias to dunk on Iran. That said, I'm sure the death count numbers from the Rasht Massacre are staggeringly higher than the initial tallies of 2-5k.

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Just as interesting that Mehdi who never spent a second questioning the reports from Gaza is questioning the reports from Iran.

Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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That's crazy. That's like ~40% of the deaths in the current gaza war, except over just 2 days instead of 2 years.

I've read a ton of philosophy and something I don't really understand is that one nation killing another is more immoral than when a nation does this to their own domestic population. Sure you will get some nay-sayers who say 'a life is a life', if moral particles existed, they might be correct. But for some reason, humanity doesn't seem to care as much. What makes intra-state politics more acceptable to use violence…

> one nation killing another is more immoral than when a nation does this to their own domestic population.

I don’t think that’s a particularly established moral position.

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