Franky and evidence are like Trudeau and balanced budgets.
Global Day of Action draws one of Toronto’s largest protests ever
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So I take it you support the existing regime in Iran, and agree with how they are "treating" the protesters...
Shame on you...
Oh for fuck’s sake. If you can’t see the difference between those nations and the absolute theocracy of Iran then your head is so far up your ass that you’ve got brain damage.
1 the US incited the protests by collapsing the Iranian currency. The US treasury sec crowed about it at Davos.
2. over 6000 people were paid by mossad and the CIA to turn the protests violent,
this was a colour revolution attempt,. In the chaos many innocent people were killed. I don't support the regime, but you have to remember this regime came to power in a popular revolution, and it does have significant support in the country.
Do you think Pahlavi has the financing to back international protests?
All I'm saying is that you should look closely at the west backing the son of a brutal Iranian leader who was deposed, who has lived his live out of the country and now has declared himself 'prince', being the voice of Iranian democracy.
Good point.
Israel - illegally occupying parts of 3 countries, committing genocide, ruled through apartheid and using a pedophile ring to blackmail america
Iran - hasn't attacked another country in 200 years
Look, Iran needs better leadership and more democracy. So does Israel, america, Hungary, Russia and a ton of other countries.
But backing an apartheid state committing genocide and arguing that they are really concerned about democracy and the Iranian people looks more ridiculous than backing the WMD regime change in Iraq.
Pahlavi has zero legitimacy….other than being the son of a brutal dictator who has been living off of the monies looted from Iran by his father.
Where has the idea of him having legitimacy come from? The U of T’s Citizen Lab had this to say in October of 2025:
‘In October 2025, an investigation by Haaretz in collaboration with the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, reported that an Israeli-linked digital influence campaign was promoting Reza Pahlavi among Persian-speaking audiences. The investigation found that the operation used fake social media accounts and AI-generated videos to amplify pro-monarchist messaging. Citizen Lab's analysis suggested that the campaign's activities were synchronized with Israeli military operations in Iran.[123]A highly organized media network combining professional PR, diaspora activism, and what researchers describe as inauthentic online accounts, promoted Pahlavi across social media. While this increased his international visibility, investigations suggest it also blurred the true level of his grassroots support inside Iran and sparked controversy over foreign ties, online harassment, and a manufactured image of popularity.[124][125][126][127][128]’
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Where has the idea of him having legitimacy come from? The U of T’s Citizen Lab had this to say in October of 2025:
‘In October 2025, an investigation by Haaretz in collaboration with the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, reported that an Israeli-linked digital influence campaign was promoting Reza Pahlavi among Persian-speaking audiences. The investigation found that the operation used fake social media accounts and AI-generated videos to amplify pro-monarchist messaging. Citizen Lab's analysis suggested that the campaign's activities were synchronized with Israeli military operations in Iran.[123]A highly organized media network combining professional PR, diaspora activism, and what researchers describe as inauthentic online accounts, promoted Pahlavi across social media. While this increased his international visibility, investigations suggest it also blurred the true level of his grassroots support inside Iran and sparked controversy over foreign ties, online harassment, and a manufactured image of popularity.[124][125][126][127][128]’
Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia
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We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK – An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab
The control and strategic manipulation of information has long played a role in the geopolitical and ideological competition between the Islamic Republic of Iran and its political adversaries, including Israel. Prior Citizen Lab research has uncovered Iranian disinformation efforts, however, in...
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You are very cowardly here.
You can't defend your views to me directly so have to resort to offhand comments like this.
I think it is just the lesser of the two evils.Pahlavi has zero legitimacy….other than being the son of a brutal dictator who has been living off of the monies looted from Iran by his father.
Where has the idea of him having legitimacy come from? The U of T’s Citizen Lab had this to say in October of 2025:
‘In October 2025, an investigation by Haaretz in collaboration with the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, reported that an Israeli-linked digital influence campaign was promoting Reza Pahlavi among Persian-speaking audiences. The investigation found that the operation used fake social media accounts and AI-generated videos to amplify pro-monarchist messaging. Citizen Lab's analysis suggested that the campaign's activities were synchronized with Israeli military operations in Iran.[123]A highly organized media network combining professional PR, diaspora activism, and what researchers describe as inauthentic online accounts, promoted Pahlavi across social media. While this increased his international visibility, investigations suggest it also blurred the true level of his grassroots support inside Iran and sparked controversy over foreign ties, online harassment, and a manufactured image of popularity.[124][125][126][127][128]’
Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia
We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK – An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab
The control and strategic manipulation of information has long played a role in the geopolitical and ideological competition between the Islamic Republic of Iran and its political adversaries, including Israel. Prior Citizen Lab research has uncovered Iranian disinformation efforts, however, in...
In other words, the Ayatollah is so bad, that people feel it is better for Pahlavi to take over, than have the Ayatollah continue.
But his father was worse than Khomeini and this appears to be a foreign based, and not even Iranian expats, call for regime change.
I'd fully support a domestic movement but this doesn't look like one.
Besides, its all likely cover to justify war. trump will try to use these protests to argue that he is bringing democracy to Iran through bombing it to dust.
Pull your head out of your ass. Iran has sponsored terror groups (Hamas, Hezbola….) that have oceans of blood on their hands.
Not true.
The Shah was a benevolent dictator. The Ayatollah is a malevolent dictator.
So the Shah was the better of the two evils and there is no evidence that his son would be similar, especially when he is promising change and has the burden of international scrutiny.
'Sponsor'
While Israel is still actively committing genocide.
That's where the oceans of blood flows.
Debatable.
But still, pushing a return to monarchy in the pretence of supporting democracy still seems a bit silly.
Genocide my ass. If the Israelis wanted to commit genocide there would be no Palestine and no Arabs in Israel. The fact is Iran is currently a copy of 1600s Catholic Spain; using religion as a cover for imperialistic colonization. Excising Islam from that nation, and from all political influence, is absolutely crucial to the prevention of a new dark age.
That's a weak sauce defence of genocide.
Netanyahu is killing as many as he thinks he can get away with, as much genocide as trump will support.
Yeah because the butcher Ayatollahs have lots of legitimacy.
Better him right now than your buddies, down the road they can vote.
