Tehran “is the principal source of regional instability and terror,” declare G7 leaders in a joint statement.

The leaders of the G7 countries on Monday issued a joint statement saying Iran should not have nuclear weapons and affirming Israel’s right to defend itself.

“Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror. We have been consistently clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon,” declared the statement, issued by the leaders of the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan, along with the EU.

They pledged to “remain vigilant to the implications for international energy markets and stand ready to coordinate, including with like-minded partners, to safeguard market stability.”

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    Tehran “is the principal source of regional instability and terror,” declare G7 leaders in a joint statement.

    The leaders of the G7 countries on Monday issued a joint statement saying Iran should not have nuclear weapons and affirming Israel’s right to defend itself.

    I never had much hope, but come the fuck on. Statements like these unironically make me want to cheer for the fascists.

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      Looks like Israel-US are the principal source for instability in the area, to me.

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        I do wish everyone involved a very nice visit to the Hague, but more than that if Westerners can’t stop their leaders from stanning for genocide, then it becomes very tempting to choose the fascists who will sabotage the Zionist project by running their countries to the ground. I’m a firm believer that people who support genocide don’t deserve anything but fascism.

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    China, India, and Pakistan once again proving that having nukes does actually matter because you can’t be arbitrarily shoved around around by the only other nuclear powers.

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      it also helps if your air defense network doesn’t collapse immediately because it turns out that in order to guard these nukes you need also regular capable conventional military

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    How else can the most advanced first-world nations keep exploiting the Middleeast?

    With Netynyahu, we can change the government of any nation in the middleast. We just tell him to make a presentation that they’re bad and have big weapons!

    Guys please understand we, the US, UK, Germany, and rest of G7 first-world nations, reaally need to assassinate forign leaders and destory and kill the people of any nation that opposes the existance of a genocidal ethnostate aparthied … because, the few Zionists who pay our salaries will not have a country where they can kill, evict, colonize, assassinate anyone who is not from their chosen race. Then we will have to give these brown people democracy, and their own governments?!!

    If we did not make the middleast into dictatorships that work with our genocidal ethostate only, then they will not sell us cheap oil and will not have to couple all their trades, currencies and inflations against US dollar. Omg. imagine if they were then allowed to manufacture their own weapons and not buy trillions worth of military equipments and defense contracts from us? omg… our 9999 military bases there? who will pay for them?

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    Probably best for all of us if nobody can ever have nuclear weapons, but what do i know…

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    Even the statement is not about protecting people lives but about market stability.

    They are not working for the people…

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    Why not? The claims made by G7 members as to why are admissions - heck, one of the members has used nuclear weapons on civilians, and they’re still allowed to have them.

    If anyone can, everyone can.

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    Well Pakistan will give them one if needed so they kind of already have one. Maybe stop pushing them to use it on Israel.

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    I’m just surprised squeaky tank birthday pissboy didn’t elbow his way to the center of this photo like he used to do during his first term. He must be tired from being old as fuck.

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    “We will do anything to maintain the status quo, up to and including genocidal ethnosupremacy”!

    I am honestly so revolted.

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          Not exactly. West didn’t care too much about other non-western countries having nukes. Two nations who have nukes borderline almost started a war in Asia (Pakistan and India). Iran is a special case, just like North Korea is. Unlike others, the two I mentioned have essentially declared themselves as the enemies of the west, so naturally west wants to keep them away from such destructive weapons

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            Iran is a special case. Unlike others, the two I mentioned have essentially declared themselves as the enemies of the west,

            You reversed it. The west made itself the enemy of iran

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              Elaborate…

              For others who don’t want the alternative history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–United_States_relations

              Iranian explanations for the animosity with the United States include “the natural and unavoidable conflict between the Islamic system” and “such an oppressive power as the United States, which is trying to establish a global dictatorship and further its own interests by dominating other nations and trampling on their rights”, as well as the United States support for Israel (“the Zionist entity”).[11][12] In the West, however, different explanations have been considered,[1] including the Iranian government’s need for an external bogeyman to furnish a pretext for domestic repression against pro-democratic forces and to bind the government to its loyal constituency.[13] The United States attributes the worsening of relations to the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis,[1] Iran’s repeated human rights abuses since the Islamic Revolution, different restrictions on using spy methods on democratic revolutions by the US, its anti-Western ideology and its nuclear program.[14][15]

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      I’m curious to see what Iran would have become in the next 5 years had this shit not occurred. It had the potential of becoming another regime or possibly a democracy again. Hard to say where it was going.

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      Well, that’s been the litemotiv of the last century on the area, support a slightly less evil genocidal asshole against another genocidal asshole.

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    I believe ALL of the following;

    • Iran should not have nuclear weapons
    • Israel should not have nuclear weapons
    • Iran should not weaponize Palestinian suffering or coax them into attacking Israel while Iran itself sees little repercussions
    • Israel should not genocide
    • Israel has committed genocide and should pay a hefty price
    • Neither Iran not Israel will really answer for their fuckery
    • Palestinians will remain fucked…if they survive.

    My heart breaks for the Palestinian people who suffer and die for others’ greed, ambition, and political squabbles.

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      Exactly. This is not a competition, we don’t have to cheer for either side. Horrible things are happening

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      Well that’s a nice enough list in a vacuum, but what does that actually mean she the real world? Israel already has nukes, Iran won’t survive without them, Palestinians are going to fight back against the fascists trying to exterminate them - with or without Irans prompting - and sympathetic countries like Iran are going to try and aid that struggle.

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      This is the nature of modern day proxy conflicts. Both actors can continue easily but the “battlefield” like Gaza and South Lebanon are the ones that lose.

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      I’d add:

      • Hamas needs to deleted from the face of earth

      And all that basically describes the opinion of 90% of the population just that vocal minorities are very vocal.

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        90 percent of the western population. The rest of the world is more sympathetic to the militant struggle against imperial genocide.