Genghis Khan and Hitler were both authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.

Therefore, Genghis Khan invaded Poland in 1939 and put European Jews in concentration camps. They are identical.

I’m not talking about moral equivalence! You used the wrong term for the current head of state of Iran. Just learn and move forward, and stop acting like an arrogant ass when corrected.

I’m sorry if I sounded smug when I called out your initial error.

This is just aggressive ignorance. It’s not a matter of opinion or dependent on ideology. It’s basic history and terminology.

an Iranian Monarch and Iranian Supreme Leader are just different titles for two different authoritarian Regimes

Precisely. They are different words which refer to different regimes (separated by a revolution). If you use them interchangeably you will confuse people.

Show me literally anyone else who refers to the Ayatollah as the Shah. Do an image search for “Shah of Iran” and look at the results.

Xi and Mao are/were leaders of the same regime (The PRC), so that comparison actually makes sense. What you’re doing is the equivalent of saying the emperor of China is the same as the president of the People’s Republic of China.

The monarchs of Iran ruled for over two and a half millennia, beginning as early as the 8th century BC and enduring until the 20th century AD. The earliest Iranian monarch is generally considered to have been either Deioces of the Median dynasty (c. 727–550 BC) or Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty (550–330 BC). The last Iranian monarch was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979), who was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution. Since then, Iran has been governed by theocratic supreme leaders.^[1]

“Shah of Iran” redirects to that page.

Iranian Shah

Why would he condemn a regime that hasn’t existed for 46 years?

Western chauvinists gonna chauvinist

Western governments and intelligence agencies allege […]

Some Western officials stated […]

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Western intelligence reportedly […]

There were a bunch of train derailments in Spain a couple years ago that were immediately blamed on Russia.

An investigation later revealed that “local radio enthusiasts” were responsible, and the headline of the article admitting so still made it seem like Russia was to blame.^[1]

so we can check in on Marvin

Pig poop balls vs. snail poop head

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They got him to cry for Charlie Kirk on air 🙄

Temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. —Mitch Hedberg

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Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Here’s another view

We’ve only got two billion years. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES

While Pyongyang has gained little in immediate economic terms, […] its strategic returns lie in battlefield testing of its weapons, access to potential technological know-how, and a degree of political recognition from closer alignment with a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

Oh no. Did the light hurt the castle? Is it okay?

https://archive.ph/Ttqn6

The Grayzone is one of the few left-wing anti-imperialist news sources in English. They’ve posted cringe at least once^[1], but so has every other news organization. Anti-imperialists are attacked and slandered by the empire more viciously than any other group.