@Midori Tengu Almost all military age males know how to use guns. The random attacks acts of sabotage you refer to are not enough to bring this regime down on their own. The entire point I'm making is the west has a perfectly good option sitting there and choose not to use it, most likely because they fear accidentally making Iran stronger under a secualr regime. The western powers don't seem to want a strong Iran regardless of the government ruling ir. They're willing to consider balkanizing Iran, taking our oil, and destroying our military capacity, but always stop short of full regime change. This and things Trump has been saying since this war started makes it seem like the west's ambitions go beyond regime change.

@Midori Tengu I'm not saying guerrilla warfare is not effective but I am saying when the state has helped from China and Russia and top-notch weapons when they have modern State apparatus systems it's really hard to wage guerrilla warfare effectively like people would back in the day it gets harder and harder as technology improves. Dad has not stopped Iranians from random acts of sabotage random assassinations but there's only so far these actions will get against an organized state level power backed by China and Russia. Earlier in this conversation you said if the US sends weapon to Persians China and Russia might feel more embolden to send weapons to the irgc. To that I would say they don't care if the US sends weapons or intelligence to Persians or Kurds or balloons for that matter the only thing they do care about is the regime survival and the flow of oil. So it doesn't matter if the US tries to do a diplomatically it doesn't matter if they try to do this through an economic collapse it doesn't even matter if they try to install their own puppet within the regime the fact remains if the US is involved Russia and China will be involved too and it doesn't matter or make a difference whether the US sends weapons to Persians or Kurds. The people of Iran have been ready for an armed Uprising they're just waiting for the tools to do it and to your point about men and women having to carry responsibility equally I agree but since women do not have the training or many of the abilities that men do they can do things like tending to injuries or being medics. What Trump is doing right now is a half-ass regime change he wants the regime to cooperate with them but at the same time he doesn't want to take any action that would cause Iranians to be fully free and Powerful. All I'm saying is the West has a choice. They can opt for the Iranian people to remain enslaved or they can help us be free and powerful and in return, open the doors of trade. If Trump continues to try to have fast this regime change, he'll either have to give up at some point or escalate into a full-blown War like Iraq or Afghanistan. Neither of which is good for either side so he's better off trusting the Persians with their own freedom and trying to come to terms with Iranians becoming powerful once again.

Idk what he did, but if all he did was say Free Palestine, I don't see how that in itself is antisemitic.

Truly heartbreaking. The evil of this regime cannot be overstated.

@Rr Halda, PhD I like to think you're right, but the line between admiration and subversion can be thin sometimes.

@Jeffrey Cappella If you think citizens of a 2000+ years old country. Possibly the oldest continuous country on earth who fought off the Roman empire at its peak, revolted and kicked out the Greeks, The Arabs, and the Mongols would vote en masse to be subservient to a country that's 250 years old, you don't understand Iranians at all.