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Iranian‑Canadians are feeling a … mix of hope and relief.
An Iranian woman in Montreal, who didn’t want her name published because she fears that speaking out against the regime could put her at risk, said she hopes the attack in Iran will spur change.
She said she moved from Iran in 2014 because “the financial situation began to deteriorate, and anti-women policies and rules became very numerous.” She has PhD in education from the University of Montreal and is a French teacher.
She described feeling both hopeful and cautious after the death of Khamenei.
“We can now hope for regime change. At the same time, we are afraid this military intervention will not lead to regime change. It’s a roller-coaster of emotions,” she said.
She added that she and her family are planning a trip to Iran this summer.
“Our families are there. If the regime falls, we will be able to go. If not, it will be complicated, because since January, we have been working hard to bring about regime change, not just me, but all my friends. We are mobilized.”
She said that in a few years, she and her husband hope to return permanently.
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How naive. She thinks the US just wants to collapse the IRI and replace it with a nice friendly liberal democracy? They want to break Iran into a dozen economically destroyed statelets. If America gets its way, it will not be a place you’ll want to go back to.
I don’t think she, or Iranian-Canadians at large, are naïve, as much as I think Bell Media and mainstream media generally want to paint a very distorted picture (e.g., unthinkingly pro-Western Imperialism) of what’s going on and how people feel about it
The pro-Shah rallies are pretty big. Seems like a ‘Miami Cuban’ thing going on
Iranian-Canadians will also tend to have far more historical context than the amnesic and imperialist Western mainstream media. Who overthrew the democratically elected government in Iran (under which women’s rights were quite good) and brought in the current regime in 1953? UK and US. Who tore up the nuclear non-proliferation agreement thereby necessitating these bombings (in their own twisted rhetoric)? One Orange Asshole in 2017. How did Irag and Afghanistan fare after US involvement? How might a non-Zionist view what’s happening in Gaza?
The levels of analysis aren’t even in the same league. This CTVNews is just consent-manufacturing, not news or journalism
Hear hear. Iran can deal with its own government when it’s secure from US and Israeli aggression. Terror bombing just makes people rally around the flag.
I have Iranian friends, they understand what the US is, but they said the regime just outright kills civilians enmasse at protests, so its the old the enemies of my enemy are my friends
That logic works both ways. However legitimate their grievances against the Iranian government may be, if they wan’t the nazi pedophiles to knock down one more country that opposes them, they’re on the wrong side. They’re also deeply stupid if they think what the US and Israel have planned for Iran is any kind of improvement.