We don’t disagree. You are factually wrong. I’m not saying that it isn’t an authoritarian state. It absolutely is.but the simple fact of the matter is that the Ayatollah isn’t involved most decisions. His power mostly came into play with selecting who could run in their elections, which absolutely are real with the opposing sides running having significant political differences.

Did he get to set the goal posts for their parties? Yes, absolutely, and that isn’t a full on true democracy. But the Iranian civilians have far far more say in their government than a civilian Russian, for example.

Moreover, you’re debating all of this shit in ignorance to move the topic away from the fact the Iran didn’t have nukes SOLELY because the leader was religiously opposed to them. The religious leader the US and Israeli’s killed. While proving that they are unreliable negotiators.

The only rational view at this point for the average Iranian is to demand nukes.

No, you’re not.

You’re arguing by title to ignore the points made like a sophist. That is explicitly rude, while trying to pretend it isn’t.

Bad faith responses deserve nothing other than the reflection of the rudeness they project.

Stop ignoring everything else I wrote you fucking propaganda poisoned jackass.

Isn’t the president the executive branch?

Jesus Christ, do you have any critical thinking skills?

Seeing rumors that he is. The hypersonic missile wave was targetting a bunker he was believed to be in.

Still just rumors though.

EDIT: sadly, he is alive.

Because Iran wasn’t a dictatorship.

It had factions.

You know how Iran was always months away from nukes? It was. That was the hard liner faction who believed that only nukes would ensure Iran’s safety wanting to be able to quickly have one if the fatwa was removed.

Did you not know this? If not, you should stop watching/reading the new sources that didn’t tell you this widely available information. They’re not new sources but propaganda sources.

There is no brain worm. That was made up by RFK Jr in court with no medical evidence provided to justify giving no alimony to his ex wife. He them blackballed her in their small community so she had to beg. She eventually committed suicide.

He then stole her body from here family to bury it on the Kennedy plot.

And it isn’t Russia that has them.

One of my tests as I’ve grown older is whether or not that person is capable of treating someone else’s children as their own.

Both my father and step father did, so I didn’t realize how rare of an attribute this is, nor did I realize how evil not having this attribute can make some seemingly good people behave.

People that want a civil discussion on the merits of a philosophy whose base principle is at best ethnic cleansing don’t deserve one.

You’re like a white northerner demanding a civil discussion on the merits of slavery to a black person in the underground railroad.

Your position is just as disgusting and ludicrous.

Spoken like someone that condemned the ANC as terrorists in the 80’s.

“Sure, apartheid is wrong, but the people suffering it and fighting it are the worst” <— you.

The DNC literally admitted to braking it own rules and cheating for Hillary in court.

Your bullshit here that Bernie couldn’t win the primary so he wouldn’t win the general is post-hoc rationalization of the DNC being an undemocratic institution and justifying their theft of the party.

Without addressing that theft, no primary in the world will fix this.

Don’t use namecheap.

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