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Seeking Serenity

(3,322 posts) Sat Feb 28, 2026, 09:59 PM Saturday

I really wish people would stop using "Iran" to mean the Islamic regime that currently rules over it. [View all]

Iran is her people. While I admittedly don't have any reliable polling data, I truly believe that the majority of Iranians want done with that theocractic regime that has held them under repressive subjugation for 47 years.

People here are easily able to separate Trump from the United States of America regarding his actions. I wish those same people would grant the Iranian people that same courtesy.

Thank you.

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I really wish people would stop using "Iran" to mean the Islamic regime that currently rules over it. [View all] Seeking Serenity Saturday OP

We are literally bombing Iran right now Blues Heron Saturday #1

But "Iran" is not bombing Tel Aviv; the IRGC is. Seeking Serenity Saturday #2

The IRGC is just a branch of the Iranian military. Iran is shooting missiles into neighbors. Melon Saturday #7

So, we should also not say that the US is bombing Iran, then? wnylib Saturday #8

But according to videos, not so happy! womanofthehills Yesterday #11

Numerous commentators have stated that the regime is massively unpopular with the Iranian Gaugamela Saturday #3

I had a a history prof in college who was Jewish and from Iran tirebiter Saturday #4

I had a 2d cousin who married an Iranian woman who had fled Iran just before "the 1979 coup." Seeking Serenity Saturday #5

Government, shmoverment. You know what this is about. usonian Saturday #6

I understand what you're getting at fujiyamasan Yesterday #9

During 911 - all Americans were on the same page womanofthehills Yesterday #12

just a little bit unwieldy to say, "the U.S. has just bombed the land mass, and denizens, currently ruled by stopdiggin Yesterday #10

Understood. But That Simply Is Not How People Think Or Speak..... ColoringFool Yesterday #13

No one in the world is thinking, "A demented guy from Queens Scrivener7 Yesterday #14