I didn't join the revolution to read

Anarchists usually don’t need the kind of deprogramming of capitalist, monarchist, colonial, or imperial systems that socialist and Marxist theories typically focus on.

Is that why every anarchist I know tells me I’m insane and justifying the “evil Iranian regime” after I said the US/Israel shouldn’t be bombing Iran?

I’m an anarchist. Iran is an authoritarian shithole. The US is an authoritarian shithole and bombing Iran’s civilian population is a fucking war crime. Fuck both the US and Iran. And Israel. And Hamas.

When all the information you have about Iran comes straight from western sources that have lied about Palestinians for years you should take all claims about Iran (and Hamas) with a pile of salt. Otherwise you’re a useful idiot both sidings issues that have to do with imperialism first and foremost.

I have multiple Iranian friends. No one in Iran other than religious fundamentalists liked Khamenei, or his government. But they also (justifiably) don’t trust the west. They feel trapped. Khamenei being removed is a problem not because he’s gone, but because he leaves a vacuum that might get filled with something worse.

Many people in Iran don’t like their government, many do, there’s a sample bias in that those who are more interested in western culture and more likely to learn English and talk to us are also more likely to be very secular (and sometimes, more propagandized by the west as well). The main contradiction in the region right now is imperialism, after imperialism is weakened and the vassal states fall the people of Iran will be able to decide if they want a different government without US interference. As it stands now it’s impossible for them to change their government and not be a neoliberal puppet run by compradors. Believe me I also want every Iranian to have as much freedom as they desire.