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73. Surely you jest. I guess you are unaware about 2,000+ US companies working in Iran then

Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:13 PM

Jun 2025

Suggest you expand your horizons and read this book.

ALL THE SHAH’S MEN.

Back when that thug, the USA’s thug dictator in Iran, Shah,
There were then over 2,000 US corporations/companies doing work in Iran.

Then the SHAH had $$$$, and US interests wanted it.

Just about any good sized US company and multinational corporations were In Iran doing work, services, construction, oil services, communications,
Coke-Cola, you name it.

1,000s of Americans were then working in and for IRAN

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Stop Netanyahu Before He Gets Us All Killed [View all] IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 OP

Netanyahu is pure fucking evil. Initech Jun 2025 #1

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"Zionist manipulation of US foreign policy". There it is. nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #2

Yup, this one is being quite transparent when it comes to Israel and Iran. MarineCombatEngineer Jun 2025 #4

I hope they both reduce each other's current governments to RUBBLE. Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #112

Hey, I'm all for letting Israel and Iran slug it out without committing US forces into combat, MarineCombatEngineer Jun 2025 #115

Thanks, we are in complete agreement on that. Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #116

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Are you suggesting that in order to not be an antisemite iemanja Jun 2025 #39

Are you suggesting jews control US foreign policy? nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #46

The US supports Israel foreign policy iemanja Jun 2025 #50

There it is. nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #51

You have trouble with reality iemanja Jun 2025 #53

Amy Kaplan writes about how the identities of Israel and the US became intertwined iemanja Jun 2025 #55

The German Nazis thought much the same.... "manifest destiny" Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #109

Netanyahu says jump and Trump asks how high. Yeah you are right. Autumn Jun 2025 #89

NO, not "jews"--- but Israelis ?? There's a pretty good argument for THAT... Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #108

Thanks for being transparent when it comes to Israel and Iran. MarineCombatEngineer Jun 2025 #3

Post removed Post removed Jun 2025 #5

It's not claudette Jun 2025 #7

It is Mountainguy Jun 2025 #8

"Israel's critics are always accused of anti-Semitism , a charge that serves to silence even the mildest questioning of IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #16

Anti-zionism is antisemitism. nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #21

LOL, no. Jirel Jun 2025 #33

You dont get to redefine bigotry. nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #45

LOL, you just did exactly that. Jirel Jun 2025 #95

ADL: "Anti-Zionism is antisemitic, in intent or effect" nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #97

Is that supposed to end the conversation? choie Jun 2025 #103

Extreme far-right Zionism can be viewed the same as Christian Nationalism or Islamic Extremism... AntiFascist Jun 2025 #79

No. It's not Autumn Jun 2025 #90

No it is NOT Jilly_in_VA Jun 2025 #135

.... LexVegas Jun 2025 #136

Lol Mountainguy Jun 2025 #67

Surely you jest. I guess you are unaware about 2,000+ US companies working in Iran then IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #73

You might want to check the dates Mountainguy Jun 2025 #80

If your dates are right,,,, I stand corrected IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #85

More facts...The Israel plot against Abourezk, in his own words..... IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #86

Really? claudette Jun 2025 #30

Netanyahu "Getting us all killed"? That's a classic antisemitic trope. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #15

Then how would one say Cuthbert Allgood Jun 2025 #34

He has a lot of fans here Bettie Jun 2025 #57

yup Skittles Jun 2025 #83

I can tell you how one can avoid being antisemitic. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #82

Who made you the arbiter of who is antisemitic? choie Jun 2025 #110

My parents and grandparents. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #120

I see choie Jun 2025 #125

Have you served on a DU jury? Mosby Jun 2025 #128

Yeah choie Jun 2025 #129

It is generations of bigots that appointed me. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #130

Geez. What utter nonsense IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #38

How? Mountainguy Jun 2025 #69

I've never heard that phrase apllied to either a group of Jews, or all Jews... electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #99

"Jews killed Jesus" Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #100

Well, I certainly -know about- the "Jews kilked Jesus", 🙄 trope , and the blood libel Lies.... electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #101

Was pretty popular in the middle ages Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #118

Woah - didn't know about The Black Death/The Plague and Jews. And electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #119

Forgot about that one: the Great Replacement antisemitic trope Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #123

So wait choie Jun 2025 #105

No, I don't think he's saying that. He's talking to me about types of electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #107

Attributing to me a stance that I didn't take is indeed illogical. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #124

No it is illogical. choie Jun 2025 #126

Do you notice that you keep arguing with something without attributing it to me? Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #131

That is ridiculous! choie Jun 2025 #104

My point exactly. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #121

And heads of state choie Jun 2025 #127

Doesn't make antisemitic tropes any less deadly. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #132

That is just bonkers. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #133

Yep, blood libel is bonkers, just like all other antisemitic tropes. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #134

Completely bonkers. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #138

"Israel's critics are always accused of anti-Semitism", Quote, by US Senator IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #12

"Stop Netanyahu Before He Gets Us All Killed" That's not criticism. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #19

"this is completely genocide and ethnic cleansing.... attacked babies, children, women, the elderly, the disabled, hospita IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #26

I got it the first time, and I still don't care what a hopelessly indoctrinated zealot has to say. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #28

Forget it man atreides1 Jun 2025 #29

Truth Bettie Jun 2025 #58

He's already done that, hasn't he? MorbidButterflyTat Jun 2025 #64

I've said many things against Netanyahu. I never praised him for anything, on DU or elsewhere. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #84

Wow, that's hysteria. Jirel Jun 2025 #35

But someone mentioned "before he gets us all killed" Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #68

What a crock. Jirel Jun 2025 #96

I see that you are not taking "Stop Netanyahu before hegets us all killed" for a factual statement. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #98

How can saying stop one person be a pogrom? Eko Jun 2025 #102

What does "get us all killed" mean? Mosby Jun 2025 #77

What about the increasing evidence that he is doing all he can to ethnically cleanse Palistine? Cuthbert Allgood Jun 2025 #36

What about it? Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #81

"there may be evidence of war crimes" choie Jun 2025 #152

I thought I made it clear the first time. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #154

it has become quite the cliche Skittles Jun 2025 #60

Standard response to any disagreement with Israeli policy IronLionZion Jun 2025 #32

yeah, nothing to see here Skittles Jun 2025 #49

He's even claudette Jun 2025 #6

"this is completely genocide and ethnic cleansing.... attacked babies, children, women, the elderly, the disabled, hospita IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #14

Absolutely claudette Jun 2025 #31

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on." Yossarian from Catch-22 Ping Tung Jun 2025 #10

I see the Zionist Occupation Government conspiracy theory is alive and well sarisataka Jun 2025 #11

Even the mildest critics...."Israel's critics are always accused of anti-Semitism" IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #13

I only bring up antisemitism when I see antisemitism sarisataka Jun 2025 #18

Anti-zionism is antisemitism. nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #23

Can we criticize the actions of the Israeli government though? AloeVera Jun 2025 #111

Sure if it's clear that you are criticizing the comradebillyboy Jun 2025 #122

Certain Israel critics don't see the difference between criticism and antisemitism. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #25

Which part is a conspiracy theory? iemanja Jun 2025 #40

The part asserting the entire Middle East and northeastern Africa sarisataka Jun 2025 #54

Point taken iemanja Jun 2025 #56

Now is when I really miss President Biden. milestogo Jun 2025 #17

But "Genocide Joe had to Go" sarisataka Jun 2025 #24

Yet you defend the Trump-Netanyahu policies iemanja Jun 2025 #41

My prediction leading up to the election sarisataka Jun 2025 #48

Of course it's possible I'm mistaken iemanja Jun 2025 #52

I most assuredly do NOT sarisataka Jun 2025 #59

Your initial post said: iemanja Jun 2025 #66

I was repeating the words of the protesters sarisataka Jun 2025 #70

I think the time for that has passed iemanja Jun 2025 #74

I have hope, though I and many of us may not live to see it sarisataka Jun 2025 #78

Israel needs an intervention, not weapons. Dawson Leery Jun 2025 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author sarisataka Jun 2025 #22

Every time I hear calls for interevention into a parliamentary democracy, Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #27

is WWIII a better alterrnative? Skittles Jun 2025 #61

No, but thankfully, this is not the only alternative. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #146

Cut their funding. Dawson Leery Jun 2025 #91

What do you think the implications of this would be for the US and the Western world? Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #92

Both Israel and the US are experiencing democratic backsliding thought crime Jun 2025 #143

When an American Jew calls for the two-state solution, and praises Obama's JCPOA, while attacking Netanyahu muriel_volestrangler Jun 2025 #37

Anyone who objects to genocide is an antisemite iemanja Jun 2025 #43

You know that Jeffery Sachs supports the genocide of Ukraine? Crunchy Frog Jun 2025 #94

Ok iemanja Jun 2025 #142

It calls into question his reliability as a source. Crunchy Frog Jun 2025 #145

Here's objective for you iemanja Jun 2025 #151

And are you able to reach those conclusions on your own Crunchy Frog Jun 2025 #156

Which words of Sachs' did I use? iemanja Jun 2025 #157

I'm sorry. I made my initial comment in the context of the thread as a whole, Crunchy Frog Jun 2025 #158

That seems to be Jilly_in_VA Jun 2025 #137

My post was sarcastic iemanja Jun 2025 #141

Well, maybe Jilly_in_VA Jun 2025 #148

Speaking for myself, that's not what I am saying. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #150

And what they're doing in Gaza Jilly_in_VA Jun 2025 #153

No, it isn't. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #155

it's the default position Skittles Jun 2025 #71

Fuck Common Dreams. W_HAMILTON Jun 2025 #42

Guess you ignore the truth too IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #44

What they said about Biden and Kamala was not the truth -- it was their biased and short-sighted opinion. W_HAMILTON Jun 2025 #62

Agree, many of their commentators slammed Biden still $$ support to Israel after slaughtering Gaza IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #65

Biden did what he could to rein in a SOVEREIGN NATION. W_HAMILTON Jun 2025 #72

Idiots are those going to war now, killing innocent civilians IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #76

Another good source in Middle East Eye IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #47

Good read malaise Jun 2025 #63

Both of these opinion sources have advocated outright anti-Jewish views. Hellbound Hellhound Jun 2025 #75

Plot against him by Israel IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #87

A cute fantasy, but irrelevant. Made-up conspiracy theories with no factual basis have no hold on me. Hellbound Hellhound Jun 2025 #88

Jeffery Sachs???!! Crunchy Frog Jun 2025 #93

TOO BAD an Israeli PM who advocated peace was assassinated some decades ago--- Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #113

Oh And what a coincidence. "Rabin was assassinated with Netanyahu's cooperation" vanessa_ca Jun 2025 #139

Yes. Netanyahu is a terrorist in his own right IMO, Crunchy Frog Jun 2025 #147

I want to weep when I imagine where Israel, Palestine and the world would be had Rabin not been assassinated. -eom vanessa_ca Jun 2025 #149

I guess I missed the part of the article that describes how to "stop Netanyahu". LudwigPastorius Jun 2025 #114

It's interesting what a large percentage of Israel's history that he has been in power. David__77 Jun 2025 #117

"Netanyahu" is just a distraction from the "Iran gets no nukes" imperative gulliver Jun 2025 #140

"Iran gets no nukes" is a distraction from a violation of rules based order. thought crime Jun 2025 #144