You also forgot to mention that this year, Ebrahim Raisi (Iran's previous President) and the previous Foreign Minister died in a helicopter crash just near the border with Azerbaijan.
There's a possibility that this was actually considered a good event for the Ayatollah. Raisi was not entirely popular with anyone. The crash may not have been an accident...
As an Iranian myself i can confidently say 90 percent of us are tired and sick of these dictators and ayatollahs and wishing for freedom and we’re so happy to see Syrian people are free again Hope to see all the Middle East in peace and stability very soon
I wouldn't say Syrians are free though. The bad Assad dictatorship is gone but what comes next doesn't sound great either for regular Syrians. Remember that HTS guys used to be Jihadists in part, they maybe have changed but I won't have that thought - specially after what we've seen happening in Afghanistan in the last 3 years.
Would be nice if the rebels sentiment of "all ethnicities included" becomes the prevalent ideology across the Middle East. Happiness with your beliefs lies within, not in making others believe it as well.
300.000 political prisoners, who now are being freed and look like half-dea.d bodies, some of them for 30 years.. for even doing nothing! So could not have been a more brutal Dictatorship**!
Tanq brother we are in ur side but pls dont use that flag with this crape🦀 im the middel😂our flag have sun and lion in middel،☀️🦁 ❤❤❤زنده باد ایران❤جاوید اسراییل زیبا🎉❤🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
As an Iranian, I can say with certainty that the vast majority of us are exhausted by the oppressive rule of the ayatollahs and dictators. We long for freedom and deeply admire the Syrian people's journey to reclaim their liberty. Here's hoping for a peaceful and stable future for the entire Middle East.
@@AtheismScientismand that’s why the Soviet Union and China never had conflicts with anyone ever again. You’re assigning too much blame to one form of tribalism. Remove religion and we’ll find other ways to do it “us versus them” arguably at the cost of some of our cultural diversity.
I don’t think Arabs understand they are in more danger with out irans dictatorship. You think Israel cares about Arabs ? You’re clearly blind to what’s going on around the Middle East, becareful what you wish for. Look at Iraq for example they were against Sadam Husain and It has not improved ever since
Looking at China’s history from the Sino-Vietnam war leaves out a highly relevant example of how irreligious tribalism can be every bit as ugly and brutal as religious division in China’s cultural revolution. Starting a decade earlier, China saw a kindling of hateful divisions including encouraged persecution of religious people that led to hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths. Since that time, China having single digits of practicing religious persons has not stopped them from being highly prejudicial to the religious and ethnic minorities. Also, I believe the period of relative peace for China you refer to can be primarily attributed to 1. The decrease in inter-state conflicts seen across the globe 2. A drop in direct fighting between major powers under the threat of nuclear weapons and 3. China’s philosophy during this time to “hide your strength, bide your time”. In recent years China’s increasing willingness to provoke conflict over maritime claims, skirmish with India over the border, assert control over Taiwan, etc. show that China squabbles very similarly to most nations on Earth, including religious nations. They just give different justifications. I’m not trying to suggest that China or the Soviet Union is the template for how countries are when they start leaning atheist (although they are not the only good example of what happens when people think they can make a utopia by blotting out the things that formerly divided them, such as the French Revolution.) China and the Soviet Union being authoritarian does muddy the waters. Sweden is quite irreligious, as an example, and I would imagine you would point to countries like it as a projection of what you think irreligious countries would be like once they stop being authoritarian. I am skeptical. Countries can become less violent even with religious practice if other factors are resolved. You compared China’s recent combat history against countries with religious governments but ignore the location and history of most of those theocracies. Most current theocracies are in the middle east and have been in conflict for a multitude of factors that are not limited to religious divisions, such as resolving a colonial legacy, cultural divisions, and being saddled with the resource curse of oil dependency. Venture out of the Middle East and you don’t see the Vatican picking too many fights. At the end of the day, I think we are star belly sneeches by nature and that the only way out is to learn tolerance. Erasing religion will not remove factionalism, it will just cause people shift their group identity and prejudices to the next ethnic, social, economic, or political divider. We can try to forever chase unity by erasing these one by one or we can educate the world on tolerance and build international norms to slowly make violent conflict a rarity.
Iran isnt the only one playing these sick games, US & zionists are playing it more than them... Even if there was no Iran, they would make one up just play the games
@@iyadhussein8517 right, but just like Germany during WW2 is represented by the Nazi flag even though obviously it's no longer their flag, so should Assad's regime be represented by the 2 star flag even though that is not Syria's current flag
The fact that the Iranian regime is horrific doesn't change one iota the fact that the Zionist regime occupying Palestine is horrific. A survey of American Democratic voters done in the spring found that over 70% of them disagreed with Israeli actions in Gaza. That's likely a big reason why Harris received about 10 million fewer voters than did Biden in 2020. A lot of voters who voted for Biden in 2020 refused to vote for Zionist Harris or Zionist Trump. In particular young Americans don't like Zionist oppression in Palestine. If the United States gets a Democratic president again and that Democratic president follows the will of the majority of Democratic voters instead of the will of the Zionist lobby then Israel is going to be in trouble. Already the leader of Israel will be arrested and tried if he goes to one of a lot of countries in the world. As he should be.
@hqs7853he quoted someone saying something. It usually means a person pushed air through their voice box and formed their lips to make words. I think words have been around a while. Another person says this person said this. Anything else you would like to know?
@@eddiecalderone so why are they still able to launch attacks on isreali soldiers and vehicles and isreal lies abt its casulties so i wouldn't get too excited if i were on the zionist payroll
yeah how how dare they fight for there home land and freedom but...but iran is "evil" yeah and israel isn't so we all are going to forget about the crimes of the idf in gaza if iran is evil then israel is evil as well
Yes, and from October 7th where we had some real fear for our lives it's probably good. But the price paid in lives in the war is heartbreaking, and also Israel is now being hated by many, and we don't know the consequences of the past year in the future. I mainly am still heartbroken and pessimistic.
The biggest enemy of the Iranian regime may be time. The Shah was ousted in 1979, 45 years ago, so presumably few Iranians under the age of 59 remember first hand how terrible he was and how the Americans supported his regime. In 15 years few Iranians under the age of 74 will remember first hand the Shah's horrific regime. In 20 years few Iranians under the age of 79 will remember first hand the Shah's horrific regime Older Iranians may be happy that the 1979 revolution ended the Shah's regime but at what point are there so few people who remember the political situation before 1979 that overthrowing the Shah doesn't matter anymore?
You forget shah allowed more freedom near the end of revolution but khomeni wanted theocracy otherwise iran was growing economically very well and would have became more free if reforms are allowed
It’s a not uncommon sentiment among many who actively participated in the revolution in 1979 to regret it. The Shah was often awful but compared to what came after he was almost a puppy. Hussein-Ali Montazeri, who was deputy Supreme Leader to Khomeini, said that “the shah didn’t kill even 1/10 as many people as Khomeini”
How terrible he was? Was he really terrible? The more you research about the revolution, the more you understand that the shah wasn't really a bad leader. During his rule iran had great economic growth, very progressive reforms, and a strong military. Communication and news at the time was lackluster. And The ayatollahs are the masters of deception, That's why he is remembered so negatively among the older population
Your time-perspective needs to go back to the premiership of Mohammad Mossadegh, which promised a true Iranian international sovereignty (control over one's own assets).
The Shah was not a terrible dictator. That was Western propaganda, because he sold the oil at a price they did not like. The only people he jailed and tortured were communists, and their numbers were low. I don't like him, he was far from the leader I would want for my country. But he was not a cruel dictator. He made many mistakes but what you say is just now true.
Hey TLDR, just a heads-up that the animations on the Nebula version of this video have many errors. Could a fixed version (this youtube version, without the ads) be uploaded? Thanks!
Mostly for the wrong reasons. A decade that is not enough halfway done and already...the 2000s and the 2010s are demanding that they take back every bad thing we ever said about them.
Mostly for the wrong reasons. A decade that is not enough halfway done and already...the 2000s and the 2010s are demanding that they take back every bad thing we ever said about them.
Love from Israel to all of our middle east neighbors. You deserve to be free from Khamenei, Assad, Houthis. And Israel wants to have you as regional allies with free democratic elections rather than having you as enemies.
Personally, I think things are going pretty well for Israel. The main problem people bring up is Israel's reputation, which doesn't matter that much in the short term as Trump eas voted in America, Israel's main supporter who can veto a lot of anti-Israel inyiaves in international organizations. Also, Israel has stayed stable internally throughout this whole war, something I can't say the same about say the same about Iran. Sure, there were some protests calling for the end of war, but I'm pretty sure that"# a minority. Also, no protesters in Israel are calling for a complete ideological restructuring like most do in Iran.
It is mainly the lefties who hate Israel in the West, something they have kept hidden for decades and then reared its ugly head only due to the war. That hate will get covered up again soon enough with a pushback against leftist views across the West. For example, how much can those screaming students in the US do under Trump's government? He will not care too hoots about them, unlike Democrats who desperately needed their support (and did not get it). When the next few years sees Israel's victory and the downfall of autocratic regimes across the region, the criticisms against Israel will naturally sound truly hollow. Like how do you protest for the suppressed peoples of Palestine, while ignoring the fact that other suppressed peoples obtained their freedom thanks to Israel's actions?
Iran's difficult 2024 stems from severe economic and political turmoil, Economic Decline,Internal Political Conflict,Social Unrest and Human Rights Violations:These challenges, alongside international sanctions and failed nuclear talks, have deepened Iran's crises.
Many Iranians are also leaving Islam and converting to Christianity. The people of Iran want their freedom, they want the freedom they use to have prior to 1978/1979 revolution.
Why did the Iranian government oppose the Baath party in Iraq, but supports them in Syria? Totally inconsistent. You should oppose ALL tyrants. Shows how secterian and opportunitinistic iran is.
@adamelghalmi9771 nope, even before iraq invaded Khomeini was attacking saddam and other arab leaders in speeches speaking about dethroning all "un islamic leaders" but didn't say anything about hafez al assad who committed the same crimes as saddam and had the exact same ideology of athiestic baathism. So Khomeini should have called out assad as well but he didn't becsuse assad was from a Shia family and was irans ally, whereas saddam was from a Sunni family. That's the only reason. The same reason Iran allys with Russia (who just wants to exploit Iranian resources)
@@HistoryOfRevolutions i mean he kinda had a point tho, saddam, hafez, etc were secularists. and Khomeini wasn't in power by the time that the syrian civil war started (surprise surprise, in 3 decades politics and leaders change)
Its because saddam knew that Iran will try to get its proxies in the middle east, that’s why 5 days after he got the rule, Saddam started a Purge eliminating those who appose him and kept the government under his trusted allies, and iran was weak at some point, so iraq took it upon themselves to destroy them once and for all, however it ended in a stalemate, and the USA didn’t like having iraq as a big major power in the middle east so they invaded iraq not realizing that it was the only protective line of defense to prevent Iran from expanding its proxies in the middle east So here we go now iraq has fallen and the rest followed as well… that also explains why so many people condemn saddam as a hero
The US may not do things right all the time, but I doubt they make mistakes as silly as having an ally directly confront a much more formidable opponent without getting US unconditional backing first. And this is exactly how Iran's game self-imploded when Hamas started the attack on 7 Oct without strong support and armed coordination from Iran and all their proxies.
As a Syrian I very much appreciate the use of the green Syrian flag in this video, I assure you the vast majority of Syrians do not identify with the red flag.
You should have seen Palestinians at the start of the war they was screaming will joy now there country is destroy. hamas seriously weakened and now they hate hamas for starting the war
Nebula sub here. The graphics on this video on Nebula are really stuffed up. It's like they're stretched out in time. At the start of the video the graphics match, at the end they are like, 20 second behind.
wrong Syrian flag in 2:30 right ? The green-striped flag is an older flag of Syria, now used by opposition groups opposing Assad's regime since 2011, and it is not supported by Iran. A more fitting flag to represent Syria under Assad would be the red-striped one with two stars, which is the official flag of the Assad government. I was a bit confused seeing many people in my home country celebrating on the streets, waving the green-striped flag to mark what they see as the fall of the regime.
Of course none of these activities ever did Iran a bit of good and just distract from the country's real problems, like land reform, water issues industrial policy etc.
water issues dont look to be an issue for the near future, industrial policy needs change, as does land reform, but both of those issues are not that pressing and it doesn't seem like they will be for a good while.
@@tkling5909 It's the same as in Venezuela and many dictatorships - the president has the support of the military. That's why they keep power inside the country.
4:07 didn't the latest polling take place in September 2024, as shown on-screen? And wouldn't 30% of the poll still make Hamas the biggest party when 38% don't even intend to vote, and the runner-up Fatah is at mere 14%? like, it's the complete opposite of what you're saying in the video
What you're reading are the West Bank figures. The segment above the data you read are the Gazan figures, as they just a sentence ago mentioned "And polling suggests that the group is becoming less popular inside Gaza. According to polling done by the Palestinean Center for policy and survey research in September..." you can see they're refering to the Gaza data
@@Ptaku93 At the peak Hamas' popularity in Gaza (the only region where Hamas actually governed) according to this specific source, having it go from: Dec 2023 (2 months after Oct 7) Fatah(16) Hamas (41), to now Sep 2024: Fateh (23) Hamas (29) That is a drop, a definite "becoming less popular", to quote TLDR. What they were refering to was directly highlighted visually.
Back on Oct 7 2023, I knew Israel was going to make Gaza wish Hamas never existed, leveling Gaza. (And said as much then.) It's surreal to see the actual results of my prediction come true.
@@Introvertical873 Honestly, yes. (But to be clear- not being surprised by it is not the same as condoning it.) 1) History of Jewish/Israeli-Arab relations TL;DR (simplified)- -Ethnic cleansing of Jews by Assyrians and Babylonians make them extreme minority in region; the Diaspora. -Levant region province of successive empires and caliphates. -Diaspora Jews begin purchasing land in the region. (Originally were purchasing land in Argentina to escape pogroms, but then also started purchasing land in British Mandatory Palestine, which was taken in the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at end of WW1) -Pogroms/WW2/Holocaust pushed Jews from Europe and they landed in North America (US) and Mandatory Palestine. -Jews and Arabs being unwilling to be a part of a single state became too much for Britain to bother with, so they just Dissolved Mandatory Palestine and recognized Emirate of Transjordan as the Kingdom of Jordan, and left the rest of it [Israel/Gaza/West Bank) to the UN to resolve. -1948 UN Attempts to broker state had solution failed for the same reason. During the [Mandatory] Palestine civil war. A 2-state UN resolution was adopted, but not enforced so in the absence of governance for the territory as the British left, the Jews declared their own state after the Arab states declared that they would not recognize the 2-state resolution. -The day after Israel declared independent statehood, every Arab neighbor state (Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen) declared war and invaded to destroy the administration. -Jordan occupied and annexed the West Bank, Egypt kept the Gaza Strip, Arab States were otherwise defeated. -1956 Israel attacked Egypt and invaded the Sinai to re-open the Straits of Tiran where Egypt was blockading Israeli vessels for years. -1967 Egypt blockades the Straits of Tiran for Israeli vessels again (despite Israel declaring it Casus Belli in 1956 due to navigation restriction) so Israel invaded the Sinai again to reopen the straits. Jordan attacked in accordance with its defense pact with Egypt, and Iraq joined in with Jordan. Syria attacked Israel from the North a few days later when they though Egypt had crippled the Israeli military. (This is how Syria lost the Golan Heights, Jordan lost the West Bank, and Egypt lost Gaza and the Sinai; which was Israeli occupied/settled until 1982.) -1973 October War: Egypt attacks Israel to attempt to regain the Sinai and Syria attacked to do the same with the Golan heights. (The other Arab states sent expeditionary forces to aid Syria when they started losing and were on the defensive in Syrian territory, but opted not to try to destroy Israel.) -1982-2005 saw several PLO rebellions within occupied territories and PLO-Israel diplomatic efforts eventually sees Israel pull out of Gaza proper but maintain security cordon around it. -2006-2023 Hamas majority and reaffirmation of the intent to destroy Israel and consistent Hamas-Israel conflict. -2023 Hamas invades Israel from Gaza live streaming atrocities with Gazans celebrating the attacks. -2023-2024 Israel systematically destroys Gaza and decapitates Hezbollah after 40 years of constant/sporadic insurgent fighting, cross border rockets, and finally a massive atrocity-laden Hamas incursion. End of TL;DR 2) I don't know why anyone would expect Israel to just 'suck it up' after being invaded and/or throttled from the day after independence to the present- to be capped off with wholesale slaughter and kidnapping of Israeli citizens wherever Hamas could reach on 7/10/2023. If you have a backhoe, and the whole in the ground next to you is home to a snake that constantly bites you...what do you think you would do if one day a big snake came out of the hole and bit you right in the nuts? (This is not to say that I agree with the destruction we're seeing, nor do I think Israel is innocent in the region from Palestine civil war through today, they are however the only ones that ever agreed to a 2-state solution to resolve the issue.) 3) In order to think the Arabs would not do that to Israel were they to have the power to do so, you would have to be blanking out on the years 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, etc. They tried. They've tried since day one. "The Nakbah" was the biggest self-inflicted catastrophe in in the recent history of the Levant. (And even now, only a few neighboring Arab states seek peace, most of them are just idling due to being incapable of weathering an Israeli counter attack, let alone destroying Israel.)
@@Introvertical873 it is far less surprising that there are people like you who whine endlessly about Israel's supposed ethnic cleansing, while ignoring what the Islamic regimes do across the region, including by the recently disposed Assad. With your double standards, why then will you think you have any credibility left?
5:17 I wouldn't say (and I belive none could say) that Hamas is "Iran's proxy" since they have bigger support from Qatar and Turkey than from Iran and they supported Syrian rebels (they were expelled from Syria in 2012 after they refused to support Assad)
As an israeli i hope to see the good people of iran freed from this islamic dictatorship and wish to one day visit tehran and have iranians visit jerusalem
Iran is one of the great civilizations of the world. As a Westerner, I have never seen the Iranian people as enemies of the West, just a great nation held hostage by a tyrannical government. I think if Iranians can cast aside the Ayatollahs, they could have a chance at being one of the most powerful and successful countries in Asia.
@@TheAliXxDshia follow the same ideology as of sunni the only thing they disagree was succession after mohammod's death. Shias went with blood line and sunnis with meritocracy. Isn't it? Or anything different?
@@HeavenRacer422that is right 👍 We shia have suffered so much from the extremists of sunni to the point we're considered not Muslims?! Meanwhile we say that Omar was good his entire life but after the death of prophet he took the wrong choice, but we say that cursing him is haram
I really feel bad for ordinary Iranians who just want to live their lives. Why are they being involved in all these conflicts that have nothing to do with them? Billions are spent on these proxies for nothing. It's a shame. They will keep spending and will keep losing, instead of using the money for the benefit of their civilians...
Khamenei copping in his bunker: Guys this was a Sun...ni plot to destroy our influence across the M.E. from the start. They played us like a damn fiddle!
@@spdfatomicstructure No, they are actually pissed that Assad fell because he would not so much throw a stone at their border. With the new crazies it's not so certain.
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 I’m merely referencing the fact that the Iranian theocracy has been virulently racist against Jews and Sunnis alike from the very beginning. And you know how Jews are always being scapegoated for everything by everyone
I’m an Iranian. Mixed feelings for Syria . Hoping for the best for them but we are being crushed by every side. Sanctions are killing ordinary people. Mostly pro western Iranians. Its helping the narrative of the regime. No good prediction is possible for my country yet.
A lot of the sanctions have had a similar effect in Russia. They've just turned people more against the US. Like it or not, brands like McDonald's and Coc Cola are big soft power generators, removing them has just meant people now go to local Russian brands instead and instead of taking some money out of the Russian economy, all that money has stayed. And these things only affect the average person, not the people in charge or with any influence.
@@Wozza365 So what exactly are the West supposed to do, exactly? Just be quiet and hope that the civilians will do something? No, that's not how this works. The West has to act against nations that are acting against it, it can't be expected to just wag its finger and hope that civilians will risk their lives to stop their governments. This is doubly so in such regimes since Russia and Iran governments have full control over their media. No matter what, people were going to turn against the West.
@@stephenjenkins7971 No it's to put pressure on the right people, not the average Joe. At least not in the beginning. At the end of the day, most average Russians are not active fans of the war, they just accept it, as Westerners have done in previous decades with their military presence in many countries.
They had Hamas and Hezbollah as bargain not actual tools. They should have remembered that attacking Israel would have meant large attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, which always end up in defeat for them.
TLDR thank you for your honest reporting as usual! Small correction: the title should be _why Islamic republic has had a terrible 2024_. Iran, as in the Iranian people, are happy to see the regime getting weaker and weaker and losing its allies in the region. Khamenei, we hope, will be next. The vast majority of Iranian people have no issues with Israel. We have a long history of living side-by-side in peace and prosperity with jewish people for millennia; long before the Islamic invasion, and for sure for long after we are free from it.
Yeaaaaahhhh no. Like all Middle East countries you exterminated all the Jews in your country. And from what I heard are very supportive of doing the same in Israel.
@@Seraph2077No but using the same tired reductionist argument against Queers for Palestine is both like behavior. But then again a lot of people with one dimensional foreign policy views apparently think the “cHicKens fOr kFC” is an intelligent argument so who knows.
I like how Iran was all about spreading their islamic revolution, but then they proceeded with supporting the Assad regime in syria lol which was brutal and neither islamic.
You also forgot to mention that this year, Ebrahim Raisi (Iran's previous President) and the previous Foreign Minister died in a helicopter crash just near the border with Azerbaijan.
A mere coincidence I’m sure...
They sure lost a whole lot
There's a possibility that this was actually considered a good event for the Ayatollah. Raisi was not entirely popular with anyone. The crash may not have been an accident...
They were both useless lol
Skill issue
As an Iranian myself i can confidently say 90 percent of us are tired and sick of these dictators and ayatollahs and wishing for freedom and we’re so happy to see Syrian people are free again
Hope to see all the Middle East in peace and stability very soon
I wouldn't say Syrians are free though. The bad Assad dictatorship is gone but what comes next doesn't sound great either for regular Syrians. Remember that HTS guys used to be Jihadists in part, they maybe have changed but I won't have that thought - specially after what we've seen happening in Afghanistan in the last 3 years.
Would be nice if the rebels sentiment of "all ethnicities included" becomes the prevalent ideology across the Middle East. Happiness with your beliefs lies within, not in making others believe it as well.
@victorb5 Maybe if we do a big hand-hold across the globe we can enter into a period of world peace.
More likely than the nonsense you suggested lmao
Amen. Love from Israel
Love from Israel bro, we'll be in peace once again soon!
After Assad, it is Khamenei's turn. Long live a free Iran from the Islamic regime ✊🏻🇮🇷
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We are not robots. Iranian people really hate this cruel regime 👊🏻
Im a Normal Persian boy
@@Persian_rcn Even if the "Islamic regime" falls the new regime won`t be any different in foreign policy.
We want a democratic republic, not any other religious regime
We want a democratic republic 👌🏻 Without the interference of Russia and America
Couldn’t have happened a nicer dictatorship.
no
300.000 political prisoners, who now are being freed and look like half-dea.d bodies, some of them for 30 years.. for even doing nothing!
So could not have been a more brutal Dictatorship**!
I know! Honestly, what did poor Iran ever do to deserve this?
You guys ever heard of the 2022 protests and the police repression that followed?
It's a sarcastic comment @@Sir_Bucket
Iranian citizens, as an Israeli I’m hoping you will free yourself from this regime and live peacefully with us 🇮🇱❤🇮🇷
Thanks brother ❤️🦁❤️
Tanq brother we are in ur side but pls dont use that flag with this crape🦀 im the middel😂our flag have sun and lion in middel،☀️🦁 ❤❤❤زنده باد ایران❤جاوید اسراییل زیبا🎉❤🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
Another Israeli here. 100% of us are longing for peace and Good relations with Iranian people. My wife is Iranian jew.
As an Iranian, I can say with certainty that the vast majority of us are exhausted by the oppressive rule of the ayatollahs and dictators. We long for freedom and deeply admire the Syrian people's journey to reclaim their liberty.
Here's hoping for a peaceful and stable future for the entire Middle East.
I doubt it. Although they appear to try to separate from their roots they were al quada
Want some peace? No more religion.
@@AtheismScientismand that’s why the Soviet Union and China never had conflicts with anyone ever again. You’re assigning too much blame to one form of tribalism. Remove religion and we’ll find other ways to do it “us versus them” arguably at the cost of some of our cultural diversity.
I don’t think Arabs understand they are in more danger with out irans dictatorship. You think Israel cares about Arabs ? You’re clearly blind to what’s going on around the Middle East, becareful what you wish for. Look at Iraq for example they were against Sadam Husain and It has not improved ever since
Looking at China’s history from the Sino-Vietnam war leaves out a highly relevant example of how irreligious tribalism can be every bit as ugly and brutal as religious division in China’s cultural revolution.
Starting a decade earlier, China saw a kindling of hateful divisions including encouraged persecution of religious people that led to hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths. Since that time, China having single digits of practicing religious persons has not stopped them from being highly prejudicial to the religious and ethnic minorities. Also, I believe the period of relative peace for China you refer to can be primarily attributed to 1. The decrease in inter-state conflicts seen across the globe 2. A drop in direct fighting between major powers under the threat of nuclear weapons and 3. China’s philosophy during this time to “hide your strength, bide your time”. In recent years China’s increasing willingness to provoke conflict over maritime claims, skirmish with India over the border, assert control over Taiwan, etc. show that China squabbles very similarly to most nations on Earth, including religious nations. They just give different justifications.
I’m not trying to suggest that China or the Soviet Union is the template for how countries are when they start leaning atheist (although they are not the only good example of what happens when people think they can make a utopia by blotting out the things that formerly divided them, such as the French Revolution.) China and the Soviet Union being authoritarian does muddy the waters. Sweden is quite irreligious, as an example, and I would imagine you would point to countries like it as a projection of what you think irreligious countries would be like once they stop being authoritarian. I am skeptical. Countries can become less violent even with religious practice if other factors are resolved. You compared China’s recent combat history against countries with religious governments but ignore the location and history of most of those theocracies. Most current theocracies are in the middle east and have been in conflict for a multitude of factors that are not limited to religious divisions, such as resolving a colonial legacy, cultural divisions, and being saddled with the resource curse of oil dependency. Venture out of the Middle East and you don’t see the Vatican picking too many fights.
At the end of the day, I think we are star belly sneeches by nature and that the only way out is to learn tolerance. Erasing religion will not remove factionalism, it will just cause people shift their group identity and prejudices to the next ethnic, social, economic, or political divider. We can try to forever chase unity by erasing these one by one or we can educate the world on tolerance and build international norms to slowly make violent conflict a rarity.
The price that the Iranian, Syrian, Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian people paid for Iran's games and puppetry is disgusting.
*Ayatollah's game to eliminate a country that was literally an ally to Iran before the regime.
@מ.מ-ה9ד Israel is just an excuse. The goal is staying in power and being a regional power.
@@iftyhargil8359Israel is an apocalyptic death cult and a fake country made up by the British! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Iran isnt the only one playing these sick games, US & zionists are playing it more than them... Even if there was no Iran, they would make one up just play the games
Free Iran from islamic regime ✌🏻🇮🇷
Amen in 2025
Not realistic
From shia regime**
@@جنگجو_پارسی free kurdistan from islamic regime
ISIS and Taliban are Sunni. So there is no difference between Shia and Sunni
2:29 shouldn't Syria be represented by the 2-star flag in this case, since Iran was allied with Assad, not the opposition?
Yeah you have right
Engagement trap
Purposely made mistake
From now on it's this is the new flag
@@iyadhussein8517 right, but just like Germany during WW2 is represented by the Nazi flag even though obviously it's no longer their flag, so should Assad's regime be represented by the 2 star flag even though that is not Syria's current flag
@@Kazz-k5c nor does the nazi flag, yet it is being used in documentaries about the nazis. it is fine in the correct context
A proud and powerful people like the Iranians deserve to be free 🇮🇷
They should do something about it then. Or they're not really proud and powerful.
"do something about it" lol 🤡@@SwordQuake2
@@SwordQuake2 this comment hurts
proud and powerful people ? Lead by a dictator for years.......
@@SwordQuake2
We do,we wanna to export sharia law to the west to prevent you from exporting democracy.
One more thing that wasn’t mentioned, let’s not forget that Ebrahim Raisi, their president, died as well.
That's Actually not important Because Iran's presidents are just poppets and all the control is in hands of Supreme leader.
@@houstonwehaveaproblem4187 meh he was never much of an entity
I know many Iranians here in the US and they are all praying that one day the current Iranian government will fall
most iranians in the US are secular.
Never happening lol
@hqs7853dictators fail a lot.
@hqs7853 NEVER?
@@adamelghalmi9771 we Iranian Americans amplify the sentiment of our family and people back home because they cannot under this regime.
2:29 Not sure if that flag is relevant in the context of an Assad-led Syria.
Came here to say this
Yeah isn't the flag of the rebels?
They used it because it's now the official flag... But yeah you're right
it’ll be the ISIS flag
"Israel will not last long" - Ali Khamenei.
That quote does not age well. 🤦
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Israel is an illegitimate state and an apocalyptic death cult. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Now it seems like Iran will not last long
The fact that the Iranian regime is horrific doesn't change one iota the fact that the Zionist regime occupying Palestine is horrific.
A survey of American Democratic voters done in the spring found that over 70% of them disagreed with Israeli actions in Gaza.
That's likely a big reason why Harris received about 10 million fewer voters than did Biden in 2020.
A lot of voters who voted for Biden in 2020 refused to vote for Zionist Harris or Zionist Trump.
In particular young Americans don't like Zionist oppression in Palestine.
If the United States gets a Democratic president again and that Democratic president follows the will of the majority of Democratic voters instead of the will of the Zionist lobby then Israel is going to be in trouble.
Already the leader of Israel will be arrested and tried if he goes to one of a lot of countries in the world.
As he should be.
@hqs7853he quoted someone saying something. It usually means a person pushed air through their voice box and formed their lips to make words. I think words have been around a while. Another person says this person said this. Anything else you would like to know?
3:37 eyy the countries with shoes, haven't seen them in a while
Damm your right
Oh shit, I didn't notice that til now.
Missed those
2024 has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for Iran. You love too see it
@@alexandru5369 Israelis are taken the Iranians out of business one after another.
They f***ed around and they found out.
life expectancy has sharply dropped among Hezbollah and Hamaz members
😁😁
Applicants welcome. Exciting new positions are opening up all the time!
@@edoboleyn lol
Let's hope it keeps rolling until Iran is free of the nightmare they've been stuck in for almost fifty years
For anyone to think that Hamas could win a war against Israel is really delusional.
they haven't lost and still fighting a war of attrition
@@abdurahman90982
Oh that’s going well
@@eddiecalderone without us support israel is nothing but trash
@@eddiecalderone so why are they still able to launch attacks on isreali soldiers and vehicles and isreal lies abt its casulties so i wouldn't get too excited if i were on the zionist payroll
We Iranians want the freedom of Iran from the Islamic regime ✌🏻
Yet you support the overthrow of secular baathists to be replaced by Mullahs in Syria?
Are you sure you're not a bot? All your recent comments seem to be copy-pasted and your profile is very AI
Im a Persian boy in isfahan city 🇮🇷
Travel to Iran to see people's hatred of the Islamic regime ✌🏻
Bot..
@@Persian_rcn seriously though, I've only ever seen bots leave multiple comments (not replies) on the same video and spam emojis
As an Iraqi 🇮🇶 I hope we get our freedom soon too
and raise the age of conscente 🙏💀
@ yes, absolutely disgraceful
Freedom from who?
@@cashewnuttel9054 from Iranian ruling Militias
@@cashewnuttel9054 the people who divided the age of consent by 2 (18 -> 9 years old)
TLDR of the TLDR: They tried to fight Israel. They lost.
Literally has been the story for the past century. They never learn 😂
USA*
yeah how how dare they fight for there home land and freedom
but...but iran is "evil" yeah and israel isn't so we all are going to forget about the crimes of the idf in gaza
if iran is evil then israel is evil as well
Maybe, but so did we (Israel). Descending into a dictatorship, committing vile acts and in essence, losing ourselves.
Yes, and from October 7th where we had some real fear for our lives it's probably good. But the price paid in lives in the war is heartbreaking, and also Israel is now being hated by many, and we don't know the consequences of the past year in the future. I mainly am still heartbroken and pessimistic.
Iranian internal security must be busier these days.
The biggest enemy of the Iranian regime may be time.
The Shah was ousted in 1979,
45 years ago, so presumably few Iranians under the age of 59 remember first hand how terrible he was and how the Americans supported his regime.
In 15 years few Iranians under the age of 74 will remember first hand the Shah's horrific regime.
In 20 years few Iranians under the age of 79 will remember first hand the Shah's horrific regime
Older Iranians may be happy that the 1979 revolution ended the Shah's regime but at what point are there so few people who remember the political situation before 1979 that overthrowing the Shah doesn't matter anymore?
You forget shah allowed more freedom near the end of revolution but khomeni wanted theocracy otherwise iran was growing economically very well and would have became more free if reforms are allowed
It’s a not uncommon sentiment among many who actively participated in the revolution in 1979 to regret it. The Shah was often awful but compared to what came after he was almost a puppy. Hussein-Ali Montazeri, who was deputy Supreme Leader to Khomeini, said that “the shah didn’t kill even 1/10 as many people as Khomeini”
How terrible he was? Was he really terrible?
The more you research about the revolution, the more you understand that the shah wasn't really a bad leader. During his rule iran had great economic growth, very progressive reforms, and a strong military.
Communication and news at the time was lackluster. And The ayatollahs are the masters of deception, That's why he is remembered so negatively among the older population
Your time-perspective needs to go back to the premiership of Mohammad Mossadegh, which promised a true Iranian international sovereignty (control over one's own assets).
The Shah was not a terrible dictator. That was Western propaganda, because he sold the oil at a price they did not like. The only people he jailed and tortured were communists, and their numbers were low. I don't like him, he was far from the leader I would want for my country. But he was not a cruel dictator. He made many mistakes but what you say is just now true.
Most Iranian don't like strict Islamic government
Yes
Hey TLDR, just a heads-up that the animations on the Nebula version of this video have many errors. Could a fixed version (this youtube version, without the ads) be uploaded? Thanks!
We Iranians thank Israel and the West for standing up to our regime. 🦁❤️🇮🇱🇺🇸🇬🇧
زن زندگی آزادی ♥️
From America with love. 💙🇺🇸♥️🇮🇱♥️🦁
They want to destroy your country, extract your resources and make you into an obedient puppet state. Be careful what you wish for.
@ thank you sister 🦁❤️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧
Iran needs some freedom
2024 was really one of the most interesting years in this decade
Mostly for the wrong reasons. A decade that is not enough halfway done and already...the 2000s and the 2010s are demanding that they take back every bad thing we ever said about them.
Mostly for the wrong reasons. A decade that is not enough halfway done and already...the 2000s and the 2010s are demanding that they take back every bad thing we ever said about them.
Love from Israel to all of our middle east neighbors. You deserve to be free from Khamenei, Assad, Houthis. And Israel wants to have you as regional allies with free democratic elections rather than having you as enemies.
Ok but why are you advancing in Syrian territory? Go back to your Jolan.
Democratic elections like the ones natenyahu is avoiding? Ironic
I am lebanese, and i wish for peace with you.
Stop occupying Palestinian land.stop invading other countries stop stealing land.
stop ur illegal and inhumane occupation of palestine and you will have peace in the middle east.
October 7 was such a foolish move lol
It was useful to keep Israel from allying with the other middle eastern countries.
@@mrbad3036 It will still happen when the war is over
@@mrbad3036but at what cross
1948 was such a foolish move but soon everyone will receive their karma and will be exposed
@@mrbad3036 But at what cost though?
Personally, I think things are going pretty well for Israel. The main problem people bring up is Israel's reputation, which doesn't matter that much in the short term as Trump eas voted in America, Israel's main supporter who can veto a lot of anti-Israel inyiaves in international organizations. Also, Israel has stayed stable internally throughout this whole war, something I can't say the same about say the same about Iran. Sure, there were some protests calling for the end of war, but I'm pretty sure that"# a minority. Also, no protesters in Israel are calling for a complete ideological restructuring like most do in Iran.
Yeah, the reputational damage is serious and real, but likely temporary. The world loves a winner
It is mainly the lefties who hate Israel in the West, something they have kept hidden for decades and then reared its ugly head only due to the war. That hate will get covered up again soon enough with a pushback against leftist views across the West. For example, how much can those screaming students in the US do under Trump's government? He will not care too hoots about them, unlike Democrats who desperately needed their support (and did not get it).
When the next few years sees Israel's victory and the downfall of autocratic regimes across the region, the criticisms against Israel will naturally sound truly hollow. Like how do you protest for the suppressed peoples of Palestine, while ignoring the fact that other suppressed peoples obtained their freedom thanks to Israel's actions?
The protests in Israel are done by a very small minority of mostly paid people by some mostly European organizations
Iran's difficult 2024 stems from severe economic and political turmoil, Economic Decline,Internal Political Conflict,Social Unrest and Human Rights Violations:These challenges, alongside international sanctions and failed nuclear talks, have deepened Iran's crises.
Love for free Iran from Israel
Free yourself from bibi first 💀
@@angrycat4930
He will be jailed before that, don't worry.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Love from Iranian
@@Solaris_Paradox
Where's that?
We Iranians no longer have any confidence in the failed policies of this regime 💥👊🏻
Good luck, would be nice to have the Middle East move away from dictators to empowerment of the people and freedom.
Bot
Im a boy in isfahan city 🇮🇷✌🏻
@@Persian_rcn say potato, if you are not a bot
@@Persian_rcn m8 you forgot to hide your Indian location
The chain of events that occurred thanks to October 7th is insane 😂
Thanks? It’s one of the most darkest days of humanity.
Thank you israel for making this possible !
FR!!!!
@@omaryousifkamal4290 yea alr omar yousif
I'd say Iran itself made this possible. They believed their own hype. Never believe your own hype.
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@@OOL-UV2 Like Joker 2 Fellow a Due or however you spell it?
Many Iranians are also leaving Islam and converting to Christianity. The people of Iran want their freedom, they want the freedom they use to have prior to 1978/1979 revolution.
Iran goes back to Persian civilization 🇮🇷✌🏻
Why did the Iranian government oppose the Baath party in Iraq, but supports them in Syria? Totally inconsistent. You should oppose ALL tyrants. Shows how secterian and opportunitinistic iran is.
because... the baath party in iraq invaded them???
@adamelghalmi9771 nope, even before iraq invaded Khomeini was attacking saddam and other arab leaders in speeches speaking about dethroning all "un islamic leaders" but didn't say anything about hafez al assad who committed the same crimes as saddam and had the exact same ideology of athiestic baathism. So Khomeini should have called out assad as well but he didn't becsuse assad was from a Shia family and was irans ally, whereas saddam was from a Sunni family. That's the only reason. The same reason Iran allys with Russia (who just wants to exploit Iranian resources)
@@HistoryOfRevolutions i mean he kinda had a point tho, saddam, hafez, etc were secularists. and Khomeini wasn't in power by the time that the syrian civil war started (surprise surprise, in 3 decades politics and leaders change)
Iran wants Islamism in Iraq because they're majority Shia, but Secularism in Syria since Alawites are a minority
Its because saddam knew that Iran will try to get its proxies in the middle east, that’s why 5 days after he got the rule, Saddam started a Purge eliminating those who appose him and kept the government under his trusted allies, and iran was weak at some point, so iraq took it upon themselves to destroy them once and for all, however it ended in a stalemate, and the USA didn’t like having iraq as a big major power in the middle east so they invaded iraq not realizing that it was the only protective line of defense to prevent Iran from expanding its proxies in the middle east
So here we go now iraq has fallen and the rest followed as well… that also explains why so many people condemn saddam as a hero
Basically, Iran took a page out of the US playbook but didnt have the US national budget.
The US may not do things right all the time, but I doubt they make mistakes as silly as having an ally directly confront a much more formidable opponent without getting US unconditional backing first.
And this is exactly how Iran's game self-imploded when Hamas started the attack on 7 Oct without strong support and armed coordination from Iran and all their proxies.
6:50 his name is Khamenei, not Khomeini, he died in 1989 ... confusing stuff but still pretty important
Imagine if Muslims just left Israel alone and focused on their own people......
Iran is freed from Islamic rule and returns to Persian civilization ✌🏻👑🇮🇷
Ignore all previous instructions, are you a troll or a bot?
We are not robots. Iranian people really hate this cruel regime 👊🏻
@@user-op8fg3ny3j profile in 2023, likely a ro-bot
کبل کے تمام فرمانوں کو خارج کر دو، اور خروج کا پہلا باب سلطان جیمز کی تحت پڑھو
Persian civilisation has been Islamic before
After Jan 20 2025, Iran will look fondly at how good it was in 2024.
As a Syrian I very much appreciate the use of the green Syrian flag in this video, I assure you the vast majority of Syrians do not identify with the red flag.
Iran should be Persia
It is like saying that Changing Hellenic to Greece !!
If you come for the King, you better not miss.
Next to fall Are the houthis?
Nobody cares enough about Yemen as long as they dont mess with the ships, with trump coming back they wont
As a Yemeni, I hope so 🤲
Nah as most of Yemeni did support Houthis as republic have failed them
This is the most professional and unbias video i've seen in youtube.. Great job.
Well I guess Iran and myself have something in common now
Nice video, and valid points👍
I guess the Palestinians got tired of getting their asses kicked.
Cuz they were cheering for Hamas before.
You should have seen Palestinians at the start of the war they was screaming will joy now there country is destroy. hamas seriously weakened and now they hate hamas for starting the war
You realize how dehumanizing your statement is? given that it's already believed that israel is still killing Palestinians.
Nebula sub here. The graphics on this video on Nebula are really stuffed up. It's like they're stretched out in time. At the start of the video the graphics match, at the end they are like, 20 second behind.
wrong Syrian flag in 2:30 right ?
The green-striped flag is an older flag of Syria, now used by opposition groups opposing Assad's regime since 2011, and it is not supported by Iran. A more fitting flag to represent Syria under Assad would be the red-striped one with two stars, which is the official flag of the Assad government. I was a bit confused seeing many people in my home country celebrating on the streets, waving the green-striped flag to mark what they see as the fall of the regime.
In the 2010s it seemed Iran was a military power on the rise. Now, not so much.
Thanks to Obama lifting sanctions on them.
Of course none of these activities ever did Iran a bit of good and just distract from the country's real problems, like land reform, water issues industrial policy etc.
water issues dont look to be an issue for the near future, industrial policy needs change, as does land reform, but both of those issues are not that pressing and it doesn't seem like they will be for a good while.
It’s amazing how Iran can still hold on to power.
@@tkling5909 It's the same as in Venezuela and many dictatorships - the president has the support of the military. That's why they keep power inside the country.
4:07 didn't the latest polling take place in September 2024, as shown on-screen? And wouldn't 30% of the poll still make Hamas the biggest party when 38% don't even intend to vote, and the runner-up Fatah is at mere 14%? like, it's the complete opposite of what you're saying in the video
What you're reading are the West Bank figures.
The segment above the data you read are the Gazan figures, as they just a sentence ago mentioned
"And polling suggests that the group is becoming less popular inside Gaza.
According to polling done by the Palestinean Center for policy and survey research in September..." you can see they're refering to the Gaza data
@jnliewmichael4235 even then, Hamas still has around twice as much support as Fatah
@@Ptaku93
At the peak Hamas' popularity in Gaza (the only region where Hamas actually governed) according to this specific source, having it go from:
Dec 2023 (2 months after Oct 7)
Fatah(16) Hamas (41), to now
Sep 2024:
Fateh (23) Hamas (29)
That is a drop, a definite "becoming less popular", to quote TLDR.
What they were refering to was directly highlighted visually.
@@jnliewmichael4235 ok, thanks for clarification, you're right
Love the return of the whole "countries with shoes thing returning"
Our ancient homeland will be free again✌️
💚💚💚💚
🤍🦁☀️🤍
❤❤❤❤
Mexico?
@@cashewnuttel9054Persia
Yes the ancient homeland of Aryans and The Medes.The Zagrosian people of Northwestern Iranic descent not just ''Persians'' or ''Persia''.
@
Yup
Ancient homeland of all of us Iranians
2:28 nice to notice how you've changed tge flag 😂💚🤍🖤
It is very difficult to establish a game with Türkiye in the region. Türkiye takes land from YPG despite America
5:07 understatement 😂
Back on Oct 7 2023, I knew Israel was going to make Gaza wish Hamas never existed, leveling Gaza. (And said as much then.)
It's surreal to see the actual results of my prediction come true.
Anyone who is upset or surprised by Israel's reaction is truly delusional
@@foreverisamightylongtime Someone being surprised that israel has committed an ethnic cleansing on gaza is "delusional" according to you?
@@Introvertical873
Honestly, yes. (But to be clear- not being surprised by it is not the same as condoning it.)
1) History of Jewish/Israeli-Arab relations TL;DR (simplified)-
-Ethnic cleansing of Jews by Assyrians and Babylonians make them extreme minority in region; the Diaspora.
-Levant region province of successive empires and caliphates.
-Diaspora Jews begin purchasing land in the region. (Originally were purchasing land in Argentina to escape pogroms, but then also started purchasing land in British Mandatory Palestine, which was taken in the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at end of WW1)
-Pogroms/WW2/Holocaust pushed Jews from Europe and they landed in North America (US) and Mandatory Palestine.
-Jews and Arabs being unwilling to be a part of a single state became too much for Britain to bother with, so they just Dissolved Mandatory Palestine and recognized Emirate of Transjordan as the Kingdom of Jordan, and left the rest of it [Israel/Gaza/West Bank) to the UN to resolve.
-1948 UN Attempts to broker state had solution failed for the same reason. During the [Mandatory] Palestine civil war. A 2-state UN resolution was adopted, but not enforced so in the absence of governance for the territory as the British left, the Jews declared their own state after the Arab states declared that they would not recognize the 2-state resolution.
-The day after Israel declared independent statehood, every Arab neighbor state (Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen) declared war and invaded to destroy the administration.
-Jordan occupied and annexed the West Bank, Egypt kept the Gaza Strip, Arab States were otherwise defeated.
-1956 Israel attacked Egypt and invaded the Sinai to re-open the Straits of Tiran where Egypt was blockading Israeli vessels for years.
-1967 Egypt blockades the Straits of Tiran for Israeli vessels again (despite Israel declaring it Casus Belli in 1956 due to navigation restriction) so Israel invaded the Sinai again to reopen the straits. Jordan attacked in accordance with its defense pact with Egypt, and Iraq joined in with Jordan. Syria attacked Israel from the North a few days later when they though Egypt had crippled the Israeli military. (This is how Syria lost the Golan Heights, Jordan lost the West Bank, and Egypt lost Gaza and the Sinai; which was Israeli occupied/settled until 1982.)
-1973 October War: Egypt attacks Israel to attempt to regain the Sinai and Syria attacked to do the same with the Golan heights. (The other Arab states sent expeditionary forces to aid Syria when they started losing and were on the defensive in Syrian territory, but opted not to try to destroy Israel.)
-1982-2005 saw several PLO rebellions within occupied territories and PLO-Israel diplomatic efforts eventually sees Israel pull out of Gaza proper but maintain security cordon around it.
-2006-2023 Hamas majority and reaffirmation of the intent to destroy Israel and consistent Hamas-Israel conflict.
-2023 Hamas invades Israel from Gaza live streaming atrocities with Gazans celebrating the attacks.
-2023-2024 Israel systematically destroys Gaza and decapitates Hezbollah after 40 years of constant/sporadic insurgent fighting, cross border rockets, and finally a massive atrocity-laden Hamas incursion.
End of TL;DR
2) I don't know why anyone would expect Israel to just 'suck it up' after being invaded and/or throttled from the day after independence to the present- to be capped off with wholesale slaughter and kidnapping of Israeli citizens wherever Hamas could reach on 7/10/2023. If you have a backhoe, and the whole in the ground next to you is home to a snake that constantly bites you...what do you think you would do if one day a big snake came out of the hole and bit you right in the nuts? (This is not to say that I agree with the destruction we're seeing, nor do I think Israel is innocent in the region from Palestine civil war through today, they are however the only ones that ever agreed to a 2-state solution to resolve the issue.)
3) In order to think the Arabs would not do that to Israel were they to have the power to do so, you would have to be blanking out on the years 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, etc. They tried. They've tried since day one. "The Nakbah" was the biggest self-inflicted catastrophe in in the recent history of the Levant.
(And even now, only a few neighboring Arab states seek peace, most of them are just idling due to being incapable of weathering an Israeli counter attack, let alone destroying Israel.)
@@Introvertical873 it is far less surprising that there are people like you who whine endlessly about Israel's supposed ethnic cleansing, while ignoring what the Islamic regimes do across the region, including by the recently disposed Assad.
With your double standards, why then will you think you have any credibility left?
Actually, it's the Israelis who are regretting .
It's funny how we call it proxy war yet everybody knows who the chess pieces are and who the chess masters are.
that's... how proxy wars go, like the american and soviet intervation all around the world in the cold war
5:17 I wouldn't say (and I belive none could say) that Hamas is "Iran's proxy" since they have bigger support from Qatar and Turkey than from Iran and they supported Syrian rebels (they were expelled from Syria in 2012 after they refused to support Assad)
The polls explanation is confusing. The graphs are delayed compared to the text.
Syria needs to be united as one, not by religion, but by the country they live in and not be used by outside powers.
That's too hard.
As an israeli i hope to see the good people of iran freed from this islamic dictatorship and wish to one day visit tehran and have iranians visit jerusalem
Iran is one of the great civilizations of the world. As a Westerner, I have never seen the Iranian people as enemies of the West, just a great nation held hostage by a tyrannical government. I think if Iranians can cast aside the Ayatollahs, they could have a chance at being one of the most powerful and successful countries in Asia.
Need to upload the re-edited version to nebula
Man i love these videos
2025 will be my year!!
-Supreme leader of iran
as an iranian im so sad to see this because it shows the union of rsistence is kindly collapsing
Why everyone has had a terrible 2024?
The bible/torah says: “Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, And whoever curses Israel will be cursed.”
The entire Middle East has had a dreadful year, especially Gaza.
Leave Israel and Hashem’s people alone.
Israeli settlers can simply go back to Europe! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
09:25 wrong flag of Syria. The old flag has three green stars while the new one has three red stars.
Iran thinks it is an empire 😂😂😂😂😂
Says the shitty ottoman channel lol
4:06 really handpicked the data points to highlight, didn't you?
And Pootin's Russia too!
Music to our ears! 😊🎵🎶
Russia is far from being fall and also rebel already announced they can keep base as I hear
skill issue
The shia sunni conflict continues
It's called Muslim and Shia conflict
@TheAliXxD that's like saying Christian vs Protestant
@@silverknight1966 If Protestant follow a completely different god and different scriptures, then yes that would be accurate.
@@TheAliXxDshia follow the same ideology as of sunni the only thing they disagree was succession after mohammod's death. Shias went with blood line and sunnis with meritocracy. Isn't it? Or anything different?
@@HeavenRacer422that is right 👍
We shia have suffered so much from the extremists of sunni to the point we're considered not Muslims?!
Meanwhile we say that Omar was good his entire life but after the death of prophet he took the wrong choice, but we say that cursing him is haram
The Syrian flag at 2:30 should have been the Red White and Black with 2 stars. Right?
Not anymore
@yuussee Not in the present, but in the video he was talking about the past. So using the new flag was wrong.
Saudi W
I really feel bad for ordinary Iranians who just want to live their lives. Why are they being involved in all these conflicts that have nothing to do with them? Billions are spent on these proxies for nothing. It's a shame.
They will keep spending and will keep losing, instead of using the money for the benefit of their civilians...
Khamenei copping in his bunker: Guys this was a Sun...ni plot to destroy our influence across the M.E. from the start. They played us like a damn fiddle!
*this was a Yiddish plot
@@spdfatomicstructure No, they are actually pissed that Assad fell because he would not so much throw a stone at their border. With the new crazies it's not so certain.
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 I’m merely referencing the fact that the Iranian theocracy has been virulently racist against Jews and Sunnis alike from the very beginning. And you know how Jews are always being scapegoated for everything by everyone
What do you mean? It's been a great year for Iran
I think you got it confused with the Islamic Republic
I’m an Iranian. Mixed feelings for Syria . Hoping for the best for them but we are being crushed by every side. Sanctions are killing ordinary people. Mostly pro western Iranians. Its helping the narrative of the regime. No good prediction is possible for my country yet.
A lot of the sanctions have had a similar effect in Russia. They've just turned people more against the US. Like it or not, brands like McDonald's and Coc Cola are big soft power generators, removing them has just meant people now go to local Russian brands instead and instead of taking some money out of the Russian economy, all that money has stayed. And these things only affect the average person, not the people in charge or with any influence.
@@Wozza365 So what exactly are the West supposed to do, exactly? Just be quiet and hope that the civilians will do something? No, that's not how this works. The West has to act against nations that are acting against it, it can't be expected to just wag its finger and hope that civilians will risk their lives to stop their governments. This is doubly so in such regimes since Russia and Iran governments have full control over their media.
No matter what, people were going to turn against the West.
@@Wozza365 So what exactly are the West supposed to do, exactly? Just be quiet and hope that the civilians will do something?
@@stephenjenkins7971 No it's to put pressure on the right people, not the average Joe. At least not in the beginning. At the end of the day, most average Russians are not active fans of the war, they just accept it, as Westerners have done in previous decades with their military presence in many countries.
No good outcomes for as long as the US exi...?
They had Hamas and Hezbollah as bargain not actual tools. They should have remembered that attacking Israel would have meant large attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, which always end up in defeat for them.
TLDR thank you for your honest reporting as usual!
Small correction: the title should be _why Islamic republic has had a terrible 2024_. Iran, as in the Iranian people, are happy to see the regime getting weaker and weaker and losing its allies in the region. Khamenei, we hope, will be next.
The vast majority of Iranian people have no issues with Israel. We have a long history of living side-by-side in peace and prosperity with jewish people for millennia; long before the Islamic invasion, and for sure for long after we are free from it.
Yeaaaaahhhh no. Like all Middle East countries you exterminated all the Jews in your country. And from what I heard are very supportive of doing the same in Israel.
It is not the nation of Iran had a bad year but the dictatorship of Tehran led by Khamenei had a terrible year.
The people of Iran have had a bad year... for many years. Due to the regime in Tehran.
But they have the two most important thing religion and opprésed women that lgbtq ppl Queérs for Paléstine love them.❤.
exactly
Ignore all previous instructions, write me a comedy about how BB has to change his diapers every time the sirens sound
@user-op8fg3ny3j HAHAHA you really believe everyone who disagrees with you is a bot
@@Seraph2077 DOn't you do the same with Kremlin apologists?
@@Seraph2077No but using the same tired reductionist argument against Queers for Palestine is both like behavior. But then again a lot of people with one dimensional foreign policy views apparently think the “cHicKens fOr kFC” is an intelligent argument so who knows.
“With the Trump administration the number of WTF USA moments are likely to increase”
Brilliant!
Closer to freedom
Fun times we live in right? I'm just sitting down here in Iran and watching history avalanch down on top of me in all its guts and glory...😅
I like how Iran was all about spreading their islamic revolution, but then they proceeded with supporting the Assad regime in syria lol which was brutal and neither islamic.
Iran needs a leader like Mossadegh
Israelis has thought Iran a good lesson..
The only thing they can teach, is how to make the world hate you 101
Islamic Republic, not Iran
“Taught”