The United States loves its role as the World’s police- well until Trump who touts MAGA any chance he can get. That did not stop him from tossing 59 missiles in Syria, did it.

The US-Iran relations were warm until 1953 when the CIA organised a military coup that overthrew Mohammed Mossadeq.

Since then, the two countries have maintained a frosty relationship. Recently, Trump put Iran on the “no fly”list and issued additional sanctions. Sanctions that are far reaching.

Natasha takes a stand against the world’s police meddling  in Iran.

So Iran's temperature hit 127 degrees yesterday.

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

Iran's economy, of course, has been completely destroyed by American sanctions; tens of thousands of homeless people *sleep in graves* and

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

food scarcity is so intense that there have been riots over access to chicken. (We used to be one of the world's wealthier countries.)

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

It's been *years* and I'm still haunted by an American politician saying airstrikes might be more ethical than sanctions, because airstrikes

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

would only kill "a couple thousand" innocent Iranians. (There's apparently no option c, don't bomb OR starve innocent Iranians. ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

And now on top of that global warming has hit the point where it is actively dangerous for Iranians to be anywhere but in air conditioning,

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

which most Iranians can't afford because everything I just said.

And the world's biggest contributor of global warming is stripping away

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

the very few things it was doing to mitigate that.

I'm terrified but I'm also fucking furious.

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

The worst part is Iran got the "nice" sanctions, unlike the Iraqi sanctions which killed (zero exaggeration) hundreds of thousands of kids.

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

This is what Middle Eastern kids grow up seeing. American politicians saying "maybe it would be nicer to bomb them than starve them" and

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

"killing 500,000 kids was worth the cost" (killing 500,000 kids was defended Madeleine Albright in 1996; the sanctions kept right on going

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

Again, there's no "don't kill" option. The question is just do we kill them with sanctions, kill them with bombs, or kill them with drones?

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

Meanwhile the US Navy has REPEATEDLY called global warming a threat to our security, but why stop global warming when you can kill people.

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

…but like, "they" hate us because "they hate freedom," right? I mean, what other reason could there possibly be?

— Natasha Razi (@swingingstorm) July 1, 2017

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Isn't Iran, right now, spending millions to fight proxy wars with the Israelis, and Saudis. Why do "they" hate them?

— Robert George (@RobertCinci) July 2, 2017

Um, b/c Israel helps the U.S. imperialize the region by attacking other nations, & Saudis spread Wahabism and terrorism have bomb civilians?

— MindForged (@MindForgedOne) July 2, 2017

I mean if you literally just ignore shat these nations actually do, you can ask these rhetorical "gotchas", but that's an easy game to play.

— MindForged (@MindForgedOne) July 2, 2017

That's the point. Most states act in the same ways, and can tell righteous stories like the one above.

— Robert George (@RobertCinci) July 2, 2017

Did Iran overthrow our Democratically elected government and install a brutal dictator to get our oil?

— ? Bernielab 2020 ? (@SnarkCage) July 2, 2017

If not, maybe you should stop this deeply intellectually dishonest false equivalency game.

— ? Bernielab 2020 ? (@SnarkCage) July 2, 2017

Hell, it would be nice if you could at least tell a coherent story. Mossadegh's oil nationalization helped the US at the UK's expense.

— Robert George (@RobertCinci) July 2, 2017

British sanction over the move destabilized Mossadegh's government, and he turned to communists to help him battle the Shah.

— Robert George (@RobertCinci) July 2, 2017

That's when we sided with the Brits. Because our fear of the USSR Trump'd oil companies political power.

— Robert George (@RobertCinci) July 2, 2017

And if you think the US didn't have a righteous story about its struggle with the Soviets you aren't paying attention.

— Robert George (@RobertCinci) July 2, 2017

Like us, I'm sure the victims of Shah's CIA-trained secret police SAVAK would find your trenchant geopolitical analysis quite compelling pic.twitter.com/iuN0PDkVAR

— ? Bernielab 2020 ? (@SnarkCage) July 3, 2017

Unless my memory is terrible, I didn't contest the Shah's brutality, just that his installation wasn't about US access to oil.

— Robert George (@RobertCinci) July 3, 2017

Hi Trump, your memo.