Has Trump confirmed Iran’s claim that protesters were US-armed?
www.aljazeera.com
US president says Washington armed Kurdish Iranian opposition groups during the January demonstrations.

United States President Donald Trump says Washington had armed Iranian opposition groups and protesters during mass antigovernment demonstrations in December and January, in which thousands of people were killed during crackdowns by government forces.

    • woodenghost [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Sure, I can help you with that. I already had some very annoying, firsthand, real life experience:

      • “What, you’re gonna believe Trump now?” (repeated several times)
      • “What you’re gonna believe Mossad and Netanyahu now?”
      • “Since when does the CIA fund leftists?” (they’ve long funded compatible leftists)
      • “I know an Iranian socialist who said the protests were genuine.”
      • “We really need better sources before judging.”
      • “That [using the timing of the protests to connect them to regime change efforts] is just bullshit.”
      • “There were genuine grievances long before, so the [armed] protests [at that special time, scale and level of escalation] must be a genuine expression of popular will [and should therefore be tailed by socialists]” (additions in brackets mine, even if the protests were genuine, blindly following them would be tailism)
      • “No, I’ve never heard about Lenins concept of national liberation.” (National liberation from imperialism sometimes has to come before communist revolution)
      • “That’s condescending of you to explain it to me”
      • Upon mentioning the simultaneous and much larger pro Iran counter protests: literally handwaves, makes angry noises
      • Upon mentioning how both the victims (Iran) and the perpetrators (US and Israel) are in agreement about the unrest being fabricated, and how strange it is for a westerner to claim to know better and assume a conspiracy to lie about fabricating unrest and arming protesters, when it has been their declared strategy for years: angrily leaves the room