Who is “they”? A representative subset of the overall population, or a group of extremists, possibly performing for the cameras? Iran was once an open and liberal country; the current government is generally very unpopular.

Just as Netanyahu‘s actions do not represent all Israelis, so the Iranian government does not represent all Iranians.

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azinman2 5 hours ago | parent [-]

They is the gov, along with some portion of the population.

	▲	_heimdall an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's a pretty broad net though. Is it the whole government you are talking about, or only certain positions? And what is the actual percentage of the population you're implicating here? 5% vs 50% could make a huge difference.