Are these Iranian friends and their children the ones at risk the next time the US or Israel "accidentally" double taps civilian infrastructure?

The regime will kill you/your loved ones and brand them as criminals if you protest against them or break an unreasonable law, the US and Israel will kill you and brand you as terrorists because you happened to be Iranian and in the wrong place.

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y-c-o-m-b 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My family in Tehran fear the bombs but support the US continuing to do so. I think the bombing campaign needs to end, so I disagree with them on that. Based on what little we know coming out of Tehran (we only get a few min of landline phone calls from Tehran once a week), the issue is splitting families due to the mental strain it's having. That being said, the overall feeling is very much still pro-US.

I think people outside of Iran/Iranians vastly underestimate the disdain for the Iranian regime. Go watch the movie "It was just an accident" to get a basic feel for how much they hate the regime, then amplify that tenfold.

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hgoel 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I was living in Tehran during the 2011-2012 protests, British embassy incident etc (I was ~13 then).

I once attended a military "fair"(?) where they'd show off their equipment and had some anti-US "games", eg one involving throwing a shoe at a target with Obama or maybe Bush's face printed on it, and observed people enthusiastically taking part in it.

My impression was that while people hated and feared the regime, they still broadly shared the anti-foreign intervention stance, particularly against the US. I'm having a hard time believing that they'd still be pro-US after Trump threatened genocide against them.

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mazamats 4 hours ago | parent [-]

If you weren’t born in that part of the world I would doubt your impressions especially at age 13

Your viewpoint is comes from a different place than that of natives or diaspora

	▲	hgoel 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's a fair point

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breppp 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you look at the chances, there's a far greater chance of dying in the hands of SUV mounted machine guns firing at crowds than precision bombs that mostly hit regime forces

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epicureanideal 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Source for the latter occurrence?

	▲	E-Reverance 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mgndkklvmo