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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/09/western-derangement-syndrome/
We Need to Talk about Western Derangement Syndrome
(Telegraph-UK) George Chesterton - When we see activists campaigning against the Iranian people's wish to overthrow one of the most repressive and murderous regimes in the world, the most accurate description of this baffling reaction is "deranged." A video from Cologne illustrated this, where a woman berated Iranians who were demonstrating against their government's killing of protesters. She was screaming wildly about Palestine, apparently provoked by some Israeli flags being waved by Iranian Jews. Only a person who has taken leave of their senses could convince themselves that it's rational to support the Iranian regime while despising the West, where they benefit from freedoms that people in Tehran could only dream of. Opposing the efforts of the Iranians themselves to overthrow the clerics who've kept them in bondage since 1979 is a leap into genuine madness. It is the most worrying symptom yet of "Western Derangement Syndrome" (WDS) - the belief that anything and anyone opposed to the West is preferable to the horrors of liberal democracy, even if that means supporting a regime that has executed 1,500 of its own people in 2025, treats women like chattel, criminalizes homosexuality and sponsors global terrorism.