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Source: https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-893894
Despite Mass Executions and Repression, Iran Is Gaining Sympathy in Parts of the West
(Jerusalem Report) Maj. (ret.) Andrew Fox - The Islamic Republic of Iran fills prisons, gallows, and morgues with its own citizens. January's crackdown killed tens of thousands, yet parts of the West have granted the regime false victimhood. Tehran has piggybacked on two years of anti-Israel sentiment and the collapse of moral vocabulary around Gaza. In too many circles, "anti-Israel" has become a solvent. It dissolves distinctions between democracy and theocracy, between wartime error and deliberate terror, and between sympathy for civilians and indulgence towards tyrants. Once Israel is cast as the master villain, Iran can appear, absurdly, as part of a global resistance front. Its own victims - women beaten for showing their hair, teenagers hanged for protesting, minorities, dissidents, and students - vanish. The Iranian people deserve solidarity. The Islamic Republic deserves exposure, pressure, and defeat. The tragedy is that too many young Westerners, convinced they are siding with the oppressed, are being trained to cheer the oppressors. The writer, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, served for 16 years in the British Army.