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Assad is as much the leader of Syria as Saddam was the leader of Iraq. Unelected forceful people do NOT have any legitimacy to leadership.

Excuse me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hundreds of thousands killed and over 10 million homeless just because one stinky murderer is survived. His army under his orders attacking defenseless civilians and bombing civilian targets in opposition areas. I wonder why he is murderous!!! Americans are hypocrites no argument there but they are after their own interest. That does not make Assad a good guy.

There are more than enough reasons to attack muderous regime of Assad regardless whether he was responsible for this latest chemical attack or not.

Nobody thinks Iran sucks. Only those morons who are not capable of differentiating between beautiful ancient Iran and its ugly regime who forcefully has occupied the country.

Corrections. Since 1953. Now Iran is screwing the US all over the ME. As ONE example US ciitizens were taken hostage for 444 days in their own soil (embassy) in 1979 and there wasn't a damn thing that US could do about it. And Trudeau is doing just fine for me.

The ugly face of hypocracy: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/chemical-attacks-iran-180415122524733.html Documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also showed that the US government knew about Iraq's repeated use of nerve agents in Iran, but did nothing to stop it. Iraq was then allied with the US against Iran. A declassified "top secret" CIA document dated March 23, 1984, showed that the US was aware of Iraq's use of nerve gas agents against Iranian troops in Basrah, and the plan "to employ it in militarily significant quantities" by late fall of that year. Another document dated January 28, 1986, showed it was aware of a report that a West German firm helped Iraq establish a factory that produced the lethal chemical agent, Tabun.

Thank God for that. But he is yours and so far he has been all talk and no action. Unlike past republican presidents.

Me too. So what the hell is he waiting for?

Disgusting. Shameful. Woman being wrestled to ground and beaten. Faces of islamic republic. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/19/video-of-iran-morality-police-wrestling-with-woman-sparks-outrage http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43821853 Another recent brutal action by mercenary law enforcement in Iran Disgusting. Those mercenary officers or mercenary morality people that suppress the defenseless inoccent people, especially women like this should be identified, targeted at a later place and date and punished by the suppressed nation because the regime does not do it. In fact encourages it.

Because we are trying to take out the WRONG cancerous organ causing the sickness all over ME. The main cancer causing organ is not Assad. It is Iran regime without which Assad would have been toppled long ago and many issues in ME today would not have existed.

That said as an unbiased poster I also believe that the US, Britain, France (and Germany who supports them) are bloody HYPOCRITES in all of these while they are condemning chemical attacks by Syrian regime (and rightly so) and taking military actions against those who they believed have used chemical weapons against innocent poeple, BUT they stood by and watched in the 80's while the muderous regime of Saddam Hussain of Iraq for years used chemical weapons against Iran (both against civilians in Halabja and Iranian soldiers who were defending their soil) in the 8 year war. In fact not only they remained silent while the use of chemical weapons was proven again and again by iraqis but they supported Saddam Hussain with money (stinky Arabia and Kuwait) and weapons (the French and Russian in particular but also Britain and US). Where the hell were they then that now they suddenly condemn chemical attacks and show military action? They are only after their own interests. Hypocrite bastards.

I can't believe people posting and opposing attack on Bashir Assad's bases!!!!. Wake up people who are claiming to defend the defenseless. Responsible for chemical attacks or not, Bashir Assad is a proven mass murderer who has killed hundreds of thousands of his own people for his survival ever since uprising against his regime by Syrian people started 8 years ago and millions up to 10 million homeless all because one person (himslelf) wish to survive.

Zionism and Saudi Wahabism you have said often as forces responsible for all ME problems and chaos but how many times as an unbiased poster should, have you mentioned the chaos and sufferings coming from Iran regime form of Islamism all over middle east and the poor defenseless nation of Iran???

I don't know much about zionism or what it stands for (I heard from a Jewish friend that it only means he believes in the state of Israel but very likely there is more to it like racism and hate by SOME zionists) but one thing I know about is that Zionism is NOT the only ugly ideology dominating ME and you fail to mention that. Your evaluation is biased as you ignore the fact that Israel is surrounded by a large population of very bitter enemies hundred times it population and likely more violent.

Speaking of economic and political pressure, EU just extended sanctions on 82 individuals in Iran for human rights violations, mainly judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers. Maybe a good start but those violating human rights number much more than just 82 in Iran. I don't think 82 individuals no matter how evil they may be can suppress 82 million no matter how murderous they may be. https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-extends-sanctions-on-iran-over-rights-violations/29161095.html

What is missing from the list: It is US's fault. It is the British. Nobody is pointing to the real faults, The Damn Russians. The post-Islamic violent middle eastern cultures where murderous regimes are ruling by terror.

Well that may not be true as there are many recent examples where democracy was achieved without bloodshed. Greece for example was under military rule in the 70's and now it is a democracy. Chile is another example where peaceful transition from a murderous dictator to democracy took place without bloodshed in the 90's and many other examples in Europe and South America. Interesting examples though that in both Germany and Japan used as examples democracy was achieved by foreign military invasion. Iran society is now (unlike in 1953) ready for a western style democracy because Iran is indeed a westernised country thanks mainly to 50 years of progressive Pahlavi dynasty and recent advances in social media, satellite TVs and an educated young population forming some 70% of population. However, I do agree that in Iran because of the nature of its regime a peaceful transition is more like a fiction and a wishful thinking rather than reality and the Iran nation may indeed have to pay a heavy price with its blood for democracy, especially if there is no external political and economic pressure on the regime for respecting human rights.

Another chemical attack on defenseless children and civilians in Syria by muderous bastard regime(s) while the world watches and stays silence. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43697084 When were chemical weapons used before? In August 2013, rockets containing Sarin were fired at several opposition-held suburbs in the Eastern and Western Ghouta, killing hundreds of people. UN experts confirmed that Sarin was used in the attack, but they were not asked to ascribe any blame. Western powers said only Syrian government forces could have carried out the attack. President Assad denied the allegation, but he did agree to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention and destroy Syria's declared chemical arsenal. Experts from a joint UN-OPCW mission also said they were confident that government forces were behind the April 2017 Sarin attack on Khan Sheikhoun, which Mr Assad dismissed as a fabrication. The mission has also found that government forces have used chlorine as a weapon on at least three occasions during the civil war. Edit: The latest is that Nazi Russian criminal government again for 6th time vetoed investigations into this chemical attack in the UN to protect muderous regime of Bashir Assad.

There has been many opportunities for reforms in the past and every single time it was blocked by unelected hardliners who have the guards, the basij and the judiciary to back them up by force and terror. Iranian people have now realized that this regime is NOT reformable it is very clear from their slogans in recent mass demonstrations. Iran is no China. China allowed economic reforms while keep a tight leash on political freedom. Hardliners in Iran do not allow any kind of reform since they are enormously benefitting from the current corruptions and the guards grip on vast sectors of economy. Nor will they allow any political reforms as was the case with Soviet Union and the last Shah since the slightest such reform would topple the very unpopular regime. Every day they are closing channels not opening any. The latest victim being the popular app Telegram which has 40 million (half population) audience in Iran.

Iran led by current regime diving into economic and political chaos while taking the whole nation down with it 6 feet under. Farmers and workers join the rest of nation and women to demand their rights and freedom and unpaid wages, meanwhile even within the system cracks appearing as former supporters including a former fraudent President writing to his leader demanding immediate reforms or fall of regime, while national currency dropping sharply by 40% in one month proving lack of confidence of nation in the regime as factories closing down every day and masses losing their jobs and farmers losing their livelihood as a result of decades of wrong policies by this regime and inflation creeping back up into double digits again and sharply rising unemployment as billions of dollars are leaving the country by scared regime mercenaries while external pressure increasing as May 12 is approaching for Trump to cancel the JCPOA nuclear agreement and re-impose harsh sanctions on Iran while Iran forces come under attack in Syria. May be the title of this thread should change from "Iran needs some democracy" to "Iran needs regime change" which democracy, economic prosperity, political stability, peace and freedom and greatness like the pre-revolutionary golden years will ALL come back to this ancient land all with one change.

Fighting back against an oppressive regime who muders and tortures and jails and rapes and beats its own citizens for survival of its evil exitence is NOT terrorism or rebellion. Maybe the dictatorship in power calls them such names but everyone in the world knows well they are freedom fighters and nationalists risking their lives in order to free their homeland from blood sucking vampires.

This is true ONLY if the group goes against a democratically elected government by any nation.

The only part I agree with is his criminal acts in Yemen. He does hate the Iranian regime and who doesn't, but I am not sure that he hates Iran and Iranians. As usual with most posters here the OP appears not to realize that Iran and Iranian regime are two DIFFERENT entities. I don't like Saudi Arabia for many reasons . One beause not only its government but its society as a whole have no respect for women and do not believe in equal rights for women (unlike Iran whose population is respectful for women but not its government) however Mohammad Bin Salman has started some reforms but none of his predecessors ever done in that country. Two, because in spite of being rich they refuse to help their poor Arab brothers and sisters in other parts of Middle East. Three, because they have lots of oil money but no brains. Four, because it is a corrupt royal family who preaches Islamicic faith but most of its members are in Europe's casinos and bawdy houses. He may not be a friend of zionists but he follows the logical way of "an enemy of my fiece enemy is my friend even though he maybe my enemy". It was actions by Iran regime which pushed him to behind the door friendship with zionists. In spite of my dislikes for SA and it corrupt royal family as an unbiased poster I don't agree with above statements by the OP except crimes in Yemen.

I am certainly not Pro MEK. That said I don't know much about MEK except what I have been told and read that MEK was an Islamic Marxist terror organization who fought against the Shah and help the ayatolahs to power (so they are guilty in the suffering of the this nation now). Then they lost the power to them and started fighting for power and once they didn't get it then they joined Iran's enemy (Iraqi Saddam) who invaded Iran and killed many Iranians (so many iranians and rightly so consider them traitors). Recently they claimed to have changed and appears to be bribing a few US politicians for support. However, US administration and US politicians including the President know well that MEK has no support among Iranian people as is not an alternative. So if they are seeking a regime change then MEK is not an alternative and they know it but rather another opposition who many tens of thousands of demonstrators and protesters were chanting his name recently in Iran, the son of the last King and former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi. Bolton may support MEK in theory however, in practice he must be fully aware that they have no chance in Iran.

Interesting article about The pro-Iranian regime lobby has gone into overdrive claiming that Bolton, a former is an ultra-hawkish warmonger who will not hesitate to attack Iran. https://www.upi.com/John-Bolton-is-a-realist-on-Iran/3231522156093/ Iran is the most repressive country in the Middle East. It executes more people, per capita, than any other country in the world. Ninety percent of all executions throughout the Middle East take place in Iran, often in public. The regime tightly controls the media and education. The recent uprisings in over 140 cities throughout Iran show that the people are sick to death with this theocratic dictatorship. They long for freedom, justice, democracy and the rule of law, but the IRGC and its cohorts have met their protests with the usual brutal crackdown. Around 8,000 mostly young protesters, many of them women, have been arrested. At least 14 have been tortured to death. These are atrocious crimes that Europe has chosen to ignore.