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Regime change: who has the right?

Andrew Thomas has the gall to tell us how to bring about regime change in Iran and quotes that bastion of moral genocide, Netanyahu, to reinforce his righteousness.

Even more “wow” is that P&I publishes this example of how the Western world, led by a country not at war for just 17 years of its history, considers it has the right to determine who is allowed to rule a country anywhere in the world.

Thomas seems unaware that it was British/US meddling — the overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953 — that gave birth to subsequent regimes, and that implicit in his article is the assumption that Israel and the US have a God-given right to determine who rules Iran. He also seems to have amnesia about the most salient fact, that Israel has been making war on Palestinians – Deir Yassin and the other 530 villages wiped out in 1948, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iran since then.

Oh, I know, Israel rules from the river to the sea, ask Thomas’s hero, Netanyahu, but let us forget about that, let’s change the rulers of Iran to please him. And, please, don’t mention the bastion of sanity – Trump.

— Dieter Barkhoff from Box Hill North