Public sentiment surrounding the Israel-Iran conflict is deeply divided, with a significant number of commenters advocating for peace and condemning violence, while others express staunch nationalistic support for their respective governments. Many highlight the humanitarian toll of the ongoing hostilities and criticize military aggressions perceived from Israel and the U.S., suggesting a lack of accountability. Emotional calls for dialogue dominate discussions, yet frustration, anger, and accusations create a climate of tension.

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I find it astonishing that they still interview him, because he has a history of making them look very bad.

Are the media just too racist to see how bad he makes them look?

Appropriate-Draft-91

I’m in the US and I agree with 100% of everything he said, especially the last part!

Kd916-650

Jews and Muslims are *equal!*

Nothing pisses off israel more than this.

Ripen-

TheApprentice19

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Tanstallion

Guys I think Iran might be the good guys.

Critter-Enthusiast

Don't ask him what his country's government does to women who remove their head scarfs and gay people.

Cold-Replacement-510

Icy_Food356

I agree with some of what the professor is saying but Israel is just so much better equipped than Iran, they also have the US at their back so if the conflict were too devastating I would imagine we get pulled in, there is no victory scenario for Iran here, they need to deescalate (even though they didn't initiate) if they wish to survive. And what comes out of Iran if they do not survive I believe, will be something similar to Afghanistan a fractured country with a power vacuum.

The3mbered0ne

Just wait till he finds out that there are 2 million Arab citizens in Israel, who have more civil rights here than anywhere else in the Middle East. 

To whit, an Arab judge convicted a Jewish prime minister and sent him to jail. 

Israel is literally the only place in the Middle East where Christianity is growing.  

This is disinformation and propaganda against Israel and it’s getting so boring and predictable.

Oh, also? I find it hilarious how he thinks Iran will win. Literally everyone who would plan and mount an attack against Israel is already dead.

1entreprenewer

OP is an absolute bot, or replaced their mind with one to include a generated response on every interaction here.

Altiverses

ObviouslyTriggered

Promote more leaders to be heads of the IRGC so that Israel can kill them too

OB1KENOB

Droby911

ojait2

They could possibly I don't care about the conflict between those two nations, or maybe I don't care about the conflict between those two nations.

I suppose they could I don't care about the conflict between those two nations, but that would be a high risk high reward move.

RewardNo144

Borrow a nuke from Russia to try stop Israel committing another genocide there

Wise_Adhesiveness746

Iran's positions are rational, clear-sighted, historically valid, based on an accurate analysis of power dynamics and geopolitical reality, and what Iran actually wants, if you understand their position *clearly*, and undistorted by either western propaganda *or* Muslim theological *overlay*, is a position that comes closest to actual justice and liberation, not just for them or for Palestine, but for the entire region. 

To understand Iran, you have to understand that they had been under total British colonial control since like the 1870s. The UK's Lord Curzon, himself a British colonial overlord in India, called the British rule "the most extraordinary surrender of the entire industrial resources of a kingdom into foreign hands that has ever been dreamt of." The Iranians *tried* to shuck off the British in 1906, and that was crushed. And then, beginning in 1917, their colonial overlord *also* took control of Iraq, Jordan, and ***Palestine*****.** 

So they, of course, saw this entire picture from a colonial perspective. And both the British and the Zionists were quite open back then about the fact that Zionism was a colonial effort to serve as a "bulwark of European civilization amongst the barbarism of Asia". So Iran *saw* what was done to the entirety of the formerly Ottoman Bilad Al-Sham as it was carved into pieces by the Sykes-Picot agreement, and the divide-and-conquer strategies domestically in those countries. They *saw* both what Zionism really was, as something being *wreaked* upon the Palestinians ... because while Iran was not *settled,* it was still colonially dominated, and by the same force as was Palestine.

And so, even before the partition, seeing clearly what Zionism was, Iran opposed Zionism, and as part of the UN in 1947, they were one of 13 countries to vote against partition. 

Then, in 1951, they got a second chance at their own liberation from colonial control, with Mohammed Mossadegh ---secular, democratic (wildly popular)--- and Mossadegh moved to nationalize Iran's resources  back from the British. Of course, this was not looked at favorably, and two years later, the CIA and MI6 conducted a coup, ousted Mossadegh, reinstalled the monarchy, de-nationalized Iran's resources, and set to work brutally repressing and dismantling Iran's domestic political culture. Israeli intelligence and the Shah's intelligence worked together during this time, and both states created ties as mutual outposts of imperialist power opposed to Arab power ... in an Arab/Muslim region of the world. 

Despite their political system being heavily repressed, Iran nevertheless *still* did not wish to *be* a subjugated colonial subject, and so they organized a revolution through the channels where that was still possible: the mosques. And thus, their rational and valid political aims of national liberation and shucking off imperial rule *naturally* ***also*** took on an overlay of religious character ---so, rather than saying something in terms communists might have used, such as "the belly of the beast" to refer to the USA, they instead used terms like "the great Satan" ---and Israel, the USA's *explicit* outpost for militarist domination in the region, was "the little Satan." Because unlike how we discourse the matter in the West, where we define Israel first and foremost as a haven for Jewish people following the persecution of *European* antisemitism, Iran sees it for what it has always been materially for people in the MENA region. 

And so because Iran was both anti-imperialist *and* Islamic, they cast the legitimate anti-imperialist political aspirations for the region, often-but-not-entirely in Muslim terms ... not least because Iran is not Arab, but it *is* Muslim---therefore, Muslim identity is a unifying factor amongst the overwhelming majority of people who are under the boot of western empire. They cast themselves as the vanguard of opposition to that, and the standard-bearer for Palestinian liberation. The very first week of the revolution, they turned the Israeli embassy into the Palestinian embassy, welcoming Yasser Arafat, renamed the street it was on to Palestine Street, and renamed the square surrounding it to Palestine Square. They evidently wanted to be *extremely* clear on their positions.

SnooMemesjellies1993

Nothing to explain. They are just violent, unmitigated anti-Semites. It's an illness. Even the US president is now participating in genocidal rhetoric and open hatred of Jews:

"'They violated it but Israel violated it too,' Trump said. He added, 'I’m not happy with Israel.'" [source](https://apnews.com/live/iran-israel-war-updates-6-24-2025?utm_source=onesignal&amp;utm_medium=push&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-24-Breaking+News).

Free Israel!

StrawberryWise8960

Iran has the right to defend itself, plain and simple. 

Israel has 90 nuclear warheads. Iran cannot have one. Why? Israel is a terrorist state, run by terrorists, who have claimed for 30 years that Iran is close to making a nuke. So Israel decided that Iran can’t have a nuke and what? Fired missiles at them? Ummm ok…and Iran still can’t defend itself???? Israel started this. Not Iran. 

Why are we sympathizing with Iran? Because we aren’t stupid enough to be brainwashed by the western propaganda. And I’m from Canada. And I’m white. 

Let’s not forget Israel fired the missiles first. 

And don’t get me started on what Satanyahu is doing to the people of Gaza. 

At this point, I would choose North Korea over Israel. ANY country over Israel. Those are the real terrorists. 

THATS why.

mstrishamc

I think after what's happened in Palestine is grounds enough to support Iran. And im not just talking about the gaza genocide, but the occupation and apartheid, destruction, and theft of homes and villages.

Any crimes Iran is guilty of are a drop in the water to what Israel has done to the Palestinians.

Commercial-Object-25

as much as i have no say on this, amidst of everything, i would like to say that iran military is the funniest thing ever in a war crisis

Hopeful-Chemical-604

i don’t think the iranian people should be punished on behalf of a horrible government. moving on to what i know better, i also don’t think the united states should’ve done anything because it is not our fight and they were not a threat to us, and it was trump’s fault in the first place they were even allowed to enrich uranium.

OpenupmyeagerEyes0

Don't you find it odd, that the fate of the middle east countries should be dictated by westerners, acting all mighty discussing it on reddit as if they should have a say in the matter.

robinrd91

People, I don’t think people and children are bad just bad government.

5hred

also a note to the OP: since everyone on the planet believes in the fictional separation of a government people (for reasons I'll never understand.) You may want to lead with "Iranian People" or "Iranian Regime," "IRGC" or something more specific. 

I can say over the past 11 days of intensely staring at Reddit, I have not seen any posts celebrating the IRGC or the Mullahs. YMMV.

Not in defense of anyone, especially not the IRGC. BUT. I am familiar with events of the region over the past decades.
I agree with some of your assessments. 

In particular: "I don't know that there is an easy solution here - wars in the middle east don't tend to be very fruitful over the long term."

I disagree that the current approach of bombing then asking for for a change in behavior is the correct course. Previous US administrations were content to let fund Iranian dissidents (Hillary Clinton removing MEK from the terror list) while providing incentives for "better behavior."  effectiveness is debatable.

What we are seeing across the globe is a return to the Dulles Brothers and NeoCon foreign policies. Which will have disastrous down stream effects. Some will be visible immediately, some in the decades to come. Again, this is easy to look up. (recommend the book "All the Shah's Men" by Steven Kinzer.)

Sanctions, bombing, and spycraft tend to harden a government’s position while galvanizing a population against the perceived aggressor. Regime change (to a governance favorable to the west) is pipe dream. The Iranian population will revolt against anyone who they think was "installed" by the west.

THAT, I believe is the where a lot people think this is a bad idea. The general population of the West is seeing two things.

1) Anyone who lived through the 80's is thinking about the war between Iraq and Iran. Iraq was given material and intelligence support by the west. Including but not limited to Saddam Hussein's chemical Weapons program. That war cemented power for Khomeini. It also LITERALLY killed a 75% generation of people who remembered life before the theocrats took power.

2)An eruption of uncertainty. The most concerning of which a lack of a cohesive plan. No government on the planet is going to suffer these kind of attacks and then acquiesce. Then what? Let's say the Mullah's fall. Who takes over? Remember Islamic State is still around and hates the IRGC (who helped the US in fighting ISIS.) As well as many other actors. Most likely scenario is a military coup. The likelihood of an Iranian Military Junta being a "good actor" is about zero. 

Combine the above with a general weariness and wariness of US military foreign interventions and you get a chorus of people hesitant to attack Iran. Not sure if any of it amounts to support or defense of the current Iranian regime. 

-"Moving onto Iran - I feel that many western people sympathize with Iran purely as an extension of their distaste for whats happening in Gaza, which makes very little sense to me."

I think this is true. Perhaps this will make more sense. Iran is the closest thing Palestinians have to an ally, albeit a pretty manipulative and rotten one.   I will add there is a fear that, as with Gaza, the bombing in Iran will continue and the death toll will continue to rise to catastrophic levels. Especially given the escalation in attacks on Tehran. Hamas hasn't disappeared and the IDF has isolated, flattened, and starved the population. ALSO, for what it’s worth, PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY KIND. When they see atrocity, regardless of the actors, they are usually fearful of the at horror spreading. Which, at the moment is a credible fear. 

-"Nuclear capability coupled with Iran's missiles program would give it enormous leverage over the west, similar to the leverage North Korea has, but even greater. I think it is naive to believe that this is not the case, and that Iran is some peaceful nation with a nuclear power program, and no goals of weaponization, simply being propagandized and mischaracterized by the West."

I don't believe the Mullah's are peaceful or aligned with my values or whatever. I do agree with your assessment of "leverage." Leverage "over" the West is not currently possible, but I get your point. The likelihood of a nuclear strike by ANY state actor in the current era is EXTREMELY LOW. Iran having a nuclear weapon would make Israel and Iran the two nuclear armed states in the region. I would compare this to the relations between historic enemies that are current nuclear powers.

N. Korea vs S.Korea (no nukes, but supported by Nuclear armed power)- tense stable holding patters, but extremely monitored and, well, TENSE

Pakistan and India - similar. 

If it is not Iran, it will be one of the other gulf states, in time.  

As for people saying "they're crazy!" and their "chanting!!" I will just say a country that purposefully and systematically uses proxies for the express purpose of avoiding culpability (didn't seem to work out) is unlikely to put a big target on themselves that says "Nuclear Aggressor."
The majority of the Mullahs are not trying to get to heaven, they are enriching themselves and enjoying their power. Theocratric klepto state: That would be the model I would use when trying to predict their moves. If you dig even a little into Iranian domestic politics you will trip over a preponderance of evidence supporting this.

other recommended reading: "Iran Empire of the Mind." by Michael Axworthy.

lol. My dogs are mad I wrote this treatise and delayed their feeding time.

TransformerDom

You're wrong about Gaza and Israel is not a mistake.

The mistake was the Arab countries attacking Israel.

Middle-Brilliant764

I support attacking iran but i hate the reasoning behind it, nuke or no nuke, it doesnt matter, how dictatorial the government is, its for them to deal with. WHAT MATTERS IS IRAN HAS LITERALLY BEEN AT WAR WITH ISRAEL SINCE THE REVOLUTION, attacking a country that doesnt recognize you, threatens to destroy you and funds paramilitary groups who openly attack you is not a wild thing to do...

Helpful-Manager-6003

I had a conversation with an acquaintance of mine on this last night, actually. As far as he’s concerned America is ruled by “free masons” and it’s “fanatical”. When I asked him whether he thought the ayatollah was fanatical he replied “everyone is fanatical”. When I asked him if he himself was fanatical, he said “I’m not fanatical.”

When I asked him where he heard about the free masons controlling America, he told me - tiktok.

BizzareRep

I couldn’t catch when he said anything about giving up nuclear weapon. I only heard him say they would have done if they wanted, and that it’s taking them already many years, and kept shifting the subject to Israel and the Palestinian issue.

Also, he puts up a very nice face and he is either not in par with their leadership or is very good at embellishing reality. Very far from the videos of burning flags and military exhibitions and public speeches.

Bitter_Reply_1846

What Hamas did to those concert goers is so sickening and the proof is so vivid.  Death to Israel and the US!?? And almost having nuclear weapons? Doesn’t that automatically say annihilate the nuclear weapons program?  Why wait for a nuke to come our way?  Iran backs them?  Tell me it isn’t that clear cut? Please educate me?  Why is it wrong to annihilate any chance of the US or other countries being Nukes?

Alive-Ad1534

Here’s how I feel about all of this.

As someone who is more left leaning, the fact that a lot of democrats or left leaning people are taking Iran’s side raises an eyebrow, at least to me. For reference, I actually just had a conversation with my mom about Iran and this whole ordeal. She pointed out to me that when 911 happened, everyone immediately gained a distrust towards Muslims. As sad as it is, it’s the truth unfortunately. Her view on this whole matter is biased, since she has seen similar attacks from Middle Eastern organizations in her lifetime. I think that’s something to keep in mind with the whole history of everything going on right now. Does that mean it’s right? No, of course not. However considering someone who wasn’t born yet when 911 occurred, it makes sense to me personally why many other people in a similar age range as me are more supportive towards Iran since they didn’t have that experience, versus older folks who are naturally more distrusting of everyone since they’ve seen more. Again this is just my opinion. 

I think this whole thing is based on personal opinions. Sounds pretty obvious, but it’s just how I thought about it. It’s pretty obvious that Iran has a dislike towards the US and Israel. I mean, a lot of us have seen how they have responded and what they have said about the US. And in turn, the US just so happens to have a distrust towards the Middle East already. So when Iran made that dislike to the US clear, I think it was pretty clear that the US would respond badly. 

I’m still not quite sure how to feel about this whole scenario. I don’t like Trump, or any of these other ‘leaders’ who are putting their citizens at risk in order to prove they can win or are better than the other. At the same time though, I don’t want my country to get attacked. My best friend is from Israel, and her views on this whole situation are understandable. It’s really just a mess that we shouldn’t have involved ourselves in. I hope that peace can come about soon, because the people who are fighting for this stupid war are getting hurt, along with people who didn’t even ask for one. 

Ok-Relief-6529

Preventing a state as big as Iran from developing a nuke is logistically impossible. They were careless enough to get caught with 85% enriched uranium...to think that they arent capable of the 90% weapons grade is laughably absurd. Best that can be done is a temporary delay.

nexxwav

Big chunk of the problem in middle east stems from the fact that only Israel has nukes and with the help of US runs rough shod over everyone.  If Iran and maybe Saudi, Turks and whoever else had nukes, everyone will have to calm down and Israelis couldn't just do whatever they pleased.

More over, Israelis are probably the worst messenger besides only North Koreans about preaching to anyone else about not getting nukes.

Worried_Exercise_937

They hate America, the west and Israel.  It’s simple

AnakinSkycocker5726

"Pro-Palestinian" people, Iran apologists/defenders etc are not actual supporters of those nation states and their values, they are supporters of defending human life. They would switch sides and become "pro-israel" if Israel was the nation being subject to genocide or attacks from a larger aggressor.

natewade87

By extension many of the people who are protesting Gaza are doing so as an extension of their social media feeds and political viewpoints not common sense ones.

Jaded-Form-8236

They are the only people besides the houthis that are standing up for Palestinians

Mr_Basura

from what I have people generally just support iran because they are the only people willing to fight israel

CounterExtension1820

I do not support Iran. I do not support Israel. I want my country to have absolutely nothing to do with what is going on in that area of the world. The United States should have absolutely no business in a war between an ethnostate and a theocracy, nor should we be providing arms or funds to either. I feel for the civilians on both sides who are caught in this mess, but I don't want my country involved, it can really only make things worse.

Wonderful_Glass2084

Am I defending Iran by thinking externally forcing regime change is a bad Idea?

Because make no mistake that is exactly what is beginning to happen here.

PerceivingUnkown

I don't defend Iran and I don't defend Hamas. People on the pro Israeli side often make this a black and white but it's not. I'm against the current war against Iran for the following reasons:
1) there's no evidence that Iran was trying to get nuclear weapons , US intelligence confirmed this. Netanyahu gas been saying Iran was months,days from developing a nuclear bomb in order to drag the US into this mess.
Obama signed a deal with Iran that effectively prevented them from getting nuclear weapons, the deal was working and Iran was complying until Trump ended the agreement for no good reason. Israel attacked Iran while talks to get to a new deal were ongoing in Oman. Iran was willing to come to the table again despite the US unilateral betrayal of the deal.Withdrawing from the Obama Iran deal had clear consequences which was reduced compliance by Iran but still the regime didn't completely abandon it's obligation.
For all these reasons I think Israel's attack is an act of aggression, Israel chose war over diplomacy and wants to drag the US into a regional war.
2) Iran is part of the non proliferation agreement, they allowed IAEA inspectors until recently. Israel refuses to officially acknowledge its nuclear arsenal, never alowed any inspections since it isn't part of the treaty. Everything Israel has done everything it is accusing Iran of when it comes to nuclear weapons 
3) Sure the Iranian regime has often vowed to destroy Israel and has propped up proxies all around the middle east. The point is that war should be the last resort. Israel could have ensured it's safety by supporting western diplomatic efforts to bring Iran to agree to a new nuclear deal. Regime change isn't the solution,and it's only solidifying the Iranian government while also killing civilians. As of today over 200 Iranian civilians have been killed by Israeli strikes.Now even anti government Iranians feel under attack as a nation and Israel has been seriously hit with dozens of civilian casualties by. Complete defeat of Iran is unlikely to occur only through missiles and air strikes , a ground invasion would be pretty much suicid*l. This will make things worse for all peoples of the middle east.

For all these reasons I'm against this war and not being a war hawk doesn't make me pro Iranian regime

Successful_Focus_122

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Few people outright support Iran. They just believe bombing it is stupid.

Anonon_990

I am Hindu, an Indian citizen and I support Iran. 
Here is my pov. 
Had it been a pure Iran vs Israel war, it would make sense. 
But that's not the case. 
USA is a evil nation who wants wars to keep their military industry going. 
They are done with Syria, yemen etc. 

Ukraine is going on... 
Iran is the new front, once it ends, they will start war with Venezuela and when it ends, there next target is China and India. 

They already have overthrown an elected govt in Bangladesh now run by jihadi.... proxy of USA. 
It is only to start a war front with India. They already have Pakistan as puppet. 

I will not be surprised if they do the same with India what have done with Iraq, Iran etc. 

Sometimes I feel, 9/11 is the best thing happened to the third world.

Equivalent_Juice3554

Oh ... the classic dog eat dog arguments.

To be honest, a chinese friend of mine told me the exact problem with this western-empire mindset.

But life is life. Just another empire doing what empires do best!

just-an-average-dev

Just to make a point, since I’m sure people will try and compare this to Iraq. This situation is NOT the same. We know that Iran uranium enriched to 60% (far higher than anything needed for civilian use). The IAEA has confirmed this much. In Iraq there were only suspicions and a few intelligence reports. Here, we have quite a bit more data, and from an international source no less.

Some other differences: no boots on the ground, no meddling in internal Iranian politics (to this point), no military bases established in Iran. The US dropped a handful of bombs and is done. Quite different from a full blown invasion.

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