The war on Iran is a civil war of human conscience, and the aggressors will lose no matter what the outcome because the people they fail to represent demand better at home.

About this episode

This episode critiques the hypocrisy of democratic nations waging war against Iran while facing their own accusations of crimes.

A social democrat will never defend a brutal regime that kills its own people and threatens innocents. So for those who do not hear enough criticism here of the Iranian regime, please listen to other episodes that focus purely on Iran. This episode is about the hypocrisy of politicians, from countries claiming to be democratic, waging war against a brutal regime in an attempt to make the world forget about their own crimes. In the USA the Trump regime has to answer questions about the Epstein horrors and the members of Israel’s government that have been called before the international court for the crime of genocide have to answer for that. They are in no place to lead a charge in the defence of democracy when they stand accused of such horrific crimes themselves. There are international institutions which the USA and Israel have deliberately discredited and weakened that are responsible for dealing with regimes like Iran, but that’s not enough for some. As to how the democracy-loving European leaders can stand so unequivocally with this farce is an embarrassment these politicians will never be able to live down. Every day they defend these criminals they tarnish themselves more…

People in this episode

Host: Zak

Topics covered

• Iran
• hypocrisy of politicians
• democracy
• war
• human rights
• international relations

Keywords

• Iran
• democracy
• politicians
• war
• human rights
• hypocrisy
• international relations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Israel, international court, USA, European leaders

Places: Iran

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