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freediverx01 t1_j0d0jsr wrote

Reply to comment by Good_old_Marshmallow in Iran execution: Man publicly hanged from crane amid protests by eskimo_e63

Huge difference between a religious leader who spent a lifetime advocating for peaceful resistance and a religion based around global conquest and persecution and subjugation of non-believers. But then again the latter seems to have worked for Christians.

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Good_old_Marshmallow t1_j0d0z2o wrote

I mean I imagine the concern what they didn’t want to be seen as another Cuba or Viet Nam and hoped a nationalist religious face would prevent Cold War politics from provoking an invasion. Of course that may have been one of the worst mistakes they could have made

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