Comrades, I’m stuck working on some university bullshit and thus I am bored. So, let’s shoot the shit. I am an Iranian computer engineering graduate student (have a bsc degree in CompSci) and I have noticed that my country Iran is completely… opaque, so to speak, to even leftist of various denominations from the outside. So, let’s talk comrade to comrade. Ask me shit about the daily soulcrushing grind of life in Iran…
What’s with Iranian diaspora almost all universally being opposed to the government? Because theres a common dislike of both the US and Iran’s leadership, and a bizarre way of rationalizing it. I’ve heard on more than one occasion from Iranians that they believe that the US backed the Ayatollah during the revolution and it was their plan all along to bring about the Islamic republic.
Look the short answer is that the Iranian diasporoids are notoriously quirked up and they’re usually part of some monarchist/MEK cult/zio cult nonsense, so it’s better not to try rationalizing their positions because they come straight out of a crack pipe
There are people who say Khomeini was a plot against the gLoRiOuS mOnArChY and shit, there are people who fled Iran with lots of stolen money in 1979 and live in LA, there are doomer new gen immigrants who are the most anti-immigration hitlerites you can find
just don’t bother with them they’re mentally fucked
Noted, also just to mention, nearly all of these I’ve encountered were students who had come to study from Iran, constantly complaining about their country and going on about the “oppression”. Sort of sucking up to the locals by trying to distance themselves from their “backwards” homeland.