The Islamic Republic of Iran has been a brutal dictatorship from its beginning, and the recent massacres were a crazy and organized bloodbath involving the government slaughtering its own people.
This is not the first time the Islamist theocracy has slaughtered its own people.
Iran brutally slaughtered its protestors. Up to 20,000 were killed.
Iran’s revolutionary guards are stronger than its regular military and they are loyal to the supreme leader.
Trump literally said that “help is on its way”, and many protesters said they expected Trump to help. When he didn’t, the ones that were still alive, felt betrayed.
A US intervention would likely cause a retaliatory strike, and the US wasn’t prepared for such attacks because it was using resources around Venezuela.
Local partner countries warned against a US intervention, fearing a regional conflict.
Nigeria’s violence involves herders fighting farmers. Herders have the military advantage so more often slaughter farmers than the other way around.
There’s a variety of violence and not all of it fits the herder VS farmer paradigm, and some of it is religiously motivated or facilitated.
A majority of people killed are Muslim. However, farmers tend to be Christian, and herders tend to be Muslim. The conflict is not a simple Muslims slaughtering Christians fight, but a lot of people are dying and the Nigerian government is too weak to stop it.
The people killing Christians in Nigeria are Boko Haram. Boko Haram is a part of ISIS, and they are killing all sorts of people, not just Christians. They are rebels against the Nigeria government. Yet, Trump talks like the government is doing or aiding this. Hurting the government would weaken its ability to fight Boko Haram, potentially leading to more innocent deaths. Nigeria said they welcome help to fight Boko Haram.
Massacres in Sudan are so extreme that the blood can be seen from satellite. Outside groups are supporting different sides. They are massacring unarmed civilians.
Syrians are slaughtering the Druze people in Syria.
Ordinary citizens are joining organized radicals in killing the Druze for not being Muslim, some asking who the real prophet is, and if they answer wrong, killing them.
A hospital was surrounded and slaughtered. Electricity and internet have been cut to give Muslims the space to slaughter the Druze.
Regime forces are participating in this violence.
Minorities are not safe in the Middle East.
I assume there will be campus protests against these atrocities…