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Thou Shall Covet Your Neighbor's House

A tale of two regimes—and protests

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Shay Khatiri
Apr 09, 2023
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I saw a Farsi tweet the other day:

These Israeli protests have an interest point to them: Nobody called them seditionists; nor did anyone called them mercenaries embarrassing us before the martyrs; nor were they accused of turning the country into Syria; nor were they called apostates for insulting Moses and breaking [religious] norms. My friends, this is democracy.

These are what Iranians have been accused of for years.

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