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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by mc32 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:37AM (#18724742)
On the other hand the regime supports destabilizing groups throughout the middle east. They want to contend to be the main influence there along with Saudi.

They also from time to time threaten oil supplies and threaten Europe with restarting their missile programme. They’ve been quite nettlesome.

However, with more energy independence the present US administration seems to be disengaging from the ME, in contrast to the last two admins,

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by mmjaa on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:42AM (#18724769)
>On the other hand the regime supports destabilizing groups throughout the middle east. They want to contend to be the main influence there along with Saudi.

As does the USA. So?

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by mc32 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:48AM (#18724818)
Right. So they say we’re bad, we say they’re bad. I’m all for letting them work things out on their own and stay out of their local disputes so long as they keep it local.

But unfortunately with the weapons they’re willing to use against each other it may be hard to just sit on the sidelines.

Any case OP was painting them as being “innocent”.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by pjc50 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:52AM (#18724847)
> with the weapons they’re willing to use against each other it may be hard to just sit on the sidelines.

Someone's got to keep selling them those weapons, right?

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by mc32 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:54AM (#18724856)
I think Iran has demonstrated they ate quite capable in this regard.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by pjc50 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:51AM (#18724842)
Trump reimposes sanctions: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Trump's "muslim ban" nations includes Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13780

Active US involvement in the war in Yemen continues. The only difference of having Trump in power is that the news is full of his twitter remarks and news about prosecution of his accomplices, rather than what's actually happening elsewhere.

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