At least 73 dead in blasts at memorial for assassinated Iranian commander
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Reports of between two and four explosions at ceremony marking fourth anniversary of killing of top general Qassem Suleimani

Two explosions at Kerman ceremony marking anniversary of killing of Qassem Suleimani raise Middle East tensions further

  • AreaSIX @lemm.eeEnglish
    93·
    9 months ago

    Iran is a multi-ethnic society. What ethnicity is the ethno-state you imagine centered on? Persians? You know that General Soleimani wasn’t a Persian? Or that Iran’s supreme leader is an Azeri Turk? Or that the merchant class of Iran is not centered on Persians? How is this an ethno-state? Zionists sure like projection it seems…

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      9 months ago

      He clearly just meant “theocracy” which it is and makes no apologies about.

      Iran is an illiberal hellhole

      • AdeptusPrimaris@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        9 months ago

        A Theocracy and an Ethnostate are two different things. If he meant theocracy he would have used the word theocracy, but he didn’t. He used the word ethnostate