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Source for this article is Israeli news. Sharing because this is the the complete opposite of what has been said to us by american media the last few hours while the markets get manipulated. We will find out in the coming hours/days but figured to share what this other side is reporting

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago

he did this to pump and dump oil stocks just before he announced it,.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Nostalgia intensifies

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago
[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 165 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Iran has more credibility than the orange pedophile

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago (22 children)

I would not at all go that far. Iran's regime is horrendous and they were murdering and abducting civilians by the thousands for the past year or two. They are just as in need of a propaganda win as fuckface.

Remember everyone: Just because one side is an asshole doesn't mean the other isn't one too.

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 119 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Credibility is not morality.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

precisely. a point often forgotten or overlooked.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

But but but credibility is a good property in isolation and it's impossible for people I dislike to have any good properties!!

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Not just that point but there's a certain portion of people that seem to think anything other than total opposition is total support.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I am aware of everything you said... yet Iran STILL has more credibility than the child rapist pressy

I am not, AT ALL, saying Iran is not an asshole, that's just your strawman

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Preposter said they have more credibility, not that they are less horrible. I feel that's an important distinction

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[–] Hubi@feddit.org 48 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Every side in this conflict sucks, but I'd still believe the officials in Iran over the officials in the US. The American government is very obviously and methodically lying to our faces every single day and without shame. I don't see a reason to assume the same for Iran, even if they are terrible people.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 23 points 3 days ago

Doesn't change the fact that Irans fucking war propaganda is more credible than the tweets of the President of the United States of America.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (6 children)

As someone else mentioned Iran is morally reprehensible but they haven’t been found lying so often like Israel and US.

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[–] moustachio@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

America’s regime is also horrendous.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Rooting for Iran even a little bit" was not on my bingo card a year ago.

I wonder if USA can recover from Trump. November should bring a change, but is it enough? Doesn't look great.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

All 'conspicuous' ballots will be seized

November will come and go

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago
[–] homes@piefed.world 93 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Trump really screwed any attempts to end this war when he started it by dropping bombs while in the middle of peace negotiations. What a fucking idiot. not that he had any credibility to begin with, but now he has negative credibility.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] homes@piefed.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Can’t taco out of a situation you weren’t really in in the first place. Remember, this guy had so little credibility to start with, Oman was negotiating for him, lol.

What a fucking loser and literally incredible idiot

[–] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good for them, hope they sink a US warship before this is done.

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So fuck the US, but this is not good. This can create a huge economic crisis and food instability, which would create untold suffering among innocent poor people across the world.

You are allowed to rightfully criticize the US for this war, without applauding Iran sinking ships with fertilizer the world desperately needs to not starve.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

He said warship, not cargo ship.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

To be perfectly frank, with the system we had set up, that was inevitable. It would have been better if it happened 40 years ago, better to happen now than in another 40 years.

Clearly, if one point of failure causes it to collapse within a month, the system was not stable. There was no other path but collapse of the global economy.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A bit too on the nose to call us marines fertilizer no? Shit absolutely, but not fertilizer

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 62 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The markets reacting as if Trump's words are based in reality at all is astonishing.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This shows how bullshit and broken the system is.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago
[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Maybe we could hand trump over to the IRGC for peace

Dream scenario tbh.

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Now there's a peace negotiation tactic everyone can get behind.

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[–] kabe@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

Iran be like

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 3 days ago

Keep Hormuz close until The US and Israel pays reparations for all the damage they done, infrastructure and civilian lives, and all that infrastructure is up and running again.

[–] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let's see how exactly Trump intends to chicken out of this one.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Spoiler: All he does is say whatever he wants reality to be, denies ever having said anything different, and expects everyone to go along with it. It's his sole tactic.

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