City’s Iranians hold anti-regime demo
Around 200 Montrealers of Iranian origin held an anti-regime demonstration Sunday afternoon in the snow, in Côte-des-Neiges.
People are talking about this Twitter thread by Michael McCain of Maple Leaf Foods, who sounds off against the sabre-rattling on both sides that resulted in a passenger plane being shot down. Toula Drimonis also writes about the fates of ordinary people caught in the crossfire when regimes are trying to get a militaristic rise out of each other.
Raymond Lutz 09:17 on 2020-01-13 Permalink
Paul Valéry : « La guerre, un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent mais ne se massacrent pas. »
dhomas 09:54 on 2020-01-13 Permalink
The more I read comments on Twitter, the more I think not everyone should be allowed to have their voice heard. The comments back to Michael McCain are just plain sickening.
Ephraim 11:16 on 2020-01-13 Permalink
All I want to remind people of is Iranian Air flight 655…. this isn’t the first, nor the last plane shot down in error. There are a LONG list of them, including one Siberian 1812, Malaysian Air 17. These incidents are few and far between. We will see what kind of compensation Iran will pay, though it is never enough and of course doesn’t replace the person, but at least it’s an attempt to right a wrong. I think with Siberian 1812 they paid out $200K per passenger… that was 2001, so 19 years ago.
This is NOT a reason to go to war. And it’s not upon Canada to get into a war with Iran. It’s not our war. The reason that Iran is on a war footing and this missile was ready and armed is entirely caused by the US. And honestly, I think this is a distraction by the king of distraction… look… you are getting poorer because the rich aren’t paying their fair share of taxes… but we need your money to fight a boogeyman in Western Asia.
Chris 22:52 on 2020-01-13 Permalink
War seems unlikely; messaging from both sides is de-escalating.
Raymond Lutz 09:12 on 2020-01-14 Permalink
@Chris, Les militaires Iraniens ont fait une excellente démonstration de la précision de leurs missiles, tout en ne visant que des bâtiments évacués, épargnant ainsi la vie des soldat américains car ils avaient annoncé leur attaque. Cela a fait réfléchir Israel et les USA (qui sont utilisés comme proxy dans cette guerre contre l’Iran). https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a30444584/iran-missile-attack/
Chris 09:54 on 2020-01-14 Permalink
Announcing one’s retaliation to avoid actually killing your enemy is *de-escalation*.
Raymond Lutz 11:35 on 2020-01-14 Permalink
Chris, je ne vous contredisais pas… j’ai interprété votre ‘messaging’ comme étant principalement la voie diplomatique et ses canaux de communication mais les actions militaires peuvent être mesurées et contribuer également à un apaisement et ‘de-esacalation’ comme vous dites.