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    15 days ago

    How do you know the people with guns aren’t plain clothes cops trying to escalate violence and delegitimize protestors like they do in Western countries?

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      Because Iran knows they will be demonized for any violence so the likelihood that they are Mossad agents shooting at both cops and protesters to escalate the violence on both sides is infinitely higher.

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        What if both possibilities were accurate and there were some Mossad agents among the mix because geopolitics and cops were in the mix to delegitimize protestors?

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          Israel: “We did it. We smuggled guns to arm terrorist groups in Iran which killed the police during the riots”

          You: BoTh SiDeS??

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      Westerners be like, “We, the extremely genocidal racist monsters did atrocity X. But, we are white supremacists, therefore we are better than everyone else, therefore the others MUST also be doing atrocity X, otherwise they would be superior to us which is ILLEGAL”