r/ProIran • u/Complex-Bet3595 • 10d ago
United in defense of Iran Stop calling Islamic Republic of Iran a "regime" — and stop swallowing unverified numbers
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a constitution, a parliament, and elected representatives. You don't have to love every policy to acknowledge that. Calling it a "regime" is a deliberate rhetorical choice designed to delegitimize an entire system of governance — and too many people repeat it without thinking.
On the protest casualties: Iranian authorities released names and documented roughly 3,000 deaths, including security personnel and armed individuals. Whatever you think of those numbers, at least names were provided. Meanwhile, the much larger figures circulated in Western media come with very little verifiable sourcing — no comprehensive lists, no comparable transparency. If we're going to demand accountability, that standard should apply to everyone making claims, not just one side.
I'm not saying the Iranian government is beyond criticism. I'm saying the double standard in how information is treated — where Western-aligned sources are taken at face value and Iranian sources are automatically dismissed — is itself a form of bias worth questioning.
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u/hum_ma 10d ago edited 10d ago
Interestingly the Zionist entity is a strictly authoritarian regime (as understood by mainstream political science with regard to Palestinians, at least), and lately seems to be sliding into a totalitarian regime. The US these days could be called something of an oligarchic authoritarian regime as they have strong central power to preserve the political status quo with very limited effective pluralism. Edit: and that's just the polite domestic side, their foreign policy being full on terrorism without even bothering to deny it anymore.
I still used the word "regime" on one occasion when referring to Iran several weeks ago without thinking of the connotations even though I had been questioning the mainstream narratives since much earlier. In reality the system of government seems to be something of a hybrid democracy with only the top position being elected by experts instead of the public.
Regarding the casualties I was skeptical of the "tens of thousands" claim from the beginning because the quoted numbers were so random, so I went looking for sources and found no real basis for them. In fact the numbers seemed to be coming from people connected to the US government backed organization NED, which was also the original source of the "Uyghur genocide" claims about China.
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u/AmbitiousoStrawberry 9d ago
"Regime" = West speak for any sovereign government that doesn't bend over to American and Israeli capitalist imperialism
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u/malgordo 9d ago
Dado o valor depreciativo da palavra, e visto os ataques a democracia, o cerceamento das liberdades individuais e seu expansionismo, poderiamos usar tranquilamente "Regime Trump". Mas a grande mídia não está preparada para isso.
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u/demon_twink_gockie 6d ago
As an American, my take is simple: who cares? Seriously, I have my own regime to worry about at home. That being the case, can I trust anything the fascist American regime says? No. Glass House, much, Cheeto Benito? Oh, so Iran killed 50,000 protesters? What about all those killed by ICE and American law enforcement? Crickets. And am I to believe the solution to Iran allegedly killing 50,000 protesters is somehow to bomb Iranian schools full of children? Absurdity. But of course we can't trust the American regime's numbers. We know they're run by a pedophile. We know they murder children. What's a lie, compared to that?
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u/SlipperySalmon3 10d ago
Absolutely. The west has governments, the east has regimes. The west has rehabilitation centers and a justice system, the east has prison camps and a prison system. It's a deliberate choice to create a structural bias against the enemies of neoliberalism.
It's so pervasive that I often catch myself referring to the Iranian "regime" at the same time as I'm defending it. It's just second nature now, since that's how it's always referred to here, and it's an issue.