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Publish away all you like, go on. Keep asking questions like: ‘What if white people live in the next countries to be invaded?’. Then answer please, exactly what colour do you think an ‘Iranian’ is? Presumably David Lowe knows that ‘The Islamic Republic of Iran’ is an empire containing multiple ethic groups and ruled by a nightmarish minority? Presumably David Lowe and The Echo remember that Khamenei was the whitest human being on the planet Earth, and that ‘Iran’ is another spelling of ‘Aryan’? Literally ‘The Land of White People’.
How do Lowe and his ilk slide so greasily into supporting a regime led by a monster?

A monster who sent waves of street kids, mere children, running across mine fields during the Iran-Iraq war, to clear paths for tanks? Who proudly handed over around 7–10,000 girls a year to be raped from the age of ten in ‘religious marriages’? Who hanged homosexuals, and even just kids who went out of an evening, hanged them from a crane to die a slow and agonising death, and put it on state television? Does it not trouble David Lowe that Khamenei ordered girls raped before execution to ensure that they would not even go to heaven?

A regime that has killed hundreds of thousands of protesters over the last 40 years, even just for not wearing a hijab, or for holding hands when unmarried, and whose crowning achievement was to slaughter over 30,000 people just this last January?

If the above isn’t enough to turn your stomach, the staggering myopia required to overlook a proudly pedophile regime chanting ‘Death to America’ literally every Friday since the 1970s, sponsoring terrorist attacks including those here in Australia, just might be. I could go on, but I can’t because you revolt me on a level I find impossible to bare. May you go and live under exactly the system you deserve.

P.S. Apparently David Lowe has breaking news about an invasion of Iran that has not yet happened, but has zero recollection of 40 plus years of evil. I wonder why?

Matthew Hartley, Byron Bay

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