As Trump and Netanyahu rain death [10] down on Iran, the ayatollah regime paints any would-be protesters as pawns of the "enemy" and promises deadly repression [11]. This positions the civil opposition poorly for any resumption of the uprising [12] that the regime drowned in blood [13] mere weeks ago—and points to the paradoxical reality that Trump and the regime are de facto (at least) collaborators against the Iranian people. In Episode 318 of the CounterVortex podcast [14], Bill Weinberg repudiates both those who would rally around the reactiony and criminal regime [15] in the name of opposing the US-Israeli aggression and those who would rally around Trump's reckless and criminal war [16] in the interest of opposing the regime. Instead, he offers statements from Iran's anarchist [17] and dissident-left [18] opposition that continue to advance an uncompromising neither/nor position [19].
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