How come Iran's actions...like holding hostage an academic, using proxies to attack in Iraq, attacking Saudi Arabia with drones, mining ships, planting IEDs in the Golan...are never "outrageous" and undermine diplomacy? They literally had militias in Iraq fire rockets w impunity
It would be easy to take this narrative more seriously if Iran's regime was held to some standard, ANY standard...as opposed to the total impunity and never critiqued. Remember they hung an innocent wrestler? The list of abuses is very long. And yet never called "outrageous"
This horrid regime literally held hostage, for trade, an academic. Where was the condemnation? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55081682
Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Academic says Iran detention was 'long and traumatic'

British-Australian lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert endured two years of "incredible hardship".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55081682
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