US Officials Mourn Iranian Protesters While Funding Gulf Monarchy Crackdowns
At least four people were killed in western Iran during clashes between protesters and security forces, according to Al-Monitor, with rights groups alleging Revolutionary Guards opened fire. This narrative of a 'brutal crackdown' in non-allied nations often omits that the US has sold over $100 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia since 2010. These sales have demonstrably facilitated their own
suppression of dissent and an interventionist foreign policy, including in Yemen, with barely a peep from Washington's 'human rights' advocates. One might wonder if America's 'concern' for protestor deaths is contingent on whether the government doing the killing is also buying F-35s. The hypocrisy is so glaring, you'd almost think 'human rights' is just another marketing slogan for the Pentagon's
latest arms deals.