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Inside Iran’s protests: ‘Either we overthrow the regime, or we are destroyed. We have nothing left to lose.’
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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Never heard of it before. From a quick search it looks like it's an IDF policy to not allow its own soldiers to be taken as POW (all articles say kidnapped but this is language just used to illegitimatize the forces fighting Israeli oppression) by any means necessary up to and including killing its own service members.
Seems like the policy was invoked and lead to Israel murdering its own civilians at the beginning of the most recent Gaza conflict/genocide.
So yeah Israel being terrible as usual.
What were you trying to bait me into?
Just trying to see if you're an Israel shill. Like when you suspect that someone online is a Russia bot, you ask for a cupcake recipe. If you suspect someone is an Israel shill, you ask what the Hannibal Directive is. I think it's a fair suspicious than someone speaking against Iran online, it's a good chance they're a CIA/IDF account.
Yeah not really. That's an insane take actually.
People get so drawn into their camps and start viewing the world in a good or bad binary that doesn't reflect the real world at all. The world is messy and there are a lot of oppressive regimes, and they often oppose each other. Just because one bad regime opposes another bad regime doesn't mean that you have to pick one to be "good" and to support.
Well, I choose to believe you're more than a useful idiot, and are getting paid for your take. But just to be sure, can you write the words "Hannibal Directive"?
"Dance for me so I can determine if you are an idiot or a paid shill!"
While I want to help with your delusions that a horde of paid CIA operatives follow you around all day, you basically said if I do that you'll call me an idiot.
So I guess I'll be CIA today
Huh, so it does work, and I was right.
My man, you need to seek professional help, whatever chamber you got your theories from is hurting you
Are you allowed to say the words? Sorry, I'm new to this, and I'm still trying to gauge what's even allowed to be mentioned. And don't give me some "Hannibal Lectar" type of thing that hints at it either.
Hey man, you think you're smarter than you are. You think you can be the only one who's right. In the comment above you said they're either an idiot or a agent. Do you really think they're going to play your game if you're being an asshole? Best case for you, for the way you're behaving, people ignore you. Worst case, you push them away from you. Maybe you're the agent?
And what was I called in the comment before I said useful idiot? I didn't start it.
In this particular comment thread, I don't see anyone calling you anything before then. They said you might be trying to bait them into something, but that's it.
Also, who gives a fuck who started it? That's a game babies play. You can be the better person if you actually want to do good.
See that "insane" word? Also, hold up, are you allowed to say those words?
Yes dude, I can say Hannibal Directive, say Israel is committing a genocide, and still call you a fucking idiot. Not everyone who is annoyed with your bullshit is some secret agent out to get you, if you actually believe that.
I think instead you're using that as a way to dismiss criticism. It lets you ignore what anyone says about you until they play your silly game. Even after they do, you'll probably come up with some other reason to dismiss it, because it's harder to accept criticism than to just pretend like the critic must be a shill, spy, crazy, or whatever other reason you come up with.
Thank you, all I asked for. Who started it might not matter with words, but it does when it comes to genocide. I don't go around blaming jews for the holocaust for burning the Reichstag building, so why would I blame Arabs for the current genocide for the Hannibal Directive. And I don't care about criticism of me, it's not about me, or you, or any one particular person. If anything, I'm doing the criticism of everyone online who wants to bomb Iran, and wants to kill them for being violent. So being a paid shill is the only explanation I came come up with for having that opinion.
Bro plenty of these anti Iran shills are just liberal idiots who have no object permanence about the region and so are easily moved by corporate media tugging at their heart strings.
In the business they call them useful idiots. Its why neocons have had their way since 2001.
I take your point though that a lot of these online posts are.being astroturfed by Zionists
Heh, you should read my other comments here. I used that exact phrase. I had higher hope though.
Yeah, I haven't seen this level of media gaslighting since Al Jolani was wheeled into power by the CIA and Turkey.