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The Iranian supreme leader advocates domestic manufacturing as a solution for economic resilience amid Washington’s economic strangulation campaign

In a statement issued on 29 August, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian committed to the economic and political course laid out by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, placing inflation, employment, and reducing the country’s reliance on the US dollar at the center of the country’s agenda.

Pezeshkian’s statement came in response to Khamenei’s Government Week message, which emphasized investing in domestic production and markets under national control. He highlighted the Leader’s confidence in the government as its greatest asset.

The Iranian government named national unity an absolute priority, saying every major political, economic, social, and cultural decision would be weighed for its effect on cohesion and calling the avoidance of artificial polarization a duty.

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    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      25 days ago

      There’s a funny alignment between the Marxist quote about the importance of the masses being armed and the foolishness of nuclear non-proliferation. Countries tried the whole disarmament thing, and look how bad the imperialist powers fucked up their ‘mandate’ by immediately selling out and renegging on their promises of peace and justice in the world. The irresponsibility of brinkmanship and throwing away the mandate for a little more profit will be a stain on the history of America and Europe for many lifetimes. It forced countries to recognize nuclear proliferation was necessary after all. The beast was never full, the only language it understood was violence, so the world was forced to speak it’s language. Nuclear weapons are an existential terror and the logic of disarmament is sound if only the lovecraftian horror that is capitalism and imperialism could stop making it irrational for everyone else to pursue.