• zd9@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Holy shit. Can you say “regime change”? I hope Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a good escape plan.

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      1 day ago

      How would a massive political upheaval make it rain? Seems more a matter of climate change than regime change.

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        21 hours ago

        Because the regime doesn’t value joint social programs and backups in general. Yes a drought caused it, but it exposes a lot of the issues underneath. When a population is starving they get way more testy, and all of the issues bubbling right under the surface could explode out.