And in the article that I posted first, it should be pointed out the language that Iran's leaders use to justify crackdowns on dissidents. It sounds very, even eerily, similar to what Trump and his trained minions use to justify crackdowns here in the US.
They Gestapo; we Gestapo. Simple as that. But when you're writing the narrative, you get to spin things in your favor.
Iran cracks down on protests with arrests, killings; that's BAD. (it is).
We crack down with inappropriate aggression and it's GOOD (it isn't).
But MAGA reads what Trump wants them to read. That's propaganda. And that's Hitlerian- or Ayatollah-ian.