Iran vs Pakistan : How will the left cope?

 Hi All, 

As if the middle east conflict (or should I say conflicts) can't get any stranger, we have had over the past couple of days Iran now attacking Pakistan and now Pakistan retaliating against Iran. To those who do follow the politics of the area, it should come as no surpised. Geopolitics and religion almost caused an Perso-Afghan war last year and Afghanistan is well with Pakistan's sphere of influence or at least both the Taleban and Pakistan have a common foe in Iran.  In that I think I would echo Kissinger 'Pity they can't both loose'. 

But I digress as this is about how leftists are going to process a conflict which shows us how complex international relations can be, rather than a simplified 'black and white' or 'good vs evil' way of looking at how states interact with each other. 

The Iran-Pakistan conflict  will prove to be a problem for leftists who are in their comfort zone when in full enraged mode at Israel/Jews and then a good olde bash at America and self loathing of themselves as the collective west . Even America/UK trying to protect shipping lanes verses Islamic terrorists can be dreamed away as being  because of western colonial imperialism. Now the Houthis or Ansar Allah-' the Party of god' - say 'Death to America, death to Israel, curse the Jews and victory to Islam'. Not nice, but ok as they are just one of many groups who have one thing in common with the far left : hatred of the west. 

But what about when its Muslim on Muslims, 'duking it out', as the Americans would say. That's going to be more difficult and like Syria, expect radio silence. The thing is Iran is the world's largest Shia state, but Shia islam is 10% of the total, so you might expect a left whose theory is based around whoever is the most oppressed group is the one worthy of support to go for Iran. Plus Iran is a transgender paradise, having the largest number of trans people in the world (in truth, this is because of homophobia as they forcibly operate on gay people to 'change' them into the opposite sex, rather than tolerate homosexuality as a 'thing').

Except that Pakistan is mostly Sunni and most of the Muslims in the UK come from the Pakistan-Indian sub continent, but are seem as the oppressed minority in the UK (at least by the left, seeing Islamophobia everywhere). So the best thing to do in such circumstances is for the left to go absent without leave. Besides which there isn't Jews/Israel involved, so any conflict between Pakistan and Iran will simply be on the fringes of the left's world, rather than anything like demos to central London, pages of condemnation in the Guardian and biased reporting on the BBC or Sky News,  South Africa taking either of them to  the Hague, show trials and Kangaroo courts.