[ April 24, 2024 ]
The protests for freedom have drawn in hundreds of thousands of people across the nation for several days – the boldest challenge to Iran’s leadership since 2009. They may be killing people, but there are reports of security forces refusing to kill their own people. The situation is fluid.
Iran protests have violent night; at least 13 dead overall
Enemedia outlets such as The New York Times are reporting on President Rouhani’s conciliatory words (while his government is killing people). And old leftist dinosaurs such as The Atlantic insist that it is President Trump who “doesn’t understand what’s happening in Iran.” But they do.
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Protesters in Iran: “Be quiet. He’s going to say something.”
Regime officer to protesters: “I did not become a soldier to fight you [my own people].”
Protesters cheer and shout: “Stand by us, stand by us.” #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/yq6WOJ4vrn— Armin Navabi (@ArminNavabi) January 2, 2018
SKY News: State TV said 10 people were killed in street protests in several cities on Sunday night. It gave no further details but said more than 400 people had been arrested.
Fresh demonstrations also broke out in the capital Tehran on Monday night.
Local media showed burning cars, but reports on social media claimed it involved relatively small groups chanting anti-regime slogans.
Two other protesters were also killed on Saturday in the western town of Dorud during an overnight rally, according to the governor of Lorestan province.
Number updated to 13 dead.
The New York Times reports:
As Iranian Protesters Dig In, Officials Warn of Harsher Response
TEHRAN — Ignoring pleas for calm from President Hassan Rouhani, Iranian protesters took to the streets in several cities for the fifth day on Monday as pent-up economic and political frustrations boiled over in the broadest display of discontent in years.
Note the Times reportage. While slaughtering their own people, The Times sympathetically writes, “Ignoring pleas for calm from President Hassan Rouhani”
The Iranian government responded with conciliatory words from Mr. Rouhani, but also a widening security clampdown — and a pledge late Monday to crack down even harder.
While slaughtering their own people, The Times sympathetically writes, “The Iranian government responded with conciliatory words from Mr. Rouhani,”
“We will not at all let insecure situation to continue in Tehran,” Brig. Gen Esmaeil Kowsari, deputy chief of the main Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base in Tehran, told the semiofficial ISNA news agency. “If this situation continues, the officials will definitely make some decisions and at that point this business will be finished.”
Despite Mr. Rouhani’s diplomatic language, it was clear the demonstrators would be given no leeway.
On Monday, a crackdown by the government and security services was building, and riot police officers with water cannons were out in full force in Tehran, the capital.
The death toll from the clashes was up to at least 12, and in the central province of Esfahan, one police officer was reported killed and three wounded in a gunfight. “An agitator exploited the current situation, and using a hunting rifle, opened fire on police forces,” state television reported.
In all, about 200 people have so far been arrested in Tehran alone since the protests began Thursday, one security official told the ISNA news agency. There were arrests in provincial towns as well.
Mr. Rouhani has urged demonstrators to avoid violence but defended their right to protest. He did so again on Monday on Twitter.
“People want to talk about economic problems, corruption and lack of transparency in the function of some of the organs and want the atmosphere to be more open,” he wrote. “The requests and demands of the people should be taken note of.”
The protests are not just the largest in Iran since 2009. They also suggest a rejiggering of some traditional divisions.
People who live in rural provinces, long viewed as supporters of the authorities, are now leading most of the demonstrations. And while people in Tehran have also taken to the street, the capital is not the center of the protests, as it was during the so-called Green Movement in 2009. In Tehran, many middle-class Iranians share the discontent but also fear insecurity.
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28 Comments
6 years ago
Another tempest in a tea pot, the army will crush all opposition as it will be brainwashed to follow the qur’an in dealing with the rebels who will be branded apostates. The iranian mullahs and assorted assassins are very adept at manipulating muslims.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
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6 years ago
Reply to
Jeff Ludwig
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6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
-> mass murderer rouhani https://quran.com/4/89 ‘kill them’ (‘turn away’, left iSSlam)
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Well, they seem to be “making mischief in the land…”, Soon their punishment will be koran based, ” do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides” 5:33
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Agreed. The protesters in Iran stand a very good chance of being killed while those “protesting” at NFL games will never miss a big fat payday.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
You would think that with the religion of blowing things up the resistance would blow up some of the die hards.
6 years ago
Reply to
Steve
muslims are funny that way, not enough unbelievers to waste explosives on maybe?
6 years ago
Oh oh…. coming to LOGGERHEADS.
6 years ago
Lots of crane elevations coming to Persia: matinee entertainment for the masses. No autocratic government gives up its power without killing as many of the enemy as possible first. I doubt that the Persian have the weapons or the courage to outlast them. What happened in the USSR was one of a kind and will NEVER happen in an Islamic state. No one kills ex communists but they do kill ex muslims.
6 years ago
I will never forget for as long as I live the image of depanted authoritarians running for help in their underwear. It’s difficult when the authoritarians use bullets though- somehow that’s more demeaning, imo
6 years ago
Arm the Protesters! There must be a way.
6 years ago
Reply to
William Di Gennaro
mmm…arming the demonstrators could result in a civil war like in Syria, as the ayatollahs are bloodthirsty, ruthless assassins and the result would mean more people leaving Iran to seek asylum in Europe. The Shah’s regime was “mild” compared to what the Iranians are enduring since 1979. They had (at least in the larger cities) some western style liberties and religious dissent was not a crime punishable by death at the gallows.
Many in the west hoped for freedom and democracy when the “Arab Spring” began like it was the case in the protests in Leipzig,Dresden, East Berlin and other cities in the former GDR that resulted in the end of the utterly repressive regime and the reunification of Germany. Sadly, freedom and democracy are still far away for those muslim satrapies and the Syrian case gives us an example of what can happen in other brutal islamic countries.
Assad is a horrible dictator but the fundamentalist muslim rebels could be much worse.
Many of us however would perhaps prefer “ein Ende mit Schrecken als ein Schrecken ohne Ende!” (“better an end with fright than a fright without end.”) I wish I knew how to achieve an end to the mislim (and other) satrapies….
6 years ago
Reply to
Exuperancia Pérez
Good point. Well stated. Results of arming the Protesters would be
unpredictable. If a better way can be found, I’m all for it.
6 years ago
Reply to
William Di Gennaro
me too! Specially the young people in the big cities yearn for rock-and-roll and other forms of pop music, as well as for other liberties we take for granted in a free society. I don’t if the ayatollahs (like the taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan) also prohibit western classical music (Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn…) literature, fashion and other different sorts of artistic expression they considered at odds with islamic “values.” We know how they deal with political and religious dissent…let’s hope for the best.
6 years ago
Reply to
William Di Gennaro
We may already be doing so secretly. Notice that all of the protest signs and posters are written in English! The language of Iran is Farsi and is written in characters NOT in our alphabet. If this protest originated in Iran the signs would be in Farsi and we would not be able to read them.
These signs are clearly being made for an English speaking audience – the USA maybe?
6 years ago
‘Islam is (terminal) cancer’ MILO
‘… kill them wherever you find them’ (‘turn away’, ex-Muslims) https://quran.com/4/89
https://www.instagram.com/p/BdYXqNkHxVF/
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6 years ago
Being forced to wear the Bags of Islam would be enough to drive most people mad 🙂
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Agreed. Someone should point out to the women in Iran that what they wear as customary dress and fashion is what citizens in the US and UK hung in their windows during WWII and called “blackout curtains”.
6 years ago
What do you expect? The government pays out hundreds of millions to their terrorist proxy Hezbollah and has extended a billion dollar line of credit to the Assad regime yet the average Iranian cannot afford to buy enough chicken to make a meal. Some have resorted to selling their organs to get enough money to feed their families.
Remember all those billions in cash delivered to them on pallets in the dead of night by their puppet Obhammud?
6 years ago
Sadly, nothing will come of this, not as long as the protestors aren’t armed.
6 years ago
6 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
The Jews who have left Iran and live now un Israel have introduced me to their cuisine and use of herbs.
I have seen photos of Teheran and other cities, it would be a shame to see them destroyed if these protest escalate.
The picture of this either injured or dead woman is heart wrenching, it shows how bloodthirsty and ruthless those “men of G’d” are!
6 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
oops, I pressed the “send” key too early without editing, I just wanted to add that it would be a horrible thing if we see Iran destroyed because of the intransigence of the bloodthirsty, tyrannical ayatollahs!
6 years ago
freedom!
6 years ago
Let us hope that the people demonstrating in Iran against the terrorist government will have the fortitude to continue and not let killing and arresting them put a stop to it. Since they are being killed, they need ways to fight back with equal force. All Americans who believe in freedom for the people should support them. If hundreds of thousands of them are demonstrating, then it must be millions of them who are against the terrorist government. It must continue until they get what they want, new leadership in government, and this time of a much more secular nature.
