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Iran cities hit by anti-government protests
Topic Started: Dec 29 2017, 12:56 PM (1,296 Views)
W A Mozart
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Anti-government demonstrations that began in one city on Thursday have now spread to several major cities in Iran.

Large numbers are reported to have turned out in Rasht, in the north, and Kermanshar, in the west, with smaller protests in Shiraz, Isfahan and Hamadan.

The protests began against rising prices but have spiralled into a general outcry against clerical rule.

A small number of people have been arrested in Tehran, the capital.

They were among a group of 50 people who gathered in a city square, Tehran's deputy governor-general for security affairs told the Iranian Labour News Agency.

The governor-general of Tehran earlier said that any such gatherings would be firmly dealt with by the police, who are out in force on main intersections.

The demonstrations are the most serious and widespread expression of public discontent in Iran since protests in 2009 that followed a disputed election, correspondents say.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42512946
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Killary, DNC, Obummer's DOJ and FBI all Lied and Spied and Good People Died!
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Iranian protests: Government supporters in show of strength
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Thousands of pro-government demonstrators are attending rallies in Iran, after two days of anti-government protests.

State TV showed crowds of black-clad supporters in the capital, Tehran.

Dozens of people have been arrested during days of protests over corruption and living standards, which the vice-president suggested were being organised by political opponents.

The US administration warned Iran that "the world was watching" its response.
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W A Mozart
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Iran always surprises you when you least expect it.

Freedom. Democracy. A whole generation growing-up wanting what the rest of the world already has. My God, has it already been nearly 40 years since those photo's of a French airline captain helping a doddering Ayatollah Khomenei down those airline steps? How the hell did that happen? I can remember just a few years earlier sitting next to some Persian friends of mine in an Arizona class room. Smart. Bright. The new future of Iran. Most of them went back to live under the dark dictatorship of the new ruling mullahs. Cut-off from the world and living without hope or prospect. Forty years.

The young of Iran demand freedom, let's hope they succeed.

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..."This is my mum & her friends in Iran before the Islamic revolution. All were professional, independent & free women." ...

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W A Mozart
Dec 30 2017, 01:18 PM
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..."This is my mum & her friends in Iran before the Islamic revolution. All were professional, independent & free women." ...

https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi


Mozart

This picture is a perfect example of how Islamism has been in ascendance for the last half century. Now a picture of a group of women would show a group of walking tents.
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Iran has a young population, the Islamists are strangling the economy and personal freedoms. It's big government at it's best. Hopefully Iran will join the civilized world and rid their country of their Islamic oppressors. It would be a big step towards world peace.
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If Pence and his evangelists take over the government we will see a similar establishment of a religious controlled society...Having a government controlled by pu**y grabbers is a far better thing............... :rollseyes:
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Robert Stout
Dec 30 2017, 04:20 PM
If Pence and his evangelists take over the government we will see a similar establishment of a religious controlled society...Having a government controlled by pu**y grabbers is a far better thing............... :rollseyes:
They are annoying to listen to but I don't fear Christian conservatives, they love booze, porn and fast women like the rest of us.
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The young do not recall a time under the Shah, and his oppressions, and they've been indoctrinated their whole lives that The Revolution is a never-ending series of trails against the West.

But as with all things in the course of time, glimpses of life beyond the Mullahs seeps in, as the hard liners die off that came up with the Ayatollah, the less stringent mullahs lose their grips on the young who are curious bout lives they could have.
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Tsalagi
Dec 30 2017, 06:18 PM
The young do not recall a time under the Shah, and his oppressions, and they've been indoctrinated their whole lives that The Revolution is a never-ending series of trails against the West.

But as with all things in the course of time, glimpses of life beyond the Mullahs seeps in, as the hard liners die off that came up with the Ayatollah, the less stringent mullahs lose their grips on the young who are curious bout lives they could have.
We have to give credit to the US government for strengthening the Revolutionary Guard and the Islamic conservatives who have given the mullahs their iron grip on the government. We have overthrown the government of Iran several times, backed authoritarian dictators and brought economic pressures on the Iranian economy. Nothing helps a dictator like a foreign enemy and the USA has played the bad guy to perfection. For years, I have been saying here that Iran is our naturally ally. It is a geo-political fact, not an ideological love affair. We have made Iran our enemy because we are stooges of the Israelis. Iran is a friend we need, not an enemy we can defeat.
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Some more thoughts on Iran....

This thing popped-up out of nowhere. Why?

It is fascinating to note that back in 2009 when the Iranians last revolted, we had a thoroughly inexperienced chucklehead in the White House who promptly made a hash of it all. As per:

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..."While there is no word of the administration having talks with opposition parties, Ali Safavi, an official in the Washington office of the NCRI, told Fox News that messages of support from the Trump administration are a big change from how the Obama administration handled the 2009 popular uprising.

Safavi said: “When millions of Iranians poured onto the streets in 2009, the Obama administration reached out to the Supreme Leader Khamenei, enabling him and his president to suppress the uprising. President Trump’s expression of support for the Iranian people and his condemnation of the arrests of the protests send an encouraging signal to all those who want to see Iran liberated from the yoke of the medievalist mullahs.” ...


But, but, my oh my has the world CHANGED from 2009 to 2018 (almost). First you have ISIS (the JV Team) essentially landless in Syria/Iraq. Second, you have Qatar being prodded with a sword to choose between its historic fellow Arab nations or the mullahs in Persia, Third, you have Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE and Bahrain actively fighting Hezbollah and its primary supporter, Iran. Fourth, you have Saudi Arabia making war noises toward Iran, especially with missiles still originating from Yemen. Fifth, you have newly formed ties between the Saudi's and Israel which could prove crucial in any military conflict. Sixth, you've got an orange-haired guy in the White House who is totally unpredictable. Seventh, Obama's stupid Iran nuclear deal has been declared null and void. And it goes on and on....

A changed world, with different players and differing ideas. This whole thing just popped-out of left field.


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Edited by W A Mozart, Dec 30 2017, 09:14 PM.
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Iran isn’t worth one single American boy
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Obama turned his back. The media told us he needed to stay silent to make it a success. Yeah how did that turn out? The EU and Canada this time are silent. Mainstream media as well. But Trump came through and did the right thing, condemned Iran’s govt. He always does.

Thank you, President Trump. A real man of honor.
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Could be just....Simple evolution....Next generation growing pains.... :dunno:

It will be interesting to see if the hardliners step in and create a Tiananmen Square type massacre.... :popcorn:
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I remember Sean Connery's words at the end of the movie "Red October"...."A little revolution once in a while is good....No?"
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THIS woman, standing proudly in the midst of the melee in Iran, with her hijab on a stick, has quickly become the symbol of the Iranian uprising.

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The American public see domestic upheaval in places like Iran as a zero-sum game between the good guys (the guys who like us) and the bad guys, on a model which goes back to the last century. As a political analysis it is typically narcissistic, centered on what we imagine those people think of the USA, and rather indifferent to the local economic, religious and cultural issues actually driving events in Iran.

There is a sizable faction in Iran which is attracted to Western social norms. They like blue jeans and rock music so we like them. That's OK, by-and-large, they like us. The problem comes with the opposition to the pro-Western young liberals. Our simplistic dichotomy tilts Americans in the direction that because we like the kids who want to hold hands in public, the mullahs must be bad guys, cruel and evil, who hate us. That is simply not the case. Their conservative social policy may be nothing we want in America but it doesn't bother us at all in Saudi Arabia. Their police may be violent in suppressing public demonstrations but we are happy to overlook that in Egypt.

The real driver of America's "hate Iran" movement is Israel. Like every other country in the world except the USA, Iran opposes the activities of the Likud government. The American Jewish lobby, which controls American Middle East policy, therefore dictates an implacable hostile opposition to Iran. This has been true for years. Now that we are all alone, our folly becomes clearer.
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I wonder how many of our Rightie posters here understand that Saudi Arabia and ISIS have more in common and are both in opposition to Iran? We love to hate Iran because they dare challenge our influence in the ME. But they challenge our influence because we have backed their religious enemies.
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Amazing....

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Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said in a statement: 'The Iranian government is being tested by its own citizens. We pray that freedom and human rights will carry the day.'

The protests, which initially focused on economic hardships but now include anti-government messages, appeared to resume for a fourth day on Sunday despite Tehran's warnings of a crackdown and restrictions on messaging apps used by the demonstrators.

The protests are the biggest since unrest in 2009 that followed the disputed re-election of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Trump's endorsement of some of the protesters' aims differs from how his predecessor, Barack Obama, initially reacted to the widespread 'Green Movement' demonstrations that rocked Iran in 2009.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5224939/Trump-Republican-allies-endorse-Iranian-protesters.html#ixzz52sUgN8YR



Never saw this coming.....


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