Tehran on December 30 (top); anti-government protests across Iran
Protesters also attacked police stations elsewhere in Iran late into the night on Monday, news agency and social media reports said.
One member of the security forces was reported killed on Monday, bringing to at least 14 the death toll stemming from the boldest challenge to Iran’s clerical leadership since unrest in 2009.
…The semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Ali Asghar Naserbakht, the deputy governor of Tehran province, as saying that 200 people were arrested on Saturday in Tehran, 150 people on Sunday and about 100 people on Monday.
Iranian crackdown intensifies after police posts attacked (Reuters)
The dignity, security, and progress of the Iranian nation is owed to the self-sacrifice of the martyrs. What prevents enemies from exerting their atrocities is the spirit of courage, sacrifice, and faith within the nation.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) January 2, 2018
Hmm.
Iran protests: Supreme leader Khamenei blames ‘enemies’ (BBC)
Good luck to the people of Iran!
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/947635617906638853
yes
immense courage
hard not to be frightened for them though
http://lobelog.com/protests-in-iran-are-an-extension-of-the-islamic-republics-founding-ethos/ A more thoughtful reading of recent events than you’ll find in most media comment. I doubt most Iranians would like to give the US and Israel the opportunity to send their country down the route of Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, which is what they would dearly like. This is for the Iranian people to sort out. I wish them well.
+1 friscondo
in that light, we should be taking a leaf out of the iranian people’s book.
do your job, indeed.
https://youtu.be/WC4dra3bcf0 Tehran, and Iran in general is a far more complex society than the caricatures we see in western media.
Yes it has the highest rate of heroin addiction in the world for a start.
what are you gonna do when beer is outlawed and 5g of opium costs $1?
how many times is this script going to be repeated in the Arab world ? Getting blindingly obvious at this point.
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/us-empire-is-running-the-same-script-with-iran-that-it-ran-with-libya-syria-2bb37b5c5af
Iran is Persian not Arabic. But I take your point about Middle East.
+1
Some of the chants are… ‘we’re not arabs’
+1 f_lawless
Hon’Ran
Stitch it inta ‘dem
It’s not a game of junior B hurling.
If only
then it wouldn’t be so covert underhand and secret
at least all the muck, lads gawking up, cursing, fainting, durty digs and stuff is all done in broad daylight in Junior B
and if it gets out’ve hand at all tis all all over the effin news
Here’s the roots of the problem: Mullah’s supported by a US president who was drunk on the smell of his own importance.
I referenced this story last week and was called crazy and yet here we are today with the truth hanging out.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948164289591902208
Hezbollah is party supported by Shia and Christians in Lebanon. They drove Israel out of south Lebanon in 2000 and prevented them from achieving their military goals in 2006 war. They are a source of stability in Lebanon and it’s only deterrence against Israeli aggression. They have also recently been crucial in defeating ISIS in Syria and Iraq. The balkanisation that Israel planned for in the Middle East has been halted in Syria and Iraq by Iran, Russia and Hezbollah. The current sources of instability are Israel, of course, Trump and a reckless new leader in Saudi Arabia. Don’t forget how this has impacted Europe with refugee crisis emboldening the far right, Brexit and general disunity in EU. We are all affected by stupid adventurism and destabilising actions in the Middle East. Israel, ruled by right wing lunatics is intent on war with Iran, using US forces of course, which would be devastating for region and the rest of the world. People are playing very dangerous games. Trump is a narcissistic, psychopathic, self confessed serial molester. Be afraid. What’s happening in Iran could end very badly for all of us.
Look at the Obama drone trying to defend a reality that is disintegrating before our very eyes.
Tells us: which president loaded up an airplane full of cash to send to Iran?
Which president abandoned the 2009 Iranian protestors just as they called for his help?
Which president is suspected of doing a deal to allow Hezbollah import cocaine into the US?
You can tell all the lies you want about Trump but he’s the one who respects the rule of law, the principles of national sovereignty and the peoples’ right to chose their own government, their own destiny.
Get Trump to tell his friends in Saudi Arabia about all this peoples destiny stuff. BTW he is incontrovertibly a self confessed serial molester. I heard him say it on TV.
@Friscondo
What do you think you heard on TV that confirms your suspicions?
Post a link if you’re so sure.
In the meantime you’re trying to distract from Obama’s culpability in this mess.
BTW, the storm has already hit Saudi Arabia, regime change is in effect and – unless you’re Al Waleed and his cronies – it will be relatively painless.
@ ReproBertie
Hold on to your hat: the storm is here!
In conversation with Billy Bush.
Link to the video you claim proves your suspicions.
Go on, let’s all see this [incontrovertible] evidence for ourselves.
And then tell us why Obama’s hand are clean with Hezbollah.
Which president supports protests in Iran but demands protesters in America lose their jobs?
+1
I love the smell of regime change in the morning….
Although I don’t believe it’s in the interest of the iranians to have a us ally as government.
I’d be interested to see what putin does.
The protests were instigated by hard line enemies of Khamenei in Mashad. But much easier to blame the Jews.
Like the initial protests in Syria and Libya, hardliners in Mashhad may be an element in this, but US and Israel will be looking to take advantage and create more slave markets and refugee catastrophe’s like they did in Libya. However Iran will be a much harder nut to crack. Israel’s survival is predicated on constant turmoil in the region.
Slave markets in Libya you say? Which US President oversaw that operation again?
https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/948096117991915520
You support Trump.. LOL
“Israel’s survival is predicated on constant turmoil in the region.” Why ? Otherwise they’d all combine and attack Israel ? Like 1948 ; 1967 ; 1973 ? The region didn’t manage much did it ? It’s scumbag Arab – and Persian – despots who thrive on chaos in the region. And as a postscript it was the French with their historical ties to the Maghreb that led the charge on Libya, not Israel and the US.