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Al-Saqr posted:Saudi Arabia in 2016:- “haha we’ll beat those mountain villiager houthis in a month they don’t stand a chance!” lol
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This isn't one of those kind of mass protests that people can blame on foreign meddling. Everybody fuckin hates the morality police.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:This isn't one of those kind of mass protests that people can blame on foreign meddling. Everybody fuckin hates the morality police. The extent of the protests is wild. I guess this is also a release of the rage from some of the covid decisions the government has made? Either way it's 100% organic and lol at the US and CO trying to do regime change spins on it. https://twitter.com/still_oppressed/status/1572329418558967809?cxt=HHwWgsDU8dHRhNIrAAAA
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quote:US President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared support for a growing protest movement that has erupted across Iran in a move that experts noted marked a shift from then-president Barack Obama's response during demonstrations in 2009. huge shift in policy. we're entering the fray on day five instead of day nine or w/e
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Iranian protests are an annual/semi-annual rinse-repeat cycle. Arbitrary morality crack down (dogs, head scarfs, music, haircuts) > collateral > protest > brutal protest crackdown > resumption of daily affairs with the reminder that people have 0 power in getting more civil liberties. Other protests are better tolerated (economic, changes in subsidies) as far as i've seen, probably because it brings out a more working-class crowd that falls squarely within the govt constituency.
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drat look at all these protests in iran i am now more convinced than ever that they are a totalitarian regime that suppresses all dissent
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Sep 21, 2022 22:55
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Some Guy TT posted:drat look at all these protests in iran i am now more convinced than ever that they are a totalitarian regime that suppresses all dissent I suspect they'd like to suppress this dissent, but are a bit understaffed for it
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I see some people calling what is happening in Iran the beginning of a colour revolution. While I do worry about American/Western influence, it cannot be understated how much the people in Iran hate the government. Every single one of those mullahs and basajis deserve to die. Also, these protest have a level of anger and escalation that was not there in 2009. I really hope they do manage to overthrow them and my parents can visit again. https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1572906370071990277 https://twitter.com/VoiceofSAz/status/1572702277798096896 https://twitter.com/ErshadAlijani/status/1572320104200966144 https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1572635042903621632
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Americans wishing for a government to collapse because corrupt cops beat an innocent person to death 
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wow iran loving up the cops good and proper. maybe don't threaten to taze people when your outnumbered 50 to 1 lol owned
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the US trying to support legitimate social unrest cab be the kiss of death. once the iranian government can credibly say “this is meddling by western powers” it really does not do protest movements any favors
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Mans posted:Americans wishing for a government to collapse because corrupt cops beat an innocent person to death Let's be fair, most of us also wish the American government would collapse.
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someone take the cool zone tag but update the text منطقة رائعة
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THS2 posted:the US trying to support legitimate social unrest cab be the kiss of death. once the iranian government can credibly say “this is meddling by western powers” it really does not do protest movements any favors Any protest small enough to be squashed by saying Americans did it was being tolerated to begin with. If they were genuinely pulling out all the stops and it wasn't enough I can't imagine saying Bidet was behind it would sway anyone that mattered.
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https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1572928518350114816?s=46&t=T9Zr1IEU43X0hvprxzTKDg https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1572928523672715266?s=46&t=T9Zr1IEU43X0hvprxzTKDg https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1572928531713372160?s=46&t=T9Zr1IEU43X0hvprxzTKDg she wore headscarves all the time while doing on location reporting in the Middle East, and now she’s getting props for a political grandstand for a movement she contributes nothing to.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1572928518350114816?s=46&t=T9Zr1IEU43X0hvprxzTKDg she's mi6 lol
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That last pic has extreme Clint Eastwood at the GOP convention energy
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:That last pic has extreme Clint Eastwood at the GOP convention energy That's Elijah's chair, OP.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:she wore headscarves all the time while doing on location reporting in the Middle East, and now she’s getting props for a political grandstand for a movement she contributes nothing to. Wearing one in the Middle East vs wearing one in New York feels like a reasonable distinction to me. I don't like Amanpour either, but she's right to tell Raisi to go gently caress himself.
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Excited for the reddit posts about Iranian women during the shah to pop up everywhere. 👍
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:Wearing one in the Middle East vs wearing one in New York feels like a reasonable distinction to me. I don't like Amanpour either, but she's right to tell Raisi to go gently caress himself. Do women not wear headscarves in New York?
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Death By The Blues posted:I really hope they do manage to overthrow them and my parents can visit again. your parents won’t be able to because of the ensuing civil war. But yeah the hundreds of thousands dead and years of turmoil would be worth your parents visiting again.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Do women not wear headscarves in New York? It's not compulsory in New York. You really don't have to concern troll in favor of every reactionary leader in the world.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1572928518350114816?s=46&t=T9Zr1IEU43X0hvprxzTKDg It was either ahmadinejad or khatami who demanded that a state dinner with Chirac in Paris have no wine. laughable request got the predictable response and the dinner was canceled
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:It's not compulsory in New York. You really don't have to concern troll in favor of every reactionary leader in the world. Thats not what I am doing but thanks for admitting you're a honky.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:she wore headscarves all the time while doing on location reporting in the Middle East, and now she’s getting props for a political grandstand for a movement she contributes nothing to. I...guess? If Netanyahu required a non-israeli reporter to do some weird sabbath poo poo to get an interview it'd seem similar
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I think it's much more obvious that the prez just didn't want to do the interview
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i say swears online posted:I think it's much more obvious that the prez just didn't want to do the interview Leslie Stahl wore a hijab and got an interview where he waffled on whether or not the Holocaust happened, so I think he would have done the interview if Amanpour had worn one.
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guidoanselmi posted:Iranian protests are an annual/semi-annual rinse-repeat cycle. Arbitrary morality crack down (dogs, head scarfs, music, haircuts) > collateral > protest > brutal protest crackdown > resumption of daily affairs with the reminder that people have 0 power in getting more civil liberties. I don't think this is right, the November 2019 protests started because of a cut to the fuel subsidy and had a mostly working class character (compared to e.g. 2009), and police killed more protesters in 2019 than in any previous wave of protests since the early years of the revolution. In general, protests in recent years haven't been been triggered by morality crackdowns, but by events like: the IRGC shootdown of a passenger plane killing hundreds of Iranians, the collapse of a building owned by a politically connected businessman killing dozens, massive water shortages affecting farmers, increases in food prices, cuts to subsidies, etc.
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:Leslie Stahl wore a hijab and got an interview where he waffled on whether or not the Holocaust happened, so I think he would have done the interview if Amanpour had worn one. like Chirac and the wine, it's an unreasonable ask. it was meant to torpedo the interview i say swears online has issued a correction as of 15:55 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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I think he's really just a hardliner/positioning himself to be Supreme Leader whenever Khamenei dies, so this is posturing to the only constituency he cares about, which is the other clerics back home. He's the one who instituted the more restrictive hijab enforcement this summer in the first place. If western interviewers cave to his demands (like Stahl did), fine. If they don't (like Amanpour) that's fine too.
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yeah for sure it's directed toward a domestic audience; he was probably in a hard spot because of the implications vis a vis morality police protests either way. now it's not an issue
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So what you're both saying is that Amanpour served Raisi's interests and isn't a freedom fighter? 
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