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Gonna just double post some footage of a guy shot in his car and a woman, apparently beaten, motionless on the ground. It's bad. But I think it's important to acknowledge the danger these people put themselves in for the protests.   https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1578788676993449984 https://twitter.com/yoimmah/status/1578718724793589761
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/persian_cowboy_/status/1578907337267752960?t=IwclwwJKQSJH_rvJ6IvOhw&s=35 Oh boy that is not a good sign…for the Mullahs. The security forces or cops stop backing you and poo poo becomes a lot harder. So good to see and interesting what plays out from it. Granted it could also be the kneel with protestors (in some cases), and then tear gas and beat the poo poo out of them later.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/persian_cowboy_/status/1578907337267752960?t=IwclwwJKQSJH_rvJ6IvOhw&s=35 If this spreads it's over for the Grand Council and the Ayatollah This is how Caucescu (sp?) was overthrown - basically the military and security state turned on him
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Scam Likely posted:This was posted on my Iranian classmates Instagram feed. https://twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1578818422921568256?s=20&t=RXFwO6N-JZLErYsikty0lA
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1578818422921568256?s=20&t=RXFwO6N-JZLErYsikty0lA Love it, amazing.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Oh boy that is not a good sign…for the Mullahs. The security forces or cops stop backing you and poo poo becomes a lot harder. So good to see and interesting what plays out from it. Yep once you have the security forces it signals the biggest turning point in a coup from what I gather.
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Edit: there are multiple videos in this tweet, none of them show anything horrible https://twitter.com/AlirezaEnferad/status/1579259836403191808 https://twitter.com/beybun_rojhilat/status/1579396519127842818 mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Oct 10, 2022 |
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Carth Dookie posted:Kurds just can't catch a break.  https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1579446170640084992 https://twitter.com/KhosroKalbasi/status/1579411375449083905 This is very good. E: https://twitter.com/goodbadatusa/status/1579500493424197632 https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1579499206137761792 https://twitter.com/iran_true/status/1579472091006398466 mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Oct 10, 2022 |
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mobby_6kl posted:Something more I think the mullahs are hosed. Either they implode when the military and cops and others turn on them Fully or they have to reform hard and end up imploding ussr style.
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loving lol at getting your national channels hacked.
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SirPhoebos posted:loving lol at getting your national channels hacked. Also getting it by ANONYMOUS is doubly embarrassing. I can’t wait to see the Islamic Republic be consigned to the dustbin of history.
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Spoke with someone from Iran last night - apparently the mullahs are being compared to the Tyrant Zahhak of brain-eating-shoulder-snakes infamy. Can't argue against that comparison!
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This feels like Syria ten years ago, only there the army was pulled in right at the start and started shooting protesters, after which many soldiers rebeled which kicked off the civil war. It's not a good feeling.
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Pajser posted:This feels like Syria ten years ago, only there the army was pulled in right at the start and started shooting protesters, after which many soldiers rebeled which kicked off the civil war. With the reports of some riot police siding with the protestors, I'm inclined to agree. I hope to God we're wrong.
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Pajser posted:This feels like Syria ten years ago, only there the army was pulled in right at the start and started shooting protesters, after which many soldiers rebeled which kicked off the civil war. Possibly but isn’t Iran way more culturally homogeneous plus the protests are happening in most major cities? Like Syria is a different kettle of fish.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:Possibly but isn’t Iran way more culturally homogeneous plus the protests are happening in most major cities? Like Syria is a different kettle of fish. While Persian culture and language is highly influential, Iran is still much more ethnically diverse than is often realized, obviously there's the Kurds where there is some separatists/autonomist sentiment along with much more minor movements (largely dissipated I think) among Arabs in Khuzestan and the Baloch regions in the southeast. Azerbaijanis are the largest ethnic minority (almost 20%) but I don't think I've really heard of much in the way of separatist sentiment from there in modern times (also consider that the country of Azerbaijan was created from Russian conquests of the Iranian Caucasus, and that many Iranian royal dynasties have been Azerbaijanis and other Turks, and they used to traditionally highly represented in the officer class). What is correct is that Iran probably has way less sectarian tensions than Syria did (though with Syria don't discount that many did not consider its ethnic and religious tensions to be particularly notable before the civil war broke out, even though they were there obviously). Protests in Syria didn't really start out highly sectarian, one notable thing with them to begin with was that there were major protests in Alawite and Kurdish areas as well, as the civil war broke out of the protests and the regime actively fostered those divisions further that's when they became what I guess alot of people associate with the Syrian civil war. All in all I don't really have enough information to say that I think this is it or not for the Ayatollahs, though with how broad these protests seen, I have a hard time seeing how they can quell it and retain power, even with extensive reforms (reforms that would probably cost them their grip on power), unless there's an exceedingly violent crackdown, but I'm not really sure that can work either, they have the IRGC and the Basiji, but I'm not really sure that alone is enough for them unless they can solidly split the population in some way. I also think they would need some kind of official foreign diplomatic support in order to begin such a crackdown, and I haven't really seen that either.
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Strategic Tea posted:Also Iran has a coherent national ideology, a sincere if evil political class, and would like to preserve itself as one of the leading non Western powers in the world. It can't do that if it goes on a free for all rampage gassing and bombing its own cities. Eh, it's kind of a bit more than that. While Assad's regime is essentially personal-focused and Iran's is ideological/revolutionary in a sense, Assad's Syria (Hafez and Bashar) has also always played up the "resist the west" part (while often courting Western business and such at the same time). I would also again like to note that Russia's part in Syria is often overemphasized, Russia was of paramount importance in diplomatically shielding the Syrian regime, but when it comes to actually on-the-ground and day-to-day military operations and all that I would posit that the role played by Iran and it's Iraqi and Hezbollah allies was much more important than Russian aircraft terrorbombing markets. If Assad is a puppet (and puppets are often not as strictly subservient as often imagined) then he is as much an Iranian puppet as a Russian one.
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Pajser posted:This feels like Syria ten years ago, only there the army was pulled in right at the start and started shooting protesters, after which many soldiers rebeled which kicked off the civil war. Syria had the sectarian factor, there's very little likelihood that things go that direction here given the demographics of Iran and the protests. Not because it isn't diverse, it is, but because the Syrian regime had a long history of being minority ruled and being able to play minorities against the Sunni Arab majority. The Iranian leadership isn't at all defined on ethnic-communal basis or anything like that. Any ethnic divisions being exploited also seem unlikely all and all, a lot of them are pretty bound by an overall Iranian identity. And the ones who aren't well, lol at them being fans of the government. Grape fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Oct 12, 2022 |
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:for the dummies (me) are they suggesting they will shut down Iran's gas field 14 production? Seems like they're threatening to sabotage it, yeah. But I don't have any more context beyond this tweet. https://twitter.com/beybun_rojhilat/status/1579942958119337984 https://twitter.com/AlirezaEnferad/status/1579947886141640704
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This gets borderline towards the end but it’s to prove a point. https://imgur.com/gallery/P1NWcpI
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These loving people! I think even the French get tired of protesting a month in. https://twitter.com/iran_true/status/1580243635744149504 A lot more stuff in the thread: https://twitter.com/khars69/status/1580180443881611264 https://twitter.com/KambizGhafouri/status/1580213729454567425 Dunno how representative this is but it's a good sign, the state security apparatus need to be neutralized to put real pressure on the government https://twitter.com/LudwigDerRohe/status/1580094114573717504 I think we can all agree with this sentiment https://twitter.com/nomadmehran/status/1579957438429925377
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mobby_6kl posted:These loving people! I think even the French get tired of protesting a month in. Arab Spring demonstrations went on for months, in Syria they began in February, somewhat small at first, then from March until July were basically continuous until that turned into the civil war. French might be at top in Europe, but they got nothing on the Middle East.
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We're measuring by French under democracy, rather than French under autocracy. Where as I understand it they have a pretty good record.
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