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Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Good luck to those brave bastards. The odds are against them.

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Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Gresh posted:

down with the patriarchy

Inshallah.

And with these protesters, it could.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Yeah, Iran seems much more glad to cut off internet to their people than Russia, I guess cause the latter would totally undermine it being all ok despite the mobilization.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Hah - there's an extreme hypocrisy (not that THAT is a major concern) in the Iran regime that supposedly follows Qu'ranic scripture and yet has images of their founders up as statues.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Well, blow me down. I though the aniconism was something pretty much universal throughout Islam. More the fool me.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Crapilicious posted:

Can anyone explain why it isn't?

Yeah, I'm curious too as to why this is.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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mobby_6kl posted:

Seems like they're still going strong!

https://i.imgur.com/nJgL6Sb.mp4

Supposedly today, Gohardasht, Karaj

God be with 'em.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Woo

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Solidarity forever. Does the heart good to see those flags in Lebanon.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Those girls are braver than I have ever been.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Monstrous.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Toxic Mental posted:

Uhhh isn’t that an ethnic slur

No more than kapo.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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I could do be wrong, but I don't remember the protests in 08 resulting in nearly as many deaths. This is horrendous.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Holy moly, this is incredible.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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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!

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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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.

It's not a good feeling.

With the reports of some riot police siding with the protestors, I'm inclined to agree. I hope to God we're wrong.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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ekuNNN posted:

lol gross

I confess I would have felt better if it was "Mossadegh roohat shad", but as folk have pointed out, it seems to be more general rebelling against established norms. A person over here in Sweden from Iran was mentioning how more young folk tote icons of Ahura Mazda, I doubt this means there is a serious resurgence of Zoarastrianism due.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Party In My Diapee posted:

I would definitely be all in for the Zoroastrian socialist republic of Iran.

Oh HELL yeah.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Oh my God. This is... horrifying...

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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I wonder if Iran's latest all-in on supplying Russia with weapons is directly related to these upheavals.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Ichabod Tane posted:

Family back home. I certainly wouldn't abandon them to face repercussions.

God knows the brutes would be happy to process friends and family if she didn't play ball, the bastards.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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DJ_Mindboggler posted:

I've seen the term "lynching" used a few times now in descriptions of videos that just had public beatings. Is that a translation thing?

So long as it is an extrajudicial killing, it's a lynching. Hanging is not ubiquitous to the act of lynching, at least literally.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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By the Gods above and below, I hope they can pull this off.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Dapper_Swindler posted:

yeah, i dont think this shits going away now.

and apperently the mullahs agree.

https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1587481109377519616

sounds like they may try to wag the dog so to speak because it saved their asses when iraq invaded.

Maybe. Don't know if it'll work. God, what a repulsive bloodbath/poo poo show.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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...I take it that the regime is silencing the protests, then? There's been no news in about 4 days...

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Here's hoping the defeats affecting Russia get passed on to the Iranian government.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Dapper_Swindler posted:

yeah, i think they can't crush this. they are killing people in the streets and folks are still marching and fighting back. best case for the regime are either they pull a syria and kill so many no one can't stand against them but they end up in a much much much weaker place and then they end up setting up their fall in future. their other best chance is reforming hard but thats dead now. i think this ends bad for them now.

I hope it ends bad for them - that it doesn't become another Syria.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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acidx posted:

Gives a good sense of just how pissed off people are at the Iranian government.

https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1597805116920565760

Wow. If the U.S. seems good compared to your government, your government has hosed up.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Dumb history question. When Iran kicked out the Shah in 79, it was ostensibly a student revolution, right? How did a theocratic government emerge from that? The last thing I can I imagine a bunch of angry students arguing for is more religion in their lives.

I also seem (and if this is wrong, please chastise me) to remember reading that it was a response to both the corrupting capital of the West which had for so often undermined Persia/Iran as well as to the secular threat of Communism. It was seen as an alternative that had never been truly tried, and would be specific to Iran?

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Here's hoping the uprising doesn't take the bait. God knows there'll be commentators trying to push it as a huge reform.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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I just realized that I've not seen this thread in a while. Has there been any major updates.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Been ages since this thread was updated, but saw this in the Ukraine thread.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Good God, these poor people. How long have they been struggling with barely anything getting out of the country?

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Nenonen posted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64906996

Iran and Saudi Arabia have restored diplomatic relations and opened embassies following four days of talks in China.

Maybe they were able to put aside differing views on Yemen by concentrating on similar views on women?

I'd laugh, but...

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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How they still have the momentum, I have no idea.

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Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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Nenonen posted:

At a bank? Sounds like a clerical error.

Well, that's what happens when you get an Imam being interested in profits other than Muhammad.

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