Massive Demonstrations Happening In Iran

[ZiprHead]

As I understand it, this started due to a woman being arrested for cutting her hair. She died of head trauma in custody.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[ZiprHead]

Iran unrest: Women burn headscarves at anti-hijab protests

Protests have continued for five successive nights since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

www.bbc.com

Women have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws.
Crowds cheered when women burned their hijabs on a bonfire in Sari on Tuesday, the fifth successive day of unrest.
Activists said a woman was among three protesters shot dead by security forces in Urmia, Piranshahr and Kermanshah.
Authorities accused protesters of killing two civilians in Kermanshah as well as a police assistant in Shiraz.
At least seven people are now reported to have been killed since protests against the hijab laws and morality police erupted after Mahsa Amini's death.

 

[jab]

Iran unrest: Women burn headscarves at anti-hijab protests

Protests have continued for five successive nights since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

www.bbc.com

Women have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws.
Crowds cheered when women burned their hijabs on a bonfire in Sari on Tuesday, the fifth successive day of unrest.
Activists said a woman was among three protesters shot dead by security forces in Urmia, Piranshahr and Kermanshah.
Authorities accused protesters of killing two civilians in Kermanshah as well as a police assistant in Shiraz.
At least seven people are now reported to have been killed since protests against the hijab laws and morality police erupted after Mahsa Amini's death.

Thank you for these informative posts.

 

[Rhea]

I hope they are abe to make a significant impact. I always worry that the brave few step out, but they don’t ge support in large numbers.

 

[ZiprHead]

Waiting for Barbos to blame this on the US.

 

[Jayjay]

Iran is showing Russia how it's done.

It doesn't seem likely that Iran can't crack down on these protests, as it has multiple times in the past. But at least the Iranian people are trying.

 

[TomC]

I hope they are abe to make a significant impact. I always worry that the brave few step out, but they don’t ge support in large numbers.

Remember the Arab Spring?

Yeah.
Nobody else does either.
Tom

 

[steve_bank]

There was a democracy movement in Iran. We installed the Shah as an anti communist ally. We did not want the oil nationalized.

Pahlavi did westernize the country to a degree, but spent a lot of money on himself and became a harsh dictator.

That led to the revolution, which the conservative Muslims took away from the pro democracy faction.

So you can say the current conditions in Iran are a relic of the US Cold War policies. We toppled Hussian and tried to install pro American leaders, that did not work either. It was all about control of the oil.

Before the Sha there was an American hero of the Iranian democratic movement. He died fighting with the movement. I first heard about him from an Iranian immigrant. Before the Shah Iranians liked America.

An American hero in Iran

On a windswept plateau near the foothills of the Sahand Mountains in northern Iran stands the grave of a martyr.

paw.princeton.edu

That it is the grave of an American and a Princetonian makes the place remarkable. That it is the grave of a martyr to constitutional liberty, and that it is still honored in the heart of a nation whose government is hostile to the United States and many of its values, makes it more remarkable still.


Baskerville has been likened to Lafayette, a foreigner who helped another people defend their freedom, but the comparison is inapt. He was neither a professional soldier like Lafayette; nor a romantic like Lord Byron, who took up the cause of Greek independence; nor even a mercenary like another Princetonian, Johnny Poe 1895, who shipped himself off to far corners of the globe in search of glory. Baskerville, a teacher who planned to become a minister, found his way to what was then called Persia as a teacher, and ended up dying for a cause that he, as an American, felt morally bound to support.

1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953.[5] It was orchestrated by the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project[6] or "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot").[7][8][9][10] The clergy also played a considerable role.[11]

The United States Overthrew Iran’s Last Democratic Leader

Despite a campaign of historical revisionism in Washington, the archival record makes clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup…

foreignpolicy.com

Despite a campaign of historical revisionism in Washington, the archival record makes clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.​

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[TSwizzle]

Gee, if only this had been a black, male, drug addled felon this could be something we could all rally around, burn a few cities to the ground, gnash our teeth, wail at the moon and take a knee at sporting events. Weird how this shit works. I'm just saying.

 

[starwater]

She was arrested because the her hijab was not covering up her hair enough.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Meanwhile, the courage required to rise up in a cause that is almost certainly doomed is quite inspiring.

Interesting how race seems to be so dominating in your brain, that you manage to see race in everything.

 

[TSwizzle]

Interesting how race seems to be so dominating in your brain, that you manage to see race in everything.

Drug addled felon "murdered", pages and pages, riots, kneeling.

Trump gets elected, pussy hats outside Washington.

Woman murdered in Iran *crickets*.

Where's my feminists at?

Do you think the teams playing Iran in the world cup will take a knee for Amini? Probably not.

 

[Politesse]

Where's my feminists at?

Literally marching in the streets of one of the most dangerous police states on the planet, at considerable risk to themselves. Also, more proximately to our little online community, starting the thread. What are YOU doing about any of this, besides trying to derail said thread and make it about something other than women's rights?

 

[TSwizzle]

Literally marching in the streets of one of the most dangerous police states on the planet, at considerable risk to themselves.

True, these Iranian women are showing the world how brave they are by facing down their oppressors. But don't you think that this incident deserves far more attention than it is getting? Where's the kneeling etc? Don't you think this young woman's death is more of a tragedy and more deserving of attention than George Floyd? The white girlies really took to the BLM nonsense (really easy against a docile US police force) but they seem very quiet on this incident which surprises me. The USA is due to play Iran in the world cup, don't you think some sort of gesture of support from the USMNT should be shown?

Also, more proximately to our little online community, starting the thread. What are YOU doing about any of this,

Nothing really, I'm just bemused at how these things work. As tragic as the death of drug addled felon George Floyd was, the response was startling. You'd think that Amini's death would at least get some sort of reaction.

 

[Politesse]

Literally marching in the streets of one of the most dangerous police states on the planet, at considerable risk to themselves.

True, these Iranian women are showing the world how brave they are by facing down their oppressors. But don't you think that this incident deserves far more attention than it is getting? Where's the kneeling etc? Don't you think this young woman's death is more of a tragedy and more deserving of attention than George Floyd? The white girlies really took to the BLM nonsense (really easy against a docile US police force) but they seem very quiet on this incident which surprises me. The USA is due to play Iran in the world cup, don't you think some sort of gesture of support from the USMNT should be shown?

Also, more proximately to our little online community, starting the thread. What are YOU doing about any of this,

Nothing really, I'm just bemused at how these things work. As tragic as the death of drug addled felon George Floyd was, the response was startling. You'd think that Amini's death would at least get some sort of reaction.

Like, everyone is talking about this, and there are mass movements in the streets of Iran, getting gunned down. What more do you want?

 

[TSwizzle]

Like, everyone is talking about this, and there are mass movements in the streets of Iran, getting gunned down. What more do you want?

Really? I can't say I have seen much in the news about it. Has President Brandon or the first lady commented? Has the VP made a statement? I'd like to see more from our institutions about how this is unacceptable.

I genuinely don't understand how the death of drug addled felon George Floyd gets people all worked up but this incident, not so much.

 

[ZiprHead]

Like, everyone is talking about this, and there are mass movements in the streets of Iran, getting gunned down. What more do you want?

Really? I can't say I have seen much in the news about it. Has President Brandon or the first lady commented? Has the VP made a statement? I'd like to see more from our institutions about how this is unacceptable.

I genuinely don't understand how the death of drug addled felon George Floyd gets people all worked up but this incident, not so much.

Iran sanctions
The U.S. Treasury Department relaxed some of its internet sanctions against Iran on Friday to counter some measures taken by Tehran to stifle ongoing protests in the country stemming from the death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of Iran's morality police.

“As courageous Iranians take to the streets to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, the United States is redoubling its support for the free flow of information to the Iranian people," Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said in a statement last week. "With these changes, we are helping the Iranian people be better equipped to counter the government’s efforts to surveil and censor them."

Government funding, Iran sanctions, VP Kamala Harris visits Asia: 3 things to watch in politics this week

Here are three key stories to watch this week at the intersection of business and politics:

finance.yahoo.com

If TSwizzle doesn't see it, it's not happening. Good to know for future reference.

 

[Gospel]

Pffft Iran been like that. They've just been keeping it in the closet. Same with America accept the folks keeping it in the closet here are the type of weirdos seen storming our capital on January 6th.