Major new slogan in #IranProtests tonight: "Death to the oppressor. Be it the Shah or the Supreme Leader."— M. Hanif Jazayeri (@HanifJazayeri) January 11, 2020
For the record: The MEK are behind these protests for regime change.
CC: @RichardGrenell @USAmbUN @SecPompeo
(Footage: via MEK activists under the Hafez Bridge in Tehran) pic.twitter.com/IUhuXDevjY
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:"Soleimani is a murderer. His leader is also a murderer" - chants by Iran's students today rip through the recent false claims by @CNN, @HardballChris & @nytimes' @farnazfassihi that Iranians support Soleimani.— M. Hanif Jazayeri (@HanifJazayeri) January 11, 2020
- #IranProtests via MEK activists in Tehran's Sharif University pic.twitter.com/QgbJDy7Xlu
6 comments:
We should not encourage them from the sidelines. Many will be brutalized, thrown in Evin Prison, and disappear off the streets.
Our support of the last attempt to overthrow the regime ended poorly.
This time around, Soleimani isn't there to put down these demonstrations.
Sure. But his successor in the IRGC will do what is necessary.
We don't want to discuss it. We are polite. But in the last failed protest (Velvet Revolution, was that the name?) one of the female protesters in Evin prison died of a perforated colon after being sodomized with a broom handle. Other stories - are out there, but filtered from MSM.
We have a poor record regarding supporting foment and dissent against totalitarian regimes. Anyone even remember lil' Juan in Venezuela and our support for him and the populist movement for his presidency? Hmmm
My deal is to not stand on the shoulders of the victims and encourage them along, when not a part, not bearing the potential sacrifice. People are disappearing. Of that I am sure.
I agree with what you are saying. We should NEVER speak as if we are going to help, UNLESS we are packed and ready to go.
We SHOULD encourage them to do what we did for our country; be willing to fight and die ...
BECAUSE THAT'S HOW YOU GET FREEDOM!
If you define success as overthrowing the regime, dont put your hopes on student activists. Bet on the thugs with guns.
And I dont see the thugs with guns turning them on the Ayatollah.
I also dont equate those students calling for the "Death Of The Dictator" as being Pro-US.
My problem is with the Iranian leadership AND the Iranian people. I hate the Zoroastrian Iranians I've met as much as I do the Shiite ones.
I wish a horrible future for the Iranian people, and the best way to achieve that is for them to continue to live under a corrupt brutal theocracy.
Its not that I dont want to punish the Theocrats. I'd love to drone the leadership daily around the streets of Qom.
But I'm just as concerned about a nuclear armed Secular Iranian Democracy as I am an oppressive Theocratic one. They all dream of reliving their past regional influence, and spreading Shia influence. At least with the brutal Theocracy we can justify blowing up their nuclear infrastructure. If they democracize that takes away our options to keep them a regional threat.
They're bad people ..... they deserve bad leadership and poverty. I hope our relationship with them remains adversarial and punitive forever.
The Zoros I've met seem like good people to me, though they don't seem to have much will to change anything.
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