In Iran, the protests against the regime have still not been suppressed, despite the regime throwing everything it has into the effort. More than 500 protesters have been murdered in the 100 days of protests that have passed since the killing of Mahsa Amini by the morality police on September 16, but instead of scaring others into submission, these killings by the regime’s enforcers have only served to bring tens of thousands of new protesters out onto the streets in more than 90 cities across the country. In Shi’a Islam, as in other traditions, the mourning period for the dead lasts for 40 days. And now, 40 days after the death of protesters, Iranian crowds make that fatidic date the occasion to appear at their gravesites to honor the martyred dead. More on these events can be found here: “Iranians mourn murdered protesters, chant ‘death to Khamenei!,’” by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2022:
Crowds of Iranian demonstrators gathered on Thursday [Dec. 29] at the graves of protesters murdered by Iranian security forces during the anti-government protests that continue to sweep Iran, to mark 40 days since their murder on Thursday.
A large crowd of protesters gathered at the grave of Hamidreza Rouhi at the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in Tehran on Dec. 29 to mark the 40th anniversary since his death. Rouhi, a university student who also had a modeling career since childhood, was shot dead near his home in the Shahr-e Ziba neighborhood in the west of the capital on November 18. Thursday was the 40th day after his death, when Iranians hold a memorial.
Later, protesters began chanting against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who they believe has ordered the killing of protesters. “Down with the Dictator”was chanted, and then a new slogan was heard: “This homeland will not thrive before he [Khamenei] is wrapped in a shroud.”
“Poverty, corruption, high cost of living, we will continue until the toppling [of the regime]”, people began chanting as the crowd grew even larger.
The protesters then chanted “Death to the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps], death to the entire system!”
Video reportedly from the scene showed Iranian security forces firing tear gas at the protesters who blocked a nearby road. The protesters reportedly managed to chase away the security forces, with video showing demonstrators running towards security forces as tear gas was fired. A person allegedly attempted to attack the protesters with a knife as well.
A large crowd of protesters also gathered at the grave of Ali Abbasi in Semirom, chanting “Death to Khamenei!” and other anti-government slogans.
Ali Abbasi was 25 years old when he was murdered.
Demonstrations were also held at the grave of Atefeh Naami, an Ahwazi Arab activist who was found dead in her apartment in November. Her family members have accused Iranian security forces of killing her and then staging the murder as a suicide.
Several dozen of the protesters who were murdered have been declared by the authorities to have been suicides, but some of their bodies showed signs of severe beatings that could only have been inflicted by others.
Protesters gathered at the graves of Mohsen Niazi, Reza Shariati, Milad Saeedianjoo, Sephehr Maqsoodi, Arman Emadi and Javad Mousavi as well on Thursday.
Additionally on Thursday [Dec. 29] and Iranian writer and painter named Mehdi Bahman was reportedly sentenced to death for taking part in the protests, according to BBC Persian.
Iranian activists have reportedly called for further protests at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar to be held on Saturday.
Despite a violent crackdown on protests by Iranian authorities, the wave of protests against the Islamic regime has continued for over 100 days since Mahsa Amini was murdered by Tehran “morality police.” The protesters have called for the fall of the regime.
The burials of the murdered protesters — there have been 508 so far – have been the occasions for demonstrations of grief and fury at the gravesite. And forty days after each burial, demonstrations again are held at the same gravesites, this time more of fury than grief. And just as it was grief that began these protests, it is fury that keeps them going.
I also read they quit walking over the giant American flag painted on the pavement they could give lessons in manners to the Liberal pinheads denouncing their being a American and maybe even make the little snowflakes feel ashamed
Their courage should make everyone feel ashamed. I didn’t think that there were human beings of this caliber any more.
The U.S. is very quickly running out of the ability to destroy anybody.
Chcuo, I can’t decide if you’re stupid, ignorant, insane, or all three. You were doing ok until you got into the crazy part.
Are you sure that Brazil is still a democracy? Or has it recently become a banana republic like the United States?
“It could be 500,it could 100. The problem is the numbers come from the GLOBALIST press that supports a totalitarian ideology similar to the Iranian theocracy. The Globalist press often lies.”
There’s also the fog of war as well as totalitarian censorship at play in Iran. But in any case, there’s a reason I speak about estimates and approximates and do so vaguely with conflicts like this. But I do know the “Islamic Republic” and its ilk have done less than nothing to warrant the benefit of the doubt.
“I hope it is not 500.All the same, the Globalist press is following the orders of Soros and Klaus Schwab:
“overthrow the Iranian theocracy,”
I can only wish, because it would constitute a time where I would support them.
That said, I cannot agree. The globalists have generally been supportive of detente with Iran, as shown by Biden negotiating for an ew Iran Sellout using Putin (who is supposedly the Great Satan) as an intermediary.
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“install a PUPPET regime, make the new government SELL all the Iranian oil industry to Western,Globalist companies. ”
Which I wound frankly support. Because as bad as Schwab and the WEF are and as existential a threat they are to our freedoms, they don’t want to literally nuke the world into apocalypse to bring about the Last Imam, and also haven’t directly dealt with Osama Bin Laden. The Iranian Theocracy has.
Moreover, you think that the WEF would run into issues with the Iranian people able to express their views freely?
“I believe Iran now has an ALTERNATIVE system to SWIFT.”
Ok. Why? And how? It certainly isn’t that effective of a system if it does exist.
“The new regime would be forced to change back to SWIFT,and thus have all their BANKING system be cut off at any moment by the Globalists if they don’t do as they say.”
Which they would have to rebuild, much as Russia is. Frankly banking is important but it isn’t that important, as the major totalitarian regimes of the past century from Imperial Germany in WWI to the PRC today show.
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“For those who think it isn’t true,it is all part of the WOLFOWITZ DOCTRINE ( 1992 ).
by US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz and NOT intended for public release, it was leaked to the New York Times on March 7, 1992,and sparked a public controversy about U.S. foreign and defense policy.”
Firstly: Now we’re trusting the NYT? Can I get a verdict?
Secondly: Why don’t we actually read through the Wolfowitz doctrine? It really isn’t that bad.
“The document was widely criticized as IMPERIALIST, and was for a UNIPOLAR world”
Good.
Frankly I wish we still followed it, though a close study of the doctrine shows we do not, contra your claims. Frankly I am in favor of America First, and I do want the US to have prime place in the world, whether it be unipolar or multipolar. Moreover, a cursory look at the Pax Americana compared to prior history vindicates it.
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“and use of PREEMPTIVE MILITARY action to stop other countries (China,Russia,Iran,etc) from acquiring superpower status. ”
Specifically, to prevent dictatorships from acquiring superpower status.
See:
“• Preclude hostile, nondemocratic domination of regions [Europe,
East Asia. and the Persian Gulf] critical to our interests, and
thereby strengthen the barriers against the reemergence of a
global th~eat (pp.3 and 12; see also pp.19, 31, and 39) .”
And I hate to tell you this Chcuo, but I support that policy and wish we still followed it. Because I actually DO NOT want the likes of the PRC, Putin’s Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or Iran to become a superpower.
Nor should you. Even if you support Multipolarity, we can do better than corrupt tyrants and apocalyptic totalitarians.
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Did you actually read the documents in question, Chcuo? Or did you just read some doubtless biased and inaccurate alleged summary of them?
“It was AFTER the FALL of Communism in Russia.There was a DEMOCRACY there.”
Which is probably why IF YOU ACTUALLY READ THE DOCUMENT, Russia was identified as a DEMOCRATIC ALLY OR PROSPECTIVE ALLY rather than a THREAT.
“(U) To reach these goa1s t the United States must show the
leadership necessary to encourage sustained cooperation among
major democratic powers. The alternative would be to leave our
critical interests and the security of our friends dependent upon
individual efforts that could be duplicative, competitive, or
ineffective. We must also encourage and assist Russia J Ukraine,
and the other new republics of the former Soviet Union in
establishing democratic pOlitical systems and free markets so they
too can join the democratic ·zone of peace.””
“• Lead to a security community that extends to all peace-loving
nations, including the new democracies of Eastern Europe and a ?
democratic Russia, Ukraine, and other democracies of the former
Soviet Union (p.3i see also pp.7, 32 and 33)”
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Though it did note that this could not be taken for granted:
” … democratic change in Russia is not irreversible, and
that despite its current travails, Russia will remain the strongest military power in Eurasia and the only power in the world with the capability of destroying the United States. ”
Unfortunately as we know, that was horribly prescient.
“Let’s say INDIA (democray ) or BRAZIL (democracy) were to rise to superpower status, the US would invent some excuse to start a war and destroy them.”
That’s not what the document says, certainly not the redacted parts.
“• p.2, There are three additional aspects to this [first objective) objective: Fir~t, the OS must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that can convince
potential competitors not to pursue a more aggressive posture to secure their legitimate interests. Second, in non-defense areas, we must sufficiently respect the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order. Finally, we must maintain mechanisms, in concert with our allies, to deter potential aggressors from aspiring to a
larger regional or global role “”
It is also borne out by the extreme appeasement the US conducted towards the PRC throughout the 1990s. But that doesn’t fit the “anti-Imperialist”, anti-US spinning, so it tends to get omitted.