13 Iranians die in protest
According to Reuters, 13 Iranians are dead as a result of the current protests raging through Iran.
In the western city of Kermanshah, protesters set fire to a traffic police post, but no one was hurt in the incident, Mehr news agency said.
Demonstrations continued for a fifth day. Some 13 people were reported killed on Sunday in the worst wave of unrest since crowds took to the streets in 2009 to condemn the re-election of then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The protests have put pressure on the clerical leaders in power since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. President Hassan Rouhani made a televised call for calm on Sunday, saying Iranians had the right to criticize but must not cause unrest.
Of course, as we read yesterday, it was Trump who caused the disorder. But, according to Commentary Magazine, a year ago, the New York Times reported that it was Trump’s rhetoric that unified the Persians against the US;
In November, the [New York Time’s] Tehran bureau chief, Thomas Erdbrink, devoted an extended feature to making this case, and it proved wildly popular with the pro-nuclear deal crowd in Washington.
“After years of cynicism, sneering or simply tuning out all things political,” wrote Erdbrink, “Iran’s urban middle classes have been swept up in a wave of nationalist fervor.” He went on: “Mr. Trump and the Saudis have helped the government achieve what years of repression could never accomplish: widespread public support for the hard-line view that the United States and Riyadh cannot be trusted.”
Iran’s hard-liners are savoring the reversal in their fortunes, after losing influence in the Obama years. “Thanks to Trump’s dishonest, cheating and crazy remarks, he has proved what we have said for a long time: America cannot be trusted,” said Hamidreza Taraghi, a hard-line political analyst. “Many didn’t believe us, but now they do.”
I wonder who is protesting and dying in the streets of Tehran and around the country today? Are they Trump-haters or Trump-supporters?
Category: Politics
Whether they love Trump or hate him, it’s Trump’s fault either way.
EVERYTHING that has happened since he had the audacity to run for POTUS, as an outsider, and win on Nov 8, ’16 has been his fault.
MAGA
Soviet dissidents thanked Mr Reagan for the “evil empire” speech, and finally labeling the Soviets as such.
“Don’t upset them” folks in the Department of State insisted Mr. Reagan -not- say “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
It sickens me to see how many folks, who ought to know better, seem to want to help preserve the Mad Mulah regime, a hard line Muslim Theocracy dedicated to the destruction of western civilization by replacement with Muslim Theocracy, in effect enslaving the whole of the world.
Sounds almost like another evil empire that wanted to impose a Marxist slave theocracy.
The JEF and his minions would have looked at this as an “internal matter” and given the mullahs a wink and a nudge, while giving them more cash to fund their nuclear program.
Hopefully the protesters win this one.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/01/01/trump-netanyahu-speak-u-n-europe-remain-silent-iranian-uprising/
“U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered enthusiastic support for the Iranian people in their demonstrations against both the secular and religious governments of their country over the New Year’s weekend, while the United Nations and European leaders have remained conspicuously silent.”
I bet the people protesting are average joes tired of being promised changes and not seeing them.
I would put up real money that Trump and the US are not in the top ten reasons for protesting
John Ringo, the writer, has a very interesting take on all of this.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/john-ringo/a-note-on-the-iran-protests/10155334568097055/
Read that and it gave a realy good perspective. That and I am a huge reader of Mr. Ringo’s books.
Yes, he does.
“13 Iranians are dead”
Damn foriegn agitators.
Well, gee whiz, they’re a lot more destructive than the protesters here… or something.
The reporter last night said they were shouting ‘bring back the Shah!’ and I kind of gigglesnorrtted over that one.
I was in college during the revolution that deposed the Shah. There was a pair of Iranian engineering students in many of my classes.
They were shitting themselves with the fear of having to go back.
The Mullahs are the one’s crapping themselves now.
“The Mullahs are the one’s crapping themselves now.”
I can think of nobody more deserving.
It is my understanding the number of dead is now up to at least 20. The real toll is probably much higher but the Iranian government is the one providing the numbers.
As usual, Mr. Ringo provides an illuminating perspective.
Here is an article in Macleans of Canada linked in a comment on Ringo’s article.
The money quote,IMO:
“This time around, the uprising is leaderless, and freelance journalist Samira Mohyeddin, a prominent figure in Toronto’s Iranian diaspora, says that’s a good thing. “There isn’t a single person they can go after and put under house arrest. The regime is scared, and that’s what’s really interesting. You can tell they’re afraid the red lines are gone,” she told me. “
If you want your country and civilization to prosper you cannot he ruled by islam, period.