Iranian regime rape nurses aiding protesters

It’s horrific. Have friends paralysed with fear with no word from families now for weeks. The brutality of the regime and the bombs all around. What hell has been wrought.

Just reading what they did, it’s unconscionable. Where is everyone? Looking away.

The horror of the regime is simply not brought up by left wing right on journalists.....looking at you Owen Jones. There is narrative being pushed in the media that the regime is somehow a victim and people are quick to bring up international law when a terror regime has no respect at all of human rights.

I didn’t catch the man’s name. He was a professor in Iran I think. Even the interviewer was a bit taken a back with his reign of fire rhetoric, on us too in the U.K.

Was it Seyed Mohammad Marandi by any chance?
I’ve seen Piers Morgan interviewing him once, he seemed like a thoroughly unpleasant character, smirking and grinning all the way.

Makes sense.

SM is powerful and the women or any of the people against the IRGC just cannot get their stories out.

Look at the team of footballers signalling distress then overturned. That’s it. It’s like a movie, but real.

No one is seeing it so it doesn’t get talked about, not here not in Hollywood, no celeb causes.

The professor guy from Iran this morning, his rhetoric was off the scale. I’m sure it’s how anyone opposing the IRGC is dealt with. Vengeance. Scary stuff. He includes us in that too. It’s concerning.

Lots of people prefer to focus on attacking Trump and Netanyahu rather than actually thinking about what Iranian people have to endure living under a regime like that.

I think it’s because people are used to attacking Trump (and also Netanyahu), it’s a safe, approved way to show that you care.
I listened to a recent interview with Melanie Phillips where she described how anti-Trump sentiment can become a form of "performative social conformity" and a "badge of identity".
Something that’s designed to signal moral standing and that allows to avoid critical engagement with individual policies and situations.
I think she has a point.

It's all just awful. These regimes, these armies are just awful and it's the regular people who suffer while these maniacal regimes rape, kill, bomb and starve people for their own ends.

Iranians ruled by a regime that uses sexual violence as a tool of oppression being attacked by a country who uses sexual violence as a tool of oppression. It's hard to see a good outcome there.

It's just shit and yeah unfortunately there are people who support these regimes and proudly wave their flags in the UK and beyond. They bury their heads in the sand. They pick a 'team' and ignore the wrong doing of their 'side', kid themselves that it's somehow different if it's their 'side' doing it.

The reality is that it's all a mess, there are no good guys out there fighting right now and the people on the streets across the middle east are the ones who will suffer as is always the way in war.

It is undoubtedly one of the most brutal regimes on the planet.
Women have been tortured, raped before being beaten to death for showing their hair.
Rape is power to these sick fucks who take advantage of women in lawless situations.
I feel for the citizens. The support for the regime is stronger than not in this country, cannot see things changing in this lifetime.

It actually freaked me out and I rarely react to news these days post covid.

Fark is my reaction.

That interview was so hard to listen to, absolutely chilling

Statement on Al Quds march from the Met police:

The Home Secretary has consented to the Metropolitan Police banning Sunday’s Al Quds march and any associated counter-protest marches. This will be in place from 16:00hrs on Wednesday, 11 March and last one month.

The Al Quds march is uniquely contentious having originated in Iran and in London is organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission, an organisation supportive of the Iranian regime and was due to take place on Sunday, 15 March.

The threshold to ban a protest is high and we do not take this decision lightly; this is the first time we have used this power since 2012.

But in our assessment this march raises unique risks and challenges. We must consider the likely high numbers of protestors and counter protestors coming together and the extreme tensions between different factions. We have taken into consideration the likely impact on protests of the volatile situation in the Middle East, with the Iranian regime attacking British allies and military bases overseas.

We must also consider that the security services have been publicly clear about the threats we are facing on UK soil from the Iranian regime. In the last year MI5 and Counter Terrorism Policing have foiled over 20 Iranian state-backed attacks on the UK. Last week counter-terrorism officers arrested four people under the National Security Act after they allegedly spied on Jewish communities for the Iranian regime and, separately, at the weekend a man was reportedly stabbed by someone who had opposing views on the Iranian regime.

https://news.met.police.uk/news/statement-on-al-quds-march-506983

I think this falls under my regime supporters qualification, I wouldn't call this a significant or substantial minority.

You know the police had to recently ban a pro-Iranian march recently?

British police have banned a pro-Iranian march that had been due to take place in London on Sunday, citing the possibility of "extreme tensions" with counter-protesters and the risk posed by Tehran during the Iran war.

The annual Al Quds march is organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), which police said was supportive of Iran's clerical rulers.

The threshold to ban a protest is high in Britain. The police said it was the first time the power had been invoked in 14 years but described the risk of public disorder as "severe".

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-police-ban-pro-iranian-london-march-due-extreme-tensions-2026-03-11/

No I agree with all you have said.

I have never once heard anyone who is not of the regime or a very fundamentalist Muslim supporting the Ayatollahs? Who are you talking about? Can we have some examples of this significant minority?

I also had to google it this morning after someone mentioned it on another thread @Ihatetomatoes because the story hasn't been widely reported.

It's hard to understand why there isn't more outrage against the Iran regime. Lots of people prefer to focus on attacking Trump and Netanyahu rather than actually thinking about what Iranian people have to endure living under a regime like that.

War may not be the answer - we don't know the outcome yet. But neither is the answer to look away after the mass protests in Iran have drawn the attention of the world to their plight.

Yes we’re a SM society if we can’t see it it doesn’t get sympathy or celebs in Hollywood.

Nothing. Look at the footballers wanting safety then coerced to go back.

Listening to the guy it actually bumped up my stress levels, he was so intensely vengeful.