Two short videos showing Israelis protesting against Israel's war against Iran and Israelis protesting against Israel state police

@IrishSelkie As I've posted before - Iran has been attacking Israel through its proxies Hamas, Hizbollah and Houtis for a very long time, culminating in the 7 October pogrom.Conflicts between Hamas and Israel, for example, took place in 2008-09, 2012, 2014 and 2021.

The only people responsible for the repression of Iranians is the Islamic Republic.

Many human rights experts have pointed out that the attacks on Iran have resulted in Iran’s oppression becoming more brutal in response.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/04/iran-human-rights-situation-spirals-deeper-into-crisis

For example, the 12 days bombing from 22-24 June 2025 directly caused a subsequent wave of 21,000 arrests.

The attacks are not helping ordinary Iranians, they are causing the Iranian regime to double down on the people.

And 28 December 2025 is after the many US & Israeli attacks of 2024 and 2025:

On 1 April 2024, Israel bombed an Iranian consulate complex in Damascus, Syria, killing multiple senior Iranian officials including a woman and her son, and Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior Quds Force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and seven other IRGC officers, in addition to six other militants belonging to Hezbollah and other Iranian supported groups.

On 19 April 2024 Israel struck the Iranian air defense radar site protecting the Natanz nuclear facility destroying it.

On 13 July 2024 Israel struck a residential apartment building in Tehran, capital of Iran, assassinating Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh

On 26 October 2024, Israel carried out strikes on 20 locations in Iran as part of Operation Days of Repentance. It was the largest attack on Iran since the Iran-Iraq War. According to U.S. officials, Israel targeted critical components of Iran's ballistic missile infrastructure, destroying 12 planetary mixers essential for producing solid-fuel missiles. Thus crippling Iran's capability to replenish its missile stockpile. U.S. officials added that it would take Iran at least a year to resume its missile production.[1] U.S. and Israeli officials said that most of Iran's air defense network, including nearly all of its advanced S-300 systems, were destroyed.

On 13 June 2025, the conflict escalated into the armed conflict between Israel and Iran, when Israel launched a surprise attack targeting key Iranian military and nuclear facilities.[34][35] The opening hours of the war saw targeted assassinationsand attempted assassinations of Iran's top military leaders, nuclear scientists

On 22 June 2025, The United States, which had been defending Israel since the beginning of the war by shooting down Iranian missiles and drones, took offensive action by striking three Iranian nuclear sites

On 24 June 2025– After 12 days of fighting, a US-brokered ceasefire takes effect between Iran and Israel, ending all hostilities. Iran says at least 610 of its citizens were killed in the war, while Israel claimed 28 were killed on its side.

Crackdown starts on 12 August 2025- Iranian police arrest as many as 21,000 people related to the 12-day war with Israel, according to state media.

This link shows the progress of the nuclear talks in February 2026 up to the surprise attacks of 28 February 2026 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/us-israel-bomb-iran-a-timeline-of-talks-and-threats-leading-up-to-attacks.

February 6 – Iran and the US begin indirect nuclear negotiations in Geneva, mediated by Oman, with the aim of reaching a deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear programme.
February 17 – High-level US–Iran nuclear talks resume in Geneva, again with Omani mediation.
February 22 – Oman confirms another round of discussions in Geneva, describing a “positive push” but admits that significant differences remain.
February 26 – A third round of nuclear talks concludes in Geneva, with mediator Oman saying “significant progress” was made and more discussions would be held the following week in Vienna.
February 27 – Oman’s foreign minister says Iran has agreed to degrade its current stockpiles of nuclear material to “the lowest level possible” — effectively to unrefined levels. US President Donald Trump says he prefers diplomacy but warns that “all options” remain available if diplomacy fails.
February 28 – Israel launches coordinated strikes on Iranian targets, including sites in and around Tehran. Iran retaliates by launching air and missile strikes across the region, including Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait.

@IrishSelkie While there may well be a 'thriving black market for unlicensed guns' in Iran (especially since the war began a month ago), g-d help anyone who tries to buy or use one.
From saf.org/gun-control-in-iran:
'Since they lack a constitution, Iranians have no right to own firearms. For a civilian to legally purchase a handgun, a licence was needed (during the previous Ayatollah's administration).Officially, the process included a permit from the local police, a criminal records check, military service checks, a psychological exam and successful completion of state safety training and testing. It was estimated that only 3% to 7% of all applications were approved.
Only this small number of licensees were legally allowed to purchase and possess ammunition. In May 2025, long time Iranian President Pezeshkian ordered even harsher criminal sentences for unlicensed firearm possession and for the use of digital platforms to arrange private sales.'

What on earth are you saying? The Islamic regime's repression of its citizens is its whole mo. Forcing women to cover their hair has fuck all to do with anyone outside Iran.

You do seem to be doubling the murderous actions of the IRGC.

In the post above you are quoting them as saying the protests were not authentic. Like you believe them.

It’s not fact that we have to believe them, its choice.

But after the 2024 and 2025 attacks on Iran.
I am not denying the murderous actions of the IGRC in the slightest or blaming Israel.
Please read the history of Iran and try to comprehend the fact that foreign attacks do affect how a government responds to civil unrest.

The Iranian regime thinks that the protests are not authentic but caused by US/Israeli paid agitators.

The unprovoked, illegal attacks by the US/Israel in 2024 and 2025 and now 2026 have made the Iranian regime (who you rightly referred to as religious lunatics to begin with) even more paranoid and convinced the US/Israel are behind the protests so their response to protesters has been progressively more harsh.

This is fact.

It is also not wild a conspiracy theory because the US did in fact stage a coup in 1953 in Iran which did involve the CIA and UK SIS organising protests and turning the army against the democratically elected president of then Iran

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/18/middleeast/us-toppled-iranian-government-before-hnk-intl

The misinformation on this thread, as on others, is just ridiculous. 'This crackdown' began on 28 December 2025, not as a response to the US and Israeli attacks on 28 February. There have been supportive rallies on behalf of the ordinary, mostly young, Iranians who have been 'cracked down' upon outside the Iranian Embassy in London and elsewhere on a regular basis ever since.

The protests referred to are the ones in January before the war.

Shocked that you would deny the murderous actions of the IRGC towards their own people.

You appear to be minimising their behaviour by attempting to blame Israel but the brutal suppression by the IRGC of their own people protesting against the regime was their own responsibility.

Yet again denying the agency of the Iranian people. Noone with any credibility believes that the protests are anything other than an authentic response to 40 odd years of repression, combined with the collapsing economic situation for ordinary Iranians. When your own government shoots you in the eye for refusing to wear a hijab you don't need external influence.
the posts on here are absolutely fucking shameful.

There are 90 million people in Iran. Do we know what they want? While it seems (again, what do we know?) that the majority want an end to the regime and many have denounced Islam as a result of it, there also are many who support it including the parents and grandparents of those who don’t.

It is to me an abhorrent regime, but no more abhorrent than the US/Israeli alliance who seek to depose it for their own interests.

Iran appears to be a country that hates US interference either direct or by its proxy, Israel, more than they hate the regime.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/18/middleeast/us-toppled-iranian-government-before-hnk-intl

Oil fields: In 1953, the US helped stage a coup to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
He had pledged to nationalize the country’s oil fields – a move the US and Great Britain saw as a serious blow, given their dependence on oil from the Middle East.
Height of the Cold War: The move to nationalize was seen as popular in Iran and a victory for the then-USSR.
Strengthen Shah rule: The coup’s goal was to support Iran’s monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to rule as Shah of Iran, and appoint a new prime minister, Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi.
The coup: Before the coup, the CIA, along with the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), helped foment anti-Mossadegh fervor using propaganda. In 1953, the CIA and SIS helped pull pro-Shah forces together and organized large protests against Mossadegh, which were soon joined by the army.
US cash: To provide Zahedi, the country’s new prime minister, with some stability, the CIA covertly made $5,000,000 available within two days of him taking power, documents showed.
US acknowledgement: In 2013, declassified CIA documents were released, confirming the agency’s involvement for the first time. But the US role was known: Former President Barack Obama acknowledged involvement in the coup in 2009.
It backfired: After toppling Mossadegh, the US strengthened its support for Pahlavi to rule as Shah. Iranians resented the foreign interference, fueling anti-American sentiment in the country for decades.
Islamic Revolution: The Shah became a close ally of the US. But in the late 1970s, millions of Iranians took to the streets against his regime, which they viewed as corrupt and illegitimate. Secular protesters opposed his authoritarianism, while Islamist protesters opposed his modernization agenda.
The Shah was toppled in the 1979 Islamic revolution, which ended the country’s Western-backed monarchy and ushered in the start of the Islamic Republic and clerical rule.”

The Guardian reported today on the futility of the war as well as how the repression of anti regime protesters has increased due to the US/Israel attacks:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/28/iran-pro-regime-demonstrations-detained-people

”Iran’s regime has organised more than 850 public demonstrations of support of the government since the beginning of the war and launched a continuing crackdown on unrest that has led to at least 1,400 detentions, research reveals.
The high number of pro-regime gatherings and the increasing number of detentions underlines the resilience of the Islamic Republic despite a month-long campaign of intensive airstrikes by the US and Israel, experts said.”

*”The researchers noted that 99.2% of protests were pro-regime. “The near total absence of anti-regime protests suggests either genuine nationalist consolidation under external attack, heavy self-censorship, or effective pre-emptive suppression through the arrest campaign,” they wrote.

“The arrest campaign is the regime’s primary domestic tool – [with approximately] 1,465-plus detained in 27 days. Charges escalated from ‘filming damage’ to ‘espionage’ and ‘mercenary’ as the conflict progressed.”
Details of such repression are difficult to obtain, but recent incidents include the deaths of 10 people when Revolutionary Guards fired on anti-regime demonstrators and shot at apartment windows in Tehran on 25 March, and three killed on 18 March in Chabahar when detainees protested over food ration cuts inside a prison. On 17 March, security forces intervened against gatherings in Fardis and four Tehran districts when demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans, Acled said. “It was only really on the first night of the death of Ali Khamenei that you saw any small level of anti-regime activism. Since, there has been a coordinated effort to have pro-Iran or anti-war protests,” said Raleigh.

“Alia Brahimi, a regional expert with the Atlantic Council thinktank, said none of the pro-regime protests would have been spontaneous and showed how leadership structures in Iran had withstood the joint US-Israeli offensive.”

The US/Israeli attacks have killed civilians in significant numbers:
”Estimates of civilian casualties vary. More than 1,900 people have been killed and at least 20,000 injured in Iran since the start of US and Israeli attacks, said María Martinez of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on Friday, citing figures provided by the Iranian Red Crescent. The US-based Human Rights Activists news agency (HRANA) said on Wednesday that 3,300 people had been killed since the war began. It said 1,464 of those were civilians, including at least 217 children.“

Prior to the US/Israeli attacks on Iran in 2024 and 2025, the Iranian regime’s response to protesters was noticeably less brutal. The January 2026 protests were thus seen as fomented by US/Israeli proxies within Iran.

Shocked you would pretend otherwise when dozens of experts have pointed this out.

Appalling. The protests in Iran have been going on for ages and peaked in January. Absolutely nothing to do with American/Israeli attacks.

Pro Israel posters quoting Amnesty International, I'm so glad that the experts are finally being listened to 😭

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/

Chilling. Thank you for posting, but as a reminder this crack down on protesters is in response to the US & Israeli attacks. It isn’t the cause of the attacks or a factor that can be used to retroactively justify the attacks.

Amnesty International - How did the authorities respond to protests?

Senior state officials labelled protesters as “rioters” and vowed a “firm” crackdown. On 3 January 2026, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, denounced protesters as “rioters” who should be “put in their place”.

Security forces responded with lethal force to disperse protesters, unlawfully using force, firearms and other prohibited weapons, as well as conducting sweeping mass arrests, including of children as young as 14 years old. They are also subjecting many of those detained to enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention, putting them at serious risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Since 8 January, authorities cut internet access to hide their crimes, and to prevent people in Iran from sharing information with the outside world.

Despite restrictions, Amnesty International has verified evidence showing that authorities have carried out mass unlawful killings on an unprecedented scale amid the internet blackout. Heavily armed security forces are also conducting patrols and establishing checkpoints across the country. Authorities have deployed armed units in the streets to enforce nighttime curfews since 9 January, sending a message that anyone gathering or stepping outside after curfew will face lethal force.

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2026/01/what-happened-at-the-protests-in-iran/

Gun ownership is legal in Iran and it has a thriving black market for unlicensed guns too so why are you saying it beggars belief that Iranians have guns because it’s a religious based government?

Zulat, an Israeli Human Rights research institute have used the term ‘Regime’ for Israel

There’s an interesting research piece on the subject dated May 2023
( can't tag and it’s too long to paste I’m afraid )

Nevertheless the term Regime is often used to offend and often used by people who are critical. I can understand and agree why the UN consider it an inappropriate phrase.

Who gives a shit what the UN asks for?

They seem useless whatever anyone thinks of Iran or Israel or the US.

If the IRGC don’t want to be referred to as a regime, they should stop acting like a terrorist regime.

Collins dictionary is worth looking at for an answer

The UN has asked that people stop referring to governments as "regimes"

Did it now? What if a government is a regime? What else would you use the term “regime” for?