Protests in Iran increase

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7y0579lp8o.amp

Very well said @Addybee

I suspect as she hasn't said anything, when normally (aka Gaza/Israel), Greta is only too quick to comment publicly, she doesn't feel for the Iranian people in the same manner she does for Palestinians. Naturally that is her right.
However, she cannot claim to be a person of humanity and empathy that she does while not raising a banner hypothetically in the name of Iranian freedom from theocracy.

Absolutely.

of course You don’t have to be shouting from the rooftops every time you donate to a charity. I don’t do that either but we don’t have a massive platform . But someone like Greta, who has a huge platform and presents herself as some kind of human rights or environmental activist, can’t just stay silent on things like this. At that point it starts to show that what she’s advocating for isn’t really about human rights at all, it’s about being selective with causes she thinks people should listen to her on.

That selectivity rubs me the wrong way not just from her, its from everyone with a platform to those without a platform.

Yes. Like I said apples and oranges. Donkeys and zebras. Yet here is Greta being insulted left, right and centre for not being some kind of oracle of all.

I have less than zero interest in getting into Iran with posters here. I just don't like seeing a young woman being piled on and abused because they aren't saying what people want, when they want.

I leave it there.

Completely missing the point about Greta.

But nobody with a platform talks about every injustice not just greta? It just doesn't happen. How could they possibly cover everything?

Greta stayed silent when it was 'just' hundreds of Palestinians being killed. She stayed silent when Palestinians were being bulldozed out of their homes. She stayed silent as women were sexually assaulted at checkpoints. She spoke up when it reached boiling point and 2 million of people were trapped with 1000s being killed. She is known for speaking about 1 of the deadliest conflicts in modern history not human rights in general.

I leave it there.

@ReturnOfTheToad why have you posted again then?

@ReturnOfTheToad so she's only interested in Gaza, not human rights? Why Gaza in particular?

50,000 people being killed and over 300,000 people injured and how many more on death row is not just ‘human’ rights.

The death toll in Iran is nowhere close

The death toll in Iran is yet to be confirmed, but it already looks like thousands or possibly tens of thousands been killed, and that in a matter of weeks.

She did not stay silent and in case you've conveniently forgotten was a prime mover in getting boats to get past the blockade.

Its interesting that Zelenskyy, who really does have other things on his mind, has found the time to condemn what is happening in Iran, and the world's reaction to it.

Yes, I’ve noticed that too.

I think Greta’s impassioned environmental campaign was respected by most people. It feels odd to see her wearing a keffiyeh and campaigning on another issue because it dilutes her original mission. Most campaigners do stick to their original agenda so as not to confuse or dilute their message.
If she stuck to her original mission she would seem more authentic than taking up a new cause and now she wears a keffiyeh. It would be fine if she just gave her support to the innocent Palestinians citizens and condemned Netanyahu. But the whole flotilla thing - It cheapens her image and makes her look a bit “rent a mob “
It’s also difficult to accept that she refuses to show any understanding of the trauma caused by October 7th.

I expect he knows about Russia sending Ukrainian grain to Iran and trading for weaponry (to use against Ukraine) and oil.

Exactly.

Yes, that was after Israel stated their intention to starve all Palestinians in Gaza of everything then trapped them and began bombing them all. She said nothing for the years prior. Nothing during the pogroms of 2023 across the West Bank, nothing about the torture and rape of children in Israeli prisons, nothing about the people being killed etc Like I said and no shade on her she said nothing until the situation became critical.

Good thing the situation isn't critical in Iran 😶

Well quite! I'm not going to give another thought to a pampered western adult who has chosen to be a global figurehead. Poor little Greta, my arse.

I prefer to amplify other voices. Here is Iranian Masih Alinejad's latest instagram post, translated by instagram.

No words… Those people are absolute psychopaths (the regime terrorists that is, since the screenshot is not visible in the quotation).

Just saw this on X, that’s something Mahyar Tousi also mentioned on his recent podcast:

https://x.com/Hemadnazari/status/2015041351478657214

”Traditionally in Iran, funerals are marked by sorrow: sad music, Islamic sermons, and recitations from the Quran.
But here, something completely different is happening.
The music being played is the kind normally heard at weddings. People are clapping. They are dancing. At a funeral!
This is not celebration, it is protest. By rejecting religious rituals and replacing them with wedding music, people are sending a clear and defiant message: how deeply they despise this so-called “religious” government, how strongly they oppose the regime and its imposed ideology.”

There is no end to the cruelty of this regime as they devise ever more heinous ways of manipulating and torturing the population.

Some of the families of the nearly 5,000 protesters killed during the protests are being told they must pay up to £16,000 to be allowed to bury their loved ones, The Telegraph understands. If they say they were part of the regime, the fee is waived.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of Norway-based Iran Human Rights, said his colleagues have documented multiple cases across the country following the same pattern.
He said the regime aims to conflate the number of security forces killed and reduce the number of protesters killed.

Another motive is to prepare the ground for future executions of protesters. Families will later be coerced into publicly demanding the execution of those responsible for the deaths, rather than exposing the reality that protesters were killed and then falsely portrayed as security force members

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/24/iran-kills-protesters-force-families-pro-regime/?WT.mcid=tmgofftwpostprotesters-force-families-pro-regime/

Still no comment from Greta about the thousands of Iranian protestors who got killed by their own leadership, including more than 150 protestors.

Some human rights defender she turned out to be.