Protests in Iran increase

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

As I said before, not trying to piss anyone off. We just all see things from a different angle. I hope to god something good comes out of this for Iran. Good night.

Protests spreading throughout the world. However, this is awful

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37881530/iran-protest-truck-ploughs-crowd-driver-dragged/

Demonstrators began gathering in Kensington, London, outside the embassy before moving to Whitehall while waving the country’s old pre-Islamic flag last night.

Some protesters were seen throwing items at the embassy, with Met Police officers forced to intervene in order to stop trespassers scaling the building.

Those in the crowds were also seen burning photos of Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Many instead waved pictured of the exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi.

Poor young woman.

Tragically, when they approached mosques to request a traditional burial ceremony for their daughter, they were informed that such services had been forbidden.

Aminian was ultimately buried beside a road between Kermanshah and Kamyaran.

A source close to the family described her as 'a young woman full of joy for life and passionate about fashion and clothing design, whose dreams were buried by the violent repression of the Islamic Republic'.

With the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult, Human Rights Activists News Agency said.

https://news.sky.com/story/iran-latest-us-and-israel-discuss-iran-intervention-as-tehran-vows-retaliation-against-american-regional-bases-amid-ongoing-protests-13492391

"The leadership says that it will listen to demonstrators, but that rioters face the death penalty."

Protesters there are immensely brave given their leadership in the country has threatened the death penalty

The situation is dreadful

"Things here are very, very bad," a source in Tehran said on Sunday. "A lot of our friends have been killed. They were firing live rounds. It's like a war zone, the streets are full of blood. They're taking away bodies in trucks."

The BBC counted about 180 body bags in footage from a morgue near Tehran. The US-based Human Rights Activist News Agency says it has verified the deaths of 495 protesters and 48 security personnel nationwide.

Another 10,600 people have been detained over the fortnight of unrest, the agency says."

I think often the problem with young people brought up outside the country and those in it can have a very different view of foreign intervention. Many have spent time marinading in universities that lets be honest encourage an anti-western mindset. If you are a young person having bullets fired at you in Tehran right now you may very much welcome some American intervention because your problem is extremely immediate. If you go out you may be killed or imprisoned and then killed but if you stop going out the regime will win and you will definitely be imprisoned and then killed. I don’t think those people have the luxury to complain about who it is that liberates them.

Hurry the fuck up America!

I suppose from a pragmatic level the US will need to ensure the iron dome in Israel is replenished prior to strikes and western security agencies will be hunting down Iranian sleeper cells in their countries as I wonder if the regime feeling of its on the brink will lash out unpredictably with whatever it has.

The level of opprobrium from some will be high, it’s so difficult.

Well said.

Apostasy (leaving Islam) was happening for several years before this uprising although apostasy is a serious crime in Iran, punishable by death under Sharia law.
One cleric reported 50,000 out of 75,000 mosques had effectively closed down due to lack of worshippers.

That's really interesting. I'd always sort of assumed that attendance at Mosque would be compulsory in Iran.

Can't any other country go in ? One from the region ?
Those poor poor people .I'm amazws they aren't armed

Turkey ,Saudi or Pakistan ?

Other Muslim countries don't tend to get involved. However, when 'the West' get involved they are heavily criticised.

"other muslim countries"
Sunni or Shia or Alawite or Wahabist or Yazidi
there are as many strands of Islam (who hate each other) as there are of Christianity

also Persia was not a fully Muslim country despite what the Mullahs might tell people

Any of them get involved? Any sending help? Any at all?

Its always on the US. Then then get criticised for interfering and also not criticised when they do nothing.

Meanwhile, much thumb twiddling from elsewhere 🙄

Wtf.....we have MPs basically blaming Israel??

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15460499/Ex-Labour-MP-firebrand-criticised-vile-Iran-tweet-accusing-Israel.html

Not the malicious Iranian regimes fault but Israel. Any action against Iran to potentially deter massacres is deemed an 'imperial strategy'.

I know Zarah's constituency and they would be off to a pro pal March at a drop of a hat and they probably is a lot sympathy for the Iranian regime as well.

Ugh ... Lord Austin has it right : 'Zarah Sultana is typical of the Israel-obsessed hard left that always wants to find a reason to attack the world's only Jewish state.
'The Iranian dictatorship has brutally repressed its citizens for decades, slaughtered its opponents at home, sponsored terrorism abroad, including here in the UK and is trying to develop nuclear weapons to wipe Israel off the map, and we should be doing all we can to support the Iranian people's campaign for freedom.'

Zara Sultana of the 'Your' party....

Anything to get an anti Israel slant in! The regime in IRAN are responsible for slaughtering their own people.

"She also said that the UK should oppose Donald Trump's announcement of sanctions on Iran, saying they were an 'imperial strategy'.

The independent MP tweeted that the 'unrest is being cynically exploited by Netanyahu's genocidal government as a pretext for military intervention and regime change - a path that must be firmly rejected.'"

Just wow.

This is the response from a Pro Pal when talking about Iran. Disgusting. It appears she isn't for regime change! Just leave the Iranian people to suffer under the regime then. Nothing to see here obviously ( as far as she's concerned)

Scary to think a lot of other pro Pals may agree with her.

I wouldn’t have expected it but the lack of condemnation for what is happening in Iran from those quarters is very noticeable.

It’s eye opening.

The lack of condemnation of the Iranian regime and the rush to somehow blame Israel is really something else.
I keep checking X for updates on Iran, but unless I seek out specific accounts like Tousi TV my feed is flooded with posts about the hungers strikers in the UK, strong winds in Gaza or wild claims about Israel being behind the protests in Iran.

100% this is the rhetoric being shared in the “pro pal” echo chambers of recent years.

It explains the krickets.
I have about 6 friends i know personally on SM who have been on every band wagon going in recent years, particularly Pro Pal. Re-posting and sharing with abandon. Not one mention on this.
I keep going and checking their accounts as I just can’t believe it and think ‘no I MUST have missed something. This person is a humanitarian’ Clearly not.