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MASS PROTESTS IN IRAN: Protesters Rise Up Against Regime, Block Roads, Take Over City Halls
GP ^ | November 17,2019 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 11/17/2019 7:28:29 AM PST by Hojczyk

Defiant protesters in the city of Robat Karim – south of Tehran – took over the city hall, controlled the city, forcing the suppressive police forces to flee. Centers of suppression and plunder in the city, including 12 banks, have been set ablaze by the young protesters.

Protesters in Tehran Pars overturned a police bus and set it on fire. The city hall of Salehiye in Tehran was attacked by insurgent youth. Protesters shouting “Death to Bassiji” attacked and burnt down the Kosar Pazand Bank, another center for regime plunder. In the southern district of Mallard in Tehran, protesters set fire to another petrol station.

Protesters in Khorramabad attacked the regime’s radio and television station in the city and broke all windows. They set several state-owned banks on fire or broke their windows.

Protesters in the major cities of Shiraz and Isfahan have blocked major squares and set up bonfires. Two Bassij (regime paramilitary forces) bases in Khayam Street in Shiraz were set on fire. In Isfahan’s Shahin Shahr the people chanted, “Fear not, we are all together.”


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1 posted on 11/17/2019 7:28:29 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Inspired by Hong Kong?


2 posted on 11/17/2019 7:30:22 AM PST by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Hojczyk

Trump would get the last laugh if..we had a peoples revolution in Iran...

The protesters chanted, “Death to Khamenei!” and torched a bank in Behbahan.


3 posted on 11/17/2019 7:30:42 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: vladimir998
Taking over city halls is reminiscent to me of colonials taking over the King's courts, and forcing the King's magistrates to renounce their royal allegiances.


4 posted on 11/17/2019 7:34:49 AM PST by C210N (If you dislike productive billionaires, be 1,000 times more suspect of one confiscatory trillionaire)
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To: Hojczyk

Who’s side is Allah on?


5 posted on 11/17/2019 7:35:21 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Hojczyk

It would be great if the “resistance” became an “armed resistance”. Too bad that Iran doesn’t have a 2nd amendment.


6 posted on 11/17/2019 7:36:07 AM PST by FtrPilot
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To: Hojczyk

The sanctions are causing ruinous inflation, food shortages, social and political instability. The Iranian economy is crumbling. What is worse for the mullahs is that they don’t have the hard currency their goons and thugs demand to do their jobs. What is more there is no Obama to send airplanes full of pallets of cash. Man do the mullahs hate Trump.


7 posted on 11/17/2019 7:36:51 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: Hojczyk

In BBC’s video it was snowing pretty bad ,LOL


8 posted on 11/17/2019 7:36:58 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Hojczyk

Don’t get excited. 12 banks,a gas station and some broken windows is not regime change. It’s a symptom and we hope it gets MUCH bigger.


9 posted on 11/17/2019 7:38:33 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Hojczyk

I guarantee Soro’s money is not paying these protestors.


10 posted on 11/17/2019 7:47:05 AM PST by Track9
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Don’t be too certain. Although, the Iranian theocracy would be suspicious of any outside influence and would shut it down.


11 posted on 11/17/2019 7:58:42 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Hojczyk

I won’t pay much attention to this until we see mass demonstrations in the streets of Tehran.


12 posted on 11/17/2019 8:07:57 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Hojczyk

Odumbo is deeply saddened.


13 posted on 11/17/2019 8:08:32 AM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: gibsonguy

Robat Karim County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 62,937,


14 posted on 11/17/2019 8:24:21 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: dhs12345

You honestly think odungo would give the mullas all that money and Soros would support the opposition. Hardly


15 posted on 11/17/2019 8:24:52 AM PST by Track9
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To: Hojczyk

They are supposedly unhappy with the rise in gasoline prices. I thought the price of gas in these mid east countries was way less than $1.00/per gal. Any one know?


16 posted on 11/17/2019 8:38:50 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Hojczyk

We can expect an Iranian equivalent of Tianamin Square. Blood and guts in the street.


17 posted on 11/17/2019 8:42:53 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: duckman

I think gas is being rationed they..thats the big problem


18 posted on 11/17/2019 8:47:31 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Direct result of Trump’s actions, look for Iran to be liberated and ValJar indicted.


19 posted on 11/17/2019 9:14:45 AM PST by databoss
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WOW!! Let’s help them overthrow those MULLAHS!


20 posted on 11/17/2019 9:19:08 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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