Posted on 11/30/2022 8:43:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team defeated the Iranian team on Tuesday in a must-win game. Now the American team moves on the playing The Netherlands on Saturday. There was a little extra sweetness in celebrating the U.S. victory this year because of the political protests going on in Iran now.
Iranians in support of the protesters celebrated the U.S. victory in Iran. One woman spoke on the condition of remaining anonymous from her home in southern Iran. “Mahoora” said, “It’s not just some people in Iran, it is the majority of people in Iran that want the U.S. to win (on Tuesday). The silent majority [of Iranians] did not celebrate the regime team’s victory over Wales.”
The silence is deafening from the Biden administration but the protesters in Iran are risking their lives to deliver their message to Ayatollah Khomeini and his men that women want the freedom to not be under such strict control that basic rights are denied. The right to not cover their heads, for example, led off the protests when a 22-year-old Kurdish woman was arrested by Iran’s morality police and beaten for not wearing a hijab in public. She later died in jail from her injuries. The protests have lasted for almost three months and there is no indication of them letting up.
There were celebrations of the defeat of the Iranian team even in the capital city of Tehran, as well as other highly populated cities.
A statement was released by Ali Safavi, a member of the foreign affairs committee of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran.
“The jubilant reaction across Iran over the regime soccer team’s defeat tonight reflects first and foremost the degree to which the Iranian people loath and detest the ruling mullahs and want to see it overthrown. They knew that the regime was trying to exploit the presence of its team in the World Cup to overshadow the ruthless manner with which it has cracked down on the nationwide uprising, which has left 660 protesters, including at least 60 children, dead and 30,000 (arrested). At no time in its 43-year rule, has the regime been so isolated in the eyes of the Iranian people who are determined as ever to topple it.”
Iranian officials have certainly tried to distract from the protests with the World Cup competition. They ended up with publicity for threatening their team, though, for refusing to sing the national anthem before their first match.
Iran has released the number of deaths that have occurred so far from the protests. The number released is “more than 300” but one expert is warning that everyone take that admission with a large grain of salt. The number is likely greater than what is being announced.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards General Amirali Hajizadeh made the announcement about the death toll from the protests on Tuesday.
“Everyone in the country has been affected by the death of this lady,” Hajizadeh said, according to AFP.
Jason Brodsky, policy director at bi-partisan, non-profit United Against Nuclear Iran, told Newsweek: “Iranian official statistics during protest cycles should be treated skeptically. The 300+ figure is less than estimates by human rights organizations.”
“For example, Human Rights Activists News Agency yesterday reported 451 deaths. During the 2019 protests, Reuters reported the death toll was as high as around 1,500, which Iranian officials dismissed. So they have a history of purposely lowballing,” he added.
Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, senior research fellow for Middle East security at the Royal United Services Institute, said that it was hard to know the exact number of people killed.
The numbers vary depending on the source. Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights estimates that at least 416 people have been killed in the suppression of the protests.
The brutality against the protesters is escalating as the protests continue to grow. The death toll will rise. The regime is planning on refusing to cooperate with the newly-appointed U.N. investigation into how Iran is handling the protests. The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said, “Iran will have no cooperation with the political committee formed by the U.N. Rights Council.”
Neither the protesters nor the regime is giving in. Protests are likely to continue for the near future, despite the crackdowns and pressure. The Biden administration should be making it clear that they stand with the brave women and men protesting against the regime. As I said, the silence is deafening.
That’s taking your own life in your hands.
I wish the people of Iran well.
Jimmy Carter, the gift that keeps on giving. He didn’t know
that setting up an Islamic Caliphate might cause problems.
The score was only 1 to Zero, but that’s all it took to make a Loser of the Iranian Team. The Iranian people enjoyed that opportunity to throw some mud in the Ayatollahs fuzzy face.
It must be very difficult to score in soccer.
Khamenei.
God be with the protesters.
The Iranians I knew in UsA insisted they were Persians, not invented Iranians. I would imagine the feeling is quite common in Iran.
RE: The Iranians I knew in UsA insisted they were Persians, not invented Iranians.
Did you ever ask them how the name PERSIA became IRAN?
I used to think Carter was the worst president we ever had. I don’t think that way anymore.
Weird. I suppose these Iranians have a romantic view of what the U.S. once was.
He may be the worst legitimate president, but then ones that
served now include Obama and Biden.
Part of the reason Biden looks so bad, is that he is stuck
on Obama’s old foreign policy quirks.
I grant you, there’s a lot to digest on this. Carter also
give away our rights to run the Panama Canal, not even
trying to negotiate an extension.
He handed off the Reagan an economy worse than what we
have now, so he was a jerk extraordinaire.
His handing over of Iran to Islamic Extremists will loom
large as Iran marches on toward Nuclear weapons status.
Update: Reportedly one man who took part in those celebrations was in a car with his girlfriend and beeped his horn...and a Security Service thug shot him in the head inside his car. Dead.
Aryan?
Don’t forget, Carter pardoned the draft resistors who went to Canada. I had to go to Vietnam, which I hated every minute I was there, because some of these A holes went to Canada. I think THAT really torqued my jaws. He was pretty bad alright. I agree, he was the worst legitimately elected president. I don’t think Obama and Biden were legitimate at all.
Obama is not a citizen. I firmly believe he was born in
Kenya. His grandmother stated she was there.
She may have had mental problems when she said it, but
the birth records in Hawaii are almost worthless.
Any parent can bring their kid in and get a birth
certificate.
Biden didn’t get five or six million more votes than Hillary
or Obama.
RE: Aryan?
I’m not getting this....
Soccer is a very low scoring game. But 1-0 is quite sufficient.
I am not surprised the Iranian people cheered for the US. They really hate their government. I knew quite a few Iranian Air Force officers in Texas. One said he didn’t quite know what was going on, but he didn’t think it was going to be good.
Things must be very difficult emotionally for the leftists. It would pain them deeply to see the protests in Iran and China topple their governments: Iran because the Iranian government, like the left, hates America; China because it is totalitarian and at least nominally communist. If those governments fail, the left would feel almost as bad as when their beloved Soviet Union fell. That’s probably why Biden is giving neither protest any support: He does not want to offend his communist, anti-American base.
Not so weird. The US and “the West” have deteriorated considerably from what we were, but we are still about 1000% better in most respects...
WHO CARES? Soccer? Sports in general... waste of time.
If their own military sees it, not good for the mullahs.
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