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Offer Iranian Freedom Fighters the Connectivity Beijing Wants to Take Away | Opinion
msn ^ | 3/22/21 | Victoria Coates and Robert Greenway

Posted on 03/23/2021 4:45:33 AM PDT by nuconvert

The Iranian regime is shutting down the internet yet again this month—this time in response to the desperate protests in the Baluchistan and Sistan provinces. Tehran is methodically implementing a repressive playbook, imported at great expense from Beijing: first, label protesters as criminals; second, shut down the internet to prevent information from getting in or out; third, detain, torture and murder with impunity until the uprising is exhausted.

But this time, the United States has the technology, resources and capacity to circumvent this oppression via satellite-provided internet, and give the Iranian opposition the ability to communicate freely.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; china; demagogicparty; election2020; internet; iran; presidentbiden; robertgreenway; victoriacoates

1 posted on 03/23/2021 4:45:33 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

“repressive playbook, imported at great expense from Beijing: first, label protesters as criminals; second, shut down the internet to prevent information from getting in or out; third, detain, torture and murder with impunity until the uprising is exhausted.” Sounds like the playbook in the US except they haven’t gotten to the killing part yet.


2 posted on 03/23/2021 4:50:48 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: nuconvert

” But this time, the United States has the technology, resources and capacity to circumvent this oppression... “

Replace “Circumvent” with “duplicate” and you’ll have it about right.


3 posted on 03/23/2021 4:53:27 AM PDT by _longranger81 (God help us, Every One. )
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To: nuconvert

The author is confused. The Biden Junta is backing the Mullahs. They want the freedom fighters suppressed and eliminated, just like in the USA.


4 posted on 03/23/2021 5:13:31 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: nuconvert

Oh, yeah, let’s help Baluchis.

What could possibly go wrong?


5 posted on 03/23/2021 7:07:57 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trans Undocumented. Anti Woke Supremacist. Covid Abortionist.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The new administration turns its back on peace between Israel and Arab states in order to pursue deal with Iran... the Biden administration is interfering in Israel’s upcoming election by strong-arming the Emiratis into publicly distancing themselves from Bibi... Should the Emiratis have shunned the deal since Netanyahu, like any Israeli prime minister, would invariably present his accomplishment to voters? What about sending an ambassador to Israel, as it did at the beginning of March? What about investing $10 billion, as MBZ told Netanyahu he would? So how does a photo op with the prime minister glad-handing the crown prince of Abu Dhabi on his home turf cross the line? Plainly, the Obama-Biden team doesn’t care about interfering in Israeli elections or else Barack Obama’s State Department wouldn’t have funneled money to an NGO that campaigned against Netanyahu in 2015. [Biden Torpedoes Abraham Accords Summit]

6 posted on 03/23/2021 7:31:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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