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Protests in Iran today bring hope for Iranians tomorrow
Christian Post ^ | January 03, 2026 | Marziyeh Amirizadeh

Posted on 01/03/2026 12:55:59 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

Iranians collectively are suffering the most they have ever suffered in five decades, the cumulative impact of the evil regime focusing on spreading extremist Islam, fighting the West, and mismanagement and corruption of every basic need.

But Iranians are not just living under widespread mismanagement; they are living under the cumulative national disaster of millions having been arrested, beaten, tortured, murdered, and disappeared.

There have been protests in the past over the murder of Mahsa Amini in 2022, and more recently, truckers have gone on strike in 160 cities due to a massive increase in prices. For a variety of reasons, these protests did not cause the regime change for which most Iranians are praying for.

But it seems like this time, Iranians are having it no more. The current crisis has exposed new depths of the evil of the Islamic regime. More than ever, and more publicly than ever, Iranians are chanting for the restoration of the Pahlavi dynasty and Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, and for the death of the ayatollahs.

It's a formula that will hopefully bring the pressure needed for the regime to fall and Iran to be free.

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TOPICS: History; Religion
KEYWORDS: 2022; amini; amirizadeh; christians; iran; mahsaamini; marziyehamirizadeh; middleeast; persecution; protests; strikes; truckers; truckersstrike

1 posted on 01/03/2026 12:55:59 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Dawn of Unity: A Vision for a Free Iran and Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/dawn-of-unity-a-vision-for-a-free-iran-and-israel/


2 posted on 01/03/2026 12:56:17 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Author of this article
Marziyeh Amirizadeh is an Iranian American who immigrated to the US after being sentenced to !death! in Iran for the crime of converting to Christianity.


3 posted on 01/03/2026 1:03:24 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Iranian theocratic regime won’t give up and say “Well, we had a good run. Good luck, folks.”


4 posted on 01/03/2026 1:15:39 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Wow thank you for sharing. Prayers for her!


5 posted on 01/03/2026 1:21:05 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

No Obama to bail out the Mullahs this time.

And I bet the first act of the new regime will be to hire Israeli engineers to build desalination plants


6 posted on 01/03/2026 2:41:29 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: AZJeep

No one I knew, who escaped the glorious Islamic revolution, called themselves “Iranian.” They all called themselves Persian. Maybe it’s just where I lived.


7 posted on 01/03/2026 2:42:59 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: Organic Panic

I really could never understand Obama Iranian policies.
He gave Iran planeloads of cash and try to align himself with the regime, in vain attempt to placate them?!
All his action just encouraged them an help them finance their terrorist network!
He never even had some world of support for the brave protesting Iranian people.
Of course he had Hillary and Kerry as Sec of States!
The most inept SSs we ever had.
Then Biden foreign czar Jake Sullivan somehow restarted that crazy policy?!
I understand not willing to get involved, but they actually SUPPORTED that evil regime!
So stupid!


8 posted on 01/03/2026 2:49:04 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Organic Panic

I have encountered Persian Jews, Persian Armenians, and self-identified Iranian-Americans. If they are younger and from Muslim families, they say Iranian.


9 posted on 01/03/2026 2:54:54 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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Yes, we had some Iranian couple as neighbors.
He was Christian Armenian from Iran (yes, lots of Armenians found refugee in Iran during the Turkish-Armenian genocide!), she was raised Muslim.
They said that yes, there is death penalty for converting to Christianity in Iran.
There is even death penalty for Muslim woman to marry Christian man.
She said, she can never return to Iran or she would be executed.

However, the repression in Iran apparently spurred quite an interest in Christianity there!
When the regime collapses, i would not be surprised that there appear suddenly millions of Christians in Iran!
Pray for oppressed Christians!


10 posted on 01/03/2026 2:58:36 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I still remember when the people of Iran welcomed the Ayatollahs in in the Carter years.
They wished for a islamic IRAN and they got their wish, good and hard.
I always felt the children and grand children of those Iranians would hate the Ayatollahs their parents welcomed in.


11 posted on 01/03/2026 3:05:35 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970s!)
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To: Organic Panic

They are mostly Persians from Iran.

The nation is Persian, long proud nation of king Cyrus the great who conquered among others Babylon and freed the Israelites.
They speak Farsi, and Indo European language related to (among others) Russian, Armenian and Hindu.
Not at all related to Arabic!!!
Arabs conquered Persia in 7th century AD and forced on them Arabic alphabet and Muslim faith!
But they generally do not understand and like Arabs!

Iran is the name of the country. It is actually a racist name meaning literarily “Aryan Nation”.

Somebody not so long ago decided that they really are not like Arabs and created this name to show it!


12 posted on 01/03/2026 3:17:37 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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The original Pahlavi thought that Aryan identification was the coming new thing back in the 1920s-1930s.


13 posted on 01/03/2026 3:21:05 PM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

Yope, exactly right!


14 posted on 01/03/2026 3:27:25 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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That Iranian spy, Vajayjay Jarrett had her hand up the lightbringer’s arse. Obama aligned himself with every virulent America hating regime with Iran being his favorite. If there were any justice Obama’s entire staff would be audited. One does not give billions of cash and gold without a kickback.


15 posted on 01/03/2026 3:55:54 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

eople of Iran welcomed the Ayatollahs
________

They welcomed him mostly not as a Muslim or Ayatollah, but as a leader of the opposition.
There were reasons, why Iranians did not like Shah and why they wanted freedom from his corrupt and oppressive government.

But, unfortunately, they got Islamic dictature instead.
Let us hope, especially for their sake, they will choose right this time!


16 posted on 01/03/2026 5:00:57 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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You are correct. The people HATED the Shah. His secret police was horrifying.

Now they hate the Imams.

They need some help in picking leaders.


17 posted on 01/03/2026 5:02:28 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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18 posted on 01/03/2026 8:37:35 PM PST by montag813
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