Posted on 12/29/2017 6:50:42 AM PST by nuconvert
Protests held in the cities of Yazd, Mashhad, Shahrood, Kashmar numbering in the thousands. They are demonstrating against high prices, unemployment, and the gov't spending money & lives in their involvement in Lebanon & Syria. None of the protests were in Tehran.
This video is a compilation of protests. "Protesters were heard chanting 'Death to Rouhani' and 'Death to the dictator'"
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Also smaller but very significant was yesterday seeing reports of protests in Isfahan.
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This video is a compilation of protests. “Protesters were heard chanting ‘Death to Rouhani’ and ‘Death to the dictator’!”
May the new year grant them their wishes.
Some others chanted Leave Syria alone, think about us, condemning Irans financial and military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces are fighting government opponents in a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency quoted Mohammad Rahim Norouzian, the Mashhad governor, as saying there was an illegal “No To High Prices” gathering in the city.
Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, a Rohani ally, suggested that hard-line opponents of the president may have started the protests in Mashhad.
“When a social and political movement is launched on the streets, those who started it will not necessarily be able to control it in the end,” IRNA quoted Jahangiri as saying.
“Those who are behind such events will burn their own fingers. They think they will hurt the government by doing so,” he warned.
Prices on many essential products, including eggs, have increased up to 40 percent in recent days. Farmers have blamed the hikes on higher prices for imported feed.
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-rallies-price-protests-kermanshah-mashhad/28945966.html
Make Iran great again for Iranians. Iran has been at war forever.
The economic conditions are bad all over. I think you may be right about a tighter grip on Tehran
The country is kidnapped by the Revolutionary Guards
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/08/iran-irgc-economy-footprint-khatam-olanbia.html
However, the government is trying to reduce its influence. https://www.ft.com/content/43de1388-9857-11e7-a652-cde3f882dd7b
If the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonyad would pay tax it would be a big step towards a normal country.
As long as Iran is under sanctions the guards will thrive as they are the working with smuggling etc. They know that if the sanctions would be lifted they would be out of business, that is why the are obstructing the opening up of Iran.
There is a saying that if it was a free election in Saudi they would vote for an Islamic regime, but in Iran they would vote for a secular government.
The problem with Iran is that most of them, even in the revolutionary guards, and especially their kids, want to open up the country, but they do not know how to do it.
The iranian people took to the streets early in Obama’s term. He stood silent as the Revolutionary Guard squashed them.
The Persians are largely ready to be done with Shia fundamentalism.
Obama for one of the few times was right in that case. After Mossadegh, the greatest asset the mullahs have is rallying the public against another intervention by the arrogant Americans.
Iran is a well educated people group. Under the Shah women were as educated as men very western in education and positions in society. Just because the Ayatollah is in charge does not mean educated grandparents don’t continue to educate children and grand children.
Pray that the Lord will deliver these people from this Tyranny.
You mean, "to open up while still keeping their privilege?"
“..Iran has been at war forever....”
Yeah, well, they’re mudslimes. That’s all they do. That’s they ONLY thing they create and the ONLY thing they offer to the world.
War, strife, death, destruction. That’s Islam.
The iranian people took to the streets early in Obamas term. He stood silent as the Revolutionary Guard squashed them.
The Persians are largely ready to be done with Shia fundamentalism.
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Obama for one of the few times was right in that case.
I believe that is the first/only time I’ve seen THAT reply posted, supporting 0’s NEGLECT of the Iranian people protesting the Revolutionary Guard, here on FR.
BTTT.
Thanks very good links
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