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Iranians take to streets in biggest protest since crushed 2009 demonstrations
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/30/iran-protests-trump-tweets ^ | Dec. 30, 2017 | Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Emma Graham-Harrison

Posted on 12/30/2017 11:37:33 AM PST by caww

In the capital they showed their anger through normally taboo slogans, such as “death to the dictator”, chanted by students gathered near Tehran university – a barely veiled attack on the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Clashes with security forces followed.

It was not clear how many were detained in Tehran on Saturday, but scores of protesters are believed to have been arrested in western Kermanshah and eastern Mashhad, Iran’s conservative second city, where the latest unrest began.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; iranianspring; iranprotests; iranrevolution
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To: noiseman

Send lawyers guns and money.


101 posted on 12/30/2017 8:36:14 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Government: Another Gang that steals your money for "Protection".)
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To: Rebelbase

LOL!!!!

Karma’s a bitch. And theirs is coming like a freight train.


102 posted on 12/30/2017 8:59:50 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: bboop
I hope the US is not stirring this up ala Arab Spring, and then we’ll have to go in there and clean up - or else there will be a vacuum that is filled by Really Bad Guys.

You left off the sarcasm tag. The Really Bad Guys are already in charge in Iran. Obama failed to support the Green Revolution in Iran. Trump is supporting the people. That is a good thing.

103 posted on 12/30/2017 9:33:54 PM PST by kabar
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To: Alberta's Child
Wake me up when the U.S. starts fomenting unrest in radical Islamic sh!t-holes like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

If you think taking out the current governments in SA and Kuwait will benefit the US, then you couldn't be more wrong. The radical Islamists will fill the vacuum and have huge amounts of money to finance terrorist attacks around the globe.

104 posted on 12/30/2017 9:40:57 PM PST by kabar
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To: caww

105 posted on 12/30/2017 9:45:28 PM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

As they say in that region, “From your mouth to God” or may it come to pass. May there be a revolution in Iran and throw off the worst Terror state in the world today. May the brave and free Iranian people finally move out of the 7th century and back into the 21st. Trump and the West needs to do it’s utmost to foment a coup there and bring back the moderates...


106 posted on 12/30/2017 9:46:24 PM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: GonzoII

That Iranian gal is ‘the new poster person’ for their revolution......she took off her headscarf and began waving it early on.....it’s out there now all over the place.


107 posted on 12/30/2017 9:53:02 PM PST by caww
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To: BeauBo

Yep...he’s one bad dude.....Sulamanie or something like that name.


108 posted on 12/30/2017 9:56:39 PM PST by caww
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To: Czech_Occidentalist

NO.


109 posted on 12/30/2017 9:58:07 PM PST by caww
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To: nuconvert

It’s very difficult to tell the difference since the Iranian Government is plastering the counter protesters supporting them all over the place. Which is why i haven’t posted many...I do try to be careful.


110 posted on 12/30/2017 10:02:00 PM PST by caww
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To: TMA62

Obama supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt by licking the rear end of Morsi.

Obama supported the Mullahs in Iran by licking the rear end of the Ayatollahs.

At least we have an American President who supports the right side.


111 posted on 12/30/2017 10:02:58 PM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: reg45

The pro-government rallies held Saturday i Iran were organized ‘in advance’ to commemorate mass demonstrations held in 2009 to challenge the pro-reform protests.

I got it wrong why they were there....but they were organized way beforehand to support the Regime.


112 posted on 12/30/2017 10:07:15 PM PST by caww
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To: caww
https://twitter.com/StratSentinel/status/947333776866242560

"Large amount of aircraft leaving Iran at the moment, many with no callsign, origin, or destination. Exodus in progress?"

As of 9:09 PM tonight...

Can anyone confirm?

113 posted on 12/30/2017 10:10:45 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: TMA62

“Agreed. I would think that obama and valarie jarrett are not liking what is happening in Iran now. They cozied up to the mullahs and not the people.”

That’s an understatement. They were already cozy and worked to get Obama elected. Hillary would have been fine with them, too. Huma Abedin is Muslim Brotherhood and Huma’s been running the show for Hillary for decades, so Iran would have been more than content with her, too.


114 posted on 12/30/2017 10:11:42 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Salvey

“Ob was a very weak President.....surrounded by power hungry women
Yes, he’s the quintessential, pyjama boy, beta/omega male.”

His Marxist and Islamic handlers never expected anything of the dark complected, politically correct guy but to carry out their agenda. Had he seemed strong, the result would have been the same. He wouldn’t have acted any differently.


115 posted on 12/30/2017 10:16:06 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: caww
Iran Gov. ordered a complete black out of the Internet.

And did Google, Twitter, Facebook, and the like comply?

Remember that Iran is a theocracy which kills homosexuals and forces women into burkhas, so you'd *think* the folks in California would be trying to stick it to them.

116 posted on 12/30/2017 10:18:15 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Don’t know. He references “SCAT” as the flight tracker. Just went there:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/scat-vsv

I’m not familiar with this site, but this is what I got on the front page:

At this moment we are not tracking any SCAT flights


117 posted on 12/30/2017 10:20:44 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "What the FBI has done is really, really disgraceful, and a lot of people are very angry.")
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To: grey_whiskers

You can shut it down without their cooperation I believe.


118 posted on 12/30/2017 10:25:30 PM PST by caww
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To: grey_whiskers
Remember that Iran is a theocracy which kills homosexuals and forces women into burkhas, so you'd *think* the folks in California would be trying to stick it to them.

Their mutual hate of Christianity takes precedence over all else.

119 posted on 12/30/2017 10:27:11 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "What the FBI has done is really, really disgraceful, and a lot of people are very angry.")
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To: grey_whiskers

Interesting...haven’t seen anything on this....


120 posted on 12/30/2017 10:27:47 PM PST by caww
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