Posted on 01/01/2018 10:24:32 AM PST by Eddie01
It was one thing to see that the conservatives couldnt change things, but Rohani was someone who had great potential, experts say
The angry wave of anti-government protests in Iran more widespread than those in 2009 has stunned even experts on the region.
The intensity of the unrest that began Thursday has shocked the world because, by all measures, things are better under Rohani than they were under his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose hard-line policies and financial mismanagement left Irans economy in ruins.
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He says the fact that Rohanis reforms did not seem to be improving the desperate situation in many Iranian households was the prime factor in driving Iranians to believe that their country's problems were larger than one leader.
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What exactly is infuriating the Iranians now taking to the streets?
The reason most often attributed to the initial wave of protests was the cost of living, particularly the cost of food, unemployment and inflation. Many Iranians even families with members whose employment normally affords them middle-class status have been forced to take multiple jobs.
The promises that Rohani gave in terms of the revitalization of trade with the outside world trickling down to the average Iranian never materialized, Ali Fathollah-Nejad, a fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, told Al Jazeera.
But Javedanfar notes factors angering Iranians beyond the economy. Anger has coalesced around the governments incompetent handling of the earthquakes that have racked parts of the country and created anxiety about how Iran as a whole is being managed. Another factor that he believes has been underreported in the West is the pollution problem in parts of Iran, where children are ordered to stay home and miss school.
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(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Demand for petroleum is down?
Freacking
Many Iranians are yearn for the word of Christ. Thousands of bibles are smuggled in each year but never enough.
Good. I bet it is tough for Iranian Christians.
-—Those who damage public property, violate law and order, and create unrest are responsible for their actions and should pay the price.——
Words never spoken by Barack Obama who condoned the violence, the looting and burning by his out of control black Lives Matter stooges
The Mullahs are refusing to divide the $$ the Clinton’s gave them?
Pollution, that’s it. Couldn’t be that the price of petroleum is down, and Trump is in the White House. It might be their best chance at toppling the regime.
I think this is a better explanation:
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/1.832218
Cost of Living in Iran is not the issue:
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Iran';
It will take a civil war to oust the mullahs from their strangle hold on power. The protesters need to take the lesson of the Liberator Pistol and take arms from the military and police they kill in surprise attacks.
Global warming is the cause! Reduce global warming and the rioting stops.
I can not imagine a bigger win FOR THE WORLD than an overthrow of the Mullahs in Iran.
And then imagine the Iranians who take over pulling a Qaddafi and giving up their nuke program?
How bad would Obama look then? And George Friedman of Stratfor, for that matter . . .
Of course Morning Joe would bemoan the unfair praise due Trump . . . and Krugman would call if a catastrophe for the Stock Market . . . well, you get the point . . .
One upshot of this investment in violence, however, is a ready supply of armed thugs which may be called upon to support the regime and put down the protesters, as they did in 2009. This isn't going to be any Velvet Revolution. The real damage the 0bama administration did in backing the regime in 2009 and presenting it with an enormous financial windfall (literally pallets of cash and that wasn't all by any means) as a consequence of the nuclear negotiations, is something that is going to cost the entire Middle East dearly in the coming years. I wish success to the demonstrators but I wouldn't place any large bets in that direction.
Revolutions happen when the peoples’ expectations exceed what the government is delivering. Therefore, revolutions often happen when things are actually improving.
Price of petroleum is down? Really?
Brent crude prices finished Friday at $66.87 a barrel, up 18% for the year and 49% above its 52-week low in June, following a series of supply disruptions. WTI prices, meanwhile, gained 12% to end at $60.42 in 2017.
Everything is relative. During most of the Obama years, it hovered at above the $100 mark. Lately, of course, it has come off its recent lows.
Drumpf's fault.
That passage gets quoted a lot here. Its good writing, and gives a dramatic impression that if they had just stuck their necks out and been willing to die earlier for the cause, al would have ended up well.
But IMHO the money quote is
we had no awareness of the real situation....
Lack of information coupled with a failure to understand that your own government does not have your best interests in mind is all it really takes.
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