Posted on 01/01/2018 2:41:18 AM PST by GonzoII
Starting Thursday, anti-government rallies beginning in Mashhad, northeast Iran, are mushrooming in several major cities of Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan and Shiraz, and dozens of towns across the country.
These rallies are in sharp contrast to the 2009 episode where former US president Barack Obama refused to support the massive demands for sweeping change.
At the time, the controversial reelection of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked nationwide rallies with protesters demanding their votes back.
Today, however, beginning with economic demands as people are reaching the very limits of their tolerance, demonstrators are seeking economic necessities and escalating their expectations to fundamental regime change.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
How will it end? Reform with a less oppressive government? A power vacuum with an ISIS like regime taking over? The ayatollahs stay in power with a murderous crackdown?
Thanks for posting. An interesting read. Sounds like this time, the Iranian people are more committed.
This is good news.
somehow the link has gone bad.
http instead of https works
If these protesters truly want a departure from muslim theocracy, they deserve assistance, but if this amounts to nothing more than eventually replacing one set of islamothugs with another set of islamothugs, then forget it.
Iranian Protesters Burn Down Shia Cleric Monastery in Takestan
"New realities
At first, understanding the price of opening fire on protesters, officials were seen resorting to various practices such as dispatching hordes of security forces on foot and on motorcycles, threatening to take action. Posts on social media, however, indicate low morale amongst security forces unwilling to open fire upon protesters even if ordered to do so.
A member of the regime’s ultraconservative Basij, a paramilitary unit of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), is seen placing down his baton and taking off his jacket, leaving a not indicating how he is no longer willing to attack his fellow countrymen."
This is also a women’s rights movement in Iran.
Following the 1979 Revolution, several laws were established such as the introduction of mandatory veiling and public dress code of females. Women’s rights since the Islamic Revolution have varied. In November 2016, about 6% of Iranian parliament members were women, while the global average was about 23%.
The women’s rights movement in Iran continues to attempt influencing reforms, particularly with the One Million Signatures Campaign to End Discrimination Against Women.
Subhuman treatment of women
It is not difficult to prove that Iranian theocrats are opposed to the idea of gender equality. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been quoted as saying: “Gender equality is ‘Zionist plot’ aimed at corrupting the role of women in society.” In Iran’s version of religious law, women are considered property.
Their inheritance is half of what men receive and women are not allowed to leave the country without their husband’s consent. They are also forced to observe a very strict dress code. There are several security measures in place in Iran to impose these laws. The most repressive one is the infamous ‘morality police’ that roams around cities arresting young women for not observing the dress code.
There are gruesome videos on YouTube and other social media showing how women are treated in Iran for what they wear. In a recent incident, a 14-year-old girl was beaten and detained for wearing ripped jeans in Iran (one of many such cases of police brutality against women). After her arrest by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Coups (IRGC) unit, she said: “I still carry the bruises sustained from their beatings on my face ... my ribs still hurt.”
ANALYSIS: Iranian regime and its appalling violation of children’s rights
Women in Iran are also banned from entering sports stadiums. In a recently reported case by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a woman named Mina tried to get under the radar of security forces to watch a volleyball match in 2016. Despite her attempt to watch the match from the roof top of a café near a volleyball stadium, she and a few other women were caught by IRGC and were evicted from their vantage point.
Irrespective of their position in society, women in Iran have no right to travel without the consent of their husband or father. Hassan Rouhani and his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had once made bogus promises of giving women more rights in order to garner their votes. In May this year, Rouhani had spread the word that he might appoint a women minster in his cabinet. But soon after his sham election he did not include any woman in his cabinet.
This might be a green revolution of a different type. Didn’t Barry give the mullahs 140 billion plus pallets of cash. The street wants their cut. Show me the money.
Pray for protesters’ hopes for freedom. May God keep them safe. May their sacrifices bring them victory.
Bkmk
Wish we could parachute Homabama and his Waterbuffalo wife into the heart of Tehran.
Let the little son-of-a-bitch give his apology speech where it counts.
Have you seen this?
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christianity-grows-in-iran-196074/
Maybe something is afoot in Iran
It would be a powerful force if the Holy Spirit were to spread to filll the spiritual gap left after freedom from oppression and submission to a cruel god
Can you spot difference between now and 2009?
Just read it; thanks!
If true, that would be a landmark development there!
However... if Iran WERE to become a free and tolerant nation - they might pose a bigger threat to the repressive Saudis than they are now
Not sure who is running this potential “ Iran spring”and what is their end game... the quck western corporate- media support of the corrupt regime ( aka the “’reformists’ that Foggy Bottom has been trying to cultivate for almost 40 years) makes me think the globalists and neocons are not totally in control at this point. but still positioning
If alternative post- Revolution leadership is being readied the names and affiliations are not being publicized outside of elite Western circles
More research and thinking... and time
Your comparative pictures speak thousands of words..
Thanks for sharing.
Hey American people....
Democrat Carter allowed Iran to get into this mess.
Democrat Obama supported keeping the mess.
And the Democrats are supposed to be the party of women’s rights!!!
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