2022 Iranian Protests

[NovaKart]

Bolivia’s ambassador to Tehran said its government condemns riots in Iran orchestrated by British and American Zionists.

 

[Takhisis]

^Well, yes, but when Hugo Chávez died Evo Morales claimed that the cancer he died of had been ‘inoculated’ into him by US agents, so…

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfudgin...an_oil_workers_go_on_strike_today_in_support/

 

[Samson]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfudgin...an_oil_workers_go_on_strike_today_in_support/

Dead link. I guess this:

Iran's Oil, Petrochemical Workers Begin Strikes, Protests

Some workers at Iran's Abadan Refinery have joined the petrochemical workers’ strike in Asalouyeh off the coasts of the Persian Gulf, which began Monday morning.​

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Social media reports say workers and staff of Phase 2 of state-owned Abadan Refinery walked out hours after reports of the strike at Asalouyeh Complex in Bushehr Province emerged. The government has disrupted access to mobile Internet in Khuzestan in the past few days but a video has emerged showing workers walking out Monday.​

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In other videos posted on social media contract workers at Asalouyeh are seen chanting “This year is the year of blood, Seyed Ali Khamenei is done! and “Down with the Dictator” in front of an administrative building. The narrator of the video says it is the beginning of the workday, 6:00 AM Monday, and that the workers have begun their “strike-campaign”.​

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The narrator of another video which shows smoke rising in the distance and workers gathering, says they have blocked the road to Asalouyeh Complex and gone on strike.In other videos workers are seen blocking the road with stones and rubble on a motorway where barrels of tar have been set on fire by workers.​

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

Yes thank you. The censor here killed reddits link

 

[Samson]

Yes thank you. The censor here killed reddits link

I guessed that, but I suppose I am too stupid today to figure out the swear word.

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

CFC turned something into fudge

 

[Takhisis]

It did. Now, there's some arguing there over whether the oligarchs of Iran will still support the regime under such circumstances.

Since the regime is the economic power, i.e. the revolutionary guards are millionaires themselves, I wonder how that'd play out.

 

[Takhisis]

A politician who was barred from running in the last election because he had a chance to defeat the not-an-unelected-monarch ayatollah's candidate says that not allowing women to shed the hijab because otherwise Islam will crumble as Islamic Andalusia fell to the Christians is an incorrect view.
Interestingly, even the Tehran bar association is leading demonstrations against the government.

Cracks appear among Iran elite as senior figure calls for hijab policing rethink​

Prominent conservative politician Ali Larijani warns against ‘rigid response’ after month of unrest

Spoiler :

The first cracks have started to appear among Iran’s political elite over the country’s month-long women-led protests, with a senior figure calling for a re-examination of the enforcement of compulsory hijab law and an acknowledgment that the protests have deep political roots, and are not simply the product of US or Israeli agitation.

The call for restraint came from Ali Larijani, a former speaker of the Iranian parliament and an impeccable establishment figure. His tone contrasted with a continued uncompromising line on Wednesday from the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, parliament and security forces, as well as concerted efforts to undermine the credibility of the family of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died after being arrested by morality police last month, sparking a wave of protests across the country.

Protesters had called for a mass rally in Tehran on Wednesday after violence overnight in the capital and in the Kurdish towns of Sanandaj, Saqez, Bukan and Dehgolan. Many shops remained shut in protest against the regime, while a demonstration led by the Tehran bar association was broken up by security forces.

Internet blackouts have continued in an effort to stop the protesters gathering, as it has become increasingly clear that many on the streets are no longer only interested in the policing of the hijab, but want the entire regime overthrown.

The Iran Human Rights centre, based in Oslo, said the death toll had surpassed 200. A well-known reformist politician, Mostafa Tajzadeh, was also sentenced to eight years in prison for collusion with others against the system. Ali Salehi, prosecutor general in Tehran, said 60 indictments had been issued against rioters in the capital.

But in a sign that the one-dimensional harsh line of the government is not universal, Larijani broke a long period of silence to question excessive state enforcement of the hijab, the issue that may have led to Amini’s death.

In a lengthy interview with an Iranian news site, he warned that extremism in enforcing social mores leads to extremist reactions. “The hijab has a cultural solution, it does not need decrees and referendums. I appreciate the services of the police force and Basij [paramilitary militia], but this burden of encouraging the hijab should not be assigned to them,” he said.

“Do not doubt that when a cultural phenomenon becomes widespread, rigid response to it is not the cure. The people and young people who come to the street are our own children. In a family, if a child commits a crime, they try to guide him to the right path, the society needs more tolerance”.

He added: “It’s like a person has a migraine, but we write a prescription for him like a person with a heart disease and all its arteries are closed. In the issue of hijab, we were in this situation.”

Larijani pointed out that during the period of the Shah’s rule prior to 1979, the hijab was not encouraged, but many people wore hijab voluntarily.

“Islamic government means that people manage their own affairs. It is the same in terms of social justice. If the affairs are managed by the people, their talents will flourish.

“The problem is that if in a society, young people do not implement one of the sharia rulings correctly from an intellectual and social point of view, this is not 100% wrong.”

He also rejected the widely promoted theory that Iran’s Islamic society may crumble the way that Andalusia – according to some scholars – fell into Christianity in the 15th century due to the removal of the requirement to wear the hijab.

He said that in some Islamic societies, “hijab rules are more rigid than ours. Is there less corruption in them? No, it was more hidden.”

Larijani has been a central figure in Iranian politics for decades. He was banned from standing for the presidency last year ostensibly because the guardian council deemed him unqualified, but in reality due to the threat he posed to the winner, Ebrahim Raisi, the candidate favoured by the supreme leader.

Criticism is also creeping into the heavily censored press that veers from denouncing the riots to dismissing the notion that any protests exist. “What is currently happening on the level of governance in our country is based neither on the separation of powers nor [the inclusion of] a diversity of outlooks in management,” read a piece in the daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami.

“We have witnessed the consequence of a non-inclusive view [of governance] in our country over the past 14 months,” it said.

 

[Samson]

Video shows forces shooting fleeing people from truck

Video footage has emerged showing what appears to be Iranian security forces shooting at fleeing people with a gun mounted on the back of a pick-up truck.​

In the clip, which has been verified by the BBC Persian service, bangs can be heard as the vehicle chases people in Baneh, in Kurdistan province.​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1580672076494516224

Authorities in Iran forced to remove poster of women in hijabs after PR fiasco

The Iranian authorities suffered a PR fiasco after being forced to take down a giant billboard in a central square in Tehran when women in the poster, or their relatives, objected to being depicted as supporters of the government and the compulsory-wearing of the hijab.​

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The billboard controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was a montage of about 50 Iranian women wearing the hijab under the slogan “Women of my Land”. It was taken down within 24 hours after at least three of the women pictured said they objected to their image being misused.​

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Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, a multiaward-winning actor was the first to protest, releasing a video. Not wearing the hijab, she said: “I am not considered a woman in a land where young children, little girls and freedom-loving youths are killed in its fields.”​

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“I am Mahsa’s mother, I am Sarina’s mother. I am the mother of all the children who were killed in this land. I am the mother of all the land of Iran, not a woman in the land of murderers,” she added, referring to Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman whose death in police custody sparked protests across Iran, and Sarina Esmaeilzadeh, 16, who Amnesty International has said was killed by security forces at a protest.​

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Soon after the video was released, the film director Marzieh Boroumand and the mountaineer Parvaneh Kazemi also denounced the use of their image on the billboard.​

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Boroumand wrote on her Instagram account: “Gentlemen, remove my photo from the wall under which you oppressed children and young people. I will never allow any group inside or outside the country to use my cultural identity for their own benefit.”​

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In a tweet, the director and screenplay writer Reza Dormishian pointed to the photo of an Iranian actor that came from one of his films, and said another image was of the photojournalist, Nooshin Jafari, who is serving a four-year term in Evin prison for insulting the state. Radical film-makers have been in and out of court for more than a decade.​

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Some of the photos appear to have been taken from tombstones.​

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[Remorseless1]

Wonder if/when the Islamic Republic has its own Tianamen Square moment? If the Revolutionary Guards are using machine guns against protestors, tanks aren't far off.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Abolfazl Adinezadeh: Teenage protester shot dead by security forces - sources​

Iranian security forces killed a teenage boy by firing a shotgun at him at point-blank range in the city of Mashhad, sources have told BBC Persian.
Abolfazl Adinezadeh, 17, skipped school to join anti-government protests on 8 October, but he never returned home.
Authorities have not commented. But his death certificate, obtained by the BBC, said he died as a result of liver and kidney damage caused by birdshot.
The sources cited a doctor as saying it was fired less than 1m (3ft) away.
"What crime had he committed, that you sprayed his stomach with 24 birdshot?" Abolfazl's father pleaded at his funeral, a video showed.

• Iran schoolgirl died after being beaten - teachers
• Iran's Generation Z are paying the ultimate price
• Women, men, children - faces of those who have died in Iran

Abolfazl's parents initially had no idea what had happened to him after he took part in the protests, according to the sources.

It was not until the next day that the education ministry telephoned and told them to pick him up from the local police station.
But when they got there, they were told that he was dead.

"You zip your mouth and do not talk to media," Abolfazl's father was warned at the police station, the sources told the BBC.
The sources said the family was put under pressure to say that their son was a member of the Basij, a notorious paramilitary force that is involved in the violent crackdown on the protests.
Authorities have accused "rioters" backed by Iran's foreign enemies of killing Basij members and other security forces during the current unrest.
Plainclothes security personnel were also present during Abolfazl's funeral, shushing mourners who wanted to express their anger, according to the sources.

Abolfazl's aunt held up a picture of him over his grave, but a female agent snatched the frame and put it under her veil, they said.
Some mourners were also stopped after the funeral and asked to delete the videos from their mobile phones.

Abolfazl's mobile has not been returned to the family yet, the sources said.
Footage of Abolfazl Adinezadeh shows a happy teenager dancing and laughing all the time. According to the sources, he was known for making everybody smile.
After school, he worked until 22:00 at a shop fixing mobile phones.
Recently, he had become increasingly angry about corruption, the death last month of Mahsa Amini - the 22-year-old woman who fell into a coma after being detained by morality police - as well as the footage of other women being beaten and killed in the streets, the sources said.

Iran's Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) estimates that 244 protesters, including 32 children, have been killed by security forces in the crackdown. It says more than 12,500 others have been detained, many of them young people and children.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63328086

 

[NovaKart]

This is from Iran International:

“Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman: We're closely watching the popular demonstrations and massive strikes in France, which are based on the French citizens' peaceful demands, and condemn the French police's resort to violence against protesters.”

 

[EgonSpengler]

A journalist on the radio yesterday (BBC, I think) noted that he saw a portrait of the Ayatollah Khomeini that had been defaced, which he said he'd never seen before.

 

[AdamCrock]

I wish Trump would win the next election. He May be a lousy president, but he is a honest lousy president!

 

[FriendlyFire]

This is from Iran International:
“Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman: We're closely watching the popular demonstrations and massive strikes in France, which are based on the French citizens' peaceful demands, and condemn the French police's resort to violence against protesters.”

Ironic given the inflation rate in Iran is 51%
(France inflation is 6.2%)

 

[Takhisis]

I wish Trump would win the next election. He May be a lousy president, but he is a honest lousy president!

He was a lousy president and a completely dishonest one.

Ironic given the inflation rate in Iran is 51%
(France inflation is 6.2%)

Here 6.2% is the monthly rate…

 

[Broken_Erika]

Iran protests: Huge rally in Berlin in support​

About 80,000 Iranians and their supporters have marched in Berlin, German police say, in solidarity with ongoing protests in Iran.
Saturday's rally in the German capital is believed to have been the biggest so far held by the Iranian diaspora.
Iranians from across Europe chanted the slogan of the protesters "Women, Life and Liberty!"
In Iran itself, protests triggered by the death of a young woman in custody have entered a sixth week.
Mahsa Amini, 22 died after being arrested by morality police in Tehran on 13 September for allegedly wearing her headscarf too loosely.
The police denied reports that she was beaten on the head with a baton and said she suffered a heart attack.

On Saturday gatherings were held in several world capitals including Washington, where thousands have been marching.
Organisers of the Berlin rally put the number of protesters at closer to 100,000
Their demands included more Western sanctions against Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard.
Iranian diplomats, the protesters said, should be thrown out of Western capitals.

• 'I took off my hijab in front of police - we are winning'
• Women, men, children - faces of those who have died in Iran

Inside Iran, the authorities have cut off access to internet in many areas, but videos have appeared on social media showing demonstrators in at least several cities.
Iran's Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) estimates that 244 protesters, including 32 children, have been killed by security forces in the crackdown.

It says more than 12,500 others have been detained, many of them young people and children.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63361813

 

[AmazonQueen]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...osing-family-home-e2-80-93-report/ar-AA13fN63

Compared to the average protester Elnaz Rekabi was probably lucky. Her high profile and the regime wanting the status conferred by sporting success mean prison and torture weren't the first option the authorities chose.

 

[livinginaz]

Biden was 'expressing solidarity' when he said 'we're going to free Iran,' White House says | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden was "expressing solidarity" with protesters when he said at a campaign event late Thursday that "we're going to free Iran," a White House spokesman clarified on Friday.

www.cnn.com

Surprised this thread died off and never came back. I feel like it is only a matter of time until someone intervenes in Iran if the protesters fail to unseat the mullahs. If the Republican party in the States resembled the Bush era, we’d be in Tehran by spring and I don’t even doubt that Biden would pass a so-called ‘Authorization for use of Military Force Against Iran’ if it were put on the table. I would not support this, but it seems there is an uncanny cycle of events.

As of right now the protests seem to have plenty of steam still, so this could drag on into the new year. The mullahs will never cede any ground, not when their heads are the same guard from the 1979 revolution.