2022 Iranian Protests

[Remorseless1]

It's horrible to watch people being deprived of ordinary things. How can anyone these days tell a woman to cover her head or not. How can you infringe on a woman's rights? People don't know how to control each other, power disfigures people.

You're forgetting the leaders of the Islamic Republic know how people should act and think. Those leaders, particularly the Ayatollah, are anointed by God to ensure there is no sin among the followers of Islam. They also believe Shia Islam is the best not true path to Gid.

When people think that way, it's easy to rationalize the arrest, abuse and murder of a young woman whose head scarf didn't FULLY cover her hair.

 

[Takhisis]

I'm also reading that one of today's executions was ordered without allowing the accused's lawyer to, uhm, read the charges against him.

 

[aelf]

I'll just say this again. Never trust ultraconservatives, even if they're smiling. They're all evil.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Iran dancing couple given 10-year jail sentence​

An Iranian couple in their 20s have been given jail sentences totalling 10 years after posting a video of themselves dancing in the street.
They were reportedly convicted for promoting corruption, prostitution and propaganda.
The video showed them dancing by Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Tower.
Authorities are handing heavy sentences to people seen to be involved in protests after the death of a woman who was detained by morality police.
The couple did not link their dance to the ongoing protests in Iran.
A source has confirmed to BBC Monitoring that the couple's arrest came after they posted the video to their Instagram accounts, which have a combined following of nearly two million.

Anti-government protests - labelled "riots" by Iran's regime - swept across the country after Mahsa Amini, 22, died in police custody in September last year. She was arrested in Tehran for allegedly violating the rule requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf.
Astiazh Haqiqi, 21, and her fiance Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, 22, are said to be convicted of "promoting corruption and prostitution, colluding against national security, and propaganda against the establishment".
The family home of Ms Haqiqi, who lists her profession as a fashion designer, was raided before the arrest.
It is unclear how long the sentence is for each of the separate convictions they are facing. They have each been sentenced to a total of 10 and a half years - a combined sentence for the charges.
If their verdicts are upheld, they will have to serve the longest one of those sentencing terms.
According to reports, they were also handed a two-year ban on using social media and leaving the country.

• A really simple guide to Iran's protests
• 'Dancing is a symbol of freedom in Iran'

Iran's protest movement that began in September has become one of the most serious challenges to the Iranian regime since it came to power in the 1979 revolution.
To quell the protests, the state has been handing out severe sentences to people involved in the unrest, including executing at least four protesters. earlier this month and in December.
While Mahsa Amini's death was the catalyst for wider unrest in Iran, it has also been driven by long-standing discontent over poverty, unemployment, inequality, injustice and corruption.
Hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested during demonstrations over the circumstances of her death.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64470506

 

[Angst]

my friend and her family have just been blacklisted from ever returning to iran, at the threat of imprisonment.
they fear for their family in iran.

 

[Takhisis]

‘Human rights’ groups are strangely silent. Their anti-liberalism is too strong to allow them to allocate human rights to those who oppose them or their allies.

 

[amadeus]

‘Human rights’ groups are strangely silent.

Which groups? I’m not challenging your assertion but I haven’t been following the news so much.

In any case, avoid clicking if you hate controversy, bring back the Shah!

 

[AmazonQueen]

Which groups? I’m not challenging your assertion but I haven’t been following the news so much.

In any case, avoid clicking if you hate controversy, bring back the Shah!

Why, he taught the current regime how to rig elections, torture opponents and assassinate foes who fled overseas.

 

[Yeekim]

Any hopeful signs at all that the regime might crumble?

 

[r16]

no .

 

[Takhisis]

Which groups? I’m not challenging your assertion but I haven’t been following the news so much.

We have ‘human rights’ groups here which are about ideologically consistent as what in the US are ‘states' rights’ or those pro-life people who want everyone to have an assault rifle in store in case it's necessary.

Basically they talk about democracy and human rights and support, in no particular order, Chavist Venezuela, Iran, Turkey, China, Russia and of course Cuba. It's no coincidence that those are the same countries that Cuban dictator Díaz-Canel visited in his latest international tour.

As a result, the word ‘human rights’ is just a dog whistle just like the aforementioned ‘states' rights’.

Any hopeful signs at all that the regime might crumble?

Every regime crumbles. Inevitably so. Sometimes within a lifespan of its foundation, sometimes in a few centuries. In hindsight we'll definitely know.

Given so much that we don't actually know, we don't know the real situation of Iran's government structure. They could be about to crumble or they could be about to regain full control.

 

[r16]

iran will see the fall of America .

 

[Takhisis]

Iran will, but whether the Islamic Republic will is a different question.

 

[r16]

that's actually a given . That the America is overstretching . It will be quite a sight to see that the current stuff blows up in Bidon's face . That it might not be exactly fair to average Iranians is just a thing that has been going on for so many decades , however sad .

 

[amadeus]

Your predictions of an American geopolitical implosion based on …?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Your predictions of an American geopolitical implosion based on …?

He just makes stuff like that up.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Iranian couple handed prison sentence for dancing in the streets | CNN

An Iranian couple, both social media influencers, have been given lengthy prison sentences after a video emerged of them dancing in a main square in the capital Tehran.

www.cnn.com

 

[r16]

like obviously Israelis are present in the Azeri planning and actual operation of the drone attack in Iran recently . So many smart people also report that an earthquake also happened that night . There has long been a mismatch between actual earthquakes and the seismic shocks created by nuclear tests , so there has been a new calculation that reduces the yield but what you get from these stuff is that Israelis DID MOST CERTAINLY HIT IRANIAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES somehow just on the border with Iraq and so near to ours as well with a nuclear weapon of 710 kilotons . You know so that idiots that constitute the general majority of public might just ignore the news that a series of earthquakes were happening there for the last month .

(yeah , then we will see all sorts of maps showing who gets what and all they have come and beat evil allies of Iran . )

to defend the right of the Anglosaxons to make Germany pay for the Right Thing in Ukraine , there is stuff . Which makes me agree that Israelis are right this time and Iranians have stuff enough for a couple of bombs . Which then justifies me to accept that Iranians will reply in kind to any nuclear attack on them , including the case of leaks resulting from conventional stuff . North Korea has been quite calm afterall .

 

[Broken_Erika]

Iran protesters march in several cities in mourning for executed men​

Iran has seen its most widespread anti-government protests in weeks, after small crowds marched overnight in Tehran and a number of other cities.
Videos showed people chanting "Woman, life, freedom" and "Death to Khamenei" - a reference to the Supreme Leader.
It followed calls to mark the 40th day of mourning for two men executed on protest-related charges, Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini.
The UN said they had faced unfair trials based on forced confessions.

Protests swept across the country in September following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.
Authorities have portrayed them as "riots" and responded with force.

So far, at least 529 protesters have been killed and almost 20,000 detained, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA). Four protesters have been hanged since December, while 107 others have reportedly been sentenced to death or charged with capital offences.

Footage posted on social media showed small protests took place on Thursday night in several parts of the capital, Tehran, as well as in nearby Karaj, the eastern city of Mashhad, the central city of Isfahan, the northern cities of Qazvin and Rasht, and the western cities of Arak, Izeh and Sanandaj.
In Karaj, a crowd chanted the names of Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, according to footage verified by BBC Persian. The two men were accused of killing a member of the paramilitary Basij force during a protest there in November.
Opposition activist collective 1500 Tasvir meanwhile shared a video from Mashhad in which a group of men and women are seen shouting: "My martyred brother, we shall avenge your blood."

Crowds were also filmed shouting slogans against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the capital's Tehranpars district and in Rasht.
Kurdish rights group Hengaw posted footage that it said showed protesters burning tyres to block a main road in Sanandaj, which has been one of the epicentres of the unrest.

Although the street protests have subsided recently, activists frequently share videos in which people are heard chanting anti-government slogans at night-time or are seen spray-painting graffiti. Women also continue to be pictured refusing to comply with the strict hijab laws in public places.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64675060

 

[Samson]

I am not sure what is going on here, and I have been wrong reading between the lines in Al Jazeera before, but from this:

Schoolgirls in Iran hospitalised after suspected poisonings

Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls across five provinces have been admitted to hospital in a suspected new wave of poisoning attacks, local media has reported.

Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported in recent months among schoolgirls around the country, mainly in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, with some needing hospitalisation.

The illnesses remain unexplained and Iranian officials believe the girls may have been poisoned and have blamed Tehran’s enemies.

Iran’s interior minister on Saturday said investigators had found “suspicious samples” that were being studied.

Last week, Iran’s deputy health minister, Younes Panahi, said the attacks were aimed at shutting down education for girls.

“This is alarming in a country where women have one of the highest literacy rates in the Middle East. Over 95 percent of women in Iran are educated and this certainly is a new phenomenon.”​

So terrorists are using poison gas against girls schools over the course of months, to try and shut down education for women?

Spoiler Two minute video report on it :