Attempts by the Iranian government to shut down broad swathes of social media appear to have little effect, and crackdowns over the previous days have again failed to keep protesters off the streets, demanding change.
The protests began small, as economic protests about the government’s failure to come through on pledges of economic growth and more jobs. These grew and fairly quickly turned into hostility toward Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the violent crackdowns on demonstrators have only added to the size of the protests.
This has resulted in the largest anti-government protests in Iran since 2009, with protesters shouting “death to the dictator” and clashing with riot police. While not as large, there have also been reports of counter-protests at some universities, expressing support for the government.
Warnings from some officials that public demonstrations are now illegal have been greatly undercut by President Hassan Rouhani, a noted reformist, insisting that Iranians have every right to peacefully protest and have their grievances heard.
Rouhani’s calls for everyone to avoid violence have had limited success, but there were no reports of any further deaths on Sunday, suggesting that that killings that took place Saturday are not going to be the new normal in the face of unrest.
This may serve to ultimately calm the situation, as the growth of the protests seems to have been directly in response to efforts to stop the protests in previous days, and if the government makes clear that Rouhani’s comments on peaceful protests are not overruled by some other official, it may calm a lot of the political anger which erupted in the wake of the economic protests.
I can’t help but wonder what color this revolution is.
Israeli blue.
These kinds of activities aren’t purchased cheaply. There’s not too many ways to get that kind of money into Iran unnoticed. I bet they’re using crypto-currency to fund these hooligans.
I hope the protests are genuine and spontaneous. The last thing iranians (and we all) need is a civil war or a violent coup orchestrated by foreign governments(in this case the US and Israel, of course).
The problem is that until Iran reaches an agreement with the Saudis, peace is almost impossible to achieve. This is all caused by governments who want to have the exclusivity of the natural resources. Very bad.
Without any interference from Israel and USA, things won’t get this serious.
If any country has problems sources must be these two countries.
Following the CIA’s Venezuela playbook to the letter so far.
A protester opened fire on police, 1 dead, several wounded.
But here’s the prediction, the CIA-controlled press will just add this dead policeman to a tally of dead so far, and now their headlines will just scream that X number are dead in the ‘violent protests’ in Iran.
In the CIA-news concerning Venezuela, you only see the headlines that scream that so many are dead. But if you actually read a list of who’s dead and how, you find some cases just like this…. CIA-paid-inspired protesters opening fire on police or anti-capitalist protesters.
Same script, different day.
This thing started legit but it appears to be hijacked by terrorists. Rouhani’s a good guy. I hope the Mullahs listen. The Middle East needs a stable Iran.
CIA and Mossad job is not look after higher interest of USA and Israel,is distabilised the countries and established puppet Government.
I guess that is higher interest of these two countries.
Dont get any financial help.
Solve your own problems.