Desperate efforts to try to keep the the public protests in Iran from getting any bigger appear to have run into a major problem Sunday night, when violence surged, leaving at least 10 more people dead, with another nine Monday, bringing the toll from nearly a week of demonstrations to 21 killed, including one policeman.
The protests began last week in Iran as economic demonstrations, complaining about high inflation and unemployment rates. Amid attempts to crack down, these rallies quickly became highly political, with calls for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to leave office.
Things seemed to be quieting down earlier in the weekend, but came to a head Sunday night, with claims of armed groups of protesters attacking security forces and leading to deadly skirmishes.
This potentially makes things far more dangerous for Iran, as the rising death toll will almost certainly add to the unrest across the nation. Indeed, protests seem to be picking up pace across the country on Monday.
Iran’s moderates have been urging caution in reaction to the protests, noting how quickly the 2009 Green rallies grew in the face of violence, while the hardliners see any sign of unrest as proof of a foreign plot, and seek to double down on the crackdown.
I have read that most of these violent protests are coming from the minority sections of Iran like the Sunnis and Kurds whom have been probably been paid by the Saudi Regime.
What color is this ‘revolution’ called? This has all the markings of the US and their Zio-fascist friends.
As Comrade Hermit said elsewhere: “Israeli blue”.
It is sad that neither the news media or our government is trusted any more The United over the last thirty years and 4 different administration have just pulled to many tricks . To many wars and to often on the wrong side in these wars . We don’t trust you any more with much of any thing ..
This is how the propaganda works. If you read the details of who was killed overnight, then you find that most (6) were killed when they tried to attack a police station to sieze weapons.
How horrible. Such tryanny.
As a test of how unfair Iran is, one could organize a group of people to organize an attack on a police station to try to sieze weapons. WARNING: do not try this at home. Because you are likely to end up dead. In America, where one can be killed if you look cross-eyed at a police officer, police who feel threatened by a direct attack on a police station would certainly kill those involved.
Another of the people who was killed overnight was an soldier in the Iranian Republican Guards. Obviously that was someone who was killed by protesters. But again, the headlines scream only that so many people were killed overnight as the protests ‘get worse’.
This is exactly the same CIA playbook as used in Venezuela. Someone stirs the protesters up into doing something violent and really stupid. They get killed. A government official is killed as well. And the New York Times screams only about how many people were killed.
Oh, the propaganda.
America the state where people still face 75 years in prison for protesting President Trump has no moral ground to complain about Iran. But the CIA never cared about moral ground.
It is interesting to see the parallels between these protests and the 2011 protests in Syria that were completely fabricated by H Clinton and the Washington mob. That was the pretext for engaging Saudi and Qatari funds to send mercenaries and guns into Syria.
The best way to overthrows the government are the ones that have snipers shoot some protesters and some police officers This way everybody gets afraid and scared people are more dangerous . Even the president in Ukraine ran .