Faced with concern about ongoing protests over gasoline prices, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards issued a statement warning that they are prepared to use “decisive and revolutionary action” if the unrest continues.
Iranian security officials have been keen to warn of action if the protesters continue to threaten security and stability, a concern clearly enhanced by protests getting out on control in neighboring Iraq.
Iranian protests have been largely peaceful, though there has been some violence, and a lot of concern that it could get worse. Iranian officials have insisted that they do not intend to roll back the price increases.
Officials have promised cash handouts to the poor to help them cope with the price increase, a move which some are predicting will ultimately end with this situation increasing the support of the clerics, who enjoy strong support from the poor.
When funding international adventures
trumps the needs of your people.
You kind of have to involve yourself in international adventures when the international comes and f**** your country over. Or maybe Iranians should be different than every other people and just lie down and take it. Cuz that usually goes over real well with the population.
As if— the current situation,
ignoring and suppressing their own population, is a winning strategy.
Your the one who brought up international adventures as if they are relevant to them suppressing their citizens….
Lets face it it not for the US and Israel doing everything they can to strengthen support for hardliners Iranians would have thrown off the regime by now….
This is how they spend their money:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism
That’s why they don’t have enough for their population.
I’m sure sanctions have nothing to do with it, after all we impose sanctions as pure moralizing not because we actually think they do anything…. Lets just pretend that the 99.999% of the world that you choose to ignore is of no consequence… then we can just pretend that the .001% you choose to focus on will provide us guidance on how to approach the world.
The sanctions are a direct result to the behaviors Iran demonstrates,
as documented in the wikipedia post.
You ignore those behaviors and
pretend they are not responsible for the mess they are in.
They are in the mess they are in because the US has done everything within its power to destroy their nation short of outright bombing it to oblivion. Their economy is in shambles because of decades of economic sanctions. They are the target of the west for two reasons only, they haven’t sold their children into slavery to the central banking cartel that runs the world monetary system, and they are a large state near Israel and so are targeted for destruction to allow Israeli politicians to provide a buggyman to rally their populace so that Zionist dreams of Greater Israel can be justified, which really just ties into the central banking as zionists are simply useful tools to mask the actions of the central bankers.
Once again your standards are the same as every identitarian, that being double standards.. ew look at Iran fund terrorists…the world should sanction them….
I pretend they aren’t responsible for their actions… I point out that their actions are the direct result of Western/Israeli/Saudi aggression and those like yourselves are fools to believe that any people will simply lie down and accept foreign slavery. If all they can do to fight back is fund some terrorists… that’s what they’ll do. Lets not pretend that Iran is so much as a boil on the ass of the evil perpetrated by the Western world. Some terrorists funded vs Millions burned alive, countless governments overthrown, 100 x the amount of terrorist groups funded, the total enslavement of western and most of the worlds population through the central banking system, and the stealing of resources across the world at the point of a gun.
But who knows… maybe you think americans should be starved and blockaded until they replace their sociopathic monsters and I am totally off about your double standards.
Yet, the protesters blame the cleric regime for their plight.
Are they just stupid?
Or are they better informed than you?
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1351246/middle-east
Imagine how much easier the protesters job would be throwing off the chains of the clerics if western powers stopped interfering and sanctioning. I have argued against the counter productive nature of sanction regimes and western interference, pointing out their result of giving the hardliners the ammunition they need to rally enough support. You are as every other progressive… you argue for policies that you intend to help but inevitably have just made things worse. Or do you think that outside powers attacking your country doesn’t tend to rally support to whatever power happens to be in charge?
Besides… even if Iranians throw off the clerics, if they fail to become the central bankers slaves then western governments will simply keep up the sanctions, because in the end our conflict with Iran is only about the monetary supply and the need for the cartel to impose its fiat currency on the world before it collapses and they lose their power. Nothing to due with Iranians actions beyond selling oil in something other than dollars and being outside the cartel.
Word salad isn’t a rebuttal,
Iranians know and speak the truth you refuse to accept.
I did accept it… you didn’t see it cause you didn’t want to see any of the ‘word salad’ around it…
Clerics bad…..
overthrowing them will not help Iranians at all unless they agree to be slaves of banking cartel.
Anyways done talking with a person who refuses to even process arguments that are uncomfortable for their world view…
The people are rebelling against the cleric authoritarians who rule by shariah law.
Not your bogey-man Uncle Sam.
So who is brainwashed here, them or —–you?
PS: I’d be willing to bet you support Beijing over Hong Kong also.
Lol… as I said you just go about pretending that anything that doesn’t fit your world view simply never existed… Never said they weren’t rebelling against the Clerics… said they would get no relief unless they become central banker slaves… but you don’t want to address the central banker issue… so you pretend that it doesn’t exists… then your brain literally has to rearrange what others say so that it can ignore 90% of what inputs it has received… this is why you are often accused of being a neocon, and as every single person ever called a neocon you deny… which is fine. The behavior everyone assumes makes you a Neocon is your inability to even process information that is contrary to your world view. This is the same disease of the brain arising in Communists, Socialists, Progressives and religious fundamentalists, and is ultimately what makes it so certain that every attempt they make at doing something “good” will go horribly wrong because they simply can’t take into account anything contradictory to their world view.
There is a massive difference between recognizing the never ending pattern of CIA coups, and supporting authoritarian regimes. But you don’t want to address the total failure of constitutional government within the US… so you just assume anyone not supporting of endless color revolutions must support those overthrown by them.
Guess I weren’t done… but ok you go ahead and once again ignore every point I make and accuse me of supporting the Iranian Clerics… you can have the last word.
The people in Iran dis agree with you, that is your first clue.
All that said you are ultimately right that Iran has brought this upon themselves…at least in a Metaphysical sense….
The nature of reality being that it exists within the Omnipresent/potent/nicient and that failure to accept this nature will lead a person to find false prophets. Those prophets will sell them graven images of god( AKA religion/ideology) They will point to the other and tell them that that other over there is not of god and can therefore be stolen from and murdered. The ones rejecting gods nature will sacrifice their children to their idols, much as zionists and islamists and pretty much every group of humans have been doing for pretty much ever.
So yeah its not surprising that Iranians ideology would draw the wrath of those consumed by differing ideologies… that’s kinda what existance is all about. So yes, Iranians engraved images of god on their souls and have paid the price, must like every other people throughout history have, not the least being the muelling slaves of western civilization who have sold their children into slavery for promises of safety and the glory of their civilization.
But go and tell yourself Iran is some unique phenomena that can be dealt with in anyway but by allowing Truth to destroy their petty images of god.
Normally, the logic behind doing B as a “direct result of” A is that B will bring about some change in A.
How’s that working out vis a vis Iran sanctions this last 40 years?
The cleric-regime of Iran has been one of the largest supporters of terror for decades.
I’m happy to stipulate for the sake of argument that Iran is among, say, the top ten state sponsors of terror, and has been for decades, if you like.
From which it necessarily follows that US sanctions, which have also been in place for decades, haven’t worked — at least if the goal is to change that regime’s behavior or cause that regime to be overthrown.
If, on the other hand, the goal is to keep the regime in power for use as a hobgoblin of convenience, sanctions have been a resounding success.
Well, with the latest round of popular rebellion,
I would say the jury is still out.
Yeah, after 40 years of the Iranian regime successfully blaming US sanctions for its failures and US agitation for any and all uprisings against it, such that “popular rebellions” aren’t nearly as popular as they might otherwise be, “the jury is still out.”
The effect — and, on the evidence, the purpose — of US sanctions has been to keep the existing regime in power.
We shall see, the sanctions are, for the first time, crippling.
While the regional military balance is shifting against Iran.
As you may or may not have noticed, Iran is already working on an arms deal with Russia and China, as the UN arms embargo ends next year.
It’s not just going to be arms, either.
The regime tried bowing down to the US and giving it everything that was demanded of it with the “nuclear deal” (which the US put off for a decade by refusing to take yes for an answer every time they demanded something and the Iranians said OK).
As it became more and more obvious that the US can’t be trusted to keep its word even when it gets everything it demands, and that it still carries the weight to keep the EU from lightening up too, the Iranians found out they had some new would-be friends and are likely to embrace a “no way to get along with the US” position for another 40 years.
At this point, I’d expect the US regime to collapse before the Iranian regime does.
Russia with a GDP less than Italy or Texas and
China dependent on a trade deal with the US.
It’s a race to see which collapses first.