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Iranian official blames murder of protesters on “foreign agents” and Sunnis

Dec 31, 2017 7:45 am By Robert Spencer

Of course. For jihadis, it’s always someone else’s fault.

“Iran’s government warns protesters they will ‘pay the price’ for mass unrest,” by Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, December 31, 2017:

ISTANBUL — Iran’s government on Sunday warned protesters they would pay a heavy price for breaking the law after three days of unrest spread across the country and two demonstrators were killed.

“Those who damage public property and create disorder are accountable before the law and must pay the price,” Interior Minister Abdolrahman Rahman Fazli said Sunday, according to state media.

An official in western Iran also confirmed that two demonstrators had been shot and killed in Lorestan province Saturday night, when mass peaceful protests escalated into attacks on government buildings and confrontations with police.

Habibollah Khojastehpour, the deputy governor of Lorestan, blamed the protesters’ deaths on “foreign agents” and Sunni militants he said had infiltrated the area.

“No bullets were shot from police and security forces at the people,” he said on state television Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

Reuters had reported late Saturday that videos on social media showed two men lying on the ground covered with blood. A voice-over said the men had been shot dead by riot police firing on protesters.

The anti-government protests were the largest since a 2009 uprising over disputed election results, and were poised to seriously challenge the administration of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate politician who promised key economic reforms.

The demonstrations began Thursday to oppose high unemployment and rising costs, including a 40 percent jump in the price of eggs. But they swiftly expanded to take on a system many protesters have said is corrupt.

“Down with the dictator!” some demonstrators chanted, as they tore down posters of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in central Tehran. Protesters defied police from Kermanshah in the west to the holy city of Qom in the north and Ahvaz southwest of the capital, according to footage uploaded onto social media. Many of the images could not be confirmed….

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  1. PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 8:09 am

    SOMEBODY is organizing those protests. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the American CIA.

    • emmett says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 11:08 am

      WHO CARES ? The FRENCH helped us during our REVOLUTION ! IF THEY DON’T HANG THE MULLAHS, THEY SHOULD CONTINUE VOTING FOR CHILD RAPING MULLAHS !

    • Rick says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 5:31 pm

      …..or the BSA? All is needed is American encouragement. Our forefathers got plenty…

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 10:00 pm

      PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG wrote:

      SOMEBODY is organizing those protests. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the American CIA.
      ………………….

      Um…right. Because the CIA has so much influence on the street in Iran. sarc/off

    • Jacqueline Robnett says

      Jan 1, 2018 at 11:29 pm

      Ms. Koenig, if they are relying on the CIA, Allah help them. Remember the Bay of Pigs when the CIA provided the wrong ammunition to the Cuban protesters? Their guns were useless. The ayatollahs always place the blame for unrest on everyone other than themselves.

  2. Januk36 says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 8:18 am

    It took Swiss Media 2 full days to bring the first reports about what is going on in Iran. The first with a headline accusing Trump of inciting unrest in Iran…without any background information….lame lame lame….

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 10:07 pm

      Good grief. And Switzerland is actually not as dhimmified as some parts of Europe. I wonder what the reporting is like in Sweden, France, Germany, and the UK?

  3. Dwight Hogg says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 8:48 am

    Somebody is organizing????? Ever think that when people are subjugated by a genocidal fanatical regime that eventually people will revolt against the tyranny. CIA my ass. If it was the CIA they would be doing the people of Iran a favor – but it isn’t.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 10:08 pm

      +1

  4. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 9:20 am

    Such foreign agents are working for evîl united states and fascist evîl zionist state of Israel. Such plots failed in North korea where death squad was sent by evîl united states to assassinate North korean leader, but thé mission failed before arrival. Then savage mad devil Trump thought of using force to topple thé régime. Thé energetic North korean leader responded by saying any such attempt Will lead him to release Hydrogene nuclear bombs to obliterate thé whole of evil united states from thé surface of this earth. Evîl coward Americans became scared and advised thé mad dog Trump to backdown.

    • Tim Burton says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 9:30 am

      Hey Ibrahim, can I have some of what you’re smoking? I never saw so much unhinged rhetoric in one paragraph before.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 9:32 am

      Sounds like you’re a big fan of little rocket man, Ibrahim. I guess it’s that whole nutjob totalitarian schtick that appeals to you. After all, Islam is just fascism/communism with a ‘god’ attached.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Dec 31, 2017 at 10:09 am

        Revered Islamic scholar Maududi, In his vision of an Islamic state where “no one can regard any field of his affairs as personal and private”, wrote:

        “The totalitarianism of God’s sovereignty, would “[bear] a resemblance to the Fascist and Communist states.”
        https://www.counterextremism.com/extremists/abul-ala-maududi

    • DFD says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 1:06 pm

      To Ibrahim itace muhammed

      If you wouldn’t exist, you’d have to be invented. I actually appreciate your commenting here on JW, yes, really I do! After all, you are the only comedian that we have. Clumsy yes, but not everybody can be as eloquent and stylish as Daffy Duck.

      Should you ever leave, you will be surely missed.

      In that sense, let me wish you a happy AD2018!

      PS for your info: “AD” stands for “Anno Domini”, in English: “Year of The Lord”; that’s Jesus Christ, the son of God.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 10:25 pm

      The appalling Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

      Such foreign agents are working for evîl united states and fascist evîl zionist state of Israel.
      ……………………………….

      Is Ibrahim itace muhammed saying that Israeli Jews and big Americans with Texas twangs are easily able to get jobs in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps? Gee, Ibrahim itace muhammed’s coreligionists must be dumb as a box of rocks.

      Does he even realize how obviously absurd this claim is?

      More:

      Such plots failed in North korea where death squad was sent by evîl united states to assassinate North korean leader, but thé mission failed before arrival.
      ……………………………….

      What a load of claptrap. Talk about projection.

      More:

      Then savage mad devil Trump thought of using force to topple thé régime. Thé energetic North korean leader responded by saying any such attempt Will lead him to release Hydrogene nuclear bombs to obliterate thé whole of evil united states from thé surface of this earth. Evîl coward Americans became scared and advised thé mad dog Trump to backdown.
      ……………………………….

      What a load of twaddle–North Korea does not have the capacity to reach the United States.

      But note: just as Muslims who hate all Infidels make an exception for Hitler, it looks as though Ibrahim itace muhammed has a soft spot for oppressive, unfree, homicidal regimes that starve their own people, This comes a no surprise. *Ugh*.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 1, 2018 at 10:20 pm

        I also have to ask why Ibrahim itace muhammed is now randomly peppering his posts with carets and tildas?

  5. CRUSADER says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 10:01 am

    Mr Irritates is just like BLM

    Always about either:

    the Blam
    or
    the Blame

    ————

  6. mortimer says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 10:20 am

    There will soon be secret arrests, disappearances, tortures and secret assassinations throughout Iran. There will then be show trials and many public hangings via crane. The only hope for Iran is a military coup led by military officers.

    • DFD says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 1:09 pm

      “…The only hope for Iran is a military coup led by military officers.”

      Iran? I thought you were talking about western Europe, silly me.
      Happy 2018 !!

    • Keys says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 1:19 pm

      Exactly so. Only a military force could remove those in control of Iran. The people who revolt have no chance since they are out gunned, out organized, and lack effective control over their own resources.

      And even if a military faction staged a coup there is the risk of another Syria, or more likely an event like Erdogan recently put down (though I wonder if that was a set-up for Erdogan to consolidate power ). Unless, perhaps there is someone like Sisi of Egypt, who has almost complete control and support of the military.

      Unfortunately, there is an urgency for a successful coup of the mullahs. Especially, since some Iranian leaders recently said publically that nuclear weapons can never be allowed in Iran. This means just the opposite is true.

      Therefore, it is likely with the current arrogant Islamist leaders (who like hateful itace require evil Zionists and evil US to be wiped from the face of the earth), that Iran’s people, good and evil, will descend in to a nuclear catastrophe.

  7. Rouge1 says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 3:40 pm

    And Vegas murders was done by an old man who was a super ninja.

  8. shoehorn says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 4:18 pm

    Yes it was the Sunnis! Always causing trouble since 670 AD. Go get ’em Shiites, you the real Muslims!

  9. gravenimage says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 9:58 pm

    Iranian official blames murder of protesters on “foreign agents” and Sunnis
    ……………………..

    As ludicrous as this claim is, it shows that the Iranian authorities are worried that support for these protests is widespread.

    Were this not so, they would just claim that all the protesters are “foreign agents” and Sunnis.

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