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Iran: General says “sedition” defeated, but fresh protests begin after nightfall Wednesday

Jan 4, 2018 8:05 am By Robert Spencer

Totalitarian regimes are always at war against the human spirit, and so their life span is always limited, but on the other hand there are always slaves wanting slavery, and so they can live prolonged lives. We can only hope that the Iranian people will be able to throw off the shackles of this monstrous and inhumane regime before too very much longer. But it will be a long-term effort.

“Iran protests: General declares ‘sedition’ defeated,” BBC, January 3, 2018:

The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has declared the defeat of the “sedition” in the country, referring to a wave of anti-government protests.

Maj Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari made the announcement as tens of thousands of people attended pro-government rallies called to counter the unrest.

It began last Thursday in the city of Mashhad and has seen 21 people killed.

The protests were initially against price rises and corruption, but turned to wider anti-government sentiment.

They have been the largest since the disputed 2009 presidential election.
What was the general’s announcement?

Gen Jafari said: “Today, we can say that this is the end of the 96 sedition,” referring to the current year – 1396 – in the Persian calendar.

He said “security preparedness and people’s vigilance” had led to the defeat of “enemies” and that the Guards had only intervened in a “limited” way in three provinces.

He added: “There were a maximum of 1,500 people in each place and the number of troublemakers did not exceed 15,000 people nationwide.”

The general blamed anti-revolutionary agents, pro-monarchists and forces which he said had been “announced by [US-ex Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton to create riot, anarchy, insecurity and intrigue in Iran”.

The “enemies” had tried to pose “cultural, economic and security threats against Islamic Iran”, he said.

His comments echoed those by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday, which also blamed unspecified “enemies” and which analysts believed referred to the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

But the general also blamed a “former official” for the protests, in a comment analysts believe referred to ex-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has been critical of government officials, in particular Judiciary Chief Sadegh Amoli Larijani, in recent weeks.
What about the rallies?

State television broadcast some of the pro-government rallies live.

Among those holding events were the cities of Kermanshah, Ilam and Gorgan.

Some marchers carried Iranian flags and images of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In the city of Qom, marchers chanted “death to American mercenaries”. Chants elsewhere included “the blood in our veins is a gift to our leader” and “the seditionist rioters should be executed”.
Are protests still going on?

Reuters news agency is reporting fresh protests after nightfall on Wednesday in the city of Malayer in western Hamadan province, with protesters chanting: “People are begging, the supreme leader is acting like God!”

Video on social media showed protesters in Nowshahr in the north chanting “death to the dictator”, a phrase that has been used against Ayatollah Khamenei, the agency reported.

Another video showed a building burning in Gohardasht.

Associated Press said other video had emerged on Wednesday of protesters tearing down images of the ayatollah in Noor Abad, 360km (225 miles) south-west of Tehran, although it was unclear when the footage was shot….

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  1. john spielman says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 8:38 am

    islam, especially in Iran is so full of shiite

  2. Isa Ibn Maryam says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 8:39 am

    It’s great to see Islam outing itself and showing its true face on the world stage. It is only a matter of time that people recognize the harsh reality associated with Islamic governance.

    The primary obstacles stagnating this development are the brain-dead liberal-democrat appeasers, globalist-controlled media censorship, and of course all of the sick Muslim Brotherhood non-military forms of jihad.

    I think it is rather a good thing to provoke Muslims that they may continue to out themselves which is what I feel Trump’s approach is, especially regarding the move to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel. He is making all of the right moves and isn’t flinching from the reckless media attacks on him.

    In the meantime, if academic institutions would press the issue of determining that the Qur’an is actually a historical document that has a Syro-Aramaic Christian apocryphal base/subsrate:

    http://www.aramaic-dem.org/English/History/Christoph%20Luxenberg.pdf

    This would:

    1. Prove the Qur’an is not divinely inspired and actually a massively mistranslated mess
    2. Thus prove Muhammad was a liar/insane and not a prophet of any God
    3. Thus prove Islam is man-made and should no longer be protected under religious freedom

    …and considering the Shahada mandates that every single Muslim who ever lived and is living perform a testimony that Muhammad is the final prophet of Allah, which violates the false testimony commandment written in stone directly from the “real” God of Abraham and not their Satanic “Allah”, every single Muslim bears responsibility for his/her own actions/behaviors based on that testimony regarding the rest of the commandments:

    1. Killing hundreds of millions of people
    2. Coveting women via forced sex slavery
    3. Idolatry/imitation of the image/sunnah of Muhammad
    4. Coveting possession of non-Muslims (jizya)
    5. Graven images in heaven (perfect copy of the Qur’an preserved in heaven)

    (etc)…then Islam will be outed for the disgusting defilement of a “religion” that it is; they can get shipped back to the bloody hellhole they sprang from and re-learn the Ten Commandments from their beloved Moses, whom they hypocritically wish peace upon but fail to follow, and can re-integrate into developed societies when they learn to stop believing an illiterate sex-addicted pedophile caravan-raiding warlord is the “perfect pattern of conduct” to follow.

    Not to worry; in their own Qur’an they stole a story about the Seven Heavens whereupon Moses guards the first gate. What does he hold? The Ten Commandments. Go get ’em, Moses!

    Watch these disgusting hypocrites dance in the music to come.

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 9:37 am

    Only the return of the crown prince will provide the focus of unity required to put an end to the mad greediness of the mullahocracy.

    As head of state, the crown prince can call a constitutional committee and appoint a transitional government to run the country until a new political system is put in place with ironclad guarantees for human rights.

    The Persian people have to do this by opposing the mullahs and telling them to hit the road and don’t come back.

  4. mortimer says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 9:44 am

    The sedition is on the part of the cabal of mullahs that run the government for their own personal enrichment and squander the wealth and lives of the Persian people.

    The mullahs act as if they are gods above criticism.

  5. mortimer says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 9:45 am

    Death to the Dictator! And Death to the Mullahocracy! Down with Islamo-TYRANNY!

  6. elee says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 10:30 am

    Last night I thought I caught a report to the effect that this whole wave of protests was actually initiated by some false-flag action of the mullahs themselves. I haven’t got the chance to follow up with it yet today. Remember my cautions and references to the “Arab Spring.” Much is hidden from the eyes and ears of naive westerners, as well as naive natives. War is deception, and the Muslim is always at war…..first to eradicate the Jews, then all the other kafirs, then to come back and purge apostates and hypocrites. Snitching is a sacrament known as takfir. These guys make Stalin look like a bumbling amateur.

  7. Guy Forester says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 12:04 pm

    Debka was of the opinion that the protests had fizzled. In light of the IRGC claiming that the protests have been quelled, I think there is a lot more to this than we have been getting. I recall a short article on JW that said that ALL uniformed service members were to report in to their bases. I suspect that this was so the IRGC and Basij could hold them at gunpoint to keep the military from mutiny and from supporting the protestors. Anyone out there with real info on this?

  8. Georg says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 1:18 pm

    BBC (and too often CNN) headlines are often indistinguishable from Iranian regime propaganda. WaPo headlines are often very similar to North Korean propaganda headlines. All will often term the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps the “Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.” I’d like to think these transgressions against humanity are simply due to a narcissistic personality defect shared among their staff rather than a genuine wish for the downfall of the West, but the effect is the same regardless so it doesn’t even matter. Their headlines are generally either drawing parity between those seeking freedom and the vicious unelected Islamic theocrats, or are parroting regime propaganda. It is quite simply unforgivable.

  9. common sense says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    Where are the Nazi femobots now?
    PJW nails it right here.
    https://youtu.be/-qFqwmpCqIg

    It’s only 4 minutes so please blast it at an anti-American lib if you have the chance

  10. gravenimage says

    Jan 4, 2018 at 8:11 pm

    Iran: General says “sedition” defeated, but fresh protests begin after nightfall Wednesday
    ……………………

    I hope the protests continue!

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