They claimed victory on Wednesday also, so this may not be the end of the story.
“Iran Guards say quell unrest fomented by foreign enemies,” by Michael Georgy, Reuters, January 7, 2018:
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday the country’s people and security forces had put an end to unrest fomented by foreign enemies, as parliament and security officials met to discuss the boldest challenge to the clerical establishment since 2009.
There has been more than a week of unrest in Iran in which 22 people have died and more than 1,000 arrested, according to Iranian officials. The protests spread to more than 80 cities and rural towns as thousands of young and working-class Iranians expressed their anger at graft, unemployment and a deepening gap between rich and poor.
Residents contacted by Reuters in various cities have said the protests had subsided after the government intensified a crackdown by dispatching Revolutionary Guards forces to several provinces.
“Iran’s revolutionary people along with tens of thousands of Basij forces, police and the Intelligence Ministry have broken down the chain (of unrest),” the Guards said in a statement on their Sepahnews website. The Guards said the unrest had been “created … by the United States, Britain, the Zionist regime (Israel), Saudi Arabia, the hypocrites (Mujahideen) and monarchists.”
Parliament met on Sunday to discuss the week of unrest with the ministers of interior and intelligence, Iran’s police chief and the deputy commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, state television said.
Late on Saturday, videos on social media showed a heavy police presence in cities, including Khorramabad in southwestern Iran where on Wednesday evening social media posts showed protesters throwing stones at riot police.
As protests have ebbed, the government has lifted restrictions it imposed on Instagram, one of the social media tools used to mobilize protesters. But access to a more widely used messaging app, Telegram, was still blocked, suggesting authorities remained uneasy about the possibility of further protests.
Parliament spokesman Behrouz Nemati said MPs and security officials had decided that Telegram restrictions should be lifted only after the app committed to ban “hostile, anti-Iranian channels that promote unrest”, state television reported….
mortimer says
The greatest thing the US can do is to provide free wifi for everyone in oppressed countries. That way, the government will be unable to stop legitimate protest and freedom of expression every again.
LeftisruiningCanada says
That would be a challenging project!
Budvarakbar says
Why don’t we just stay the hell out of it?
Eur says
Muslims in Europe have access to the Internet without censorship and it does not matter, the behavior of Islamic youth is wild if they are male and lobotomized submissive if they are women.The problem lies in the education they receive in the family and their community. They receive the message that our society is decadent, full of alcoholic people, pure and drug addicts and that because they are Muslims they are pure and have the duty to purify this society by imposing Islam. They always say that we should not generalize, that not all Muslims are terrorists … but then it is they who generalize by calling decadent societies and whores to Western women.
Ann says
Part of your comment sounds like Trudeau’s agenda for Canada: turn many unsuspecting Canadians, esp the young and vulnerable, into carefree potheads who really won’t care what is happening around them, or to their country. It’s disturbing to see that no alarm bells are ringing as to the existential threat that is biding its time, but when Cdn society slides out of control like nature abhorring a vacuum, the Islamists will gladly walk in and purify it Koran/Sharia style.
Joe says
Wifi is not an alternative. It is just a hope.
The answer is encryption that the opposition can’t tell whether they have decrypted the communication. That has been around for decades. Governments don’t use it. I think they don’t use it because it doesn’t have a clear back door.
StellaSaidSo says
The image starkly reveals the face of fanaticism.
And fanatics like these are now roaming the streets of the civilised world.
christianblood says
After the regime-change disasters in Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Yemen and Syria, I see the allies of the US, Saudi Arabia and the West taking advantage of local demonstrations in Iran to cook up another “regime-change” disaster in Iran but I don’t think it is going to work in Iran.
Terry Gain says
Ukraine? The people of Iraq are much better of post Hussein and the government is not developing or even trying to develop nuclear weapons, so it’s not the disaster you claim whereas Iran is a disaster.
Is your first name Spilllerof?
Budvarakbar says
“The people of Iraq are much better of post Hussein ”
Does that include all the dead ones?
Terry Gain says
There are fewer dead Iraqis than there would have been if Hussein had been left in power. But you don’t know that do you. Moron.
christianblood says
Terry Gain
(..The people of Iraq are much better of post Hussein..)
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead, their whole country is divided and in shambles, ISIS and other jihadist groups occupied various parts of the country, 1.5 million Iraqi Christians are either dead or left the country all together and there is NO Christian mass celebrated in Iraqi Churches for the first in 1800 years! Tens of thousands of Yazidi and other religious minorities are murdered or sold as sex-slaves in Iraq and their whole country and villages destroyed and pillaged. That is a much better Iraq in your books, right?
gravenimage says
Christianblood has said before that there are no problems in Iran, and that the brutal horrors of Shari’a’h there are just because they oppose the oppressive United States.
Bizarrely, he thinks these Muslim thugs are an actual ally of Russia’s.
christianblood says
Jay Boo
According to the (thereligionofpeace.com) 32320 deadly islamic terrorist attacks have been carried out since 9/11. I challenge you to prove me a single one of them perpetrated or carried out by Iranians???
Unlike Saudi Arabia, US, UK etc, Iran is actually fighting in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon against ISIS, Al-Qaeda and other Salafi, Takfiri jihadists covertly supported by the US, Saudi Arabia, UK and others and jihadists themselves will tell you that openly. Please watch the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlvmkdK1EA
christianblood says
gravenimage
The whole world knows who is allied with and supports these “Muslim Thugs” like Saudi Arabia which is the ideological home of the global jihadist movements and it is not Russia. It was not the President of Russia who went to Riyad, danced with them and even bowed down to their tyrant kings.
gravenimage says
Why does Christianblood continue to claim that Anti-Jihadists at Jihad Watch love Saudi Arabia? It is just ludicrous.
Unlike you, we actually oppose Jihad and Shari’ah *everywhere*.
And Iran regularly backs Hizb’allah, which slaughters Israelis. How is that not terrorism?
christianblood says
gravenimage posted
(..Why does Christianblood continue to claim that Anti-Jihadists at Jihad Watch love Saudi Arabia?..)
When did I say such a thing??? Now, I have a question for you:
According to the (thereligionofpeace.com) 32320 deadly islamic terrorist attacks have been carried out since 9/11. I challenge you to prove me a single one of them perpetrated or carried out by Iranians???
Voytek Gagalka says
What kind of “victory” it is if 81 MILLION of Iran’s current population (minus limited members of elites, mullahs and that criminal organization called “revolutionary guards corps”) sit in the biggest world’s prison called “islamic republic”?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Victory for allah. Wants people in hell during life, and after.
CRUSADER says
Very true. If one reads enough Robert Spencer, one gleans the understanding about Allah and his deranged desires….
LeftisruiningCanada says
Just reading about Mo.
All you need to know!
Terry Gain says
” There has been more than a week of unrest in Iran in which 22 people have died and more than 1,000 arrested, according to Iranian officials.”
Died when in fact they have been killed. And I’ve read that the number killed exceeds 50, so why is Reuters repeating these lies. Is Obama running Reuters.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yeah, the good old media and their language games 😀
Play it down when the Favored Ones need protecting, play it up when the Disfavored Ones need vilifying.
“Died”! Yeah, they just ceased to live, passed away, expired, nobody knows why, and maybe it’s not related anyway.
Budvarakbar says
From “the religion of peace” — peace of the grave!
Walter Sieruk says
First, it need to be made clear that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards are actually made up of nothing more the Muslim gangs of thugs, in uniform , who are stooges of the mullahs.
Second the so called “republic of Iran is a hoax. This is an Islamic tyranny. For the actual word “Republic” has on origin the Latin meaning “Of the people” With the mullahs ayatollahs in so much power and even influencing the parliament of this Islamic regime is tyranny is hardly a real republic .Furthermore the ruthless gang of thugs who are the stooges of those Muslim clerics, called the “Revolutionary Guards,” those Islamic State “police” come down hard on the human rights and freedoms of the Iranian people. Therefore the people do have the right to overthrow a tyranny. This reality had even been expressed and described by men of great intelligence .For example the philosopher .John Locke. This is wisdom that mullahs and other villains in power in that Islamic tyranny don’t want the Iranian people to know about or understand
CRUSADER says
Well, some of these thugs can be awfully well disciplined, which isn’t always the case with just a thug.
CRUSADER says
And the West is expected to allow immigration from these places????
Prabh108 says
Izlamo-Slaves ought not live in free societies such as India and the West.
If people do not cherish freedom then they have no business residing in the West or within any region of Greater Historical India.
Perhaps I am too optimistic, but I feel International Ghar Wapsi and yoga could be powerful weapons in our anti-jihad arsenal – if the Will existed we could decisively declare victory in the War on Terror and Drugs in the near future.
Dharm Yudh is on! (eternal battle between righteousness and unrighteousness.)
Sivananda in Bliss Divine, like a true Bengali, has no understanding of freedom when he describes “The Religion of Pieces.” West Bengal now referred to as Waste Bengal – thanks to treasonous ‘indian’ politicians. Note I like Sivananda, but I prefer to use my common sense over words in a book by a Bengali spiritualist. I’ve learned more about Islam’s true colours from Mortimer here at jihad watch than Bliss Divine. Thanks Morty!
pr108
We need armies of teachers, volunteer meme generators and superior sage-warriors as well as robotic armies to minimize loss of life of our valuable (saint) soldiers. Freedom is worth preserving for future generations. God will not like parents who allow their offspring to fall into slavery.
It is said if a woman must give birth, may she give birth to either a saint or a warrior – preferably both – superior breed of sage-warriors needed to defeat jihadism.
100 million jihadists on the loose! My Dharmic source (whom I shall NEVER reveal) informs me the situation in Europe is far worse than anyone can imagine – it is a race to the bottom between India and Europe. Divine intervention urgently needed to secure freedom for future generations of Americans, Europeans and India-Indians.
As always, please excuse any and all mistakes in this comment. Remember: Regenerate Art is also a powerful weapon against forces of Darkness. Refer to Hinduism.co.za
LeftisruiningCanada says
“robotic armies”
They can’t be trusted.
Haven’t you seen any Terminator movies?
Budvarakbar says
Between hackers and just one “hildabeast” turning over passwords — that “army” could be easily turned or disabled!
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
That is beautiful !! The sinister designs of evil united states, evil saudi Royal family and fascist evil zionist state of Israel have fallen líke à cardhouse. Idiots !!
Darryl Kerney says
you are such an idiot.
have you ever once for even second stopped your rabid hatred of the USA to think about what the world would be like today WITHOUT the USA ?
WHO would have stopped the japanese shinto fanatics that tried to conquer the world ?
WHO would have stopped the Nazis from enslaving all of Europe and beyond ?
WHO would have stood up to Soviet megalomaniacs and their expansionary aims to conquer the world and turn it all into a hell hole like they did Russia and regions they ruled over with an Iron Fist ?
WHAT would the world be like today had the USA not fought those battles FOR ALL MANKIND ?
Asia would be under the Imperial Japanese tyranny that raped and destroyed everything in its path.
Europe would be a Nazi empire, Russia would still be a giant prison, and communism would have spread even further than it did.
and DON’T FORGET, the USA even helped the muslims of Afghanistan fight off the Soviet Communists who tried to conquer it, and WHAT thanks did USA get for its efforts ? gee, the fanatical hatred of bin laden, the taliban, al qaeda etc, and blame for the hell that ISLAM has created in so many countries that America tried TO HELP by bringing down the DICTATORS that held them imprisoned in the open air cells that those islamic countries were, and quickly became again as soon as the Leftists leaders of the USA at the time stupidly relinquished control back to islamists who took them even further into despotism.
all of your hatred for the USA is misplaced,
it is in fact ANTI-AMERICAN islamists and collectivists that have brought about the suffering you rail against, if not for them the USA would never have had any reason to intervene in any of those places in attempts to help them become new Lands of The Free instead of lands of the victims of islamic theocratic dictatorship, or Nazi tyranny or communist enslavement.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Darryl, Ibrahim (and far too many lefties in the West) believe that the USA is responsible for all of the things you listed, plus many others, including naughty words and, for muslims, the ultimate lie about the world being a globe.
America and the Jews are, in the muslims mind, SO powerful, that everything bad that happened anywhere, ever, is their fault, especially if it happened to a muslim.
LeftisruiningCanada says
For example, he’ll probably believe that Hitler was set up by US corporations acting under the orders of Jews; that anything to do with Communism was planned and intended by the Jews, since Marx was a Jew; that Japan only started doing anything bad because the US made them do it; that the war between russian and afghan forces was a Jewish ploy to kill more muslims, and that the US funded the wrong muslims anyway, knowing that eventually they could ‘use’ osama bin laden to attack New York, thus enabling the US to further invade, you guessed it, more muslim countries.
There is no end to the labyrinthine conspiratorial insanity of the religiously supported muslim need to hate every single unbeliever and plot the death of every Jew in the world. It’s why they get along so well with the Left, who also base their ideas on envy and hate while claiming they are compassionate and want peace.
They speak the same language for slightly different reasons, but it all expresses the same desire to tear down everything in the delusional hope that their dreamy utopias will make it all better again.
Darryl Kerney says
well said Leftisruiningcanada.
as should be common knowledge,
any conclusions made based on faulty principles will never be correct,
but if one proceeds from basic absolute truths, the conclusions will be consistent with the facts of reality,
and therefore correct.
muslims start with the fallacies and vile content of the quran,
from there it can only lead to the fanatical hatred of anything not islamic and the rejection of anything that objective Reason points to.
Darryl Kerney says
yes, those who are anti-american must really hate Freedom and Individual Rights, as well as the prosperity that they typically enable. but they sure do like the benefits and well being that capitalism and american values have afforded them, even as they fight for the destruction of the very values that have created the freedom they enjoy but seem to hate so much. they seem to think they can have the fruits of american ideals even when they reject those ideals.
gravenimage says
Darryl, Muslims have no problem with tyranny. They would *love* a world without the United States.
Wellington says
You bet they would, gravenimage, which speaks volumes about the deluded believers who follow Mo’s warped creed. If only the current leaders of the Western world would realize this, but, alas, we have instead, Trudeau, formerly Obama, May, Francis, Macron and that especially ruinous person, Merkel.
A Confederacy of Dunces to be sure, with parasitic and destructive Islam in full support of these fools. Not a good combo.
gravenimage says
Yes–dunces, at best, Wellington.
But Islam still hates the free West, or whatever is left of it, and the United States most of all.
Being the “Great Satan” of such an evil creed is actually a badge of honor.
Darryl Kerney says
Yeah, easier to spread dictatorship without a powerful defender of freedom around.
Darryl Kerney says
true, many have been abundantly clear about that.
Terry Gain says
Thank you Darryl for your excellent comment which accurately describes where the world would be today without the United States. This Canadian salutes you.
Darryl Kerney says
Thanks Terry.
I am Canadian also.
6woods says
Don’t bother asking him those questions. He and his inbred co-religionists are too damn stupid to comprehend how screwed the world would be without the free-thinking founders of the USA. On the other hand, this mental midget and all like him would be perfectly happy in a world of goat-humpers, child-thighers, necrophiliacs.
Westman says
Still dancing for the Iranian organ grinder and calling a victory. How pathetic.
gravenimage says
I see that Ibrahim itace muhammed believes everything Muslim tyrants tell him.
Terry Gain says
If Ibrahim itace muhammed didn’t exist those of us who hate the evil ideology of Islam would have to invent him. His deranged comments are treasured by me.
6woods says
I agree. He is so much fun to troll because he is so monumentally stupid. Ibrahim, this is what islam does to your brain. It turns it into scrambled eggs with bacon.
gravenimage says
Yes–Ibrahim itace muhammed regularly exposes the ugliness of Islam.
John Hawk says
Right. So the women just crawl back into their garbage bags and the men return to mindlessly banging their heads and chewing on the rug, and everything is all good, eh Ibrahim? Sounds like a formula for true Persian bliss.
Wellington says
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG) is the modern Mohammedan equivalent of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel).
Two differences though: 1) the SS was (most unfortunately) far more competent than the IRG; 2) the IRG is beholden to a spiritual fascist ideology, i.e., Islam, while the SS was beholden to a secular fascist ideology, i.e., Nazism.
Am I comparing Islam to Nazism? You’re damn right I am because both are enemies of freedom, both enemies of a true Golden Rule for all, both enemies of equality under the law for all, and both are possessed of a supremacist way of thinking which is antithetical to democracy at its finest. Indeed, this is part of the reason (but only part) why Nazism and Islam are mortal enemies of, a la Abraham Lincoln, “the better angels of our nature.”
Oh yeah, both also have this in common: The use of terror to enforce their warped will. There are even more things the SS and IRG have in common, all negative of course, but I believe I have mentioned enough for the time being.
More than enough I should think to consign them both, all of these miscreants, to one of the lowest levels of Dante’s Hell—-at least the eighth circle where Dante placed Mohamed (how fittingly and which, arguably, makes Dante one of the original “Islamophobes”). Ditto for a “Dante update” respecting Hitler.
Am I comparing Mohammed to Hitler? Again, you’re damn right I am. Bet Dante would be with me here, noble companion he and on the side of what is truly right versus what is truly wrong. Give me Dante over Mohammed and Adolf any day of the millennium.
No contest.
Budvarakbar says
Why did you leave out Marx and the COMMUNISTS?
gravenimage says
Budvarakbar, Wellington opposes Communism, as well.
Wellington says
You anticipated me, gravenimage, by about four minutes, and thank you for this.
gravenimage says
I just did not want anyone to misunderstand you, Wellington.
Wellington says
I have on sundry occasions, Budvarakbar, cited Marxism as iniquitous as Islam and Nazism here at JW. For some ten years now on this site. Many regular commenters at JW would surely testify to this. But I was “merely” this time trying to draw a comparison between the SS and the IRG.
I can’t bring up every iniquity, you know, when comparing the Islamic iniquity to other iniquities. Hopefully, you will understand this. And for the record, I consider Marxism to be on the same level with Nazism and Islam as malevolent (and stupid) in the extreme. Just so you know.
Terry Gain says
Wellington
I have great respect for you, but I have no doubt that Islam is more evil than either communism or Nazism. Neither of tjose ideologies claimed to e blessed by God – it’s as if Islam is a con – and, combined, they are not responsible for the killing of nearly as many innocents. The deathly tally isn’t even close.
And Islam is much more dangerous because it claims to be a religion.
Wellington says
Gradations of wrongdoing, Terry Gain, I can accept. Gradations of pure evil I cannot.
I simply refuse to look at the tripe evils which are Islam, Marxism and Nazism and assert that one is even more evil than the other two (more destructive perhaps but that is a different matter). True, Islam has had a longer life, and true again, as you asserted, that it hides behind a religious veil which Nazism and Marxism could not, but while wrongdoing of the ordinary sort has levels as I have already mentioned, outright malevolence does not.
Here I stand. I can do no other. All that makes me up makes me assert what I just have. If I am wrong about this, then I myself am an error.
Wellington says
That’s “triple” and not “tripe” but perhaps in my spelling error I somehow stumbled into a kind of truth.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington. All pure evil.
gravenimage says
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps claims victory over unrest created by “US, Britain, the Zionist regime”
…………………..
What else would these thugs say? That some Iranians are not satisfied with their brutal tyranny?
CRUSADER says
Countering Jihad: step by step by goose step !!!
====================================
“15:17 to Paris”, movie — soon out….
Clint Eastwood film about:
Heroic counter-assault against Jihad strike on Paris train…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC_lnyn2R2Q
==================
Inspiring Motivational:
“Once you begin to discover who you are, then you will really realize how you have been given authority over your life! But you can only do that through the struggle of life. Most people are born to struggle. But most people go through life avoiding pain. When you are working on a dream, at some point in time a transition takes place: You learn how to leap higher. You start challenging yourself to dig deeper. Something in you that you never activated laying dormant in there. Don’t try taking the short cuts. Do what you know is right. You’ve been chosen for this great work…..”
“….Life is pushing us toward some greater purpose……”
==============================================
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_15:17_to_Paris
From Clint Eastwood comes “The 15:17 to Paris,” which tells the real-life story of three men whose brave act turned them into heroes during a highspeed railway ride.
gravenimage says
Is Clint Eastwood making a movie about this incident, where brave Americans and Frenchmen fought back against a Jihad attack on a train? I will be first in line to watch it!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Sure is. Out a month from now. Look forward to the review 🙂
Terry Gain says
Wellington
With respect to your 8:40 comment, you are in error. Our elites never convinced the majority that it should be illegal to criticize either communism or naziissm. Nether of thosevideologies could hold a candle to Muslims as propagandists.
When it comes to the danger of evil ideologies, Islam is in a league of its own.
Wellington says
I readily concede, Terry Gain, and have said so many, many times here at JW that the first step that must be taken in dealing effectively with Islam is to treat it as the giant negative it is. In fact, I have coined the acronym, GPG, meaning Great Pretend Game, by which Islam is regularly treated by all kind of elites and even many ordinary folks as something good and that it’s just been hijacked by some extremists, blah, blah, blah.
Nope, the entire Islamic faith is rotten to the core and at least with Nazism and to a fair extent with Marxism it has not been the case that a pass was given them. But this does not mean that Islam in it ideological blueprint is more invidious that Nazism and Marxism just because many people remain willfully ignorant about it. All three ideologies here, two secular, one spiritual, are equally malevolent because, and as I have also pointed out many times here at JW, they are all totalitarian ideologies, they are all opposed to freedom, they are all incapable of reform, and they all single out certain groups of people for second-class status or death—–Nazism with particular ethnic groups, especially Jews, Marxism with socio-economic groups, the upper and middle classes, and Islam with non-Muslims.
Just because Islam is more adept at hiding its iniquity does not make it more evil in its own right than Nazism and Marxism but it certainly does shame all those, Muslim or non-Muslim, who keep shilling for this rotten religion. The stupidity of others should not be a factor in assessing the malevolence of nefarious ideologies. Yes, the true fault here lies not with Islam, heinous though it surely is, but with those who continue to defend it when long ago they should have ceased doing so. I concede that because it hides behind a religious veil Islam is better disguised but this in and of itself does not make it more evil than Nazism and Marxism because what an ideology says is what really matters. And again, while I see gradations of wrongdoing, when you’re dealing with pure evil I don’t see gradations for the reasons I have just stated.
gravenimage says
Terry, in the 1920s and ’30s many in the West castigated those who warned of the dangers of Fascism–and there was a lot of whitewash of Communism, as well.
It may certainly be worse now vis-a-vis Islam, but this is not entirely new, I’m afraid.
FYI says
The Iranian religious police must have their own equivalent of Good cop-Bad cop.
good Shi’te-shite Shi’te.