How hard will the Islamic regime crack down? This is a spontaneous freedom movement with no apparent leadership. We can hope it will at least weaken the Islamic regime, and topple it soon.
“Overall death toll in Iran protests rises to 17,” Al Arabiya, January 2, 2018:
As the protests continue in Iranian cities for the fifth day in a row, clashes between the security forces and the protesters led to the rise of the death toll to 17.
According to information received by the Al Arabiya, five protesters were killed in the city of Qahdregan, the province of Isfahan, central Iran.
According to some reformist and fundamentalist news sources, the clashes occurred when protesters tried to break into the city hall’s building….
Some unconfirmed reports published by sites close to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad say that the number of people killed in the city are two men from the Revolutionary Guard.
Given the previous death toll from Iranian protesters according to official statistics, the number of the lost protestors has risen to 17.
Thomas Brewster says
Pour souls, living under a regime like that. May they find the courage to bring down this mad Islamic theocracy.
mortimer says
They will need an army to bring down the mullahs who presently control the army, the police and the paramilitary Basij. Unless one of those three major groups mutinies, there is practically no hope of a successful outcome.
The people are not quite ready for a revolution or they would all have come into the streets. The last protest was in 2009 after which many disappeared. The government of the mullahs can keep doing this indefinitely.
p bay says
Lets send antifa to help…
Phil Martin says
May the Lord be with these brave protestors. But it is written in Ezekiel 38 that Iran, Russia and Turkey will rise up and attack Israel.
mortimer says
Vice President Pence tweeted “We must not let them down.”
CRUSADER says
Let’s not let them down as Eisenhower let the 1956 Hungarians down…..
robeaver says
Of course it does. What about China?? Anything? What about Ireland? Ridiculous.
Jerry Zavage says
I haven’t heard the West’s Leftist/Terrorist Coalition complaining of the far right Islamic terrorist government murder of innocent people IAW Islamic teaching.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
In fact, most Leftists *loved* the Iran deal that put so much money in the pockets of the Mullahs.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… We can hope it will at least weaken the Islamic regime, and topple it soon..”
For several years now Iranian society has been divided and running in parallel with millions of young people living a separate existence, outside of public view, where they produce their own wine and beer, meet with groups of friends without head coverings and in one way or another have demonstrated to each other their wholehearted rejection of the social experiment that the Theocracy has forced upon the nation. The authorities have been careful not to respond to all and every known breach of decorum with heavy handedness but have instead shown leniency at times, sometimes turning a blind eye, but all the time attempting to persuade the young population that they needed the relative security that only the regime could provide. Iran is surrounded by nations mired in terror or civil conflict and the authorities strategy was successful for a considerable time. Iran’s young now want to inhabit the ‘public space’ and to be seen to be shaping it to fit their own aspirations. It is a true intergenerational powder keg that the nation sits astride and time is not on the side of the grey-beards.
CRUSADER says
Boston Massacre of 1770 had 5 deaths, yet was significant to leading to American Revolution….
gravenimage says
Overall death toll in Iran freedom protests rises to 17
How hard will the Islamic regime crack down?
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That’s the question–how many of their own people are they willing to murder?
mortimer says
Answer to GI: after the 2009 protests, hundreds and even thousands may have been killed by the mullahs.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/16/hundreds-feared-dead-iran-clashes
Hundreds may have died in Iranian clashes after poll, say human rights campaigners
Woman claims to have seen piles of corpses, as tension rises in Tehran over Rafsanjani speech
The security forces have acknowledged carrying out more than 2,000 arrests during the crackdown on the mass protests against Ahmadinejad’s re-election. Some detainees have been released but many are still unaccounted for.
The Norooz website – linked to Iran’s largest reformist party, the Islamic Participation Front – described how a mother searching for her missing child was sent to a facility normally used for preserving fruit and dairy produce on the outskirts of Tehran. After leafing through a photograph album of presumed victims, she was shown into a room containing what she described as “hundreds” of dead bodies. “Although I didn’t find my child’s body, on seeing all those corpses dumped on top of each other, I passed out,” the unnamed woman said.
Voytek Gagalka says
When the shipyards of Poland rebelled first in 1970 they also had no clear leaders. And price of that rebellion was particularly devastating and bloody: multitude of killed workers, brutal crackdown of the regime. Please remember that when government resorts to use such drastic methods they will so to speak dig their own graves. Tragic deaths will be remembered; over the long range NOTHING will stop determined and desperate people. Their resolve will harden, leaders will be found, even martyrs will be haunting those brutes in the government and one day will come that they will all regret. Remember Ceausescu and how he finished?
Freedom for Iran!
Guy Forester says
Yes, the same thing happened in Romania. Ceausescu sent his thugs out to brutalize the protestors. This gave him and his henchmen a short stay of judgment, but ultimately he and his wife got a very short trial and quick execution.
It is worthwhile to note that both Ceausescu of Romania and Marcos of the Philippines both got tossed when the army changed sides. Fortunately for the PI, the revolution was largely nonviolent. Romania’s was not.
In other words, Iran’s army, navy, and air force need to mobilize to confront and toss the IRGC and mullahs out, or the bloodshed will get worse. I suspect that there are more dead and injured right now than being officially reported.
Guy Forester says
I recommend that the US, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Hungary bombard Iran with SWR news broadcasts and updates that keep the populace pushing against the regime. We also need to get the IRANIAN armed forces to push against the IRGC and mullahs and support the people of Iran. If we try to directly intervene and invade or send operatives, it will not work well. Once the military takes action and calls for help from the West, it would then be prudent to do so. Either way, it really falls on the shoulders of the Iranian people to toss these scumbags out.
mortimer says
Guy, Voice of America is broadcasting.
Guy Forester says
Good, I hope we are not the only ones.
CRUSADER says
Sebastian Gorka recommended upping the propaganda war….so SWR into Iran sounds true blue.