Ahead of protests in Iran and dissident social media calls for demonstrations, the Iranian regime has “restricted mobile internet access in several provinces.” Some of those calls on social media are from family members of demonstrators, who lost loved ones during “the bloodiest crackdown on demonstrators in the 40-year history of the Islamic Republic” in November. Over 200 people were murdered by the regime. The fear is that another “horrific killing spree” may be in the offing.
The barbarity of the Islamic Republic of Iran should serve as a stark reminder of how Sharia regimes behave when opposed, and of the worrying direction that Western nations are taking when they allow in migrants bringing the values of Islamic supremacism, including the curbing of the freedom of speech. The Iranian dissidents are paying for the price of their lives for that freedom and others. The Obama Administration made disastrous concessions to the ruthless Iranian regime in signing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the Iran nuclear deal). This is the same monstrous regime with which Canadian Liberal MP Majid Jowhari wants Canada to re-open diplomatic ties.
“Iran curbs internet before possible new protests: reports,” Reuters, December 25, 2019:
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s authorities have restricted mobile internet access in several provinces, an Iranian news agency reported on Wednesday, a day before new protests were expected to kick off following calls for demonstrations on social media.
Social media posts, along with some relatives of people killed in unrest last month, have called for renewed protests and for ceremonies to commemorate the dead to be held on Thursday.
State media, meanwhile, said intelligence ministry agents had seized a cache of 126 mostly U.S.-made guns smuggled to the central city of Isfahan from abroad.
The protests were initially sparked in November by hikes in gasoline prices but demonstrators quickly expanded their demands to cover calls for more political freedom and other issues.
The government, which launched the bloodiest crackdown on demonstrators in the 40-year history of the Islamic Republic, blamed foreign enemies for stoking tensions.
An official denied any order by the authorities to block the internet, which was shutdown for about a week in the November unrest. A news agency also cited mobile operators saying their services had not been disrupted.
The semi-official news agency ILNA quoted an informed source at the Communications and Information Technology Ministry as saying mobile internet access to overseas sites was blocked by “security authorities” in Alborz, Kurdestan and Zanjan provinces in central and western Iran and Fars in the south.
“According to this source, it is possible that more provinces will be affected by the shutdown of mobile international connectivity,” ILNA said.
Internet blockage observatory NetBlocks said on Twitter: “Confirmed: Evidence of mobile internet disruption in parts of #Iran …real-time network data show two distinct drops in connectivity this morning amid reports of regional outages; incident ongoing.”
The shutdown appeared to be spreading….
Walter Sieruk says
The malicious and oppressive treatment which the Iranians protesters by those in power that Islamic dictatorship of Iran is ,indeed, most heinous.
As for the origin of this violent Islamic tyranny is was based on the deception of the Iranian people. For This Islamic regime was based in the foundation of false and empty promises. As well as lying words. After the fiendish Muslim clerics obtained total power in Iran they showed their true colors by having their Islamic state police who are called the “Revolutionary Guards truest the people on Iran in many heinously brutal and ruthless ways. As, for example, their brutal, callous misogyny against both girls and women. This statement is explained, in some detail, by the following.
This tyrannical Islamic regime in Iran that so falsely and inappropriately has the word “republic” in its title. It should be made known that this called the “Iranian Revolution” turned out to be a hoax. Ayatollah Khomeini before achieving power in Iran in his lying and deceptions presented himself to the Iranian people as if he was someone who would be in power would give freedom to the people of Iran with any tyranny. The reality turned out to be just the opposite. As explained by a former Muslim as well as a man who took part in this Islamic “revolution “ ,who is now a Christian informs the reader of his book that “Prior to the Revolution no one ever imagined that other political parties would be suppressed under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini. He had promised that all groups would have freedom to run their own campaigns after the Revolution. He even stated that governing system would be based on the decision of the people via a referendum. He never spoke of a system that would be governed by Islam. He even made clear that mullahs would not take part in any political activities, and that they would only be allowed to teach spirituality… Immediately after the Revolution, mullahs rushed into government offices to occupy the most important political l positions, making it difficult for the interim secular government to function … The mullah’s occupation of position was exactly the opposite to what the Ayatollah Khomeini had promised before the Revolution.”. [1]
In other words, the insincere, disingenuous and outright lying Ayatollah Khomeini made many bogus promise he really had no intention of keeping. His lying deception worked, for he achieved great power in Iran.
Furthermore, of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and how now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [2] This is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be. This, very much, reflects the wisdom found in POOR RICHARDS’ ALMANAC in which Benjamin Franklin printed “Those who are feared are also hated.”
[1] ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND by Daniel Shayesteh . Pages 90, 91
[2] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Walter Sieruk says
This vicious, malicious and murdering ,malicious vicious ways of treatment of the Iranian people who are trapped and forced to existed in the “mullah regime’ of Iran. As seen by the harsh and brutal methods those Iranian protesters are cruelly dealt with.
The horrible , sad and tragic fact is the this heinous violence is staying within the national character of the rough Islamic state of Iran . Therefore that attack, by Iran, should be of no surprise to any informant person, in fact , this fits in with the real legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini who was the Imam who was so powerful that he played large role in the establishment of the current Islamic tyranny of Iran which has the official title of “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” Khomeini had declared “ Jihad or Holy War ,which is for the conquest of [other ] countries and kingdoms , becomes incumbent after the formation of the Islamic State in the presence of the Imam or in accordance with his command. Then Islam makes it incumbent on all males…to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world… those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. The goal of this conquest would be to establish the hegemony of Islamic law.” [1]
[1] THE HISTORY OF JIHAD by Robert Spencer , page 319.
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic “mullah tyranny” of Iran is, indeed, vicious and deadly because is cruel, brutal and murderous Qu’ran based method 5:33 of persecuting Iranian protesters, and other people, is keeping with the long history of that violent “mullah regime” of Iran.
Likewise also keeping within bounds All this fits with the actual legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini is the of violence and war. To be more specific Islamic violence and war. Strangely, there are many young people and strangely many older people, who are Westerns who in the United States as well other countries of the West are, no doubt sincere but very misinformed ,as in misled, therefore say ,because they believe it, that “Islam is a peaceful and non-violent religion .” To those people the first and supreme Ayatollah Khomeini , who was the very head this current Islamic regime of Iran knows better stated about how he feels about those naïve Westerns .For he declared “Islam grew with blood….Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels” He also said “Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1]
So, in other words Ayatollah Khomenei felt nothing but arrogant contempt for those people who say that his religion “Is a peaceful religion” and understand that they in ignorant and uninformed.
Therefore the West needs to wake up to the reality of the truth about the actual violent essence of this religion.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM, by Ibn Warraq, pages 336,339.
mortimer says
A free internet service should be provided for all Muslim dictatorships, so that the people may communicate with one another and plan the replacement of their one-party, dictatorial regimes with pluralism and democracy.
Quazgaa says
Not so sure it would work.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
I think that you’re onto something.
Perhaps a satellite – style Internet service.
Maybe our JW techies could weigh in…
gravenimage says
Do any tech-savvy people here know if Mortimer’s idea is practicable? I’d love it if it is.
marc says
sort of, regular internet can be totally restricted on a regional basis, and already is used in Iran, China and NK. Literally a flick of the switch, They have full control of the cable that connects them to the rest of the internet, they can block all or have a list of allowed or blocked.
While there is a connection, VPNs whos end points have not specifically been blocked will break all censorship.
There is also Tor that, which is like a VPN, that bypasses most restrictions, but it’s often too slow to browse the regular internet, and then there’s the Dark Web (via Tor) which by design can not be censored.
This is why I keep on banging on about people using VPNs, there maybe a day when we all need to bypass this censorship.
mortimer says
The internet cuts in Iran will shut down the country’s businesses, schools and factories and every other organization that provides goods, services or cultural activities … libraries and movies for instance. That will only make the rebellion grow. Good.
The Iranian mullahocracy is now entering the end game of chess game in which the only possible outcome is them losing! Whatever the mullahocracy does now will make matters worse for them.
They will lose piece by piece is this chess game of attribution until they have no supporters left. The coming checkmate is inevitable for the mullahs.
The mullahs should get their foreign crash pads ready or being hanged from the lamp-posts by the enraged, long-suffering Iranian people.
Mark my words: the Iranians will hang the mullahs from the lamp-posts when the revolt reaches is full force.
DHazard says
But what will those sore losers do with all that enriched uranium? Iran’s supreme leader and his council of guardians would gleefully take down hordes of innocent people along with themselves in a mass murder/suicide. They are angry, self absorbed children with beards who would have nothing to lose. In Islam spite is not a character flaw since Muhammad displayed it.
Infidel says
Maybe from Tehran, the Iranians can fire whatever nukes they’ve developed so far against their own cities where the revolt is the strongest, and crush it that way ?
Infidel says
At this point, the best thing Iranians could do is just riot in the streets in every city – Teheran, Qum, Mashed, Tabriz, Shiraz, Isfahan, Hamadan, et al. This time, unlike during the Green Revolution, when Hizbullah had to donate fighters to help subdue the protests, Hizbullah is stretched thin – both managing protests against them in Lebanon, supporting the Alawites in Syria and the Houthis in Yemen. Iran can decide which of its cities they want to preserve for the regime, while a full scale civil war breaks out.
gravenimage says
Iran curbs internet before possible new protests, new killing spree may be coming
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Grimly likely.