May they prevail.
Note how Reuters once again refers to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as the “Revolutionary Guards.” Why won’t these “journalists” call the group by its correct name?
“Security forces tear gas students defying Iran protest ultimatum,” by Parisa Hafezi, Reuters, October 30, 2022:
DUBAI (Reuters) -Protests in Iran entered a more violent phase on Sunday as students, who defied an ultimatum by the Revolutionary Guards and a warning from the president, were met with tear gas and gunfire from security forces, social media videos showed.
The confrontations at dozens of universities prompted the threat of a tougher crackdown in a seventh week of demonstrations sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the morality police for attire deemed inappropriate.
“Security is the red line of the Islamic Republic, and we will not allow the enemy to implement in any way its plans to undermine this valuable national asset,” hardline President Ebrahim Raisi said, according to state media.
Iranians from all walks of life have taken to the streets since Amini’s death in protests that the clerical rulers said were endangering the Islamic Republic’s security.
Authorities have accused Islamic Iran’s arch-enemies the United States and Israel and their local agents of being behind the unrest to destabilise the country.
What began as outrage over Amini’s death on Sept. 16 has evolved into one of the toughest challenges to clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution, with some protesters calling for the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards told protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, the harshest warning yet by Iranian authorities.
Nevertheless, videos on social media, unverifiable by Reuters, showed confrontations between students and riot police and Basij forces on Sunday at universities all over Iran.
One video showed a member of Basij forces firing a gun at close range at students protesting at a branch of Azad University in Tehran. Gunshots were also heard in a video shared by rights group HENGAW from protests at the University of Kurdistan in Sanandaj.
Videos from universities in some other cities also showed Basij forces opening fire at students.
Across the country, security forces tried to block students inside university buildings, firing tear gas and beating protesters with sticks. The students, who appeared to be unarmed, pushed back, with some chanting “dishonoured Basij get lost” and “Death to Khamenei”….
Wellington says
Reuters deceitful again. If only the MSM in the West were scrupulously objective and sought the truth with a laudable ruthlessness. But sadly this is not the case as anyone with any sense and knowledge knows. Thus, it is possible to argue that as much as huge numbers of Western politicians have let down their constituents terribly so, examples being Biden and Trudeau among so many others, the horrible excuse that passes for journalism these days is even more of a reprobate, actually a traitor of sorts.
Very strange times we live in. Major elements in the West like the political sphere, the media, most certainly academia and, as well, huge numbers of Western businesses seem intent on destroying the West. Whatever the reason or reasons, they’re all indefensible and inexcusable.
tim gallagher says
I hope that somehow this rebellion against the scum of the earth that run Iran. It would be so great to see that stinking, totally inhumane regime be destroyed. I guess it’ll almost take some kind of miracle for this rebellion to win, but I hope it can happen. It might be a sign that Muslims in this area are sick of being trapped in islam, this primitive, totally barbaric relic of the way primitive people used to live, which would be a great thing. Hopefully, other Muslims also want to ditch islam and join the modern, more civilised
, non-Muslim world
Walter Sieruk says
Good for those brave and courageous students who defied an ultimatum by the Revolutionary Guards,
Brave and courageous those students truly really indeed are .
This is because that Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps chief had viciously declared “Today is the last day of the riots”in because he, with his Islamic hate wants to harm people. Futhermore what he called “riots” in reality are really righteous and justified protests against the cruel oppressive murderous tyranny of that Islamic regime of Iran,
Likewise, the real reason that President/tyrant Rasis is using a strong police and military might to come down hard in a bloody crackdown of brutal cruel vicious force isn’t to keep order in the Islamic regime but to ruthlessly and maliciously murder and terrible harm the brave and courageous Iranian people who are protesting against that horrendous tyranny that they are forced to exist under ,for this tyrannical hostile regime denies them their basic and natural human rights.
Another that horrific and deadly might is used on the protesters is because to claim of “keeping order” is only and excuse in inflict misery bloodshed death and further oppression on the people is explained in the wise saying which is “Evil is always looking for an excuse” Evil is what Rasis and his oppressive regime really and truly are.
Walter Sieruk says
As this jihadwatch informs its reader “The confrontations at dozens of universities prompted the threat of a tougher crackdown in a seventh week of demonstrations…”
Just right in their cause those students in their protest and revolt are against that Islamic tyranny.
Those protest engaged in by the people of Iran are right and righteous. For the tyrannical Islamic regime is cruelly oppressive in many very brutal hostile and murderous ways.
For they as well as the other Iranian people do have every right to rise up and overthrow that horrendous Islamic tyranny which terribly abuses them and denies then their basic human rights and reasonable personal freedoms and establish a real genuine government.
This is their nature right by, common sense and even explained that very intelligent men, who many Iranians in their quest for freedom might not even know about, as the British philosopher, John Locke.
Walter Sieruk says
That dictator Rasis deserves no respect at all.
Even before Rasis became the President/tyrant of Iran he had military power and is directly responsibly for have many innocence ruthlessly murdered. At that time and later he, for giving so many deadly orders was known as the “hangman of Tehran.”
After Rasis had become the President/dictator of Iran he had over a hundred people executed in the short span of time,, from January to March,this very year.
Getting back to before Rasis and come to the position of supreme power on Iran he taken a heinous and deadly part in 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 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.” [1]
This affront against human rights is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Walter Sieruk says
That dictator Rasis deserves no respect at all.
Even before Rasis became the President/tyrant of Iran he had military power and is directly responsibly for have many innocence ruthlessly murdered. At that time and later he, for giving so many deadly orders was known as the “hangman of Tehran.”
After Rasis had become the President/dictator of Iran he had over a hundred people executed in the short span of time,, from January to March,this very year.
Getting back to before Rasis and come to the position of supreme power on Iran he taken a heinous and deadly part in 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 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.” [1]
This affront against human rights is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Alkflaeda says
Totally twisted thinking to believe that a man can determine a woman’s eternal destiny by raping her so that she is no longer a virgin – no-one is responsible for what is done against their will. Not surprising, though, when you think that there is a hadith that says that Mohammed claimed that he had won a better eternity for a woman by having sex with her corpse.