The only hope of survival that the Islamic regime has is based on its ability to be ruthless and violent in putting down the protests. If the protesters can force the security forces to flee, there is hope in Iran for an end to this bloodthirsty regime.
“Iran protests: Gunfire at anti-hijab protestors in latest crackdown,” AFP, October 13, 2022:
Gunshots were fired as Iranian security forces confronted protests Wednesday over Mahsa Amini’s death in a crackdown that rights groups say has already cost at least 108 lives with many children among the dead.
The crack of gunfire interrupted demonstrators’ chants in the cities of Isfahan and Karaj and in Amini’s hometown Saqez, in videos shared by two Norway-based human rights organisations.
“Death to the dictator,” shouted female students who had defiantly taken off their mandatory hijab headscarves as they marched down a Tehran street, in a video verified by AFP.
Shots were heard in Isfahan amid the “nationwide protests and strikes”, Iran Human Rights (IHR) said of a video it tweeted, and in Saqez, according to the Kurdish rights group Hengaw, which reported that later “the security forces fled”.
Amini, 22, died on September 16 after falling into a coma following her arrest in Tehran by the notorious morality police for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women.
Young women, university students and even schoolgirls have since taken off their hijabs and faced off with security forces in the biggest wave of social unrest to grip Iran in almost three years.
At least 28 children have been killed and hundreds more detained and held mostly in adult prisons, rights groups said.
Deadly unrest has rocked especially Sanandaj in Amini’s western home province of Kurdistan — but also Zahedan in Iran’s far southeast, where demonstrations erupted on September 30 over the reported rape of a teenage girl by a police commander.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday again accused Iran’s “enemies” of stoking “street riots”.
“The actions of the enemy, such as propaganda, trying to influence minds, creating excitement, encouraging and even teaching the manufacture of incendiary devices are now completely clear,” he said….
John ..Smith says
The only chance the protesters have in winning this uprising, is if the military chose to take their side. This is what happened in 1989 in Roumania. After slaughtering over 2000 of their own people, the military leaders had had enough and took the side of the people.
Walter Sieruk says
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.
The 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 man Iranians in their quest for freedom might not even know about, as the British philosopher, John Locke.
somehistory says
From FOX News
“Iran anti-riot police sexually assault women in public as protests near one-month anniversary”
“Iranian protesters have demanded “justice” for a woman who was assaulted by anti-riot police, with one officer forcibly grabbing her bottom and then pushing her on the ground. “
somehistory says
WSJ reports
“Iran’s Evin Prison Set on Fire as Protests Spread
Authorities said detainees had clashed with prison guards, resulting in a blaze engulfing a jail known for housing political prisoners”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-evin-prison-set-on-fire-as-protests-spread-11665868463