The Iranian protests, which began in mid-September in reaction to the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the morality police for not wearing her hijab “properly,” are showing no signs of letting up. They’re now being called a revolution, and are intensifying with underground groups being formed to overthrow the Islamic Republic. The Iranian government, meanwhile, is also escalating its efforts to put down the protests; it is now issuing warnings of executions in response to widespread strikes and nights of rallies.
The only reason that the Iranian Islamic regime has not mowed down its citizens already, as it did in past, is because of genuine concern for international opinion. The Islamic regime still wants the hundreds of billions of dollars that it would have received from a new Iran deal. This would allow it to continue enriching uranium toward a nuclear bomb, and expand its aid to its proxies regionally and internationally. According to Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) back in July:
We’ve had this experience before. In 2015 when they got hundreds of billions of dollars as a result of that nuclear deal, what did they do with it? They toppled the regime in Yemen with their Houthi proxies. They rained hundreds of missiles down on Saudi Arabia. They put tens of thousands of missiles into Hezbollah, Hamas, and they rained down on Israel. And they tried to put bases in Syria, so much so that the Israelis conducted over 200 airstrikes into Syria against Iran’s proxies who were trying to establish missile bases. This is the behavior of what Iran does when you give them a deal and give them hundreds of billions of dollars. How outrageous is that?
The deal is on hold for now, but the mullahs know that Biden’s handlers would be only too happy to revive it at any time. The regime is now cornered and desperate. It even tried to dupe the media and the Biden administration (which is not difficult to do) when it stated that it had banned its morality police. Anyone who has a clue about the Shia regime and its strict adherence to the Qur’an and Hadith would know that Iran was lying, engaging in taqiyya. According to the New York Post:
The truth: Iranian women are still subject to the oppression of a radical theocracy in Tehran, millions of Iranians want to see an end to the Islamic Republic of Iran and President Joe Biden needs to finally pick a side.
But Biden can’t even pick which side of the stage to walk toward, let alone pick a side in the Iranian revolution.
“Underground Groups Uniting In Iran ‘To Overthrow Islamic Republic,’” Iran International, December 5, 2022:
Anonymous underground grassroots groups formed across Iran during the past two months to organize antigovernment protests have joined hands for the same cause.
Until the call last week for three days of strikes and protests that began Monday, these young activists were serving as the unofficial leaders of movement, mobilizing thousands of people across the country through social media. But recently, the groups from at least 30 cities have formed an alliance.
The names of almost all these groups follow a simple formula adopted in the capital – Youth of Tehran Neighborhoods – or simply Tehran Youths (Javanan-e Tehran). Initially, this group was organizing rallies in Tehran and other cities and towns. Soon after, groups with similar names sprang up around the country and coordinated their announcements with the Tehran group.
The antigovernment protests in Iran often had no known leaders in the past five years, with all independent groups and political parties banned and disbanded long ago. Therefore, such grassroot groups seem to represent a new opposition force successfully issuing calls for demonstrations nationwide. The mobility of protesters and their distribution in various neighborhoods has now turned into a big problem for the security forces who are seen in some videos aimlessly running around to confront protesters and exhausting themselves even more after long hours of deployment.
These groups somewhat differ in tone and language visible in their statements, but they are unanimous in their goal to overthrow the Islamic Republic and all committed to their motto: Women, Life, Liberty. Some of these groups have issued about 20 statements so far but their first statement as a united front was released for the three-day action on December 5, 6, and 7. December 7 is Student Day in Iran and marks the anniversary of the 1953 murder of several students at University of Tehran. It is a traditional day of nationwide rallies. To coincide with Student Day, protesters are calling for strikes by businesses and a rally towards Tehran’s Azadi (Freedom) Square, according to posts shared on Twitter….
“After A Day Of Strikes Across Iran Comes Night Of Rallies,” Iran International, December 5, 2022:
In cold weather and rain, Iranians poured into streets Monday evening to hold antigovernment rallies following students’ sit-ins and strikes flaring up across the country.
Iranians embarked on a three-day action on Monday with the calls focused on strikes for December 5 and 6 and rallies for December 7, Student Day in Iran, which marks the anniversary of the 1953 murder of several students at University of Tehran. It is a traditional day of nationwide rallies. To coincide with Student Day, protesters have also called for strikes by businesses and a rally towards Tehran’s Azadi (Freedom) Square.
Students in many universities across Iran did not show up for classes on Monday and in some campuses, they held sit-ins and rallies to protest against the Islamic Republic and its repression machine.
Meanwhile, many shops and businesses shut their doors in a nationwide action that was so stunning that the country’s judiciary had to come up with a new propaganda line to justify the strikes. Iran’s Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei blamed “rioters” for threatening shopkeepers. Hardliners led by the Revolutionary Guard call protesters “rioters” and “thugs”.
Emphasizing that the death sentences of several protesters have been confirmed and they will be executed soon – apparently meant to scare the demonstrators to stop their movement to oust the regime — he added shopkeepers who close their businesses would be swiftly dealt with by the judiciary and security bodies.
Authorities also sealed a jewelry shop and restaurant belonging to Iranian football legend Ali Daei after he closed his businesses to join antigovernment strikes. Since the beginning of the uprising sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in custody of the hijab – or the so-called “morality” police — in mid-September, strikes have been staged in support of street protests. The authorities have kept threatening businesses that if they close in support of the protests, they will be fined, or their businesses will be sealed as punishment….
Walter Sieruk says
Those Muslim dictators in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran have brought the revolt of the Iranian people against them on themselves by always provoking the people by always oppressing them and treating them worst than dirt.
For that brutal, cruel oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, which denies the Iranian, people their basic natural human rights.
The Iranian people are right and righteous by engaging in bitter and strong protests against those cruel malicious and murderous tyrants in power of that cruel and oppressive Sharia based dictatorship of that Islamic regime of Iran.
In other words, those vicious despots of that horrendously horrific Islamic regime have provoked the people excessively too far.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Did anyone see on their propaganda box any acknowledgement of December 7th’s anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The terrible cost of freedom is being played out in Iran and Ukraine while our corporate propaganda networks actively choose to ignore the sacrifices Anerica endured to ensure and maintain its freedom.
James Lincoln says
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness,
Regarding the December 7th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the mainstream media has been almost completely silent.
Very telling…