Revolution in Iran?

I wish them luck, and hope we are giving support to them. This has happened several times since the revolution, and unfortunately such uprisings have been horribly and brutally suppressed.
 
People want freedom. You should expect to see this in other countries in the near future. Today it is Iran.
 
People want freedom. You should expect to see this in other countries in the near future. Today it is Iran.
Yet the UN spends all its time writing resolution after resolution against Israel whom Iran spends all of its money and time to destroy.

You can't make this stuff up.
 
Yet the UN spends all its time writing resolution after resolution against Israel whom Iran spends all of its money and time to destroy.

You can't make this stuff up.
Some of the subhumans who infest this plane like to refer to "The Zionist Entity" just like the Mullahs.
 
The basement lights are flickering, and there's a putrid dripping from above.

Goodnight things that are happening in Iran; wherever you are!
 
All week, Iranians have been mounting massive and widespread street protests. Triggered by ruinous increases in the cost of living and acute water shortages, they quickly became an insurrection against the Tehran regime, with protesters chanting for the return of the Shah.

These demonstrations have been far more consequential than previous such revolts. They started among the businessmen of the bazaars — the same kind of people who had helped depose the Shah and brought the Islamic revolutionary regime to power in 1979.

Even more remarkably, a number of bases for the fearsome Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij militia reportedly fell into the hands of protesters, with one Basij operative killed after demonstrators threw stones in Kuhdasht, a city in western Iran.

At time of writing, this insurrection is still escalating. Although at least four protesters have been killed, the feared bloodbath by security forces hasn’t yet materialised. Instead there have been unconfirmed reports that some have refused to fire on protesters, forcing the regime to call in Arab reinforcements; that other security forces have run away; and even that the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has fled Tehran.

Maybe this revolt will fizzle out under ferocious reprisals, as all previous ones have done. But maybe this time it will succeed in toppling the regime; it’s the closest the people have ever come to doing so.

 
The current Islamic regime has survived nationwide protests previously, with massive crackdowns. We should not get our hopes up until positive movement actually happens.
 
I wish them luck, and hope we are giving support to them. This has happened several times since the revolution, and unfortunately such uprisings have been horribly and brutally suppressed.
The population doesn’t have guns.
 
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Ferocious reprisals

Much to fear. :eek:

President Trump has given a stern warning that it wouldn't be wise for the mullahs to kill innocent protesters and they can count on an American response that they will not like.

I could see a drone focusing in on the Grand Mullah himself while he is in the toilet, should he make that kind of mistake.
 
Without a fundamental shift in Iran’s foreign relations, prospects for attracting foreign investment remain bleak. Estimates indicate that Iran requires at least $50 billion in foreign investment annually in infrastructure sectors to convert its abundant natural resources, mineral wealth, and reserves into sustainable national assets, as well as to rebuild and modernize its aging air, rail, and road transport networks.

 
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