Adding that there will be upwards of another 10,000 executed on Wednesday per the Iranian government. They are already lining streets with body bags of people to discourage anyone else from protesting but I suspect that will only increase the protesting.
Speaking as someone who knows people on both sides:
It's going to be very hard to convince most iranians that this is anything other than Israel/USA backed terrorism. Especially with Israel and the US openly bragging about backing it.
It doesn't help that they're probably mostly right. And looking at the genocide in gaza and how many of the people backing the protest are basically holocaust deniers, it looks really horrible to much of the islamic world.
> ... associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but by spring 2023, the protests had largely subsided ...
> At least 551 people had been killed as of 15 September 2023, according to Iran Human Rights, including women and at least 68 minors.
russian allies (or at least enemies of their enemies) are falling one by one... moscow must be very happy as their area of projection shrinks day by day
One of the biggest German news portals report up to 12.000
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/internationale-p...
Adding that there will be upwards of another 10,000 executed on Wednesday per the Iranian government. They are already lining streets with body bags of people to discourage anyone else from protesting but I suspect that will only increase the protesting.
I don’t think the IRGC is going anywhere anytime soon. Would love to be proven wrong.
If you need to murder thousands of people to legitimate your regime, your regime ain't legitimate.
To quote the current US administration - One of ours, All of yours
Speaking as someone who knows people on both sides:
It's going to be very hard to convince most iranians that this is anything other than Israel/USA backed terrorism. Especially with Israel and the US openly bragging about backing it.
It doesn't help that they're probably mostly right. And looking at the genocide in gaza and how many of the people backing the protest are basically holocaust deniers, it looks really horrible to much of the islamic world.
This take is more credible: https://nitter.net/websterkaroon/status/2010266520111423520#...
> how many of the people backing the protest are basically holocaust deniers
I don’t understand this? My assumption is that hardliners in Iran would be holocaust deniers and not want the regime to fall?
For a comparison Iran reported "200 killed" in the Mahsa Amini protests.
More context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests
> ... associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but by spring 2023, the protests had largely subsided ...
> At least 551 people had been killed as of 15 September 2023, according to Iran Human Rights, including women and at least 68 minors.
I was hopeful they'd get there this time, but that's it, this one's over.
12,000 killed, more to be executed. Then you have Trump saying they're ready to make a deal.
A deal with the USA is the nail in the coffin.
russian allies (or at least enemies of their enemies) are falling one by one... moscow must be very happy as their area of projection shrinks day by day
They’ve recently gained a huge ally in the USA, so that should help offset the losses.
The USA is notoriously unreliable these days. I wouldn’t count on them for much.
As Putin's 3 day SMO approaches its 5th year