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Anonymous wrote:European news is covering it extensively. The poor people are so courageous but the regime is already planning the next bloodbath.

I cannot believe how little the US media is covering this story. What in the world is going on with our media outlets?

Because we don’t care. Iranians are competent enough to handle their own affairs. We do not need to jump in and
”install” a leader

If Khamenei’s regime is overthrown by the people of Iran, it will be a huge disruption in the world order. We don’t get to say we “don’t care” and pretend it’s not happening.

Honestly with this current Administration I think we all might be better off if this were the case.

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Anonymous wrote:You didn’t miss it. It’s startling how little attention this is getting. Perhaps it doesn’t fit the leftist worldview that islamist extremism is a heroic movement of anti colonialism and simply a natural act of the oppressed. /s

I remain hopeful for the people of Iran but the apathy of so many supposedly freedom loving Americans, particularly left leaning, is jolting.

Wake me when colonial Israel is overthrown.

So are the Israeli Jews who fled their MENA homelands in the 1950s-70s also colonialists? Should they have remained and been killed? What's your point?

Sincerely,
Someone who has opposed Israel's occupation of Gaza/West Bank for decades

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting explanation as to why our media is ignoring what is happening in Iran:

We have enough going on right here in the USA. Why do we need to worry about protestors in Iran when American protestors are being shot in the face, arrested, tear gassed and more. Deal with what's going on in your own house.

Venezuela was not in our own house either.

Anonymous wrote:Crazy more people aren’t supporting overthrowing a regime that executes gay men, stones to death women who engage in premarital sex, amputate fingers as punishment, and kills domestic violence survivors like this case the UN documented:

GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today urged Iran to halt the execution of Goli Kouhkan, a 25-year-old undocumented Baluch woman set to be executed this month.

“Kouhkan’s case exemplifies the systemic gender bias faced by women victims of child marriage and domestic violence within Iran’s criminal justice system,” the experts said. “Carrying out the execution would constitute a grave violation of international human rights law.”

Kouhkan was forced into marriage at the age of 12 to her cousin and subjected to years of physical and psychological violence while working as a farm labourer. At 13, she gave birth at home without medical care. When she attempted to escape the abusive marriage, her efforts were unsuccessful due to her undocumented status and societal pressure.

In May 2018, when Kouhkan was 18 years old, her husband beat both her and their five-year-old son. After a relative was called to help, a confrontation ensued which resulted in her husband’s death.

That first paragraph? It’s where the US is headed.

Anonymous wrote:Free Iran!! Down with the IRGC!

The Iranians have balls. We just keep going on with our lives as all our rights and freedom of speech are chipped away.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting explanation as to why our media is ignoring what is happening in Iran:

you mean burqas are not compatible with western values??? who could have guessed?

Anonymous wrote:Interesting explanation as to why our media is ignoring what is happening in Iran:

Nonsense. "Liberal" western outlets have covered the Iran protests extensively, including the parts where demonstrators criticize the Islamic Republic, burn mosques, reject clerical rule, or chant against compulsory religion. Major publications — from the BBC and Reuters to the New York Times, Guardian, AP, DW, and CNN have repeatedly reported:

- attacks on regime‑aligned mosques
- slogans rejecting theocracy
- anger at clerics and the morality police
- the broader revolt against the Islamic Republic’s religious authority

None of that has been hidden or downplayed by the media. The real reason coverage fluctuates is simple: news cycles, not ideology. When protests surge, coverage surges. When the regime cracks down and demonstrations become harder to document, coverage naturally drops — the same pattern seen in Hong Kong, Sudan, Belarus, and elsewhere.

There’s no evidence that Western journalism is suppressing the story because protesters criticize Islam. In fact, the opposite is true: Western outlets have been some of the only institutions consistently documenting how Iranians challenge the regime’s religious authority.

These constant smears of "liberal" and "western" media are not grounded in facts or reality and can only come from or play to people who themselves live in their own tiny echo chamber of restricted media consumption.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, a lot of people are traveling right now. It’s the holidays. Stop assigning a moral value to the speed of threads appearing here. If you want to talk about it, start a thread.

Also, many of us are following this. I don’t have a firm grasp on the cause of their current financial crisis that seems to be driving this. Long lists of human rights abuses are kind of dumb when what people are protesting is the very serious economic crisis.

Their currency lost half of its already not great value just recently. It’s impossible for the people (and merchants) to get/sell/buy basic goods including rice. It’s been getting worse and worse. The people have tried fairly recently to overthrow the mullahs, but it was brutally squashed with thousands of executions and even more disappearances into their notorious prisons. In contrast to Venezuelans who have emigrated en masse to nearby countries and to the U.S. in the millions, the Iranians cannot get out easily. Their passport does not travel well.
(And they need special exit permits, pay exit taxes, and women and children cannot leave at all without men and authorization from the men they are related to. Also, they could easily get arrested or disappear upon trying to board a flight or cross their border.)

Iran is like Israel. The hardliner religious fanatics will never give up power.

Listen you vile antisemite:

Israel is NOTHING like Iran.

I would agree, but only because the repression they engage in is of an entirely different kind.

Precisely, Israel's repression of Palestinians both in Gaza and in the West Bank is infinitely worse than anything Iran has done to its people.

lets talk next week

Iran is currently murdering thousands to suppress the protesters. but dont worry we can rely on Al Jazeera to report.

Come back when Iran has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people within its borders. Thanks.

What does it matter? Trump and republicans murder US citizens for protesting.

This just happened in Minnesota.

Yes! We need to point out the hypocrisy of the Trump administration on this issue over and over. On the one hand Trump threatens the Iranian regime to not harm protestors, while at the same time giving federal agents a pass when they fire upon protestors in the US.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting explanation as to why our media is ignoring what is happening in Iran:

We have enough going on right here in the USA. Why do we need to worry about protestors in Iran when American protestors are being shot in the face, arrested, tear gassed and more. Deal with what's going on in your own house.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, a lot of people are traveling right now. It’s the holidays. Stop assigning a moral value to the speed of threads appearing here. If you want to talk about it, start a thread.

Also, many of us are following this. I don’t have a firm grasp on the cause of their current financial crisis that seems to be driving this. Long lists of human rights abuses are kind of dumb when what people are protesting is the very serious economic crisis.

Their currency lost half of its already not great value just recently. It’s impossible for the people (and merchants) to get/sell/buy basic goods including rice. It’s been getting worse and worse. The people have tried fairly recently to overthrow the mullahs, but it was brutally squashed with thousands of executions and even more disappearances into their notorious prisons. In contrast to Venezuelans who have emigrated en masse to nearby countries and to the U.S. in the millions, the Iranians cannot get out easily. Their passport does not travel well.
(And they need special exit permits, pay exit taxes, and women and children cannot leave at all without men and authorization from the men they are related to. Also, they could easily get arrested or disappear upon trying to board a flight or cross their border.)

Iran is like Israel. The hardliner religious fanatics will never give up power.

Listen you vile antisemite:

Israel is NOTHING like Iran.

I would agree, but only because the repression they engage in is of an entirely different kind.

Precisely, Israel's repression of Palestinians both in Gaza and in the West Bank is infinitely worse than anything Iran has done to its people.

lets talk next week

Iran is currently murdering thousands to suppress the protesters. but dont worry we can rely on Al Jazeera to report.

Come back when Iran has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people within its borders. Thanks.

What does it matter? Trump and republicans murder US citizens for protesting.

This just happened in Minnesota.

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Anonymous wrote:European news is covering it extensively. The poor people are so courageous but the regime is already planning the next bloodbath.

I cannot believe how little the US media is covering this story. What in the world is going on with our media outlets?

Because we don’t care. Iranians are competent enough to handle their own affairs. We do not need to jump in and
”install” a leader

No, they don’t want Americans to be successfully inspired.

Interesting explanation as to why our media is ignoring what is happening in Iran:

My dear compatriots,

With your courage and steadfastness, you have earned the admiration of the world. Your renewed and magnificent presence in the streets across Iran on Friday evening was a resounding response to the threats of the treacherous and criminal leader of the Islamic Republic. I am certain that he has seen these images from his hiding place and trembled in fear.

Now, with your decisive response to the first call, I am certain that by making our street presence more targeted, and at the same time, by cutting off the financial lifelines, we will completely bring the Islamic Republic and its worn-out and fragile repression apparatus to its knees.

In this regard, I invite workers and employees in key sectors of the economy, especially transportation, oil, gas, and energy, to begin the nationwide strike.

Also, I ask all of you today and tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday (January 10 and 11), this time, from 6 p.m., to come to the streets with flags, images, and national symbols and claim public spaces as your own. Our goal is no longer merely to come to the streets; the goal is to prepare for seizing the centers of cities and holding them.

To achieve this goal, move toward the more central parts of the cities from different routes as much as possible and connect separate crowds. At the same time, prepare now to stay in the streets and gather the necessary supplies.

To the youth of Iran's Immortal Guard, and all armed and security forces who have joined the national cooperation platform, I say: Slow down and disrupt the repression machine even more so that on the appointed day, we can completely disable it.

I too am preparing to return to the homeland so that at the time of our national revolution's victory, I can be beside you, the great nation of Iran. I believe that day is very near.

Long live Iran!

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Anonymous wrote:European news is covering it extensively. The poor people are so courageous but the regime is already planning the next bloodbath.

I cannot believe how little the US media is covering this story. What in the world is going on with our media outlets?

Because we don’t care. Iranians are competent enough to handle their own affairs. We do not need to jump in and
”install” a leader

If Khamenei’s regime is overthrown by the people of Iran, it will be a huge disruption in the world order. We don’t get to say we “don’t care” and pretend it’s not happening.

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Anonymous wrote:European news is covering it extensively. The poor people are so courageous but the regime is already planning the next bloodbath.

I cannot believe how little the US media is covering this story. What in the world is going on with our media outlets?

Because we don’t care. Iranians are competent enough to handle their own affairs. We do not need to jump in and
”install” a leader