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Protesters defy crackdown as Iran warns it will retaliate if US attacks ​

(please note the BBC still thinks this is solely about economic issues)
Protesters in Iran defied a government crackdown on Saturday night, taking to the streets despite medics at two hospitals telling the BBC more than 100 bodies have been brought in over a two day period.

Videos verified by the BBC and eyewitness accounts appeared to show the government was ramping up its response.

Iran's attorney general said anyone protesting would be considered an "enemy of God" - an offence that carries the death penalty.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to hit Iran "very hard" if they "start killing people". Iran's parliament speaker warned that if the US attacks Iran, Israel and all US military and shipping bases in the region would be legitimate targets.
The protests were sparked by soaring inflation, and have spread to more than 100 cities and towns across every province in Iran. Now protesters are calling for an end to the clerical rule of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Khamenei has dismissed demonstrators as a "bunch of vandals" seeking to "please" Trump.

Trump on Saturday said the US "stands ready to help" as Iran "is looking at FREEDOM".

As protests intensify, the number of deaths and injuries continues to rise. Two human rights groups have reported more than 100 people, including security personnel, killed.

Staff at several hospitals told the BBC they have been overwhelmed with the injured and dead, with BBC Persian verifying 70 bodies brought to one hospital in Rasht city on Friday night and a health worker reporting around 38 people dying at a Tehran hospital.

Iran's police chief said on state TV that the level of confrontation with protesters had been stepped up, with arrests on Saturday night of what he called "key figures". He blamed a "significant proportion of fatalities" on "trained and directed individuals", not security forces, but did not give specific details.

More than 2,500 people have been arrested since protests began on 28 December, according to a human rights group.

The BBC and most other international news organisations are unable to report from inside Iran, and the Iranian government has imposed an internet shutdown since Thursday, making obtaining and verifying information difficult.

Nonetheless, some video footage has emerged, and the BBC has spoken to people on the ground.

Several videos, confirmed as recent by BBC Verify, show clashes between protesters and security forces in Mashhad, Iran's second largest city.

Masked protesters are seen taking cover behind bins and bonfires, while a row of security forces is seen in the distance. A vehicle that appears to be a bus is engulfed in flames.

Multiple gunshots and what sounds like banging on pots and pans can be heard.

A figure standing on a nearby footbridge appears to fire multiple gunshots in several directions as a couple of people take cover behind a fence.

In Tehran, a verified video from Saturday night shows protesters also taking over the streets in the Gisha district.

Other verified videos from the capital show a large group of protesters and the sound of banging on pots in Punak Square, and a crowd of protesters marching on a road and calling for the end of the clerical establishment in the Heravi district.

Internet access in Iran is largely limited to a domestic intranet, with restricted links to the outside world. But during the current round of protests, authorities have for the first time severely restricted the domestic intranet.

An expert told BBC Persian the shutdown is more severe than during the "Women, Life, Freedom" uprising in 2022.

Alireza Manafi, an internet researcher, said the only likely way to connect to the outside world was via Starlink satellite internet, but warned users to exercise caution, as such connections could potentially be traced by the government.

US 'ready to help'​

On Saturday, Trump wrote on social media: "Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help!!!"

He did not elaborate, but US media reported that Trump had been briefed on options for military strikes in the country. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported the briefings had taken place, with WSJ describing them as "preliminary discussions". An unnamed official told the WSJ there was no "imminent threat" to Iran.

Last year, the US conducted airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

On Sunday, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah (king), who lives in the US and whose return protesters have been calling for, posted a video to X.

Its caption said: "Your compatriots around the world are proudly shouting your voice... In particular, President Trump, as the leader of the free world, has carefully observed your indescribable bravery and has announced that he is ready to help you."

He added: "I know that I will soon be by your side."

He claimed the Islamic Republic was facing a "severe shortage of mercenaries" and that "many armed and security forces have left their workplaces or disobeyed orders to suppress the people". The BBC could not verify these claims.

Pahlavi encouraged people to continue protesting on Sunday evening, but to stay in groups or with crowds and not "endanger your lives".

Amnesty International said it was analysing "distressing reports that security forces had intensified their unlawful use of lethal force against protesters" since Thursday.

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said those speaking out against Khamenei's government should not face "the threat of violence or reprisals".

At least 78 protesters and 38 security personnel have been killed in the past two weeks, US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran said.

Norway-based Iran Human Rights reported at least 192 protesters have been killed.

The group's director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: "The killing of protesters over the past three days, particularly following the nationwide internet shutdown, may be even more extensive than we currently imagine."

BBC Persian has confirmed the identities of 26 people killed, including six children.

The protests have been the most widespread since an uprising in 2022 sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who was detained by morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.

More than 550 people were killed and 20,000 detained by security forces over several months, according to human rights groups.

Additional reporting by Soroush Pakzad and Roja Assadi
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Western media taking more notice
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Spatula dijo:
Im trying to find an image, it was from the Iranian revolution it was something like these students were protesting against the shah, after he was overthrown they were killed. If someone could find it it would be a good time to post it again
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I won't be surprised if they was communists sympathizers who learned the truth about Khomenei too little too late.
 
Nice Stick dijo:
I'm starting to feel sorry for Iran.

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Foley dijo:
Why?

Iranian women giving the middle finger to hijab is something that should be celebrated, and like that tweet says, none of the leftists, feminists and commies in the west are saying anything about it because it goes against Islam, which is their cradle baby.
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My dudes. I know that we turn invisible to a lot of you once we have the audacity to grow old and ugly, but why you gotta do us dirty like this? :lol: As posted above in the thread, JK and her entourage have been posting about this, among them Roisin Murphy (who got cancelled a while ago for terfing). A lot of the OG feminists in my own country are on about this, too, and we’re considered woke beyond repair.

Sorry ’bout the OT. @Riverfagg1599 you and your fiancée have been in my prayers the past few days. Hoping for a good resolution for you both.
 
Foley dijo:
Why?

Iranian women giving the middle finger to hijab is something that should be celebrated, and like that tweet says, none of the leftists, feminists and commies in the west are saying anything about it because it goes against Islam, which is their cradle baby.
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The current cradle baby until they got attracted by the newest thing like the guy in the distracted boyfried meme.
 
Foltest dijo:
I have notice that leftist who are all for human rights, democracy etc etc, have been really quiet about Iran.
No support for the protsters.
Nothing.
Fucking scumbags.
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That's not really fair. Do to the lack of reliable information, there's been scant major reporting on the situation. I've seen plenty of people on the left cheering on the protests, it's just not in the spotlight right now.
Blue Flying Leaf dijo:
In October 1990, US intelligence agencies fabricated the “baby incubator” story, which incited anger among US citizens and eventually led to the aggravation of the Gulf War.
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This is a point blank lie. The story was fabricated by Citizens for a Free Kuwait, a PR front group for the Kuwaiti government in exile. While it's impossible to point to the origin of the story for certain, it mostly likely was the product of Hill & Knowlton, a British PR firm hired by the Kuwaitis to built Western support for military intervention.
 
Blue Flying Leaf dijo:
Yes, another "they are taking babies out of incubators"
"In October 1990, US intelligence agencies fabricated the “baby incubator” story, which incited anger among US citizens and eventually led to the aggravation of the Gulf War."
“While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators and left the babies on the cold floor to die,” a tearful 15-year-old girl who claimed to be a Kuwaiti volunteer testified against Iraqi soldiers before a US congressional hearing.
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Naturally. It's another attempt at color-revolution.
You'd have to be a particularly stupid goy to fall for the same playbook, over and over, yet here we go again.

Just like the mobile bioweapon laboratories, and Iraq somehow being behind 9/11, and the Nigerian Uranium. The yellowcake is a lie. Always has been.
 
he who has thus come/gone dijo:
I'll do you one better:
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Its funny because its true. If Zoe Quinn hadn't been such a cock hungry whore, her boyfriend would not have written that blog post. If her boyfriend had not written that blog post, 4chan would not have found out about it and found it very funny. If they hadn't found it funny, Games Media wouldn't have called all gamers fascists. If they hadn't called all gamers fascists, then an autistic army of angry gamers wouldn't have memed Trump into the white house. If trump had not been memed into the white house....

 
Seethan Ralph dijo:

>Account based in
United Kingdom

pakijeet inbred or the end stage of the autistic hyperfixation on da jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooz?
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He's a Paki living in the U.K. who denies being Pakistani and claims to be a true and honest Britbong.
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https://archive.ph/FwsAv
He also hates Indians despite Pakistan basically being India except with more Muslims and a different writing system.
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They were once men dijo:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aaEhNTpvEN8This video seems relevant to the thread, he also has a video on Iran's declining birth rate if you search his channel.
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For those who want the text-based Cliffs' Notes version:

Iran has had a critical water shortage for ages, as a direct result of the country's Islamic fundamentalist government being hilariously corrupt and inept in every capacity. under the Ayatollah, they wasted gigantic amounts of resources on completely-dysfunctional damming projects, failed to properly create new reservoirs, and repeatedly accidentally tainted its own water supplies, while at the same time, spending ungodly amounts of water at a completely untenable rate. All the money that should have gone into sustainability instead went into financing international terrorism and lining the pockets of the Ayatollah and his supporters.

So their domestic side is fucked, but economically, things are worse for the Iranian government under the Ayatollah internationally.

Because the country itself is one of the largest financiers and backers of terrorism, most western nations have effectively cut it off, necessitating that Iran rely on its so-called Shadow Fleet - a series of cargo and tanker vessels with multiple false identities and altered transponders - to quietly skirt around international waters and do business with Iran's few remaining international allies. While they had been very effective at keeping the finances flowing, it became very apparent early into 2025 that they were no longer anywhere near as effective at remaining hidden, and several of their vessels got interdicted. The message was very clear: There is no more financial help coming.

The government under the Ayatollah is fucked. They have been for quite some time, and the only question is how fucked they are.

Also really nicely hallmarks just how heavily the Carter administration fucked everything up. Jeez.
 
Spatula dijo:
Yes, but there was some explanation on the text too that explained the context.
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You pretty much explained the context.
I can't find much about Maryam Rafiei which is one of the girls who got beheaded. The other fled to Sweden and is living among her rapy peers.

Most of the results about this on Google are from Facebook or Instagram.

Here's the Facebook link
Here's an x post that posts the exact same thing

I just put your post into grok and found it then I searched for the name to find a picture without boomer captions.
 
LateNightMuffin dijo:
Let's say they do bring down the Iranian government, which I think would be great. This is a serious and not shitposting question: What indications do we have that what comes after wouldn't be horrible? I say that as someone who got really excited for Arab Spring and was appalled at what some call the Arab Winter when Islamists retrenched. I'm asking because amidst all the shitposting I rely on the Farms for some of the best and most informed analyses on current events I see anywhere, and I appreciate it.
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in iran, the islamists are already the ones in power
whatever comes after, be it military dictatorship or monarchy or liberal democracy, is virtually guaranteed to be less islamic
 
Bloodthirsty Nosenigger dijo:
Naturally. It's another attempt at color-revolution.
You'd have to be a particularly stupid goy to fall for the same playbook, over and over, yet here we go again.

Just like the mobile bioweapon laboratories, and Iraq somehow being behind 9/11, and the Nigerian Uranium. The yellowcake is a lie. Always has been.
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"muh colour revolution"
"muh ZOG"
 
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