A general uprising in Iran

 Hassan Mahmoudi:

The recent protests in Iran, which many called a revolution, are the most significant wave of anger towards the dictatorial regime in Iran since 2009’s strikes and demonstrations. In one day, conflicts between the people and police forces spread to seventy locations in Tehran, eventually reaching 164 cities, in all 31 provinces, including 110 universities. The demonstrators came to the streets shouting slogans such as “Death to the dictator” and “We will fight, we will die, we will take Iran back.”

The videos that made it to social media show extreme police brutality—e.g., the police beat a woman and smash her head against the edge of the curbstone and beat a young man so brutally his death seems to be their object. The IRGC also opened fire on the crowd. They are fighting young girls who stand in front of a crowd of motor patrols or forcing the police force’s water cannons and armed patrol jeeps to retreat with their bare hands. Some Iranians are making Molotov cocktails to defend themselves. In many areas of Tehran and other cities, you can hear “Death to Khamenei” echoing from windows and rooftops at night for hours.

The street battles for the past 20 days, indicate that the regime’s repression apparatus is broke, and cannot deal with the people’s uprising. Its power weakening daily.

Ayatollah Khamenei dragged President Ebrahim Raisi over the finish line to stop a rebellion at the time of the elections. However, Mahsa Amini’s brutal murder shows Raisi failed to accomplish his mission.

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I suspect that the Islamic religious bigots who rule Iran are willing to murder those who resist the regime. 

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