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Yeah, the complete collapse of their currency and brutal theocracy had nothing to do with it. All the protesters were MI-6, Mossad and CIA. There are apparently more foreign agents than citizens in Iran. Am i doing this right?
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When there's an uprising it's a pretty god indicator that the elections aren't working. https://www.norwich.edu/topic/all-blog-posts/facade-democrac... Though President Ebrahim Raisi’s sudden death in May 2024 prompted a new electoral cycle with six vetted candidates, all were affiliated with the regime and loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, ensuring little real policy divergence. The Guardian Council filter…
There are many reasons why you can have violence in the streets, especially in a climate of enormous foreign manipulation. An enemy state was setting off car bombs just a year ago...
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Not going to defend the islamic republic with its massacres, but if there is no racial element there is no apartheid, no need to overload a precise term. This is simply turning down methods of communications to reduce protestors ability to coordinate and enable mass killings
Iran treats Jews as second class citizens and prevents them from all leaving.
I’m sure you have proof of this. Prevents them how? Iranians have been traveling in and out of their country for decades.
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You are missing the point. I'm sure Mossad etc is on the ground. I wish them luck. But that's not the driving force for the 100s of thousands of protestors on the ground willing to stand against the Mullahs thugs.
They live under a theocratic boot heel and are struggling to get out. They can use all the support they can get.
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I remember back when Poland was joining NATO, they basically said that we want in NATO or we will build our own nuke. Not sure if Trump understands that he is playing quite a dangerous game in terms of nuclear proliferation because if the US deterrent goes away, the small countries will start thinking about it.
Good analysis out there indicating sweden could beat Poland there. Finland and Germany also on the likely list. Then in the east Japan and sk. The npt is dead. The French government being completely gridlocked with a nonzero chance to go authoritarian itself, along with the us stepping away guarantee this.
> Good analysis out there indicating sweden could beat Poland there
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If this happened, they would blacklist it.
In the absence of a perfect solution, we should do nothing? The entire scenario is a cat and mouse whack-a-mole arms race. I'd support doing something to give the citizens a leg up.
You can run a Google Colab proxy on your website. Predictably, they will block your website because preventing access to wrongthink is more important than ensuring access to rightthink.
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There are plenty of Western journalists in Iran, but they are subject to the same internet blackout as everyone else. Embassies can use satellite communications due to diplomatic immunity, while journalists are just average nobodies who face extra scrutiny due to their jobs.
Why can't they use starlink?
TFA mentions one reason: the "recent Iranian law that would equate the use of Starlink with espionage, punishable by death"