Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown

Post by Rover222 » Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

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One big thing your missing is that there simply is no way imaginable that a regime change can happen without the US, it's simply impossible at this stage. I can certainly understand why many if not most Iranians want the US to intervene, it's simply the only way regime change is ever going to happen.w

I have lived through regime change in Eastern Europe in 1989. A year before the change, one cannot imagine the regime change. And yet, it did happen. Bloodlessly (except Romania). Any external meddling would have probably made it much bloodier. You can be assured most Iranians do NOT want US to intervene. How many Americans want China/Russia to intervene to 'help' you get rid of Trump? Get off your high horse and use…

Post by reliabilityguy » Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

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> The economic suffering has largely been inflicted deliberately by US sanctions. Which were imposed for work on atomic bomb. These sanctions didn’t come out of the blue.

US intelligence assessments on the question of whether Iran is building one keep publicly coming out as negative. People who keep repeating that Iran is building one are people who want to see Iran torn apart. Had Iran ACTUALLY been working on one all these decades, we wouldn't be at war with them now because they would have the ultimate deterrence and we'd be too scared. The very fact that we are bombing them every…

Post by fortzi » Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 5:39 PM UTC

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>> pro-Hamas activist You've let your true colors show through... People were angry at the world allowing a genocide to occur and at their own countries actively supporting that genocide. It was also a genocide going on for several years allowing momentum to build and anger to grow. The most recent Iranian uprising lasted a few weeks. I would be more upset that Trump told the poor Iranians to protest and that he woul…

Post by alephnerd » Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

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There is a lot of crossover. Heck, one of our old neighbors growing up was a Iranian Baloch-Pakistani Baloch couple and according to them Baloch marriage across the border was extremely common. And Uzair Baloch had ties to both Iranian and Indian intelligence [0]. The Iran-Pakistan and the Iran-Afghanistan border is very porous because of how isolated Sistan-ve-Balochistan and much of Khorasan is from the rest of Ira…

Oh man I haven’t heard that name in a while. I still remember the Vice documentary going inside his house.

Post by davidgay » Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 5:41 PM UTC

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“To simplify greatly, the strategy of non-violence aims first to cause disruption (non-violently) in order both to draw attention but also in order to bait state overreaction. The state’s overreaction then becomes the ‘spectacular attack’ which broadcasts the movement’s message, while the group’s willingness to endure that overreaction without violence not only avoids alienating supporters, it heightens the contrast…

This works against relatively liberal governments. It didn’t work for the Tiananmen Square protestors in 1989 or for the intermittent Iranian protestors of the past couple decades because those regimes were willing to suppress those protests with overwhelming force. Fortunately, the Iranian protestors are likely to have some overwhelming force on their side soon.