Propaganda until verified.
CBS news is about as reliable as Russia Today. I wonder if we can find any corroborating reports from someone outside the Trump sphere of enshitification.
And of course the US wants to jump in so that they can place their dictatorship back in Iran because that is just how the US rolls.
Not sure. Trump mentioned it, but he talks all day and forgets it the next.
Is there any immediate personal gain for him from this?
The west is really pushing for the Shah to take over, huh
There were some reports from Arak that workers started taking over factories. But no, what gets reported are some fringe monarchists.
Btw, the Iranian communist party talks of 600ish dead and 11000 arrested. Those seem more believable numbers. Protests seem to still be ongoing on a large scale, I hope they bring down the Ayatollah regime. All power to the workers!
As far as I could tell the Shah guy isn’t actually intent on becoming a monarch (he was fairly critical of his dad) but wants to help Iran transition towards democracy. How he does that, no clue.
Still, apparently that guy is the dude most Iranians trust to take over. I say most, but it’s still barely 30% iirc; Iranians are pretty disillusioned with their (potential) leaders at the moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Pahlavi,_Crown_Prince_of_Iran
Investigations by Haaretz and TheMarker reported the existence of an Israeli-linked influence network aimed at shaping Iranian public opinion and promoting Pahlavi as a potential post–Islamic Republic leader. The reports claim the network was operated by a private entity funded by Israeli government resources, used artificial intelligence, and relied on fake online accounts, particularly Persian-language profiles. The network allegedly recruited Persian speakers who reposted content from Reza Pahlavi.[99]
Whether or not he claims so, he’s pro-US and pro-Israel so they are pushing hard to restore the monarchy. Any support you see for him is likely astroturfed
Edit: besides, trusting an autocrat who promises to “transition to democracy at some point in the future” is the stupidest thing one can do during a popular uprising
A single video shows ~400 bodies piled up in one Tehran suburb.
What the honest fuck are your talking about 600ish sounds more believable? More believable based on what? Based on you dick riding the Ayatollah?
Based on other protests, probably?
Apart from that, killing 12000 people is a huge effort even for a military using artillery and whatnot. If you have some military insight, just think of the logistics.
Or compare to the massacres Nazis did in WW2. Extreme cases like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had something like 20000 people killed on site, so you see how believing that they pulled of more than half of that here, without all the supporting context the nazis had, is not a given.
If the protests were widespread enough it’s not impossible to approach those kinds of numbers. That’s ~20 cities of 600 deaths spread over 2+ weeks. Other modern protest crackdowns have also been more about asserting power in full view of the world. This is a regime fully blocking media accountability while potentially fighting for its life.
The Nazis were also doing that with mostly bolt action rifles and some tanks and inaccurate artillery, mainly benefitting from shooting 430,000 people in a concentrated ghetto. Drones and modern weapons are much more deadly and are being deployed against cities with populations in the millions.
Maybe the Shah can run for President if the theocracy goes away…right?
Source: Rumors
Read the article. It’s fucking CBS slop based on the vibes of two unnamed people, one not even in Iran.
12,000 deaths, shut the fuck up. What an absolute joke of an article. Pathetic reporting from an empire who just sponsored a real extermination.
I mean there’s the video of 400 bodies in one morgue. It could be fake, but the reporting is not based on vibes. Kind of sounds like you can’t accept that a religious fundamentalist dictatorship could murder its own citizens for thinking independently, despite that pattern repeating throughout history ad nauseum.
This enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
CBS cannot be currently trusted as a news outlet
Even if this ends the riots, it will likely not be for long. Maybe 6 months maybe a year. It’s impossible to know.
But what is almost certain is that next time, the rioters will know the stakes, and they will riot with a lot more violence against the regime and any authorities that stand with the regime.
For many conditions are now unlivable in Iran, and unless the regime can solve that, people will riot even when risking to get killed.“And then, for some particular reasons, the humans began to be very angry with each other. That was a very difficult time to be on their planet.”
-History of Earth, circa the 3rd millennium
I want to see the regime falling.
The guardians of the revolution, which are the actual regime, are thoroughly enkysted in every part of the structure of the country and will be difficult to dig out. The government and the mullahs are disposable.
Damn that’s a lot of protestors.
This is awful. But really interesting from a linguistic perspective how the vocabulary and talking points differ between Iran and Israel when the situations are so similar.
What is the similarity? Just dead people?
This is a government killing its own people. Israel has been embroiled in a conflict with an outside nation, albeit a conflict of disproportionate forces.
Israel is a government killing its own people
Those numbers likely either cement the regime or initiate even more bloodshed. They have proven that they will use any means to rule.
