The head of Iran’s judiciary signaled Wednesday there would be fast trials and executions ahead for those detained in nationwide protests despite a warning from Donald Trump.
The comments from Iran’s judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei come as activists had warned hangings of those detained could come soon.
Already, a bloody security force crackdown on the demonstrations has killed at least 2,571, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported. That figure dwarfs the death toll from any other round of protest or unrest in Iran in decades and recalls the chaos surrounding the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
i really hope the ppl of iran get rid of their dictators/oppressors this time -.-
I’m not holding my breath. Their belief system is way too sticky to go anywhere. A regime may change and some small progress might be made but that’s only until people get angry en masse and it’s right back under some other guy.
you are not totally wrong but small progress is better than none, incremental steps will get ppl somewhere…
look at europe, it took thousands of years, especially the last 1000years have been complicated but it has been ~80years without conflict (except for russia invading ukraine)
I really hope they choose a secular government leader again so Israel can assassinate them.
“In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.”
Sadly the protestors never had a chance. The Iranian regime will hold on unless the people are ready for the next step. I could easily see this turning into another long and drawn out affair like the Syrian civil war.
So, besides the barrage of manufactured consent to simply bomb Iran again, how do Iranians think that anyone outside can help them?
The previously reported multiple thousands of deaths in recent days were just of natural causes then?
Or do they actually mean 2500 in a single location?
I hope the Iranians can get a proper new government but I fear it will never work, the current one will just lean more and more on violence and pull in external extremist forces to enforce their will.
And if, by a fortunous act the current extremist government does fall I would not be surprised in the least if within 3 years a new extremist element violently suppresses their people.
Iran can never return to its glory and freedom from before the removal of the shah unless they remove ALL powerhungry zealots.
And that is the problem, everyone there currently working at a government position is powerhungry because they have nothing else, they need the position to dominate over someone else or fall away into poverty and non-meaning.
Iran will claim 20 dead, agitators will claim 12,000. As always, the truth is somewhere in the middle.
