Outrage in Iran after woman dies in police custody after arrest over "improper" hijab

[CumbrianLefty]

Still sceptical, but is this the biggest challenge to the regime since the 1980s?

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

Still sceptical, but is this the biggest challenge to the regime since the 1980s?

Have these protests really surpassed the scale of the green movement yet? I realize they're possibly more aggressive and possibly even militant but idk if I've seen the absolute scale of the green movement protests. Maybe I'm wrong though, someone correct me, cause I want for nothing more than the Ayatollah's regime to catch on fire and fall with as little bloodshed as possible for the people of Iran themselves.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

https://twitter.com/omid9/status/1574262493748207617?t=4OSNUjzcb1AfNraqH4untA&am...

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Does there exist any polling on how popular these protests actually are?

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

Does there exist any polling on how popular these protests actually are?

Oh yeah YouGov and Marist are in the field right now, but Trafalgar thinks there is a quiet pro-Khamenei vote that "traditional" pollsters aren't able to pick up on.

[MATTROSE94]

Does there exist any polling on how popular these protests actually are?

80% of Iranians and a clear majority of Iranian Americans born between 1985 and 1999 are against these protests.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Does there exist any polling on how popular these protests actually are?

Oh yeah YouGov and Marist are in the field right now, but Trafalgar thinks there is a quiet pro-Khamenei vote that "traditional" pollsters aren't able to pick up on.

It took me a second but LOL.

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

Does there exist any polling on how popular these protests actually are?

Oh yeah YouGov and Marist are in the field right now, but Trafalgar thinks there is a quiet pro-Khamenei vote that "traditional" pollsters aren't able to pick up on.

It took me a second but LOL.

There's a fine line in satire where you have to make it absurd enough that people will pick up on the joke, and I figured that would get it done

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

Of course the Islamofascist Palestine leadership is little different to the mullahs in Iran when it comes to groups that progressives are meant to care about, but that doesn't stop our friends on university campuses supporting them.

Fatah is a secular party. A flawed party, but secular. And none of that changes the fact that Israel has been engaged in an illegal military occupation for over 50 years.

[CumbrianLefty]

I mean, can we keep this thread on the events in Iran PLEASE?

[It’s so Joever]

Does there exist any polling on how popular these protests actually are?

80% of Iranians and a clear majority of Iranian Americans born between 1985 and 1999 are against these protests.

Source of the second?

[DavidB.]

The entire Iranian football team has spoken out against the regime's treatment of women, including at least one who was previously thought to be regime friendly.

https://twitter.com/prznsoccer/status/1573412081877106700

The regime has apparently issued an arrest warrant for former international football player Ali Karimi, one of the most capped Iranians, for his ongoing online support for the protests.

[TheReckoning]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

I'm not going to argue the first part of this, the Iranian revolution was *very* complicated in who supported it and for what reasons, but I'm sorry the idea that Iran currently has a leftist government is just absurd.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

I suppose compared to you, perhaps.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

-Dies from cringe-

[TheReckoning]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

I'm not going to argue the first part of this, the Iranian revolution was *very* complicated in who supported it and for what reasons, but I'm sorry the idea that Iran currently has a leftist government is just absurd.

Since the early ‘80s, the Iranian government has instituted intense equalization efforts throughout the country. They are left wing, or at least significantly more left wing than what preceded them, and I would argue to the left of the median government around the world.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

I'm not going to argue the first part of this, the Iranian revolution was *very* complicated in who supported it and for what reasons, but I'm sorry the idea that Iran currently has a leftist government is just absurd.

Since the early ‘80s, the Iranian government has instituted intense equalization efforts throughout the country. They are left wing, or at least significantly more left wing than what preceded them, and I would argue to the left of the median government around the world.

WTF?

[TheReckoning]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

I'm not going to argue the first part of this, the Iranian revolution was *very* complicated in who supported it and for what reasons, but I'm sorry the idea that Iran currently has a leftist government is just absurd.

Since the early ‘80s, the Iranian government has instituted intense equalization efforts throughout the country. They are left wing, or at least significantly more left wing than what preceded them, and I would argue to the left of the median government around the world.

WTF?

Most governments have not pursued equalization as strongly as the Iranian regime has. The fact that they oppose atheistic left wing ideologies such as Marxism does not make them “right wing” anymore than how Ayn Rand strongly opposed the religious right’s influence in society made her “left wing.”

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

I'm not going to argue the first part of this, the Iranian revolution was *very* complicated in who supported it and for what reasons, but I'm sorry the idea that Iran currently has a leftist government is just absurd.

Since the early ‘80s, the Iranian government has instituted intense equalization efforts throughout the country. They are left wing, or at least significantly more left wing than what preceded them, and I would argue to the left of the median government around the world.

WTF?

Most governments have not pursued equalization as strongly as the Iranian regime has. The fact that they oppose atheistic left wing ideologies such as Marxism does not make them “right wing” anymore than how Ayn Rand strongly opposed the religious right’s influence in society made her “left wing.”

Nothing says equalization like subjugating half your population to second-class citizenship.

[TheReckoning]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

I'm not going to argue the first part of this, the Iranian revolution was *very* complicated in who supported it and for what reasons, but I'm sorry the idea that Iran currently has a leftist government is just absurd.

Since the early ‘80s, the Iranian government has instituted intense equalization efforts throughout the country. They are left wing, or at least significantly more left wing than what preceded them, and I would argue to the left of the median government around the world.

WTF?

Most governments have not pursued equalization as strongly as the Iranian regime has. The fact that they oppose atheistic left wing ideologies such as Marxism does not make them “right wing” anymore than how Ayn Rand strongly opposed the religious right’s influence in society made her “left wing.”

Nothing says equalization like subjugating half your population to second-class citizenship.

In some senses? Sure, they have more restrictions on what they can wear. But these days, women in Iran are becoming more highly educated than men (not unlike the USA, actually), whereas before the revolution, the opposite was true. That’s because of government’s education reforms, which placed a strong emphasis on ensuring education parity between men and women.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

I'm not going to argue the first part of this, the Iranian revolution was *very* complicated in who supported it and for what reasons, but I'm sorry the idea that Iran currently has a leftist government is just absurd.

Since the early ‘80s, the Iranian government has instituted intense equalization efforts throughout the country. They are left wing, or at least significantly more left wing than what preceded them, and I would argue to the left of the median government around the world.

WTF?

Most governments have not pursued equalization as strongly as the Iranian regime has. The fact that they oppose atheistic left wing ideologies such as Marxism does not make them “right wing” anymore than how Ayn Rand strongly opposed the religious right’s influence in society made her “left wing.”

Nothing says equalization like subjugating half your population to second-class citizenship.

In some senses? Sure, they have more restrictions on what they can wear. But these days, women in Iran are becoming more highly educated than men (not unlike the USA, actually), whereas before the revolution, the opposite was true. That’s because of government’s education reforms, which placed a strong emphasis on ensuring education parity between men and women.

If that makes them left leaning does that mean right wingers don't believe that?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

Back in the 1980s the regime carried out the biggest mass murder of left-wingers this side of the Indonesian Genocide and one of the officials most directly involved in the implementation of that is now the President. The Iranian government is by any reasonable measure one of the most right-wing in the world and that some extremely stupid people on the Hard and Far Left thought and think favourably about it because for them all that matters really is hostility towards America and Israel is a statement on their moral and intellectual bankruptcy and nothing else.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Iran is the bad guy country of the world as judged by the West.

Therefore, the eventual collapse of this political setup is going to be hard to accept as they will think the US and Israel have taken over their patch.

I would never have thought that Iran was going to change, but along came Google, Facebook and Instagram.

[TheReckoning]

Never forget how leftists internationally were Ruhollah Khomenei’s cheerleaders, and that the current Iranian regime is a leftist one.

Back in the 1980s the regime carried out the biggest mass murder of left-wingers this side of the Indonesian Genocide and one of the officials most directly involved in the implementation of that is now the President. The Iranian government is by any reasonable measure one of the most right-wing in the world and that some extremely stupid people on the Hard and Far Left thought and think favourably about it because for them all that matters really is hostility towards America and Israel is a statement on their moral and intellectual bankruptcy and nothing else.

Interesting. Stalin must’ve also been extremely far right, due to his mass murder of the far-left Trotskyists, right?

Research what the Iranian regime did during the 1980s. They nationalized a vast majority of industries in an attempt to redistribute wealth.