Niece of Iran's Supreme Leader urges world to cut ties with Tehran

[Alben Barkley]

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/niece-irans-supreme-leader-urges-world-cut-ties-with-tehran-over-unrest-online-2022-11-27/

A video of a statement by Farideh Moradkhani, an engineer whose late father was a prominent opposition figure married to Khamenei's sister, was being widely shared online after what activist news agency HRANA said was her arrest on Nov. 23.

"O free people, be with us and tell your governments to stop supporting this murderous and child-killing regime," Moradkhani said in the video. "This regime is not loyal to any of its religious principles and does not know any rules except force and maintaining power."

Khamenei's office did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

HRANA said 450 protesters had been killed in more than two months of nationwide unrest as of Nov. 26, including 63 minors. It said 60 members of the security forces had been killed, and 18,173 protesters detained.

The protests, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini after her arrest for "inappropriate attire", pose one of the strongest challenges to the country's clerical establishment since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Jalal Mahmoudzadeh, a member of parliament from the mainly Kurdish city of Mahabad, said on Sunday that as many as 105 people had been killed in Kurdish-populated areas during the protests. He was speaking in a debate in parliament as quoted by the Entekhan website.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Bring back the Shah!

[Alben Barkley]

Bring back the Shah!

Not necessary, there could be a democratic Iran which would be unfathomably based.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Bring back the Shah!

the Shah is literally the reason why we have this mess.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Bring back the Shah!

Not necessary, there could be a democratic Iran which would be unfathomably based.

thank you and indeed based democratic iran

[CumbrianLefty]

Bring back the Shah!

the Shah is literally the reason why we have this mess.

You might think this was too obvious to need pointing out, but it seems not.

[CanadianDemocrat]

Bring back the Shah!

Not necessary, there could be a democratic Iran which would be unfathomably based.

If there was no British and US backed coup which overthrew the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister in 1953, then there would be no Shah or no Islamic theocracy today.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Bring back the Shah!

He’s been dead for over 40 years.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

In the climate of the Cold War - and with Iran bordering the Soviet Union. Interesting how that is always left out, isn't it?

Somehow Finland was able to survive as a free country next to the Soviet Union.

[PSOL]

In the climate of the Cold War - and with Iran bordering the Soviet Union. Interesting how that is always left out, isn't it?

Mossadegh was pro-US all the way until Eisenhower gave him the cold shoulder and trade and banking retaliation was done unopposed by the collective Anglophone (and partial French) spheres. Only then did he go through with accepting a balanced approach and kneecap the Tudeh party, culminating to the destruction of their military network that prevented there to be a coup in Iran. He, and Tudeh on account of being pro-soviet, would have had better relations with Israel than what played out with the Arab nationalists or Islamists.

Iran's recent history is a history of blowback by the following regimes relying on support in some matters by a very dedicated and proud people against subjugation.

[Silent Hunter]

Bring back the Shah!

He’s been dead for over 40 years.

His son has a fair amount of support in the diaspora.

[CumbrianLefty]

Having an inflated view of your country's place in the world at large cost both Mossadegh and Arbenz.

No, what "cost" them was utterly unjustified and morally disgusting US power-mongering.

In both cases with genuinely disastrous consequences.

(and worth noting that both happened under supposed "good guy" Ike, btw - its all very well making a stand against the "military-industrial complex" once you are departing actual power)

[Silent Hunter]

in Ike's case, large chunks of the US military had major size reductions during his tenure:

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/us-ship-force-levels.html#1951

It's just the nuclear stuff people remember most.

In the British case, they wanted Iran's oil - remember we had no North Sea stuff at the time - and had 51% control of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company until Mossadegh nationalised it.

[CumbrianLefty]

Your silly attitude indicates your lingering bitterness at the ultimate failure of the socialist project.

And your attempts to cod-psychoanalyse those who disagree with you are embarrassing.

[PSOL]

TIL that capitalist reforms of landholding plots are a communist conspiracy, and not being a total puppet of international bankers in choosing instead to do nothing and wait till civil war is a good thing, even though civil war became inevitable under a right wing junta who destroyed the country and brought many of the poor over the US border.

Other then the insanity of Tim trying to explain away and defend a genocidal maniac or TheReckoning’s Chavez/DeSantis threaf, this might take the cake of the dumbest thread in atlas history. Then again, the utter embarrassment of not going through with reform led to revolution that diverted resources elsewhere, so whatever I guess.

Your silly attitude indicates your lingering bitterness at the ultimate failure of the socialist project.

And your attempts to cod-psychoanalyse those who disagree with you are embarrassing.

Let's just dump Lenin on the nearest Moscow tip, shall we? Best place for him...

Your stances have created tons and tons of new Lenin’s, and will with you dragging your feet over defending feudalism and tyranny everywhere just for you to prosper in Florida of all places and have a backup safe space in Israel, I mean how long you think you got with this? Sunriso, don’t you ever have time to get a life other than s•••posting on atlas? You have education, you have some generational wealth, you are most likely overstating your weight if your most probable voyeuristic pics on 4chan are anything to go by, you are also funny and an ok meme lord—yet you choose to bury yourself and embarrass yourself by providing ammo to the other side.

[PSOL]

You might like this story. It made me smile. The Vic Socialists on my booth approached a woman in a hijab and said that the Socialists are the only registered party to support a sovereign Palestinian state. She replied in an ocker accent - That’s fine but I’m voting here on health and education and then took my HTV card. Glad the socialists aren’t exempt from profiling people.

I highly doubt you now live in Australia Sunriso, but honestly living in what’s a socialist paradise compared to the damage you created and enabled back home is so par for the course for you, just keep running and running away from everything you break.

Anyway, the drama within the family isn’t something new. There’s been tons of conflicts finally bubbling up after years of keeping face by the Akhunds. At some point, years of toxicity without being rewarded for it socially or financially has taken its toll.

[PSOL]

You might like this story. It made me smile. The Vic Socialists on my booth approached a woman in a hijab and said that the Socialists are the only registered party to support a sovereign Palestinian state. She replied in an ocker accent - That’s fine but I’m voting here on health and education and then took my HTV card. Glad the socialists aren’t exempt from profiling people.

I highly doubt you now live in Australia Sunriso, but honestly living in what’s a socialist paradise compared to the damage you created and enabled back home is so par for the course for you, just keep running and running away from everything you break.

Anyway, the drama within the family isn’t something new. There’s been tons of conflicts finally bubbling up after years of keeping face by the Akhunds. At some point, years of toxicity without being rewarded for it socially or financially has taken its toll.

In the 1980s i went to the Spastic Centre in Knox.. I was at the 1992 Cricket World Cup match where South Africa had to win 19 runs off one ball. I've eaten fish and chips at at a park at Mordialloc. My maternal grandfather lived at 170 Araluen Drive in Hardys Bay.

Yes, I am  i n g Australian.

lol