I rather doubt this. In protests that get out of control the good guys have a tendency to beat the bad guys to death with fists and clubs and bricks and stones. This is because the with rare exceptions the good guys do not have the guns.
I suspect the bad guys killed one of their own to justify extreme violence in mass against the good guys. It is for "the common good you know!"
Point of conversation and analysis:
Iran supplied sophisticated shaped charges to those combating us in Iraq and Afghanistan. These weapons killed many United States Soldiers. This is in reality an unofficial act of war.
In response I would suggest the same thing, but it should be a massive flood of ammunition for the MP4, the AK-47 and the weapons that fire such ammunition. Millions and Millions into the hands of freedom loving Iranians. This would work.
I lived in Iran in the 60s as a young lad of 13. It was more European than Middle East. Life was pretty damn good. The main political battlefield and social battlefield was not between Muslim and Christian. The battle was between the communists and the imperial throne of the Reza Shah. Religion was of no importance relative to politics in Iran at that time. It was tyrannical leftest communists verses the soft pro western tyranny of the Reza Shah. He was not a bad man.
The result of his overthrow was a tyrannical theocracy that is philosophically quasi Marxist but 100% dictatorial tyranny by force, violence and fear.
Hitler did that too.
Forgot to add that when the Reza Shah was overthrown it was the communists that backed Khomeini. The Shah had the loyalty of The Army and the means and ability to destroy his opposition. He did not because Jimmy Carter pulled all support for him and in effect joined the communists and the theocracy revolution of Khomeini.
The present insanity of war and strife in the middle east are a direct result of Jimmy Carter. He is a bad man!
“” “” I lived in Iran in the 60s as a young lad of 13. It was more European than Middle East. “” “”
Well, on many levels it still is.