Posted on 01/02/2018 6:23:10 AM PST by RoosterRedux
“I think you’re beginning to see the initial kernel of a revolution forming right now. If this thing is sustained over a period of time and the government tries to clamp down, but the numbers of protesters grow, I think at that point you’ve got a revolution on your hands,” Kaveh Sharooz, a Toronto lawyer, human rights activist and former senior policy adviser to Global Affairs Canada, told me over the weekend.
Sharooz served as prosecutor in the “Iran Tribunal,” an ad hoc initiative that assembled jurists and international law specialists at the Hague five years ago to assemble a case against senior Khomeinist officials on charges of crimes against humanity for the murder of roughly 20,000 Iranian leftists, intellectuals and minority leaders during the 1980s.
“You’ve got all the elements of a revolution now,” Shahrooz said. “You’ve got an oppressed population rising up and demanding justice—the wholesale discarding of a government—and that government is clamping down. That’s what a revolution looks like. There’s no magic to it. That’s what it is, and I think we’re beginning to see the early forms of it.”
Another thing that makes the current revolt different from 2009 is that the mass protests back then articulated aims that were solely reformist. Brutally crushed by Khamenei’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its Basij militia, the 2009 protests revolved around charges of vote-rigging within a pantomime election process. The protesters took the lead from their failed “Green Movement” presidential candidates, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, both of whom are still under house arrest.
This time around, the uprising is leaderless, and freelance journalist Samira Mohyeddin, a prominent figure in Toronto’s Iranian diaspora, says that’s a good thing. “There isn’t a single person they can go after and put under house arrest.
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Iranians have more balls by miles than the people of Calipornia.
Iranians have more balls by miles than the people of Calipornia.
Persian spring.
Does any one have any idea what an actual revolution in Iran would look like at this point? Is it a brutal knockdown dragout between power and the people? Does power nervously eye the mob, the pallets of cash they’ve recently received from soul-mates, decided ‘screw it” and bug out?
It’s what a revolt looks like. Time will tell if it’s a revolution.
There have been reports for days of aircraft leaving Tehran, unmarked planes, no flight plans, destination unknown.
Let’s game this out a little. What if Iran suddenly became a secular nation and gave up its Jihadi ways? There’s a sort of yin and yang to the Middle East. Does this mean that the Saudi attempt to move away from the Jihad will reverse?
From our own experience, when Democrats are in power going to war anywhere is okay. But put a Republican in charge and the Democrats do a 180 flip on policy. I think it’s the same in the Middle East. There’s a huge space labeled “Jihad.” If the Iranians aren’t filling it somebody else will. Because with that space goes a whole lot of followers, money and power.
And Obama who sold them out to the mullahs
Might become effective if all those planes that left Iran so suspiciously were carrying the current Iranian leadership goons. Those planes were not bringing all that odumbo donated money back to the U.S., that’s for certain.
This is a part of a worldwide populist movement. IMO this ties in with the Trump movement and the Brexit movement. This is a movement against collectivism and toward individual rights.
The movement in Iran will inspire people in other places because people are giving their lives for an ideal, the ideal of liberty, like always.
The thirst for freedom never dies, it will always bubble up against repression and collectivism.
“And Obama who sold them out to the mullahs”
What?
Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy would do such a thing?
Whod’a thought?
Could you imagine if Trump returned the Middle to a pre-Carter state ?
Vacationing in Iran, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Damascus ?
The point at which a revolution takes off is when the people take it personal. Once a sufficient number of fathers have lost their sons and sons have lost their fathers in the conflict, the revolution feeds upon itself until the entire population is involved.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
“What if Iran suddenly became a secular nation and gave up its Jihadi ways?”
Sounds rather like the Iran of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. This just goes to illustrate yet another failing of the Bush 43 presidency. There was a similar uprising in Iran in 2003 and the dissidents were waiting for nothing more than a signal from the Bush administration that the United States was behind them. That signal never came (Powell opposed it) and many of us in the administration at the time vehemently disagreed.
This started as “The Student Revolution” in Iran late in Bush’s term.
But Obama put a stop to that by promoting “The Arab Spring” - which was supposed to instill the muslim brotherhood - but which really led to ISIS
Until then, no matter how pissed off or desperate the man in the suq is, it's a revolt.
Pray for a revolution.
The peasants are revolting!....................Yeah, they stink on ice!................
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