Posted on 01/08/2020 5:21:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
“...2 people bribed with juice packs.”
Lol
Idiot BBC News. Do they even know how the”islamic revolution” came about? Short answer: at gunpoint.
“B” is the correct answer.
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Iranian-Backed Militias Open Fire On Civilians Refusing To Attend A Ceremony For The Now Dead General Qasem Soleimani..
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3806025/posts
A couple of days ago a Freeper posted that he had a relative who recently spent quite a time in Iran. The relative said that food is being rationed due to the impact of sanctions. The relative further said that Iranians are told that if they and their families don’t show up to these kinds of events and show enthusiastic support they will not get their food rations.
Oops, I should have read all the posts before posting myself. That Freeper was ArtDodger, who stated it again in post 11 above.
Soleimani was a beloved individual in Iran. He was seen as a warrior who brought the fight to ISIS abroad which meant they wouldn’t have to fight ISIS at home. ISIS had attacked Iran as well.
Typical Leftist distortion of reality...typical and expected. What’s new?
“...as a revolutionary that would depose the mullahs and reintroduce Iran into the modern world...”
Gee, that sounds sorta like the Shah.
He was doing an acceptable job bringing Iran into the modern world before A-hole Jimmah Carter enabled A-hole Khomeini to impose the mullahcracy dictatorship on Iran.
He didn’t enjoy widespread support.
When you threaten people with their lives for not showing up, yeah, they’ll show up but it doesn’t mean support, it means intimidation.
I haven’t heard anyone point out the facts:
There are about 200,000 active personnel between IRGC & Basij. It doesn’t seem unusual to me that huge crowds would show up. All of their families would be required to show up, as well as past IRGC members
“typical leftist distortion of reality”
the same tactic they use for crowds at trump rallies...
Another concept the commie-dems would enact here if they could.
Bern or one of the other whack jobs will probably use that as a plank in their campaign platform.
Very true. At the time Iran’s students, academia and “radical chic” upper classes were in the thrall of the leftist narrative. They saw the Shah as the illegitimate byproduct of the American CIA cold war intervention in 1952. Despite his good works, it was their fervent mission to depose him. If you speak to some of these people now in their seventies who made it to the US, their hatred of the Shah persists but they never expected that their “coup” or revolution would result in mullah rule. As Dante wrote it is all comedy in the final analysis.
Iran’s a totalitarian state... the only people stupid enough to ‘not know’ how totalitarian states operate are members of the American press.
(The American press also falls for George Soros ‘bought and paid for’ protests too.)
People showed up because they were required to show up or die.
Is that what caused the “STAMPEDE” at the beginning of one of the rallies?
That is what I concluded.
What else would cause hundreds of people to trample over hundreds of other people. Most likely being shot at. After all, it wasn’t a The Who concert.
First comes the gun confiscation. All else follows.
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