Posted on 10/04/2022 8:41:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ever since the recent murder of a 22-year-old Iranian woman by the morality police after she was found not “properly” wearing her headscarf, protests have erupted in the streets of Tehran and other locations around the country. The government has been beating down and/or arresting the protesters, but some of them have continued to take to the streets. Yesterday, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, had clearly had enough of the unrest. He issued a blistering message to let everyone know who the real villains are and why the protests need to stop. This isn’t even about head scarfs, you see. It’s all a plot by the United States to destabilize Iran’s government. Oh, and the Jews too, of course. (Free Beacon)
Protests have swept across Iran since the regime’s morality police murdered a 22-year-old woman for not properly wearing her head covering, which is required by law under the theocratic regime. Since her death, Iranians across the country have been protesting Khamenei’s government and threatening to topple it.
“The young girl’s death was a tragic incident that saddened us too,” the supreme leader wrote. “But the right reaction to it wasn’t for some to create insecurity for [people], burn the Quran, Mosques, banks, and [people’s] cars, & to pull off women’s scarves. These weren’t normal acts. They were planned.”
U.S. and Israeli intelligence services planned and directed the protests, according to Khamenei.
“Some individuals are against stating that certain events were designed & carried out by the enemy. They stand up to defend U.S. & Zionist intelligence services, & they use fallacious analysis & rhetoric to deny it was the word of the enemy,” he wrote.
Khamenei actually tried to claim that the young woman’s death was “a tragic incident that saddened us too.” As noted above, he then went on to say that none of this has anything to do with the Hijab. He claimed that “many Iranian women who don’t observe the Hijab perfectly are among the steadfast supporters of the Islamic Republic.”
Note the use of the phrase “observe the Hijab perfectly.” (My emphasis.) Do you see how reasonable he’s being? You ladies don’t have to wear your headscarf “perfectly.” We get it. Sometimes you’re in a hurry and you might have two, maybe three hairs sticking out. We’re not monsters, after all. Sadly, Mahsa Amini apparently had four hairs running loose, so we had to beat her to death. You know how it goes, right?
It saddens me to think that there are probably still many people in Iran who actually swallow all of this nonsense, or at least are frightened enough that they pretend to swallow it. The so-called Supreme Leader’s “morality police” who beat Mahsa Amini down were not demonstrating tolerance. She was taken into custody after the attack. Most people can survive a beating if they receive medical attention after not immediately dying at the scene. She clearly received no such help. They just let her die because some of her hair was showing.
The least surprising part of all of this is the way Khamenei yet again chose to blame America and Israel. Why not? We’re the Great Satan and everything in the world is the fault of the Jews. It’s all so tiresome. Whenever I see protests erupt in Iran, I foolishly get my hopes up that moderate Iranians have had enough and they will finally overthrow their Islamic Republic leaders. And yet it never happens. Too many of them have apparently been conditioned for too long to believe the propaganda put out by the government. In that regard, they’re really not all that different than the people of North Korea. I just hope we don’t wind up having to go to war with either of them just to prove the point.
Remember the 2 million person protest in Hong Kong, and then the riots that occurred after that?
It was the CIA that instigated it ( says the CCP ).
Ah, the Ayatollah - another antiglobalist champion and hero of some around here for the cause of “multipolarity”
Well, duh.
I too came to this thread to see who would be cheering on and agreeing with the govt of Iran.
Sad days.
Yes, it isn’t traitors like Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett behind or in front of them.
Just saying...
Me too...
The St Petersburg troll farms seek any excuse to spit on the West.
I think the people of Iran have been pissed at their government, for decades. I remember when we had Iranian Air Force student pilots in Texas. I thought most of them were pretty nice people. 🤪
Just the CIA and US government employee Masih Alinejad, KhameneiIdiot, not like they US hasn’t orchestrated a coup in Iran before, right?
“Doesn’t it strike anyone as strange that the “leader” of this “freedom” movement in Iran is a US government employee and bosom buddy of the neocons? But hey, sure, it’s totally legit...”
Rand Paul Institute
https://twitter.com/RonPaulInstitut/status/1574131274817544192
“Strange idea to cast Alinejad, who lives in NYC, as the leader of the Iranian protests that are explicitly being done in the name of a local woman murdered by Iranian police. Alinejad is a US government employee who meets regularly with neocon politicians.”
Jacob Silverman
https://twitter.com/SilvermanJacob/status/1574104867756466177
Blaming foreign enemies for their own troubles.
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