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Iranian cities hit by anti-government protests
Anti-government demonstrations that began in Iran on Thursday have now spread to several major cities. Large numbers reportedly turned out in Rasht, in the north, and Kermanshah, in the west, with smaller protests in Isfahan, Hamadan and elsewhere. The protests began against rising prices but have spiralled into a general outcry against clerical rule and government policies.
A small number of people have been arrested in Tehran, the capital. They were among a group of 50 people who gathered in a city square, Tehran's deputy governor-general for security affairs told the Iranian Labour News Agency.
The US State Department condemned the arrests and urged "all nations to publicly support the Iranian people and their demands for basic rights and an end to corruption".
Also at Bloomberg and Reuters.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday December 31 2017, @05:29PM (1 child)
Wow, people always going on about Russian shills and here we have an Iranian spokesman.
Rouhani is good cop to Khameini's bad cop, nothing more. If he weren't he wouldn't have been permitted to run. Remember, you need the clerics' approval to appear on the ballot in Iran.
As for "working with Kerry" that was pretty fucking easy since both were on the same side trying to make Iran a regional power and fuck the US and its allies. Hard to turn down a plane illegally[1] loaded with untraceable currency to help them fund their terror^Wcommunity organizing. Remember, Iran funds most of the more organized terror in the region other than ISIS/AQ which were US[2] creations that went out of control. Why wouldn't they be helping Iraq fight ISIS? ISIS opposes their own attempt to seize Iraq (with the quiet support of Obama) and overthrow their puppet dictator in Syria. Duh. And they can bloviate about trying to improve the economy but until they stop trying to become a nuke power and get to reenter the rest of the world it probably ain't happening. And people there are smart enough to figure that out.
The people of Iran tried once to rid themselves of their insane clerics but apparently knew so little about the outside world that they were unaware we had a Muslim Pro Iran POTUS. He of course took the side of the Mad Mullahs and the attempt failed badly. Hopefully Trump can quietly lend a hand. But no nation building, no American troops with big targets on their backs. If we want to unwind Obama's "mistakes" we must defeat either Mad Mullahs or "Lil Rocket Man" so we should not let an opportunity pass.
[1] Yes illegal, nobody even contests the fact U.S. law clearly forbid what Obama did. Stuffing the plane with Euros instead of FRNs doesn't really relieve him of the obligations to obey the law. On the few occasions when His sycophants in the legacy media are pressed on the subject they simply admit it and then blow squid ink and change the subject. It is ok, because He is sorta a god and all that.
[2] We admit creating to the precursor of AQ way back when Reagan was helping them drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. A lot of Saudi money also went to them more recently... but we aren't supposed to notice that. And we really aren't supposed to notice Trump not having it, laying the law down in the very House of Saud and the mass arrests a few months later. Nope, nothing to see here, move along. And anyone with two functioning brain cells has long since figured out we were arming ISIS out of the ruins of Libya, resulting in a fiasco right before the 2012 election that had to be sorta covered up at all cost. More damning, less than a year after the not so secret Muslim / Communist was out of the White House the "Eternal Caliphate" was a smoking ruin.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 31 2017, @09:12PM
Says the russian shill. Can you make a New Year's resolution for a 1 year vow of silence? Think of it as charity for everyone else on earth.