Iran protesters chanting ‘DEATH to Rouhani’ and raise slogans against Khamenei

[Arabi]

A poster circulating on social media by Iranian activists calling this day as "Red Thursday"

Today in Asfahan, the protest continues against the terrorist Mullah regime.

https://twitter.com/x/status/948925996111220736

 

[Solomon2]

Honestly I don't understand from where you get this nonsense . 90% of statistic is wrong .

The author was an international long-term bond analyst. It's his job to collect and process such statistics. Do you think he'd murder his reputation by touting phony ones? So when you try to dismiss his words with, "90% of statistic is wrong" you'll have to be specific and provide proof.

 

[Hack-Hook]

The author was an international long-term bond analyst. It's his job to collect and process such statistics. Do you think he'd murder his reputation by touting phony ones? So when you try to dismiss his words with, "90% of statistic is wrong" you'll have to be specific and provide proof.

The first mistake is Iran population which he claim by 2025 reach 80 million while in fact it already surpassed 80 million .
Also Iran don't have the highest rate of stds and its far from it .and for the information temporary marriage in Iran society looked worst than having no marriage at all (honnestly I don't knew why temporary marriage must be worst than no marriage, at least in it rights of the children's are protected)
Also no bank failed to pay people money and its all a lie and no the average working person in today Iran wnot come from a family of 7 maybe 30 years ago yes but today the families are a lot smaller so if it wanted to be crisis the crisis already happened and from now the pension problem you mentioned get better not worst.

 

[Arabi]

the Protestors in Dezful city kick out an IRGC member from the streets ....

https://twitter.com/x/status/948953292566122497

This Mullah regime has no more popular base in Iran

 

[Mirzah]

Protests are dying out already, good
http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-protests-dying-down-regime-getting-weaker-2018-1

 

[Arabi]

Protest against the Mullah regime in the capital Tehran is still ongoing with huge presnce of Khamenei's thugs

 

[Solomon2]

The first mistake is Iran population which he claim by 2025 reach 80 million while in fact it already surpassed 80 million .

This claim is not in this article but a linked one you must have read where Goldman discusses that Iran's population will fall to 80 million by mid-century.

Also Iran don't have the highest rate of stds and its far from it -

In a linked article Mr. Goldman cites Iranian sources, with the qualification, "This is a tentative conclusion, to be sure, because Iran's fairly primitive public health system has produced only fragmentary evidence about STD infection rates..." Do you have data to contradict his?

Not gonna bother with the other stuff, two refutations are enough.

 

[Solomon2]

DemocracyPost
Opinion
The West should stop dithering and show its support for the protesters in Iran
By Natan Sharansky January 3 at 3:55 PM

University students run from stones thrown by police during an anti-government protest on Dec. 30 inside Tehran University in Iran. (AP)

Natan Sharansky served nine years as a prisoner in Soviet Gulag for his human rights activities. He is Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

In recent days, Iranian citizens from various places and diverse walks of life have taken to the streets in protest against their clerical rulers. Outside of Iran, meanwhile, we have seen experts in the world’s most powerful capitals insisting that their leaders should not get involved. The usual argument is that external support for the protesters will only harm their cause by tainting it with endorsement from the West.

As an opinion piece in the New York Times recently put it, the best way for the U.S. government to help the Iranian protesters is to “Keep quiet and do nothing.”

Fortunately, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have already shown themselves unwilling to follow this advice. Even so, it is vital to understand why failing to support the protesters at this critical juncture would constitute a moral and strategic mistake — one of potentially historic proportions.

Consider what happened in 2009, when Iranians came out in large numbers to denounce their country’s rigged presidential election. The response they received from the American government was decidedly tepid. The priority of then-President Barack Obama was to reach an agreement with Tehran over its nuclear program, and he and his advisers feared that they would alienate the regime by vocally supporting its detractors.

Yet subsequent events have proved these views completely wrong. This policy of non-interference discouraged protesters and reinforced the regime at the very moment when the opposite could have led to genuine change.

My experiences as a political prisoner and my decades of involvement with democratic dissidents around the world have shown me that all democratic revolutions have some elements in common. It is the drive of ordinary citizens to free themselves from government control over their thought, speech and livelihoods — to shed the burden of having to conform in public despite their private misgivings and grievances against the regime — that has propelled dissidents and revolutionary movements around the world, from Communist Russia to the Arab Spring to today’s Islamic Republic of Iran.

Any regime that refuses to respect its citizens’ most basic rights, and especially the right to think and speak freely, can maintain its power only by intimidation and force. While some true believers may genuinely accept these official dogmas, others — I call them “double-thinkers” — question their government but are too afraid of retribution to publicly speak out against it. For these people, fear of the harsh consequences of dissent makes all the difference between silent critique and open protest.

Dissidents know the penalties of speaking out but are compelled more by the desire for freedom than by fear. They are willing to brave the consequences, including the loss of their livelihoods, physical freedom and even their lives, to gain the liberty to speak their minds. Revolutions take place when enough people simultaneously cross that fateful line between silent questioning and open dissent, between cowering in fear and standing up for freedom. Once they do so, the regime can no longer contain the upsurge of opposition and must either begin to liberalize or collapse.

This is why a policy of silence on the part of world leaders is so misguided. What matters to Iranians debating whether to cross this decisive threshold is how much they dislike their own government, as well as their knowledge that the free world — those who share the basic principles for which they are fighting — stands behind them in their moment of truth.

The last time Iran stood on the brink of such a change, the Obama administration’s policy implicitly told Iranians that the United States did not stand behind them. By assuring Iran’s rulers that he preferred the status quo to any policy that would weaken or destabilize the regime, the president took the wind out of the protesters’ sails and gave courage to their oppressors. What could have been a moment of genuine liberalization gave way instead to another brutal government crackdown.

Now that history is repeating itself, the free world has a chance to avoid making the same mistake. Our leaders must not be misled by the argument that publicly siding with Iran’s dissidents will give the regime an excuse to blame the protests on foreign meddling or crack down even harder on dissidents. The government in Tehran will do these things no matter what, since a regime as threatened as Iran’s is right now will take any steps in its power to deflect and suppress opposition.

Yet, world powers should go even further than this. They should warn Tehran — and thereby reassure protesters — that it must respect its citizens’ rights if it wishes to continue receiving benefits from their countries. Articulating a clear policy of linkage would put pressure on the regime to make genuine changes and give hope to protesters that their sacrifices will not be in vain.

It is time for all those who value freedom to state clearly that the Iranian people — like all people — deserve to be free, and that when they fight for this right, those of us who already enjoy it will stand unequivocally by their side.

 

[Hack-Hook]

This claim is not in this article but a linked one you must have read where Goldman discusses that Iran's population will fall to 80 million by mid-century.

In a linked article Mr. Goldman cites Iranian sources, with the qualification, "This is a tentative conclusion, to be sure, because Iran's fairly primitive public health system has produced only fragmentary evidence about STD infection rates..." Do you have data to contradict his?

Not gonna bother with the other stuff, two refutations are enough.

If it was that high I would see it and because its my job and about Iran population its already 80.26 million and as for primitive health system that claim alone show that not you not Mr. Goldman knew nothing about it or let say your data is outdated and belong to more than 20 years ago just like the data about each Iranian worker come from a family that had an average of 7 person which incidentally belonged to 30 years ago.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2000, Iran ranks 58 in healthcare and 93 in health-system performance.[9] In 2016, Bloomberg News ranked Iran 30th most efficient healthcare system ahead of United States and Brazil.[10]

Iran's primary healthcare system has been rated as "excellent" by UNICEF.[13][13]

 

[PeninsulaFalcon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/948975578333499394

https://twitter.com/x/status/948961501322334209

 

[Arabi]

the protestors in Falahiya city burn the Iranian flag and chant "Falahiya is Arabiya"

https://twitter.com/x/status/949062818342547458

https://twitter.com/x/status/949062818342547458

 

[Fafnir]

The author was an international long-term bond analyst. It's his job to collect and process such statistics. Do you think he'd murder his reputation by touting phony ones? So when you try to dismiss his words with, "90% of statistic is wrong" you'll have to be specific and provide proof.

Well its pretty easy to dismiss someone who writes so called "articles" with titles like:"Why Iran is obsessed with Jews (hint: same as Hitler)" or "Prince Mohammed bin Sultan Is Exactly Right: Iran Is the New Hitler" or "zionism for christians" or books with titles like "How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)"
Lets just say that titles like these clearly dont help his credibility any or make him seem to be an unbiased neutral observer,in fact he clearly seems to have an anti-iranian/muslim axe to grind.
This joker is clearly a zionist and likely an islamophobe as well.

 

[sammuel]

 

[Solomon2]

...someone who writes so called "articles" with titles like:"Why Iran is obsessed with Jews (hint: same as Hitler)" or "Prince Mohammed bin Sultan Is Exactly Right: Iran Is the New Hitler" or "zionism for christians" or books with titles like "How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)"
Lets just say that titles like these clearly dont help his credibility -

He doesn't write articles for "credibility"; he already possessed that in his field. The headlines are attention-getting shock value but sustained by the content within.

or make him seem to be an unbiased neutral observer

Being "an unbiased neutral observer" is not the same as writing truthfully. Indeed, it's more like a disqualification.

in fact he clearly seems to have an anti-iranian/muslim axe to grind. This joker is clearly a zionist and likely an islamophobe as well.

True or not, they don't subtract from his analyses, do they?

 

[SALMAN F]

https://twitter.com/x/status/946445409186209793

Thousands of residents n a number of Iranian cities including the north-eastern city of Mashhad took to the streets on Thursday demonstrating against unemployment, poverty and the rising cost of living.

Protesters raised the slogans "Death to Rouhani, and Death to the Dictator". Usually the term "dictator" is addressed to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Protesters also waved banners denouncing Iran's interference in the Arab region.

Similar protests were held in cities of Neyshabur, Shahroud, and Yazd.

There were angry chants of “Death to the Dictator” and “Death to Rouhani.”

The demonstrators also chanted “Forget about Syria, think about us”, “Don’t be scared, we are all together.”

Mashhad is the second most populous city in Iran and capital of Razavi Khorasan Province. It is located in the northeast of the country, bordering Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.

In Mashhad, the state security forces attacked and fired tear gas into the protestors.

Earlier this week, demonstrations broke out in Isfahan, central Iran, in protest against the unemployment crisis.

Officials in Isfahan warned of the worsening unemployment crisis, with statistics indicating that more than 27,000 people were fired from their jobs because firms went bankrupt over the past nine months.


Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), described today’s uprising in Mashhad as indicative of the popular and nationwide desire for the overthrow of the clerical regime. She said today’s protests in various parts of Iran once again show that the overthrow of the clerical regime and establishment of democracy and popular sovereignty is the demand of Iranians nationwide.

Rajavi said while the overwhelming majority of Iranian people suffer from poverty, inflation, and unemployment, a major portion of the national wealth and income is being used for the military and intelligence apparatus and for belligerence and meddling in the region or is being plundered by the regime’s senior officials.

“Thus, as long as this regime is in power the economy and the welfare of Iranians will deteriorate, and the only solution to the economic and social ills and the crisis is the regime’s overthrow”, she said.

Alarabiya

the Iranians are fed up and want to get their country back from this terrorist regime

So when the Saudis are going to protest the corruption and dictatorship of their government

Of course when you combine them with afghan and Arabs . Iranian regime has enough militias to suppress these protests my only fear is if things go out of control then extreme radical Persian nationalists will start blaming Arabs for killing freedom protestors.

Something most people here don't understand secular Persians in Iran refer to anyone who is conservative in Iran as Arab including the mullah regime.

The protests will not topple or even reach the point of violence because iran knows how to deal with such situation

He is referring to conservative Iranians like yourself as Arabs , read my previous post when I explained this .
Extreme secular Persian nationalists refers to conservative Iranian muslims as Arabs and wish to kill them if it was in their hands . These people hate Arabs even much more than the current Mullah regime , this is why I told people here not to support these protests as its done by extreme secular persians .

Iranian regime should leave the Arabs and focus on its people

I agree that the non arab muslims are just brain washed arab worshipers

The Iranian regime will take care of your kind , whether you like it or not Iran will remain an Islamic state. We certainly dont like the current Mullah regime but we will never support atheist and ultra persian nationalists against them .

Iranians are already leaving Islam the future of the Middle East is irreligious

My message to fellow Arabs dont support these protests in any shape . This protest was done by extreme secular persian nationalists who hate Arabs deeply and if they rule Iran my god forbid they will be way worse than the current mullah regime .

I do not support the mullah regime in Iran but they are way better than the extreme secular persian opposition .

Arabs specially Saudis don't know anything about iran specially they consider rajavi cult as the only iranian opposition

Anyway these protests are failure they were started by hard liners and people because of the economic situation but the iranian nationalists made it into thing anti the regime and anti Islam they even attacked reza Pahlavi and called him saudi agent because he didn't support they anti arab slogans like "we are Aryans we don't worship the god of the Arabs" the problem here that the stupid arab media call the atheist nationalist opposition