Sadly I have to agree. (I'll go further unlike in the past as long as a regime can keep hold of the military/pseudo-military no popular revolution is going to win.)
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A Revolution Could Soon Be Under Way in Iran
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Easy. The new regime start handing out peace prizes that are bigger and shinier than the ones from Norway. To Dump, of course.
erwinl
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Yeah this.
someone a bit earlier hoped that the regime would do an Assad and go into hiding in Moscow or something.
It looks like they're doing an Assad as in the reaction to the Arab spring. Which gave us the IS caliphate and a whole bunch of more and more radicalized rebels.
In the end it looks like Syria is, very, very, very tentatively, turning out alright, but at what cost in human lives and what could it have become if IS had won their part of the civil war?
If the Iran regime is going Assad v2, instead of the repression they're doing now, the end result for Iran could very well be, some kind of moderate replacement government.
The longer it takes like it does now, the more blood will flow, the more radical the protesters will become. With the possible end result that, should the present regime eventually fall, the replacement will be more of the same. Only with other people being oppressed.
Andy_Ross
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Emily's Cat
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It wasn't actually serious. I mean, I certainly wouldn't object to helping arm citizens so they can pursue democracy rather than a tyranny... but it's not like I was making a sincere suggestion.
Sure, sure, because some states having absurdly strict abortion laws is totally identical to literally making females second-class-non-citizens without any individual rights, treated like property, forbidden to gain education, required to cover their hair and bodies, and only allowed out in public if chaperoned by a male relative. Yep.... identical.
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Emily's Cat
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General request: This thread is about the situation in Iran, which is kind of a big deal. Can you please restrain yourselves just a little bit, and keep all of your various ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ on Trump commentary in one of the dozens of threads that are dedicated to that topic already?
Skeptical Greg
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...or one of the thousands of other threads that aren't about Trump but have been Trumped anyway.
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TragicMonkey
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I'd be delighted if Trump had no involvement with Iran's nascent revolution but he does insist on inserting himself into the news by making promises and threats about it. Which makes him topical to this thread. Tell you what: you get Trump to shut up and keep out of it, and the rest of us will stop mentioning him in this thread.
Emily's Cat
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It's become impossible to have ANY discussion on this forum that doesn't devolve into a ◊◊◊◊ show about Trump.
The Great Zaganza
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you could open a poetry thread
dudalb
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The bad guys will probbly win...again.
And I predict that some on the left will start making excuses for and telling us the regime is "not that bad" soon.
And I predict that some on the left will start making excuses for and telling us the regime is "not that bad" soon.
Skeptical Greg
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He's going to airdrop paper towels?
And as usual your prediction will be wrong but also as usual you’ll never acknowledge that.
Lukraak_Sisser
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It's almost as if the **** show of a president tries to claim anything happening in the world? But nah, that would mean the servant of evil would be claiming both that the protests in Iran are due to his influence, he'll bring help and at the same time doing nothing all over his social media.
Andy_Ross
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There was an old ◊◊◊◊ called Trump.
Who...
angrysoba
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Why should we do that when Trump himself has said he is going to take action in Iran and has called for Iranian protesters to keep taking to the streets promising that help is on the way? That’s kind of a big deal and perfectly relevant to the thread.
Skeptical Greg
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..shouted his praise from a stump.
theprestige
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Looks like Iran has now made a thinly-veiled threat to assassinate President Trump.
TragicMonkey
Poisoned Waffles
Iran does have a thing about veils. For now.