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Iran Protest Map
- redwood 9mo agoInspired by the bravery of the Iranian people. Sad to see so little support and enthusiasm from the Qatar funded university student crowd.
- _DeadFred_ 9mo agoThis thread is insane. WTF is going on here?
- redwood 9mo agoThis is what the kids are being spoon fed these days I guess. US = imperialism = bad. Else = good. So one dimensional. No empathy for the Iranian people who just want to be able to live with these same freedoms these kids don't even know they have. Pathetic
- AnimalMuppet 9mo agoA disinformation campaign. Probably more than one, actually.
- ukblewis 9mo agoThis is very helpful, but it is sad that with the internet outages, it seems like there is definitely less data today
- throwaway2026-2 9mo agoObviously related. The protests are not organic. There are photos online of cash, and guns provided by Mossad. Iran is trying to get control by pulling the plug on the chaos. Israel wants nothing more than another failed state filled with sectarian violence.
- siltcakes 9mo agoIronically there have been much larger real protests in Israel. Zionism has become completely unstable. The good news is that means it's close to failing, the bad news is that it will become even more desperate and violent as it perishes.
- tuktoyaktuk 9mo agoPlacing the comments for down votes. What about all the ICE and school shootings, mass shooting maps for USA? That would be definitely helpful. This post is example of American hypocrisy, double standards and propaganda. If Iran does not have oil or natural resources these clowns do not even care.
- stavros 9mo agoI took this map as a positive (Iranians protesting their totalitarian theocracy). I wish there were a corresponding map for the US, of Americans protesting their dictatorship. Alas, I don't know of any large protests yet.
- darubedarob 9mo ago[dead]
- Esophagus4 9mo agoI have so much admiration for anyone who protests a regime as oppressive and brutal as theirs. Just by being involved, I imagine they’re in serious danger. So far, more than 550 people have been killed and 20k detained by security forces.[1] Godspeed. Edit: these death numbers are from an older protest and are inaccurate. Please see article / comments below :) [1]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3kl56z2l4o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3kl56z2l4o
- quietbritishjim 9mo agoThat article says "at least 19 protesters and one member of the security forces have been killed", although that was as of a few days ago. The numbers you quoted are from the end of the article, which is about the previous demonstrations in 2022. (In fairness, it's confusing because BBC News articles put almost every sentence into its own paragraph, which I think is intended to help low literacy people read them. But it does make it hard to follow the connections between sentences that really ought to be together in a paragraph, like in this case.)
- Esophagus4 9mo agoOh, oops… thanks for the correction. Must’ve skimmed it too quickly.
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- Alupis 9mo agoUnfortunately we've seen protests like this before in Iran (perhaps not this widespread, however). Shouting in the streets won't end the regime. The regime will either just wait it out, or clamp down with violence. The people will need to take more direct action if they hope for any change to come out of this - which unfortunately likely means more death. Without weapons, the people of Iran will have a difficult time overthrowing the regime. This may highlight to some folks abroad the importance of the US's 2nd Amendment, and an armed civilian population - things we take for granted in the US, and some wish to abolish. It's a nasty, depressing situation. The regime needs to end. The people of Iran, and the people of the world will be far better off without this regime. I hope the best for the people of Iran.
- guerrilla 9mo agoThis didn't work in Firefox.
- hagbard_c 9mo agoWorks for me, current Firefox nightly on Linux. Check your extensions, especially look at uBlock Origin is you happen to use it in 'advanced' mode - I had to allow fastly.net, cartocdn.com, tailwindcss.com and unpkg.com for it to work because I default block all 3d party content.
- guerrilla 9mo ago146.0.1 on Arch Linux here. Disabled uBlock Origin; no difference. I don't have any other relevant extensions. DoH disabled. No difference in private window.
- hagbard_c 9mo agoIn what way does it not work? Anything relevant in the console? This is what I get in the console for a working map, running Firefox 148.0a1: Download the React DevTools for a better development experience: https://reactjs.org/link/react-devtools react-dom.development.js:29905:19 cdn.tailwindcss.com should not be used in production. To use Tailwind CSS in production, install it as a PostCSS plugin or use the Tailwind CLI: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation cdn.tailwindcss.com:64:1711 You are using the in-browser Babel transformer. Be sure to precompile your scripts for production - https://babeljs.io/docs/setup/ babel.min.js:3:3121456 Partitioned cookie or storage access was provided to “<URL>” because it is loaded in the third-party context and dynamic state partitioning is enabled. 2 Cookie “__cf_bm” will soon be rejected because it is foreign and does not have the “Partitioned“ attribute. settings Source map error: Error: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource. Resource URL: https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone/babel.min.js Source Map URL: babel.min.js.map
- guerrilla 9mo agoThe map is just grey. The controls are there though. cdn.tailwindcss.com should not be used in production. To use Tailwind CSS in production, install it as a PostCSS plugin or use the Tailwind CLI: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation cdn.tailwindcss.com:64:1711 You are using the in-browser Babel transformer. Be sure to precompile your scripts for production - https://babeljs.io/docs/setup/ https://babeljs.io/docs/setup/ babel.min.js:3:3121456 Source map error: Error: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource. Resource URL: https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone/babel.min.js https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone/babel.min.js Source Map URL: babel.min.js.map
- random9749832 9mo ago[flagged]
- Retz4o4 9mo agoYou 5 days ago: “ You are still young so you don't seem to get it yet but history has shown that killing or capturing the leader of a country with outside actors rarely leads to anything good. It usually just leads to more instability.”
- random9749832 9mo agoIran is heading down instability no matter what.
- cogman10 9mo agoThe only involvement Israel or any nation should have here is arming or protecting the protesters. Anything beyond that would end in disaster. And by protecting protesters, I mean granting them asylum if they need it, not sending in troops. The last thing we need is Israel or any other nation deciding they want to be the new rulers of Iran. That will work out just as well as the US's involvement in Afghanistan or Iraq.
- endtime 9mo agoThe shah wants to ally with Israel - Google "Cyrus Accords". So there's no reason for Israel to do anything but support his return quietly.
- hagbard_c 9mo agoWhile there is no doubt Israel would be glad to be rid of the current regime in Iran it is far more relevant that a large part of the Iranian population seems to want to get rid of the current regime. It is quite risky to partake in protests there but people do it anyway because they - as far as I can see rightly so - are done with their country being held back by the current regime. Let's hope that any regime change in Iran happens with as little bloodshed as possible and that the new regime actually represents the population instead of only some powerful (domestic or foreign) faction. Khamenei seems to have prepared for a run to Russia [1] together with 20 members of his family so let him climb aboard that plane and leave sooner rather than later. [1] https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601048903 https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601048903
- faisa1 9mo ago[flagged]
- clanky 9mo agoInshallah
- cboyardee 9mo ago[flagged]
- redwood 9mo agoWtf?
- lbrito 9mo agoSad how legitimate grievance is always weaponized and steered by bigger players. Protesting the Iranian government is perfectly legitimate. Binding that with supporting a return of the equally brutal and corrupt shah is depressing.
- E-Reverance 9mo agoHow was he equally brutal
- Aloisius 9mo agoThat Shah died in 1980.
- mkoubaa 9mo agoI can't decide who I despise more, the regime or the people cheerleading a revolution where a lot of innocent people will suffer
- hurricanepootis 9mo agoI fear so much for the future of Iran. Iran needs to decide its future, free from outside powers. Iran's entire 20th and 21st centuries of paranoia and strife can be traced back to, partly (imo mostly), to British, Russian, and eventually American interference, meddling, and domination in the 19th, 20th, and 21st century respectively. Iran will never have a happy store as long as it remains an "interests" for greater powers.
- ukblewis 9mo agoCertainly foreign powers caused a lot of damage to Iran, but nowhere near as much as the Islamic Regime and considering that is what, I hope, we are witnessing the overthrow of. I think that we have cause to be optimistic
- regularization 9mo agoWhat countries helped overthrow prime minister Mossadegh, who wanted to nationalize Iran's foreign owned oil, and installed a dictatorship? What countries backed the mullahs against Iran's secular and left opposition, helping SAVAK kill the opposition? In 1979 the US was working to prevent anti-anti-Russian forces from coming to power, not the mullahs.
- derektank 9mo agoThe clergy also backed the Shah’s auto-golpe in the 50s
- hurricanepootis 9mo agoThe clergy weren't explicitly backing the Shah, they were just fearful of anything like communism happening, since most communist countries/communists are aesthetes. Iranian clergy as an institution starting coming into political power, really, around the time of the Russian-Persian wars, were one of the highest ranking Shia scholars in Iran issues a fatwa supporting the war against Russia.
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- Aloisius 9mo agoWhat's considered a "large crowd" or a "small crowd"? Given there are only three categories, I'd expect large to be on the order of hundreds of thousands, but I don't think that is the case here?
- esseph 9mo agoMillions https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7y0579lp8o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7y0579lp8o
- zeofig 9mo agoIt would be cool to have protest maps in another politically unstable middle eastern country too.
- starik36 9mo agoWhat other middle eastern country is having protests? Haven't heard.
- afavour 9mo agoNot to detract from the content here but I do find it very telling that posts about domestic US issues (including protests) repeatedly get flagged on HN, including just today[1], but there are currently two posts about Iranian protests on the front page. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543457
- WillPostForFood 9mo ago[flagged]
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- LadyCailin 9mo agoThat’s not equivalent at all. And even if it was, that’s what downvoting is for, not flagging.
- mc32 9mo agoOne aspect is that there has been little coverage by the media about these protests that have been going on for close to a couple of weeks and two, presumably the Iranian regular forces are repressing their protestors. People in the US are protesting against what the same organization, despite doing the same job under previous presidencies didn’t get protested as much if at all. If I recall correctly last year the current admin just beat the Obama admin on people deported in a single year.
- beginnings 9mo agoobama deported way more if I recall recolec, its all about narratives tho
- clanky 9mo agoIt's about putting an unaccountable army of masked goons on American streets.
- beginnings 9mo ago[flagged]
- Vaslo 9mo agoI’d call Israel our ally but you do you
- newspaper1 9mo agoI'd call Israel our #1 enemy and agree with the poster that this is an inorganic bit of vile propaganda.
- siltcakes 9mo agoIsrael is not, and never has been our ally.
- breppp 9mo agoWhat was always intriguing for me in Iranian politics is the support for bringing back the Shah, a government which was not the pinnacle of freedom. It's either things are that bad, people are nostalgic or it's a narrative pushed by the Islamic Republic to defame the protestors (the last seems unlikely though). Isn't there the possibility of just asking for a non-autocratic figure?
- voidfunc 9mo agoDemocracy is not just a switch you flip on or off. Iran has literally no cultural history of anything than autocracy. Monarch -> Shah -> Theocratic Dictator. Its a very western view that Democracy is the pinnacle form of government. I dont think all cultures align that way.
- breppp 9mo agoEven if that's the case, you would assume they'd not ask back for the previous problematic iteration. I do agree that democracy generally fails in the middle east or anywhere there is a sizable amount of people that do not believe in democracy. However, the current Iranian system is autocratic but it works really hard to mask it to appear democratic, so obviously the appearance is important to them and presumably for the people
- zozbot234 9mo ago"Shah" is actually an abbreviation for Persian "Shahanshah" ("King of kings"), the very same title Cyrus the Great claimed. But the Shah's government in the 20th century was actually quite successful in modernizing the country, fostering a robust middle class, securing women's rights and gradually reducing the oppressive power of Islamic clerics in education and the court system. This is ultimately why those very same clerics ultimately pushed for an "Islamic" revolution which undid the bulk of those gains. > Its a very western view that Democracy is the pinnacle form of government. Not only a Western view: South Korea made a very successful transition from an initially authoritarian government to a real liberal democracy, and a very similar story in Taiwan. But the key there is "liberal", as in "classical liberal": protection of foundational rights actually matters a whole lot more than whether people are physically able to vote for a candidate on an election ballot. The latter is generally useless without the former, but it does help make popular sovereignty more robust once the former is in place.
- nullorempty 9mo agoYea, keep this coming. A 2014 coup in Ukraine worked wonderfully!
- sporkxrocket 9mo ago[flagged]
- clanky 9mo ago[flagged]
- hagbard_c 9mo agoWhy is a map of unrest in Iran equal to Israeli propaganda? I'd say the Iranian population has more agency than whatever Israeli institution you'd accuse of producing this site, let alone going out in the streets of Iranian cities to protest the current regime.
- sporkxrocket 9mo agoWell first of all a lot of these protest are pro Iranian government. Second, there are much bigger anti-government protests happening right now in Israel, but there's no state apparatus trying to bring attention to them (quite the opposite). An Israeli bus driver even drove over an murdered an anti-war protester. But most importantly, this is a coordinated effort to manufacture consent for Israel's next preemptive attack on Iran.
- endtime 9mo agoYou're wrong I'm so many ways it's hard to know where to start, but one obvious one is that the teenager who was run over was not an anti-war protestor, he was protesting a potential change to exemption from military conscription for the ultra-Orthodox. Not a peacenik. Haredi conscription is a contentious issue but framing it as anti-war is disingenuous.
- sporkxrocket 9mo agoI mean, not wanting to be drafted into a genocidal army is anti-war.
- beginnings 9mo ago[flagged]
- endtime 9mo agoThey're actually not doing that, they're doing the opposite of that, calling to bring back the secular shah to replace their current Islamic theocracy.
- newspaper1 9mo agoBe weary of taking this seriously. The Israelis are trying to drum up support for attacking Iran. It's pretty shameful that this is posted on HackerNews tbh.
- clanky 9mo agoJohn Cleese, JK Rowling, and Eric Weinstein are all flogging this on X, it's hilarious. They've got all their best old codgers on the case!
- newspaper1 9mo agoNot to mention genocidal venture capitalists like Shaun Macguire at Sequoia.
- newspaper1 9mo agoThe immediate flagging of any non-Zionist comment on this and the other Iran post is pretty wild. Mods can you please disable flags or at least do something about the clear manipulation happening here?
- owebmaster 9mo agoThey can flag it faster, does it help?
- mkoubaa 9mo agoIn any MENA related post I've just learned to use inverted ranking. Start at the bottom and go up. Might make a chrome extension to toggle that
- siltcakes 9mo ago[flagged]
- mkoubaa 9mo agoOP (breppp) posts nothing but political content. Such accounts should be banned.
- lbrito 9mo agoJust gonna drop this, from dang a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818 >we want most political stories to be flagged on HN, for a critical reason: if they weren't, then HN would turn into a current-affairs site, and that would not be HN at all. See all the instances of "we do not want most political stories": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=dang%20current%20affairs&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Guess this is one of the exceptions!
- clanky 9mo agoUnfortunately many of these people revel in hypocrisy, and believe it makes them superior that they are willing to use it when others aren't. Nevertheless always worth pointing out!
- clanky 9mo agoWell it only took 4 hours but there's the flag.
- vorpalhex 9mo agoLiterally once in a lifetime chances for human rights in a regime that has hung several women for not covering their faces this year is a bit different then the latest CNN headline.
- clanky 9mo ago[flagged]
- vorpalhex 9mo agoIsrael would much rather the people of Iran look like the UK or Germany - employed, safe, happy, free - than the reign of terror of both Iranians and non-Iranians being attacked directly and by proxy. If your antisemitism runs so deep you are willing to sacrifice the Iranian people to hurt the Jews, you are not a friend of the Iranian people.
- iranianagent 9mo ago“If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
- orwin 9mo agoProtesting theocracies is a sacred duty for any self-respecting leftist. I rather have a monarchy than a theocracy, a dictatorship rather than a monarchy, an oligarchy rather than a dictatorship, and a democracy rather than an oligarchy. That said: please also protest any inference from foreign power, whether they are an oligarchy, a dictatorship or another theocracy/ethno-state. If the current Syrian situation is believable, a revolution/coup from the base show better results than one supported by the US/Russia or local powers.
- LePetitPrince 9mo ago[dead]