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In both cases the protests won't achieve much because half the population supports the government, and in both cases the half that supports the government is be
by logicchains 9mo ago
In both cases the protests won't achieve much because half the population supports the government, and in both cases the half that supports the government is better armed.
- flanked-evergl 9mo agoI don't think half the Iranian population support's the regime. Can you share the evidence for this claim?
- jalapenos 9mo agoUnfortunately he's probably right. It's a "better the devil you know" situation, and those institutionally and ethnically aligned with the regime fear its collapse more. From what I've read anyway.
- flanked-evergl 9mo agoThis is not evidence of anything.
- spwa4 9mo agoI highly doubt that in Iran half the population supports the government. If you hear Iranians it's more like 5%. Even if it's really double that, that's still only 10%. Plus after wars the mullahs wanted that ended in total disaster and enormous numbers of casualties (given that the central promise of islam, of allah if you will, is military success), whilst the mullahs never had real support of the Iranian army, there are now reports of a lot of individual soldiers and even one or two of entire units attacking mullahs and religious schools, killing teachers and students. Oh, and after the recent "success" against Israel, the mullahs once again cut military pensions, with now reports they just stopped paying entirely. Given that it's the military doing the planes, one wonders that if the "supreme leader" runs to a plane if he'd make it on board the plane without a bullet. The government only has the basiji, the "religious army" (technically their name means mobilization of the oppressed, a reference to Marxism, and to who brought the mullahs to power. Of course in practice the basiji is anything but what their name implies, they are the oppressors).