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Telegram is full of gigantic rallies all hours of the day and night supporting the Iranian government. Even street interviews with young women (no hijab!) claim
by CapricornNoble 7mo ago
Telegram is full of gigantic rallies all hours of the day and night supporting the Iranian government. Even street interviews with young women (no hijab!) claiming they were formerly protesters but aren't going to tolerate foreigners bombing their country.
Do you have some solid sources on the ground to the contrary?
- moi2388 7mo agoAll the Iranians I personally know. About 15 families.
- keybored 7mo agoPresumably you are not in Iran. Where people are getting bombed and feel the consequences of “finally [getting] rid of the Iranian regime”. Some circles might have only pro-Trump Americans. Others might only have anti-Trump Americans. And yet your experience is all-knowing? With 15 families? Outside of Iran (presumably).
- CapricornNoble 7mo agoAs the sister comment alludes, how many of those 15 families are in Iran? My professor from my graduate program and his family are all Iranian. It's no surprise that they anti-regime: his wife's uncles were generals in the Shah's army, and were "disappeared" during the Revolution. They've been living in Japan for ~40 years. Hardly indicative of the opinion of the "man on the street" in Tehran, Isfahan, or Mashhad.
- ipaddr 7mo agoHave they risen up yet and taken over their town? Has anyone?
- HDThoreaun 7mo agoEvery expat is an expat for a reason. They are in no way representative of what people living on the country think.