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by breppp 9mo ago
I agree that Israel has largely won the war to an extent that greatly reduced the fear the regime created in its own citizens which hastened this current protests I am less convinced this is the end though, but maybe another step in a slow
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by breppp 9mo ago
1. Well, we are digressing to the Gaza conflict, but calling it a genocide is probably just a form of turning up the volume on social media to generate some engagement. It is hardly similar to real mass murders whose goal was destruction of
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by breppp 9mo ago
That has been a case of "the enemy of my enemy" as the Al Nusra Islamists had still considered Israel as infidels that need to be eventually be dealt with. Israel more pressing Islamist threat, Hezbollah, was the focus back then a
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by breppp 9mo ago
1. Far less interested than in Gaza, for example 2. Hard to tell yet, there are videos that at least claim to show hundreds of dead which indicate both mass shooting and mass demonstrations 3. The issue is that like in USSR, any political p
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by breppp 9mo ago
Surely saying that Jordan and the UAE are one of the most aggressive dictatorships in the context of discussing Iran is sarcasm I am missing
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by breppp 9mo ago
> The regime was organically declining in popularity. Israel’s war simply rejuvenated the regime’s supporter base without any meaningful gains on the ground. That is a statement that might make sense two weeks ago, but now? Evidently the
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by breppp 9mo ago
Example wrong claims: 1. Jolani was propped up by Turkey not Israel, their relations are still tense. E.g. Jolani has been massacring the Druze which are Israel's allies, while Israel-Turkey relations are only getting worse. Unsure whe
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by breppp 9mo ago
There's an alliance between the new left and islamism due to some ideological similarities. Sure one side would march for pride and the other hangs gays on cranes. However, in foreign policy both explain anything as some product of col
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by breppp 9mo ago
why stop there? maybe khamenei is a CIA asset made to create a caricature of an evil external enemy?
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by breppp 9mo ago
The US only supported jawlani in the last year after he took control and shown himself as relatively pragmatic so I don't think this take aligns with reality. Up until 2024 he had a 10 million reward on his head and it would be very pl
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by breppp 9mo ago
better for these guys: https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?phrase=public+han...
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by breppp 9mo ago
That story is based on rumors and denied by the minister himself. However, French media reports the Iranian elites are trying to get french visas https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601089494 Other unconfirmed rumors curren
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by breppp 9mo ago
Even 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
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by breppp 9mo ago
What 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
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by breppp 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547303 There was a recent post containing a (different) map of the protests that was flagged, but here goes
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Iran Protest Map(pouyaii.github.io)
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by breppp 9mo ago
or alternatively to shutdown information flowing out just before the killing begins https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2020/11/iran...
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by breppp 9mo ago
Map of protests: https://pouyaii.github.io/Iran/
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by breppp 9mo ago
Ministry of Information is a name with a certain feel
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I have a different reading, the author is reminiscing to the times where trust worked on the web. A company like Google could trust you for being really the author because who would lie? and those that lie about these things usually couldn&
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by breppp 9mo ago
According to Amnesty, October 7 included crimes of extermination, a worse crime than the already devalued word "Genocide", which now amounts to "war i don't like". They waited with the report two years for the war t
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by breppp 9mo ago
wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy your location from a data broker?
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by breppp 9mo ago
the problem with communism in Russia has been that the minute the economy theory inevitably fails, you now have to starve the farmers, and when they don't agree with being starved you need to send them to a gulag
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by breppp 9mo ago
Or to recreate the czarist Russian empire by invading Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Romania, and Poland
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by breppp 9mo ago
they just misinterpreted Marx! if we try again this time it will work
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by breppp 10mo ago
I don't know about this specific incident but Iranian forces have a history of firing at protestors with shotguns including last week https://iranwire.com/en/features/122471-crackdown-survivor-5... https:&#x
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by breppp 10mo ago
> restoring international relationships in exchange for sanctions lifting and access to international markets to get filthy rich The issue is the Iranian elites are getting filthy rich from sanctions and have a vested interest in them. T
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or because of abuse https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47227937
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by breppp 10mo ago
The number of elements and their behaviors should be limited Reading that as an animation of snow completely blocks my ability to read
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Iran's Dual Challenge: Unrest at Home, Threat of Strikes from Abroad(nytimes.com)
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