:burning cop car emote:
Idk kinda looks like a george floyd moment in Iran
CW: Death, but no evidence of police abuse
https://twitter.com/presstv/status/1571443011816415232?s=46&t=vrblq8WEnUVQSbGilsPb1Q
If this footage is correct these protests are a color revolution attempt 100%. It’s not a coincidence this is happening right now, as Iran tries to stabilize the situation with Armenia and Azerbaijan
Why would Saudi citizens be the inverse? Does it have something to do with Saudi Arabia being Sunni and Iran being Shia?
No it has to do with material conditions and social relations of each nation, not idealist religious explanations.
Saudi Arabia has been a US vassal state for basically a century. They have gotten ungodly wealthy and they spread that wealth around within Saudi Arabia to ensure the ruling class remains popular and powerful. Thus they are basically social chauvinists or social imperialists, benefitting massively from the empire and doing whatever is needed to suppress resistance to it throughout the Middle East. The leadership of Saudi Arabia are much more reactionary than the leadership of Iran.
Iran has been the victim of imperialism and multiple coups, the victims include a nascent socialist movement that got destroyed and reincorporated into the new state. Thus they have a much more progressive foreign policy and population, and that population is not materially benefitting from imperialism they are being harmed by it. This puts them into an anti-imperialist position.
Iran is more progressive than Saudi Arabia in every way, both its leadership and its population. There are Islamist hardliners in both nations, and the Iranian ones have been proven right time and time again over the liberal Iranians who keep trusting the West. This has strengthened the Islamic hardline position in Iran, while in Saudi Arabia the leadership has to posture as progressive once and a while to stay friendly with the west - so it appears like they may want to make progress on the surface but it’s just imperialist pinkwashing for a genocidal petrostate monarchy and arm of imperialism
I’m really curious what, if anything, is actually going on there. I’ve been duped by the western media playing footage that has nothing to do with the event being reported on in the past, so I’m reluctant to take anything at face value. that said there were some pretty good videos of kids kicking the living shit out of cops going around.
Idk kinda looks like a george floyd moment in Iran
It will be if the :cia: has anything to say about it
I’ll worry about what Iran’s cops are doing once we get our own to stop beating people to death. :amerikkka:
Okay but can Iranians be concerned about what their cops are doing? Just a bit?
Didn’t they release footage of the death and nobody touched her?
CW: Death, woman collapses during argument but nobody touched her
https://twitter.com/presstv/status/1571443011816415232?s=46&t=vrblq8WEnUVQSbGilsPb1Q
If this is indeed her then this almost 100% cia color revolution
The government could’ve hanged the cops already and no one would say a thing. Instead they doubled down on it being “an accident”
Half the people I work with are Persian and have been talking about this all day for the last 2 or 3 days or so. They’re extremely pissed. There’s a bit of a selection bias since most of the Iranians I interact with are already in the us but from their pov quite a lot of people are pretty anti govt bc of material conditions (a lot of poverty for a lot of people there) and the oppressive religious stuff. I think it’s likely this is an inciting incident to a homegrown thing. Not saying it’s not possible foreign actors couldn’t take advantage of the situation, but it seems like alot of zoomer Iranians in particular are pretty against the treatment of women and seeing this as a protest against that in particular
CW: Death
https://twitter.com/presstv/status/1571443011816415232?s=46&t=vrblq8WEnUVQSbGilsPb1Q
Nobody seems to have touched her. Western “Persians” are biased and cannot speak on events happening in Iran with accuracy, as they are evidently just repeating the western story with contradicting evidence
Are we really just repeating gusano vibes as facts here?
At no point did I insinuate any of this was “facts” I literally mentioned it was their pov and mentioned the selection bias to make a point of not suggesting that their perspective on it was sacrosanct.
Take the confrontational tone down a notch until you sort out your reading comprehension please. I’m more than happy to hear any other perspective or info you have on the subject, this is what I’ve had thus far and i was simply relaying that conversationally not pushing a narrative
