Y’all Watching Iran

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: greendust

According to "Freedom House Freedom Index" there are 83 countries around the globe that tick the considered to be free box.

www.statista.com...

Great, a pay wall. Can you post a pic or something? Also, I wonder if any of those free countries have USA military bases on them. I bet most of them do.

The cuban people of twitter are also calling out for musk to somehow give them access to starlink.

Cuba - also an unfortunite mess

a reply to: Annee

In a Patriarchal society (especially a religious one) -- even the men are subjected to rule by older men of the family.

Modern men may support their wives in fighting for rights and freedom. But they themselves are subjected to the rules/laws of their patriarchal society.

The men need to stand up first for their own freedom. So, they can then support their wives, sisters, etc.

We can't shout this enough!!!!
There are too many that don't understand this.
There are some men that want more and more and more conservatism (and some women). Where do you think that ends up?
It ends up with your daughter with her head bashed in because a tiny bit of hair was showing.

It ends up with you not being able to marry who you love because she is not accepted by your male elders.

It ends up with your wife being raped by a group of men because she is seen as less than human.

It ends up with brutal beatings for anyone that has a difference of opinion.

It ends up with child sex abuse being swept under the rug.

You are 100% correct when you say this impacts men as much as women!

a reply to: greendust

Sorry about that i did not notice the pay wall.



Here is the screen.

As to the USA military bases those are pretty much all around the world, and most certainly around Iran.

Powerful

One of the hallmarks/pillars of Totalitarianism: treating a woman’s body as property, and citizens as subjects to dominate, by any means…
Extraordinarily fierce Iranian women are the face of the resistance against Iran’s barbaric regime. #MahsaAmini

Am i the only one that sees the biggest PsyOps in history unfolding?

Some pretty widespread rioting, here is one i found
Video

“Barbossa: The world used to be a bigger place. Jack Sparrow: The world's still the same. There's just… less in it.”

Going in Dry, Hold My Beer

a reply to: andy06shake

Andy,

Got the names of the bases to the east of Iran on that map?

The ones in AFG no longer support U.S operations.

Pakistan is an on-and-off partner. IMO, they're closer to China than the USA.

Also don't think there is anything in Turkmenistan anymore.

Above not to nitpick, but maps like that are practically propaganda if they are not kept current.

Cheers

a reply to: TritonTaranis

Wow! Those videos. You can hear the RAGE in their voices!
Like I said the straw that broke the camels back!

Protest against the brutal death of #MahsaAmini is taking place across Iran.
Today people of Saqez took down the flag of the Islamic Republic and burned it.

a reply to: F2d5thCavv2

Im sure there are a few less F2d5thCavv2, illustrates the point all the same.

Iran is pretty much within striking distance from foreign bases which are all around he borders.

Freak me out if i was Iranian, then again given the regime is it any wonder Iran is encircled?

No would be my answer.

a reply to: andy06shake

Thank you. Yeah, I hope Iran does have a revolution that is beneficial to them, hope that they don't get into bed with our corrupt empire if they are successful.

Oh looks like a new Persian Spring is starting, excellent

The brave people of Mazandaran, my birthplace dancing for the freedom they deserve.
I am crying by watching women burning their headscarves.
#Mahsa_Amin got killed because of this headscarf but she became a turning point for Iranian women and a tipping point for the regime.

VIDEO

a reply to: greendust

Well that leaves Russia and China to get into bed with realistically.

I hope they come into our camp rather than the alternative but given our history i would not get my hopes up.

As to corrupt empires well absolute power corrupts absolutely.

That being said up until 1979 Iran was apparently rather a nice place to exist.

a reply to: TritonTaranis

Watch this one, this has been pent up in the people for so long!

Here

a reply to: andy06shake

Kind of freaked the USA out when their then-new government took an entire diplomatic staff hostage in 1979.

From what I can see, their outlook hasn't changed since then.

I'd rather we keep them nervous than the other way around.

No sympathy for the Mullahs.

BTW, you may wish to ask yourself why one never sees maps like that illustrating what China has gotten up to lately. Always the USA. Someone is beating the propaganda drum when they produce images like that without getting after other world "players" about their activities.

And consider. Even though the Chinese are incarcerating Muslims in nasty camps, one never sees the Chinese flag being burned in the protests in Iran. Ask yourself why. Those omissions don't happen by accident, mate.

Cheers

a reply to: F2d5thCavv2

I don't necessary disagree with most of that.

Still be nice to bring such a Muslim nation back into the fold.

Its a pipedream given the current geopolitical climate.

As to what China gets upto, yeh, that does seem to be kept quiet, funny that eh?

Or not as the case may be.

We always here about the puppet government in Iran when the shaw was in charge, and he was an ass, as the reason for the overthrow.

Well the treatment of women was a side effect.
Freedom!

a reply to: andy06shake

Yeah, I don't mind things being pointed out, brought into the light, etc. But when it ignores some things, one wonders why.

The Persians I met who fled the revolution were sharp people. That country had a lot to contribute to the world, but it has been more or less locked up by its own people since.

Cheers

originally posted by: TritonTaranis
Its time to break free of the shackles Iran

Now is the time

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And on top of how horrible it is, how does a country who demands modesty of dress/hair for women think it's ok to arrest women in such a violent way with their clothes get half pulled off and male police have hands all over them?

originally posted by: LetTheColdCome

originally posted by: Annee
Women have to fight for women -- and men have to support them.

Here in America, even today, women fight against the rights of women.

Look at our own (USA) history of voting rights for women. That was only 102 years ago.

Women were beaten, force fed, arrested, etc.

The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

www.history.com...

We somehow went from an OP discussing legitimately violent Iranian theocracy in the modern era - to the US being bad somehow because of suffrage 100 years ago.

Okay.

WOMEN'S FREEDOM AND RIGHTS.