Getting Serious In Iran

[togor]

The down-side of policing religious morality with truncheons is on display.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/w...smid=share-url

[barretcreek]

Need to check with some friends from Iran; I believe no religion has a majority. Just more Moslems than anyone else.

But this can escalate quickly.

[togor]

The military dictatorship wraps itself in the Shiite sect. But yes Zoros and maybe the odd Sufi, Buddhist or Christian. Maaaybe some Sunnis on the Afghan border barely scratching out an existence (and hence in no shape to make trouble for anyone?) A few really brave Jews?

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If they really want to topple the regime then the answer is a prolonged general strike first to soften up the regime. Mass protests by unarmed people against a security force willing to use deadly force is a bad strategy. But if everything stops working all at once, well that is not something that can be fixed with bullets.

[blackhawknj]

In 1979 they demolished the house of the Bab, the shrine of the Baha'i faith. It seems they have occasional large protests but they quickly subside.

[dryheat]

Just relocate to Venezuela. Once all the losers there get situated "somewhere else", it might be a good fixer upper.

[dogtag]

Watch out when the Women get angry.

[Mark in Ottawa]

I am reminded that large public protests were one of the factors that caused the Shaw of Iran to flee. The memory of that regime change may well cause the current regime to suppress this uprising with extreme force if the protests continue for any length of time

[togor]

I am reminded that large public protests were one of the factors that caused the Shaw of Iran to flee. The memory of that regime change may well cause the current regime to suppress this uprising with extreme force if the protests continue for any length of time

Oh yeah for sure.

That's why I think a general strike is a better move. It's one thing to have the manpower to murder unarmed protesters, and quite another to keep transportation up and running, for example. Shut down the country and eventually the security troops get hungry too.

[jcg&jmbfan]

As I have the OP on ignore, I don't know what all the content of the posts are. Since this is the Guntalk forum, does it have anything to do with all of the IHC garands that went to Iran or something similar? Otherwise not sure why this is in the GUNTALK forum??

[Roadkingtrax]

As I have the OP on ignore, I don't know what all the content of the posts are. Since this is the Guntalk forum, does it have anything to do with all of the IHC garands that went to Iran or something similar? Otherwise not sure why this is in the GUNTALK forum??

What's IHC?

[togor]

What's IHC?

Tractor guns. It's actually an interesting story. Seems like the old en bloc clips get a lot of reuse over there too. They'll use the Great Satan's technology and manufactured goods happily enough.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/10/27/garands-of-the-shah-photo-essay/