Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_protests
Not to be insensitive to the Iranian people, but it's like France in a lot of ways, they riot/protest so much that the information content of any given riot/protest movement is minimal.
not sure where to pull that doesn't have tracking, not seeing it on archive yet.
At the moment Iran is rebuilding it's rocket stockpile with help from china (something which Israel and the US should be much more proactive about IMO) in preparation for the next round of hostilities in which they will no doubt be humiliated again. They are probably hoping to hit more then 1 hospital and 3 residential blocks next time and retain what's left of their shattered ambitions and ego.
Still we can always hope for a regime collapse. From a foreign policy point of view they are weaker then ever. Security wise i don't know how they are doing.
Has this been confirmed?
> From a foreign policy point of view they are weaker then ever. Security wise i don't know how they are doing
Iran's borders encompass a bit of a shitshow. Its dominant ethnicity is less than three fifths the population [1]. Its next three-largest ethnicities, Azeris (14%), Kurds (9%) and Gilaki (5%) meanwhile, have bordering extant or aspiring nation-states.
(To the extent there is a hilarious if bastardly alliance in the region, it would be between Israel and Azerbaijan. Israel provides firepower. Azerbaijan gains the Azeri (and maybe Gilaki) majority north of Iran, cutting off Armenia's southern border and giving it a land border with Turkey for more pipelines.)
Wont't ever happen because Aliev is the OG of multipolarity/mnogovektornost and this would prevent him from scamming all of his neighbors at the same time.
> European intelligence sources say several shipments of sodium perchlorate, the main precursor in the production of the solid propellant that powers Iran’s mid-range conventional missiles, have arrived from China to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas
Is that being framed as a problem? The US is the same, and I expect a few others too?
It makes ethnic revanchism a challenge. Not an issue if you embrace being a melting plot. Existential if national identity is grounded in ethnicity.
Are they planning to bomb more buildings in Gaza?
Israel and America are sabre rattling with Iran. It's been happening for about as long as Iran has been calling for death to America and Israel.
Iran is an aspiring regional power. Its proxies spread across half a continent. It's involved in foreign meddling in like half a dozen civil and hybrid war fronts. That's the nature of the Middle East, the cradle of the oldest civilisations in literal history.
- 50% inflation, tax hikes and currency devaluation [1]
- Manufactured crisis
- The presence of the 3i comet in our solar system
where would Occam's razor cut?
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/26/irans-government-b...
Source?
1. https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/irans-currency-collapse...
This is true of every intelligence agency. Reflexively reaching for the CIA to explain all geopolitics is lazy conspiratorialism.
If you don’t believe in protests within dictatorships then you don’t believe in democracy. As simple as that.
Yes, it’s possible to believe in an incompetent CIA. Particularly when Iran is directly an adversary to multiple countries in the Middle East and further that it’s been fucking with more recently than the 1970s.