The foreign intervention Iranians want is the lifting of sanctions, experts say
Protests have grown increasingly violent, but most Iranians don't see the US and Israel as their saviours

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/foreign-intervention-iranians-want-lifting-sanctions-experts-say

from #MiddleEastEye
By #MEE staff
Published date: 12 January 2026 22:32 GMT
Last update: Jan. 13 2026 12:00 EST

The protests gripping #Iran are fuelled by immense economic pressures and frustration with the government, but with Iranians having felt #Israel's wrath and also seen what the #US did in Venezuela, their demands are not for foreign intervention, a slate of regional experts have said.

Speaking at an event hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC on Monday, the experts said that whilst there may be some voices that are outliers, most Iranians were looking for the international community to help lift crippling US #sanctions and begin a new path forward.

#HandsOffIran
#news #politics #MiddleEast #RezaPahlavi

How the U.S. and Israel Are Trying to Co-opt Iran's Protests
[#podcast]

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-protests-us-israel-islamic-republic

from #DropSiteNews

Jan 13, 2026

Drop Site’s #JeremyScahill and Murtaza Hussain are joined by Narges Bajoghli, an associate professor of anthropology and Middle East Studies at John’s Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and Samira Mohyeddin, managing editor for On The Line Media, to break down what’s driving the #protests, what we know under conditions of severe information blackout, and why Washington’s talk of intervention carries enormous risks for both Iranians and the broader region.

#HandsOffIran

#news #politics #MiddleEast #WestAsia #Iran

https://youtu.be/mK480dz7MNg?si=TN_svbfhU2FxjPrA

Evil plans of Zionists for #Iran and #Venezuela .

#HandsOffVenezuela #HandsOffIran #StopIsrael #StopTrump

We need the #USMilitaryOutOfShannon.

All the propaganda and rhetoric now reminds me of 2003 in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq. We should have nothing to do with these imperialist warmongers.

We will need a mass movement on the streets to defend Irish neutrality!

#Neutrality #IrishNeutrality #HandsOffIran

This lonely photo on the CBC is dishonestly framed to minimize the scale of the turnout today. On a day with humidex 45℃ there were at least a thousand in the streets, for three hours baking in the sun and chanting with remarkable energy!

What Israel and the USA are doing are monstrous. Canada must implement a full weapons embargo of Israel, _now_.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadians-react-israel-iran-us-conflict-1.7568140

#CanPoli #FreePalestine #HandsOffIran