MicroWaveFeb 23

‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

https://lemmy.world/post/43485627

‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again - Lemmy.World

As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates. The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January demonstrations. “Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.”

Show threadcouldhavebeenyouFeb 23
Recently asked some Triad lemmings whether it would be preferable to let the Iranian people remain surpressed or give them a chance through US (and Israeli) attacks against the regime
Show threadproleFeb 23
Why is it the responsibility of the US? I’m old enough to remember being (rightfully) shunned for doing the same fucking shit in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Show threadcouldhavebeenyouFeb 23

Why did the US invade Afghanistan? Why did they invade Iraq?

Do you believe the US is considering a ground invasion of Iran?

(ps I don’t advocate it’s their responsibility, mainly arguing about opposing any intervention)

Show thread☂️-Feb 23
because of lies and oil as always. there wasnt any us intervention in the middle east in history that left the country better. evil fucking empire.
Show threadperestroikaFeb 24

Please don’t lump Afghanistan and Iraq together.

Afghanistan had no oil. The US invaded because it was attacked by a group based in Afghanistan. The end was a mess, but the invasion was justified. This has been the only time NATO article 5 has been activated, by the way.

Iraq has oil. The US has invaded twice. Once because the UN authorized restoring the independence of Kuwait, after Iraq had invaded Kuwait. The second time because emperor Bush II lied to everyone about weapons of mass destruction. The end was a mess, of course.

Does this have any predictive value for Iran?

I can only tell this:

  • I see no preparations for a land war
  • regimes may sometimes fall after suffering a military defeat
  • only one regime has fallen recently because of an air intervention (Gaddafi in Libya, but the Libyan civil war had already started at this time)

As a result, I am not convinced of any outcome, I do not support and do not oppose, I observe and try to understand.

Show thread☂️-

group based in Afghanistan

bankrolled by the US to further their nefarious interests in the region. when they turned against the empire by attacking the wtc, the us responded by… genociding it’s people.

none of this was justified at all.

Feb 25 at 12:15amWeb
Show threadperestroikaFeb 25

bankrolled by the US to further their nefarious interests in the region.

A long time ago. In response to the USSR couping and occupying Afghanistan. Which was, of course, also not justified.

If Afghanistan had been left alone, things would very likely be better in several countries…