alapakalaIran, at UN, insists will not submit to 'lawless aggression'
https://quokk.au/c/world/p/758638/iran-at-un-insists-will-not-submit-to-lawless-aggression
chellomereThe reason Iran wants people to talk about the war and not the protests, is that they themselves are much better at killing their own citizens, with 10-30k dead and 300k injured during the January protests.
Do you have any evidence for those numbers? As much as I dislike the Iranian regime, it’s hard to believe they’re capable of harming 300k citizens in a month. None of this justifies the amerisraeli agression anyway, bombs won’t help free the Iranian people…
Here you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
Thank you! I concede on the numbers, it’s clear the numbers are around the orders of magnitude you provided.
I still stand on the point that the outside agression is unjustified, especially given the goals of both the USA and Israel are not the freedom of the Iranian people. All it’s doing is increasing the number of dead and injured, as well as further radicalising the country. The IRGC will fill a similar role as Hamas does in Gaza; being the only ones fighting back against outside agression forces the people to align with them if they wish to maintain the Iranian sovereignty.
Iranians in general will not align with the IRGC, they are universally hated. Their recent actions have just made them even more hated.
It is true that US and Israel don’t have the best of the Iranian people in mind. However, many Iranians hope that this may create a chance for the Islamic regime to be replaced.
Time will tell, I suppose. There isn’t a great record of positive regime change following US aggression in the middle east though, quite the contrary
Indeed, the track record is abysmal. And that is worrying.
The Iranians around me say this is their last hope. They have tried reforming the system from inside, they have tried protesting. And the regime has just become more ruthless and violent. Many have actually been calling for foreign interventions - they don’t actually care who.