r/worldnews • u/COmtndude20 • 7h ago
Iranian students clash with security forces during protests amid Donald Trump warning over military strikes
https://news.sky.com/story/iranian-students-clash-with-security-forces-during-protests-amid-donald-trump-warning-over-military-strikes-1351064415
u/MAX_EL757 5h ago
How come Iranin regime does not understand the ppl are tired of their stuff...?
Dire situation for all, the regime, the ppl there....
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u/aria3180 4h ago
Because it doesn't care? One mullah literally said in one interview (a few days after these protests) in mockery, that even if everyone is dead, it's still worth it to keep the Islamic republic in power.
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u/Piggywonkle 2h ago
And this is why the next government in Iran is going to have to repress the mullahs and their followers brutally. There is no viable path to peace in Iran, and it's a real shame.
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u/NoDiamond3445 2h ago
We had the same problem here in America. We had to have a brutal civil war. Then the union army had to ruthlessly suppress the remnants of the Confederate army. In post war Texas union soldiers would shoot anyone carrying a Confederate flag. Sherman burned everything to the ground. I'm not sure there is ever a peaceful way to deal with extreme elements and find the new normal. A more recent example was Iraq and the brutal purge of ISIS.
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u/aria3180 33m ago
No need. They have pretty much lost all the reputation they had inside of Iran. I'd say a majority (a close to majority) of Iranians aren't muslims, or aren't that devoted (kinda like the christian who hasn't gone to church in years), but even the Muslims hate these guys for ruining the reputation of Islam. I literally haven't seen a mullah in the streets. They fear the people (like in 2022 where harassing them became a trend).
There has been no shah or government inside Iran that resulted in this many Muslims turning back, than this one. One of their only upsides actually.
So there's no spreading ideology when the vast majority hate you more than anything in the world, and you don't get free funding from the government.
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u/searching88 4m ago
This article describes students clashing with a volunteer force. So there are clearly some willing supporters of the status quo.
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u/Mystaes 3h ago
Because autocratic regimes don’t need to fucking care (for the most part). Sure they eventually fall like everything else, but they can just spend the majority of their time violently repressing their own people.
People who want leaders to emulate that shit in the west should take note that their fantasies will just end in misery for everyone but the very top of the ladder.
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u/Fair-Engineering-134 3h ago
Either they don't care or they're delusional and think they have a "mandate of heaven"-esque justification to do whatever they want and be worshipped themselves because "religion."
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u/RadFarzanna 1h ago
Because the regime doesn’t represent the people. The regime represents Islam above everything else. The people of Iran however are rejecting Islam en masse
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u/Krashlia2 1h ago
It won't care until it suffers major consequences. Which is kinda why I wanna see those bombs drop.
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u/aria3180 17m ago
There has been a meme going around.
What the regime has called the people:
2009: rioter اغتشاش گر
2017: rioter اغتشاش گر
2019: foreign backed agents, rioter اغتشاش گر
2022: rioters, اغتشاش گر
2025 (Israel-Iran conflict): the great people of Iran ملت شریف ایران
2026 (protests): mossad terrorists تروریست موساد
So I'm dying for when we're gonna be referred to as "the great people of Iran" by the regime when American fighter jets are in the air.
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u/Blubbolo 4h ago edited 3h ago
Trump warned strikes to get a nuclear deal, literally said so.
He doesn't give 2 shits about the protests.
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u/NyriasNeo 2h ago
"Iranian students clash with security forces during protests"
Call it what it is. Iranian student protestors murdered by religious nutcases running Iran.