18/ No matter what the people do, the Islamist hardliners continue to oppress them and steal from them. Electing a reformer, a hardliner, a populist, a cleric, a layman etc... isnt solving any problems. This is when people start losing respect for the whole regime paradigm itself
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19/ In 2009 the protesters were chanting "where is my vote" with the implicit belief that the votes actually mattered in some small way, that policy and personnel guiding the ship of state reacted in some way to popular demands.pic.twitter.com/uNfhGcriv6
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20/ in 2017, its gone. Its different. The whole regime paradigm is busted. The overton window of "muh islamic republic" muh democratic elections under the rule of a supreme leader is gone. Protests now talk about death to khamenei, salvation to the nation.
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21/ it is hard to overstate how radical the
#IranianProtests2017 chants are. "Death to Dictator, Death to Islamic Republic, The Mullahs are living like gods while we hunger, we are aryans we dont worship arabs" This is akin to chanting we are euros we dont worship Jews (Jesus)4 replies 10 retweets 31 likesShow this thread -
Winston Smith 🇸🇾 Retweeted Farnaz Fassihi
22/ Multiple reports coming in that Regime forces are refusing to fire on protesters, this is unprecedented for Iran.https://twitter.com/farnazfassihi/status/947959906761691136 …
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Winston Smith 🇸🇾 Retweeted Afrin Rojava
23/ Many protests are happening in backwater rural towns which are theoretically bedrock support regions for the clerical regime.https://twitter.com/MerdKurd/status/947773988931022849 …
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Winston Smith 🇸🇾 Retweeted Al Jazeera English
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#RedPill NEETS who constitute a#demographic majority now in Iran are rejecting Islam and their#DeepState Islamic Occupation Government. Chanting "not gaza, not palestine, my life only for iran"https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/947855955236024325 …Winston Smith 🇸🇾 added,
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25/Fin These are not astroturf, I highly doubt america is seriously involved. Trump is on the right side of this. This is a nationalist youth lead protest against boomer corruption, dual loyalty occupation governments, and foreign adventurism. Sound familiar?
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Replying to @crim_thought
I just want the US to stay out of it. I don't have any side here.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @crim_thought
You're in luck! Donald J. Trump is President. So no stupid neocohen war in Iran for us!
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