Ahmad Sadri, sociology professor at @LFCollege: “Deep within Iran's authoritarian system there is a tiny democratic heart, complete with elective, presidential and parliamentary chambers, desperately beating against an unyielding, theocratic exoskeleton.”http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/protests-erupt-iran-180101142214891.html …
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@Swarthy_Bastard: “We would all do well to lower the stakes and volume of our conversations, to stop projecting our own hopes and agendas onto the lives of Iranians bravely facing down the authorities”#IranProtestshttp://lobelog.com/protests-in-iran-are-an-extension-of-the-islamic-republics-founding-ethos/?utm_content=buffer79107&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@OborneTweets: Corbyn’s “silence [on the#IranProtests] is emphatically not an act of calculation. It's a display of principle - the kind of principle which people want but very rarely get in politics.”http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/corbyns-silence-iran-protests-demands-respect-403416110 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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it’s an opportune moment to read
@stephenkinzer’s gripping account of the 1953 regime change in Iran carried out by the US and the UK in defense of an oil corporation and geopolitical interests#iranprotests#تظاهرات_سراسرى#IranDeal http://instagram.com/p/BdcogNXlV6M/Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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France's Macron accuses US, Israel and Saudi of pursuing "deliberate strategy" policy that "is almost one that would lead us to war.”
#IranProtestshttp://www.newsweek.com/us-israel-saudi-arabia-leading-world-war-iran-france-says-770728 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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#IranProtests “surged among the nation's poor, presumed bedrock supporters of the regime, who have been angered by recent crass displays of wealth by the elite and other perceived inequities. Even the opposition intelligentsia was surprised.”https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2018/0105/In-Iran-s-surprise-uprising-of-the-poor-dents-to-revolution-s-legitimacy …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@adamjohnsonNYC on how influential US outlets rely for#IranProtests analyses on the right-wing pro-Israel think tank@FDD, mostly presented as a quasi-academic and impartial observer despite its anti-Iran agendahttps://fair.org/home/think-tank-addicted-media-turn-to-regime-change-enthusiasts-for-iran-protest-commentary/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@nargesbajoghli: International sanctions, economic mismanagemen, extremely high cost of living, rampant unemployment, and widening economic inequality that’s being flaunted by the rich are the main driving factors of the#IranProtestshttps://jacobinmag.com/2018/01/iran-protests-hasan-rouhani-green-movement …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BMarchetich: “don’t let the neocons’ paeans to the protesters fool you. If the Iranian people ever got the chance to truly cast a ballot, as soon as they voted the wrong way, today’s brave patriots would become tomorrow’s enemies of the state.”https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/iran-protest-bill-kristol-neoconservatives …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Informative and insightful
@ModerateRadio interview with Mazda Majidi brings crucial context to understanding#IranProtests, at the root of which are the government’s neoliberal policies https://soundcloud.com/moderaterebelsradio/iran-protests-mazda-majidi-episode-12 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Traditional adversaries like Russia and China, and close allies like France and Sweden, seemed to fear that the outspoken criticism over
#IranProtests by the US at the Security Council was simply a pretext to undermine the Iran nuclear dealhttps://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/world/middleeast/un-iran-protests-debate.html?referer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Russian ambassador: “The real reason for convening today’s meeting is not an attempt to protect human rights or promote the interests of the Iranian people, but rather as a veiled attempt to use the current moment to continue to undermine” the Iranian dealhttps://twitter.com/bernajurema/status/950625211250077696 …
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