Parastoo Ahmadi sang while wearing a sleeveless dress during a concert livestreamed on her YouTube channel in December 2024. Iran’s laws ban public performances by women and require them to wear headscarves and modest clothing.
Iran’s judiciary launched proceedings against the 29-year-old after the video went viral, gaining millions of views, saying the performance was “in violation of the country’s legal and cultural regulations”.
The worst part about Trump being the fucking man-child that he is is that the regime hardliners have now an even firmer grip on power, as he once again proved that there is no way of appeasing the US outside of complete capitulation.
Most analysts determined that Iran was in a political death spiral and that the worst thing the west could do was interfere. If the west stayed out of it, all signs pointed to a significantly more moderate regime change. Trump took office, Israel baited him, and Trump bit, like the moron he is.
Funny thing, I’ve recently-ish listened to a podcast from late 2024, before Trump took office. The guest predicted that Trump would attack Iran because Republicans cover their shitty policies with warmongering, and Iran was the weakest of available targets.
Almost like a secular Iran isn’t in Israel’s geopol interest.
Conservatives need a Boogeyman
Also a “democratic Iran” means unsanctioned Iran. The last time sanctions were partially lifted, Iran’s economy grew by 7% per year. Such economic growth means production growth. Production growth means arms prod growth. And that’s arms that can “fall into the wrong hands” and could be used against Israel after one “wrong election.” If I wanted to dominate the region militarily, I would do anything in my power to keep Iran under strict sanctions.
Much like a more moderate controlling power in Gaza.
It’s to keep a Russian ally afloat
Yeah, I was really rooting for the New Iran movement. Tankies called me a fucking zionist for it.
Now those hopes are shattered. Fuck trump, and fuck netanyahu.
The New Iran movement was literally a western op, Trump himself admitted they armed them. There is no case where Iran has an internal struggle and the US doesn’t exploit that opportunity to steal their resources and immiserate it’s people.
The New Iran movement was going on for a lot longer than the student protests last year that people like you were trying so hard to dismiss as western imperialism.
The New Iran movement has been going on at least since Mahsa Amini was beaten to death in custody for not wearing a hijab “properly.” For you to dismiss that as a western op is as chauvinistic as it is insulting. As if the Iranian people have no agency, and need a brutal regime to protect them from the Evil West™'s meddling?
Of course Israel and the US would try to co-opt such a movement, but that doesn’t mean the movement itself was inauthentic. And trump tries to take credit for everything, so I can’t believe you’re actually attempting to cite his facial rectum as a credible source.
Moderates didn’t have a chance. There’s 10-15% of religious hardliners that control everything and around 20% that’s indifferent or too scared. With modern weapons and surveillance that’s more than enough
It takes a certain kind of genius who can take a pariah state on the verge of collapse and turn it into a kind of underdog while destroying the world economy.
The place is a police state and IRG were and are the real power. They were still there and they took control. When attacked, most people rally around the the flag so there was a lot of inertia too.
With their supreme leader dead, why didn’t the moderates in that country arm up and take control?
Most of them were killed in December and January trying to do just that. I’ve seen estimates as high as 50,000, but most are reporting 30,000-36,000.
The exact numbers are impossible to verify because Iran shut down the entire country’s internet to cover it up.
Because it was never the simple
5 Weeks left for this asshole to do what he wants. The left has to come out in such large numbers that results cannot be disputed effectively by anyone.
Then what? A law which says to stop military action against Iran that the Supreme Court strikes down? Cutting budget to ICE that the Senate filibusters?
I’m not saying that it won’t be better, but the rot runs deep and can’t be removed by a single election.
Americans still think they can vote fascism out of the government.
No they don’t. Its a place to start from.
no criticism of iran for you in this analysis
are you like piker, supporting palestine, iran, even bin laden because america bad?
meanwhile this poor woman wiill be scarred for life if she even survives. i guess there’s no way of appeasing these fundamentalists either