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https://www.newsweek.com/death-mahsa-amini-rocked-iran-1745815

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-protester-they-threatened-to-rape-us-if-we-weren-t-quiet/ar-AA12iYMx

https://greekreporter.com/2022/09/26/iran-kills-woman-viral-protest-video/

I figure these people will be brutally stamped out with overwhelming force in short order, but hey, we all thought the same about Ukraine and that's still going.

Police are just straight up opening fire into crowds so they've already surpassed the death toll of the election protests in 2009, the last time everyone got in an uproar over a girl bring murdered (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan).

Still a long way to match 2019's numbers of a thousand plus (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019-2020_Iranian_protests), but they're off to a strong start.

I'm going to take the controversial moral stance that young girls shouldn't be beaten to death over covering their hair just slightly incorrectly. I'm also impressed that Biden took an actual stance on it too; Obama in 2009 was too much of a mealy mouthed pussy, and Trump in 2019 couldn't decide between "yes, no, and no comment".

Anyway, the situation they were living in has been shit enough that these women have nothing to lose at this point. It's been almost fifty damn years since 1979 so however unlikely, it really would be nice if the current generation managed to one way or another take back the level of rights they had prior to that.

Also I just want to take a moment to appreciate how halal it is to be rioting for a good and pure reason like protesting the brutal murder of a young girl over medieval dress code laws, in America we just get everyone running around setting random unrelated businesses on fire and robbing and killing their neighbors because a crackhead rolled a 1 on like his tenth arrest.

Yeah, this event isn't quite getting the same attention due to the Ukraine War, but this will be interesting to see unfold.

The sad thing is that revolutions in MENA generally lead to a more restrictive and authoritarian regime. Unless you’re Tunisia. I suppose that there is a moral line that has to be fought for even if it is a lost cause though.

That's always a possibility. The thing to remember watching all this and the response is that Iran is still considered one of liberal and modern countries over there. Elementary school aged girls are forced into marriages, and there are thousands of secret police whose sole job is to keep women in line, but they can get jobs and these days they do frequently just hang them instead of stoning them so you know, progressive!

True. At least in Iran parents don’t force feed their children gallons of milk to make them as fat as possible before the child marriage. Mauritania is just a bit nightmarish if you’re a fan of human rights. Islam can’t even take all the blame there. Just Berbers doing Berber stuff

Elon Musk is helping them get around the internet shutdowns with Starlink just like he did in Ukraine, I think at this point that's officially a way more useful tech than gay little cars that California wants to force everyone to buy but not let them use.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-iran-abolishes-morality-police-28649729

This isn't exactly going to fix the problem, but a symbolic victory is better than nothing and it's more progress than there's been in decades. Only took hundreds of people killed, something like 18,000 arrested, thousands potentially up for the death penalty, and women (and children, and men) in custody being raped and tortured and disappeared into the system as a pretty routine thing.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/11/middleeast/iran-protests-sexual-assault/index.html

They really like rape over there.

It's the source of all their culture.

So I guess the Taliban is about to invade Iran now?

Well like I mentioned in the Discord, looks like it's mainly a water dispute. Afghans are supposed to be giving a small percentage of their water to Iran as part of a trade deal and they're not doing it. Probably because Afghanistan is suffering a draught just like Iran is.

Iran is also accusing the Afghans of smuggling drugs. The Taliban is using all the nice weapons the US left for them against the Iranians so they're a bigger threat than they normally would be.

China's pissed since they want the region stable because they want oil from Iran and minerals from Afghanistan. They can't very well fuel their cheap shit they built with stolen US blueprints, if the thirdworlders are wasting their own resources blowing each other up.

In any case we'll see if it ramps up or if they're just slap fighting along the border. I don't see it getting to Russia/Ukraine levels though.

Oh and speaking of stealing blueprints, looks like China just got caught hacking the US Navy.

Well I guess we'll see if THAT one ramps up and if it does, it'll make Russia/Ukraine look like the opening act.