"At least 185 people, including 19 minors, have been killed, hundreds injured and thousands have been arrested by security forces, according to rights groups. Blaming the protests on Iran's foreign foes, authorities said "rioters" have killed at least 20 members of the security forces." Iran toughens crackdown as some oil workers reported to join protests https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...wn-kurdish-cities-unrest-persists-2022-10-10/ Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country's vital energy sector. Protests have swept Iran since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran's Kurdish region, died on Sept. 16 while being held for "inappropriate attire", marking one of the boldest challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. While university students have played a pivotal role in the protests with dozens of universities on strike, unconfirmed reports on social media showed workers at Abadan and Kangan oil refineries and the Bushehr Petrochemical Project had joined in. Iran's oil ministry was not immediately available to comment. A combination of mass protests and strikes by oil workers and Bazaar merchants helped to sweep the clergy to power in the Iranian revolution four decades ago. However, analysts said that Iran's clerical rulers will likely contain the unrest for now, and prospects of the imminent dawn of a new political order are slim. read more A video on Twitter showed dozens of workers had blocked the road to the Bushehr petrochemical plant, in Assaluyeh on Iran's Gulf coast, chanting "Death to the Dictator". Tensions have been especially high between authorities and the Kurdish minority which human rights groups say has long been oppressed - a charge the Islamic Republic denies. Human rights group Hengaw reported a heavy presence of armed security forces in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj, Saqez and Divandareh on Monday. It said at least five Kurdish residents were killed and over 150 injured in protests since Saturday. Videos shared on social media showed protests in dozens of cities across Iran early on Monday, with fierce clashes between protesters and riot police in cities and towns across Amini's native Kurdistan province. Iranian social media postings urged for mass protests on Wednesday. The Iranian authorities have blamed the violence on an array of enemies including armed Iranian Kurdish dissidents, with the Revolutionary Guards attacking their bases in neighbouring Iraq a number of times during the latest unrest. "READY TO DIE" Iran has a track record of putting down unrest among its more than 10 million Kurds, part of a Kurdish minority whose aspirations for autonomy have also led to conflicts with authorities in Turkey, Iraq and Syria. Heavy gunfire could be heard in several videos shared on Twitter by the activist 1500tasvir. A video showed several explosions creating blinding flashes in a neighbourhood of Sanandaj, the capital of the Kurdistan province. Activists said on social media that several people, including two teenagers, were killed by security forces in the province. Reuters could not verify the videos and posts. Unfazed by teargas, clubs, and, in many cases, live ammunition used by the security forces, according to rights groups, protesters across Iran have persist with demonstrators burning pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for the downfall of the clerical establishment. At least 185 people, including 19 minors, have been killed, hundreds injured and thousands have been arrested by security forces, according to rights groups. Blaming the protests on Iran's foreign foes, authorities said "rioters" have killed at least 20 members of the security forces. School girls across Iran have joined the protests, videos on social media showed. "Hey world, hear me: I want a revolution. I want to live freely and I am ready to die for it," said a 17-year-old protester in a central Iranian city, whose name and location could not be revealed by Reuters due to security concerns. "Instead of dying every minute under this regime's repression, I prefer to die with their (security forces) bullets in protests for freedom."
HOLY SHIITE!! How Iran’s economic woes created conditions ripe for protests https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63154987
A senior political figure in Iran is realizing that maybe the brutal mass-arrests and murders of 15 year-old schoolgirls by morality police & security forces is not the path to avoid the fate of other oppressive leaders. Cracks appear among Iran elite as senior figure calls for hijab policing rethink Prominent conservative politician Ali Larijani warns against ‘rigid response’ after month of unrest https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/12/iran-hijab-law-protest-ali-larijani
You hear that ululating at the beginning? WTF! At least 600 years before the Muslim religion was even founded these Middle Easterners were caterwauling the same crap. Can't they find a new beat thousands of years later?
Yeh. Saw that. First thought I had is that Iran is creating another group of martyrs, as if they were not doing that already. Lots of political prisoners there. It is the women who are rightfully getting the focus and credit but the thing that puts the scene on steroids is the fact that the woman/girl who was beaten to death was Kurdish. So Iran has not only incurred the wrath of women and their supporters but also of the entire Kurdish population, which fuels all the explosive issues and historical conflicts there and the aspirations of the Kurds to join up with other Kurds outside Iran in ways that cross national boundaries into Turkey, Iraq, etc. Vlad stepped in the doo-doo and it has blown up on him. Now Iran leaders have stepped in the doo-doo. The United States should kick Iran while they are down. The Iran Deal shit the bed. And there will be no oil coming from them to worry about losing. And they are supplying drones to Russia to kill Ukrainians. Double down on the sanctions already on them and with anyone doing business with them. It is hard on the civilians but propping up the regime by paying them to behave with the nukes and relieving them of sanctions is hard on the civilians too. As we and they are seeing.
More new out of Iran from BBC which has some good coverage. IMO the situation seems to be spinning out of control... Iran: How we are uncovering the protests and crackdowns https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63264159 BBC identifies young people killed in Iran’s protests https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63242100 Iran: Video shows forces shooting fleeing people from truck https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63253724 Iran protests: Fury over police sex assault video https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63254385
Nothing will come out of this protesting. The people will be subdued, and this will be out of the news cycle in a month. Move along. The Islamic faith will teach those rabble-rousers who the true God is. The bullet. And they will obey.
Problem is that the Iranians are now shelling the Kurds in Iran to put down their protests and the Kurds are Islamic too, and think they have Allah on their side. The Kurds are good fighters too. They were the only ones in Iraq who would actually fight. That is how Iran got into that ungodly long war with Iraq- by thinking it had Islam and Allah on its side. But Iraq was Islamic too and had a leader as brutal as the one the Iranians had. Iran has a problem with growing unrest amongst the Kurds. It would behoove them to not beat Kurdish girls/women to death while that is going on. Actions have consequences.
The question becomes --- will the security forces be able to suppress these protests across many cities. And does this spin into an all-out Kurdish insurrection. You may be right -- the security forces simply get the upper hand by getting more brutal and increasing the number of people they are holding. After a month it fizzles out to nothing. However the younger generation in Iran is getting tired of the Mullahs and their persecution.