http://www.breitbart.com/natio...est-government-iran/

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Iran over the past few days, speaking out against both the “hardline” government of the ayatollahs and the supposedly “moderate” secular government of President Hassan Rouhani.

“Death to the dictator!” and “Death to Rouhani” are chants heard in at least eight Iranian cities, and the movement appears to be spreading.

Iran’s military and foreign adventures are a major cause of the protesters’ anger

the protesters cry “Not Gaza! Not Lebanon! My life for Iran!” and “Leave Syria, think about us!” They are even criticizing the Iranian government’s activism on behalf of the Palestinians.

The initial cause of the protests was reportedly public anger over rising prices for food, a generally high inflation rate, and high unemployment. The governor of Mashhad dismissed the protest in his city as an “illegal No to High Prices gathering” at first.

Rouhani campaigned on economic renewal, including the benefits accruing to Iran from its nuclear deal with the Obama administration, and while progress has certainly been made – Iran’s inflation rate is a little under 10 percent today, compared to about 40 percent when Rouhani took over from his deranged predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – the crowd appears to be profoundly dissatisfied with the standard of living, and displeased that Iran is funneling so much money into foreign mischief and imperial ambitions instead of meeting the public’s needs at home.

Despite Rouhani’s promises, the standard of living for average Iranians has declined about 30 percent over the past ten years .

I am hoping that they "reap what they sow".

Every one is all 'death to the infidels' until the check comes, then they sneak off to the bathroom or only want to leave a shitty tip for the bombers family. Sorry guys you're going to need to tighten the belt, probably going to have scale back the 'death to the jews' fund a bit this fiscal year.

Being the world's #1 sponsor of terrorism is hard work and requires sacrifices.

Of course, they are speaking Farsi. I understand the phonetic transliteration is "L'ohkair Aup!"

https://apnews.com/ce07ad7aea0...challenge-government

A wave of spontaneous protests over Iran’s weak economy swept into Tehran on Saturday, with college students and others chanting against the government just hours after hard-liners held their own rally in support of the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment.

The demonstrations appear to be the largest to strike the Islamic Republic since the protests that followed the country’s disputed 2009 presidential election.

Thousands already have taken to the streets of cities across Iran, beginning at first on Thursday in Mashhad, the country’s second-largest city and a holy site for Shiite pilgrims.

The protests in the Iranian capital, as well as U.S. President Donald Trump tweeting about them, raised the stakes. It also apparently forced state television to break its silence, acknowledging it hadn’t reported on them on orders from security officials.

“Counterrevolution groups and foreign media are continuing their organized efforts to misuse the people’s economic and livelihood problems and their legitimate demands to provide an opportunity for unlawful gatherings and possibly chaos,” state TV said.

The protests appear sparked by social media posts and a surge in prices of basic food supplies, like eggs and poultry. Officials and state media made a point Saturday of saying Iranians have the right to protest and have their voices heard on social issues.

However, protesters in Tehran on Saturday chanted against high-ranking government officials and made other political statements, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Hundreds of students and others joined a new economic protest at Tehran University, with riot police massing at the school’s gates as they shut down surrounding roads.

Fars also said protests on Friday also struck Qom, a city that is the world’s foremost center for Shiite Islamic scholarship and home to a major Shiite shrine.

Social media videos purport to show clashes between protesters and police in several areas. At least 50 protesters have been arrested since Thursday, authorities said. State TV also said some protesters chanted the name of Iran’s one-time shah, who fled into exile just before its 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Iran’s economy has improved since the nuclear deal, which saw Iran limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the end of some of the international sanctions that crippled its economy. Tehran now sells its oil on the global market and has signed deals for tens of billions of dollars of Western aircraft.

That improvement has not reached the average Iranian, however. Unemployment remains high. Official inflation has crept up to 10 percent again. A recent increase in egg and poultry prices by as much as 40 percent, which a government spokesman has blamed on a cull over avian flu fears, appears to have been the spark for the economic protests.

While police have arrested some protesters, the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard and its affiliates have not intervened as they have in other unauthorized demonstrations since the 2009 election. The economic protests initially just put pressure on Rouhani’s administration.

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"Iran’s economy has improved since the nuclear deal"

We had Iran under a lot of pressure and obama let them off the hook

The tenants of Islam are not sustainable in a logical and rational world.

Sooner or later, it will fall. Either the people within it or the victims outside of it will tire of suffering for it, and put an end to it.

Now, when the people of Iran may have a possible secular friend in the US, is as good a time as any for revolution.

They certainly wouldn't have gotten any help from Zippy the Undercover Muslim.

This thread needs to be joined up with the other one, or vice versa.

tac

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
This thread needs to be joined up with the other one, or vice versa.

tac

Yep, other thread was first so this is JibJab

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Originally posted by tatortodd:

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
This thread needs to be joined up with the other one, or vice versa.

tac

Yep, other thread was first so this is JibJab

Huh? My math must be broken. Looks to me like this one was started first by over five hours...

yes this thread isn't jibjab, but the forum likes to keep topics localized in a single thread.

I'll jump over to Bama's thread on Iran.