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This time there is a President who stands for freedom, individual rights — Americanism instead of a hard-left, pro-mullah traitor such as Barack Hussein. This time, the Iranian people have a real shot to throw off the yoke of Islamic tyranny and totalitarianism.
Iranian Cities Hit By Protests For Fourth Day
Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, August 4, 2018:
Hundreds of protesters returned to the streets of several Iranian cities on August 3, according to social media posts, for a fourth consecutive day of demonstrations amid growing anxiety over the country’s economic difficulties and the return of U.S. sanctions.
Story continues below advertisementIranian media reported that demonstrators attacked a Shi’ite seminary west of the capital, Tehran, on August 3 as protests against economic woes turned into antigovernment rallies.
Iranians are angered by high inflation and increasing economic hardship caused in part by the dramatic decline of the national currency, the rial.
In the town of Eshtehard, 100 kilometers west of Tehran, riot police dispersed several hundred people who chanted slogans against the government late on August 3, with some throwing rocks and bricks at a Shi’ite Muslim seminary, the semiofficial Fars news agency said on August 4.
In Washington, the U.S. State Department said on its Persian-language Twitter account on August 3: “While it is ultimately up to the people of Iran to determine their country’s path, America supports the voice of the Iranian people, which has been ignored for a long time.”
‘Death To Khamenei’
Amateur videos sent to RFE/RL appeared to show dozens of protesters in the capital Tehran, with some chanting “Death to Khamenei,” in a reference to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Other demonstrators could be heard chanting, “Iranians, shout your demands.”
There were reports of a heavy police presence in the center of Tehran and in its northern neighborhoods.
Another amateur video sent to RFE/RL appeared to show police confronting demonstrators in the city of Karaj.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or arrests in Tehran or Karaj.
Protesters have also staged demonstrators in the cities of Mashhad, Isfahan, and Shiraz.
The protests have come as Iranians brace for the return of U.S. sanctions following President Donald Trump’s decision in May to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Under the deal, Iran received sanctions relief in return for limits to its nuclear program.
On August 7, Washington will reimpose sanctions on Iran’s purchase of U.S. dollars, its trade in gold and precious metals, and its dealings with metals, coal, and industrial-related software.
Sanctions will also be reapplied to U.S. imports of Iranian carpets and foodstuffs as well as on certain related financial transactions.
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11 Comments
5 years ago
If Hillary had won , Mullahs would have been very happy. She and rest of dems / RINo’s would have done their bidding.
Dems were paid by Iranian lobbyists to support Nuke deal http://tinyurl.com/mcake4d
And their holdovers still support it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Agreed go Trump. The last this country needs are nukes. Hiff out the vile Mullahs and give the Iranians their democracy back
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
If only the Brits had the same balls, Disgusting
Imagine if thousands of Irain children were raped
5 years ago
This is what happens when Islam takes over your country. They take your money to fuel their jihad wars and brutalize the population, destroy your freedom, democracy and don’t even pay for basic services like power, clean water, food and so on.
Gaza is an extreme example but it’s the same pattern in Iran and elsewhere. All Muslim countries are technologically backward, except the oil-rich nations who can hire foreign workers to modernize their nations because they’re too lazy to do it themselves.
I just don’t understand why most people still haven’t figured it out. Islam is a cancer on the Earth and we need to unite with all non-Muslims and end this evil death cult once and for all.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rick Reynolds
Agreed. Its convenient for the left hence theyre aiding and abetting these criminals for their own trough and ideology or simply out of sheer stupidity and ignorance. Islam/communism two sides of the same coin
5 years ago
Reply to
Rick Reynolds
“I just don’t understand why most people still haven’t figured it out.”
Well the UK etc govt tell us that Islam is religion of peace, so that must be true.
But I think you’ll find that most people have indeed figured it out. Just they aren’t the rulers and even if their voices were audible most would fear speaking out. Even many hijab-wearers are only pretending to be believers.
A proportion of Muslims are true believers, along with.the dominating “elite” of kafirs. These believers have grown up under the ideology of greed-globalism according to which “racism” [against “minorities”] is the most evil thing possible. Muzzies are a “minority” (over here but stuff the actual facts!) and so they qualify for Sacred Cow status hence must self-evidently be good and incapable of wrongdoing.
It is very difficult for members of a privileged “elite” to cast off the ideology which put them in such privilege. It is even more difficult when whole organisations and social groups have to change their “minds” rather than just one person. But they are becoming every day les and less relevant and useful to the non-“2elite” and are heading for the exit of history.
One notable sign of the times is how the crowds (both kaf and mus) keep well clear of the Dawah stalls in case they suddenly explode!
5 years ago
NPR reported today, Saturday, Aug. 4, that these protests are over “rising prices” that are “in part due to concerns about American threats of increased sanctions.” That’s NPR on the next Iran uprising — it’s Trump’s fault!
LOL!!!
I forget that lady’s name who, like all the taxpayer-supported fossils on government radio, has been bleating the news for literally decades, but she is a first-rate and shameless propagandist, fellow traveler and islamist.
5 years ago
A little dose of democracy would go a long way in curing Iran’s ills, starting with the separation of mosque and state. Notice also the copycat nature of the mullahs in imitating North Korea what with the nuclear weapons hysteria and a huge standing army with no credible existential threats.
5 years ago
Let’s hope this is a start of a revolution like they did to the Shah.
