Current Events > So Iran has been going through unrest

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/world/middleeast/iran-protests-internet.html

The Iranian authorities moved Thursday to project the appearance of normalcy after a week of violent protests over gasoline price increases, partly restoring internet access and decreeing that the mayhem that convulsed the country was really a foreign-backed failure.
But other developments suggested that a severe crackdown was underway in response to the street clashes, rioting and destruction that had upended life in dozens of Iranian cities and towns and that the uprisings had not been completely crushed.
Doctors reported that hospitals were overfilled with people injured in the protests. They also said the Health Ministry had ordered all hospitals in Tehran and other cities to cancel elective surgeries because of the influx of emergency cases.
Irans student union said plainclothes agents of the pro-government Basij militia, hiding inside ambulances to evade restrictions on entering campuses, had seized more than 50 students at Tehran University after protests there.

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fuck off
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^lmao

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The government also came in for some extraordinary criticism from the nations writers guild over what amounted to an internet blackout that started on Sunday in the nation of 80 million, effectively obscuring much of what was happening during the protests. NetBlocks, a firm that tracks cybersecurity, said the shutdown had disconnected almost the entire country.
Shutting down the internet and cutting the access of Iranians and the outside world to the news is the latest tactic to crush protests without the eyes of the world on you, the guild said Thursday in a statement posted on Telegram.
President Trump, whose sanctions are at least partly blamed for Irans economic travails, broke six days of silence on the protests. Iran had become so unstable, Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter, that the regime has shut down their entire Internet System so that the Great Iranian people cannot talk about the tremendous violence taking place within the country.

Amnesty International has said that more than 100 Iranians were killed in the protests, some by security forces using live ammunition to disperse and intimidate crowds. The government, which has portrayed the protesters as rioters and thugs inspired and paid by foreigners, has called the Amnesty report propaganda.
Any casualty figures not confirmed by the government are speculative and unreliable, and in many cases part of a disinformation campaign waged against Iran from outside the country, Alireza Miryousefi, a spokesman for Irans United Nations mission, said Wednesday in a Twitter post.
A spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the elite force responsible for national security, said that several leaders of the unrest with dual citizenship and ties to foreign governments had been arrested. The semiofficial Fars News Agency reported that rioters had looted and burned chain stores in a number of Tehran suburbs, and that some had received $60 for each place set on fire. The Fars account did not specify who had supposedly provided that money.

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Unrest is a bit of an understatement.

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https://youtu.be/Q4uyz6xqnJE

Some of them are sabetours

https://i.imgur.com/26LkDuN.jpg
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Tony_Biggie_Pun posted...

https://youtu.be/Q4uyz6xqnJE

Some of them are sabetours

Surely we can trust the word of Iran. Maybe they should try turning the Internet back on.

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You shouldn't trust Iran and no more than you trust Trump Fox and CNN

Supposedly protesters burned down the central bank last week
https://youtu.be/uiaqFweg9l0

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Tony_Biggie_Pun posted...

You shouldn't trust Iran and no more than you trust Trump Fox and CNN

Can I trust anything? Or just not what you listed?

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hockeybub89 posted...

Tony_Biggie_Pun posted...

You shouldn't trust Iran and no more than you trust Trump Fox and CNN

Can I trust anything? Or just not what you listed?

we cant trust anything. not even the weather channel. says it's not going to rain but it does anyway.
this is fine for walking but not so much for electronics.

can't trust iran either, those bastards are trying to stop the protesters.
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