Any pushback against the fundamentalists in Tehran is to be welcomed, and it’s ironic that the people who hijacked the Iranian revolution might themselves be toppled by people power.
However, I can’t help but see this latest news through the lens of the current power struggle between Iran and Saudi. The paranoid claims of the government ring true because formenting unrest in a war-weary population is exactly what any foreign power would do to undermine Iran at the moment.
Overall, it just goes to show that theocracy cannot survive even the tiniest hint of democracy offered by Khomeini’s islamic republic.
Is no one even hoping for the next “Wenceslas Square” any more?
“Arabs” is sometimes used as a code for “Islam” by the Iranians. This shouldn’t be understood as racism against Arabs, but as a statement that Islam as it is championed by the Iranian government is a foreign import to Iran. It’s a reminder to themselves that there is an Iranian identity that is completely independent of Islam.
Actual real-life Arabs aren’t really what they are talking about.
Is there a way to help ordinary people in Iran get access to secure online communications that cannot be blocked or decoded by their government? Oops, export controls and mandatory back doors have messed things up again!
