Protesters Iran set on fire the ancestral home of the republic's founder Ayatollah Khomeini

I don't think the Iranian women are gonna put back on thier hijabs again.

Just a little over 40 years ago thier parents brought Khomeini back from Paris and into the leadership of Iran, and now the Islamic Republic seems to be on the brink of another leadership shift. Got to wonder if this is completely organic or does it have backing from elsewhere

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Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini two months into the anti-regime protest movement, images showed on Friday.

The house in the city of Khomein in the western Markazi province was shown ablaze late Thursday with crowds of jubilant protesters marching past, according to images posted on social media, verified by AFP.

Khomeini is said to have been born at the house in the town of Khomein -- from where his surname derives -- at the turn of the century.

He became a cleric deeply critical of the US-backed shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, moved into exile but then returned in triumph from France in 1979 to lead the Islamic revolution.

Khomeini died in 1989 but remains the subject of adulation by the clerical leadership under successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The house was later turned into a museum commemorating Khomeini. It was not immediately clear what damaged it sustained.

a reply to: putnam6

"Got to wonder if this is completely organic or does it have backing from elsewhere"

Read the other day somewhere the Iranian regime arrested two French who were up to something or other regarding the protests. Maybe there is a Iranian diaspora in France or something.

Iran will be pretty easy to stir up having considerable Kurdish and Arab minorities amongst others who want to have their own say on how they lead their lives, no doubt foreign Kurdish in the diaspore are acting in co-ordination with foreign outside influences, guess Israel (which backs Kurds militarily on occasion) and the States, plus Arab states too and formenting trouble for the Mullahs. Add to that all those poor females who are no doubt sick to the back teeth of being oppressed by the Mullahs and the male dominated society and being forced to cover their heads up with textiles.

a reply to: putnam6

Be nice to bring Iran back into the fold.

So whither or not all the hullabaloo and protests are homegrown or orchestrated to a fashion.

Lets hope they achieve the desired effect and some kind of serious regime change for the better is on the horizon.

Freedom to Iran and down the oppressive sexist xenophobic government.

a reply to: putnam6

F# the religious fanatical Incel government of Iran.
For the way they treat women alone they should burn IMO.
All the mullahs,all the basijs.

And if the west are serious about countering China-we should be helping the oppressed in Iran to be free.
Of course none of our interventions are ever really about that-but in geopolitical terms if the developed world wants to retain any of our values we should be isolating China-so a weaker russia and a non fanatical Iranian regime not aligned with china would be a huge deal for the west.

Problem is we(primarily UK and USA)really paved the way for the current Iranian regime by meddling in their affairs so now the west are reluctant to get involved at least in public.

a reply to: Silcone Synapse

F# the religious fanatical Incel government of Iran. For the way they treat women alone they should burn IMO. All the mullahs,all the basijs.

There is no going back. They killed too many people now. Too many women, men and now even little children.
The calamity going on is pretty historic. Oil workers walked off. People were just pushing the head wrap off of clerics but now they are beating up the police and killing them. The line has been drawn now and sides are taken.

They killed a popular young rap star, they killed a ten year old boy. The father of the boy instead of grieving said he is in support of the women of his country. If that doesn’t give them fuel I don’t know what will.

a reply to: JAGStorm
"There is no going back."
I hope you are correct-I thought that was the case during the last round of protests-2019 IIRC.
But even though many were killed and horrific videos of state brutality filtered out to the wider world,we did nothing of consequence to help.

Somethings are differnet now though-the Revolutionary guard are active in Europe in the Ukrainian war,and Isreal has just re elected Netenyauhu-who has always wanted to destroy the Iranian regime.

So maybe this time,those fighting the regime will get more help from the West.

a reply to: putnam6

As the state kills more and more sons and daughters the protestors will become ever more violent and angry, the state will put them down using military force and so the protests will become militant and arm themselves in response, soon it will spread into Afghanistan one Iran is free, it will still be an Islamic state but not a hard line one and Hijabs are not even really part of their religion anyway being an adopted practice from Eurasia whose original purpose was to hide the womans identity as most wives back then were kidnapped.

a reply to: LABTECH767

There is no going back now, and like you said, every killing will only add fuel...

I heard a lady scream such a profound statement. She said "You've ruined this country for 40 YEARS!!!!!!"

Should we tell them about the wage gap yet?

a reply to: putnam6
Just wanted to share a recent video.
This is why people are fighting back against police.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: putnam6
Just wanted to share a recent video.
This is why people are fighting back against police.

It's amazing really, over something so simple, it shows the huge disconnect the mullahs have from the masses. There was a time that if they would have loosened the hijab rule they might have stayed in power, but that time seems to have passed.

Now the question is who replaces them? the military is usually the front runner

a reply to: putnam6

There was a time that if they would have loosened the hijab rule they might have stayed in power, but that time seems to have passed.

This is about the hijab but also not about the hijab. It’s about how power corrupts.
It’s not just against women, even though they have faced the severe brunt of it. These women have fathers, husbands, sons, grandpas, uncles. These people aren’t even as holy as they claim to be, it is easily seen that their women folk live in other countries and dress scantily and seductive and no problem. It’s all 100% about power.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: putnam6

There was a time that if they would have loosened the hijab rule they might have stayed in power, but that time seems to have passed.

This is about the hijab but also not about the hijab. It’s about how power corrupts.
It’s not just against women, even though they have faced the severe brunt of it. These women have fathers, husbands, sons, grandpas, uncles. These people aren’t even as holy as they claim to be, it is easily seen that their women folk live in other countries and dress scantily and seductive and no problem. It’s all 100% about power.

It's definitely about power and control, but they could have held on to it a little longer with just a few concessions.

On a side note considering all the turmoil aren't we glad they aren't farther along with thier nuclear ambitions? It will be interesting to see the fallout, that said the more desperate thier leaders become it's likely to get worse before it gets better.

a reply to: putnam6

Never in my life did I think I’d be cheering for the people of Iran.

I think the whole world is waking up and realizing people are people. Maybe our “leaders” make a country seem like this or that, but overall we all want the same things.

YES I’m super glad that nuclear ambitions are taking a back row to all of this.

I also hope someday we can cheer the North Korean people on the same way. I hope as they smuggle more and more videos from S Korea and China they realize how brainwashed they are. You know it’s pretty bad when even China has more freedoms!!

If they are protesting against the government, aren't they insurrectionists?

That's the way it works in the US.

a reply to: putnam6

Its looking a lot likely these protestors arent all "Iranian"

a reply to: VictorVonDoom

If they are protesting against the government, aren't they insurrectionists?

Yes they are and if they are also agaisnt the government how many actually are really protesting?

a reply to: vNex92

Sprinkled with ""Antifa"" no doubt.

What its looking a lot like is protest anger and discontent.

And for very good reason.

Hopefully revolution and regime change for the better will come from this.

originally posted by: Silcone Synapse
So maybe this time,those fighting the regime will get more help from the West.

Yet more foreign entanglements? No thank you, I've seen enough.

originally posted by: vNex92
a reply to: putnam6

Its looking a lot likely these protestors arent all "Iranian"

Really? how do you tell if they are Iranian or not? Pretty sure if they weren't Iranian the Iranian government would be squealing exactly that. Considering they are fairly connected to Russia and recently the CCP they would likely have the intel would they not?