The protests were supposed to end Saturday, as far as the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was concerned. It didn’t work out that way. “Iranian Protesters Call for Death of Iran’s Top Leader as Demonstrations Grow,” Reuters, October 28, 2022: DUBAI (Reuters)—Iranians kept up protests calling for the toppling of the Islamic Republic on Friday, as […]
Iran: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps top dog boasts, ‘Today is the last day of the riots’
This will only be the last day of the protests in Iran if the Islamic regime is ready to use unprecedented and savage force against its own people. It is, as terror is the only tool in its box (cf. Qur’an 8:60), but so far the Iranian people have been unwilling to be terrorized. Note […]
Islamic Republic of Iran: Security forces target girls school, fire tear gas as girls clash with staff
Forces of the Islamic regime in Iran have been raiding schools and targeting schoolgirls with increasing frequency; this is is causing even more public fury than there already was. One girl was recently beaten to death by security forces in her classroom for refusing to sing a “pro-regime song.” In mid-October, it emerged that 23 children […]
Iranian Cleric Insists the Protests Will Fail, Demands Harsher Measures
The Islamic Republic has been gripped by demonstrations that erupted after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last month, and that have now spread to more than 90 cities across Iran. The response of the regime has been to dig in its heels and use live fire to suppress protesters. It’s a […]
Leftist Hijab-Wearing Boston Politician Tries to Hijack Iran’s Anti-Hijab Protests
New in PJ Media: There’s tone-deaf, and then there’s far-Left Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson. Women are putting their lives on the line for the freedom not to wear hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Fernandes Anderson has come up with a novel way to honor them. She has proposed that Boston […]
Boston councilor proposes that birthday of Iranian woman killed for wearing hijab improperly be named ‘Hijab Day’
Tania Fernandes Anderson’s twisted reasoning here is that Mahsa Amini was killed for wearing her hijab, and Muslim women in the U.S. supposedly are targets of “Islamophobia” for wearing hijab, so therefore her birthday should be “Hijab Day.” Yes, it’s insane. Yes, it’s a slap in the face for the Iranian protestors who are risking […]
What Iranian Schools Inculcate
The Institute for Moderating Peace and Cultural Tolerance in the Middle East, known as IMPACT-se, has just issued a study of the Iranian curriculum and its schoolbooks. It makes for instructive – and frightening — reading. Its findings are reported on here: “Iranian students are also protesting against oppressive educations -opinion,” by Marcus Sheff, Jerusalem […]
Oil Workers In Iran Now Threaten to ‘Destroy What We Built’
The key players in the 1979 Iranian Revolution were not the students, nor the bazaaris, but the oil workers. When they went out on strike in 1978 against the Shah’s regime and in support of the little-known and less-understood Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s production, and sales, of oil and refined petroleum products plummeted. This led to […]
Iran: Police use ambulances to escape outraged protesters, ‘this is not protest, it’s a revolution’
The Islamic Republic of Iran is having trouble controlling the protests that have grown internationally and threaten a revolution. Some protesters are now chanting: “This is not protest, it is a revolution,” and when Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited Alzahara University in Tehran, he was humiliated by women greeting him with anti-government chants. Videos turned up […]
Islamic Republic of Iran: Regime has now killed 185 protesters, but they won’t give up
If only people in the West were this tenacious against tyranny. “Protests Continue Across Iran as Rights Group Reports 19 Minors Killed,” Reuters, October 9, 2022: Protests ignited by the death of a young woman in police custody continued across Iran on Sunday in defiance of a crackdown by the authorities, as a human rights […]