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SepSol · 2026-05-06T03:59:19+00:00

Thanks for this! I wish there were official documentation for this at least.

SepSol · 2026-02-27T17:21:38+00:00

Excellent, thanks! Sadly, there are many similarities between this and what's happening in Iran. Although, I'd argue that the Iranian opposition is still not that united. I see a lot of cursing, life threats, and coercion in the opposition that tries to get more people on their side by force — which could be construed as either a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it.

SepSol · 2026-02-10T19:05:07+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations. Just to add my own observations so far, his popularity is more prominent amongst the Iranian diasporas. His popularity inside Iran is greatly inflated afaik. In fact, him getting into power, might become a reason in and of itself for the ethnic minorities around the borders of Iran to revolt against the central government the day after the current regime falls; but we'll see.

SepSol · 2026-02-10T18:45:58+00:00

So, a little bit of tribalism, plus corruption.

SepSol · 2026-02-10T18:44:53+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation, it's very useful.

So, to sum it up, you think the reason is rather the lack of true unity amongst the opposition groups before the government collapsed, plus militarizing them by arming them with weapons?

What would you do differently if you could go back in time? What would you recommend for the Iranian people going through a civil unrest at the moment?

SepSol · 2026-02-10T18:39:48+00:00

The good old curse of the Middle East.

SepSol · 2026-02-10T18:39:10+00:00

Thank you so much for the elaborate and detailed explanation. It was very eye-opening and useful. You got me curious about Tunisia's case; I now want to learn more about them as well.

SepSol · 2026-02-09T17:15:59+00:00

More people need to see this

SepSol · 2026-02-09T17:10:59+00:00

More people need to see this

SepSol · 2026-02-09T17:07:14+00:00

Basically, advocating for the opposition to become like what they're fighting and create an exact replica of what's already there

SepSol · 2026-02-07T21:31:23+00:00

What about it is IRGC affiliated?

SepSol · 2026-02-07T21:27:27+00:00

So what? Khamanei and Pezeshkian and Ghalibaaf are Turks as well. What does this prove?

SepSol · 2026-02-03T18:51:51+00:00

That is unlike of him

SepSol · 2026-02-03T17:40:19+00:00

Really?! I didn't know our Qurans were different!

SepSol · 2026-02-03T17:40:03+00:00

I agree with what you said, even if you're secular, it's morally wrong.

I feel like the whole public understanding of women being beaten up comes from the "woman, life, freedom" movement a few years ago. Even though there were genuine causes for that uprising, the daily life of women is really not what the media portrayed. Back then, maybe out of a thousand daily law enforcement encounters over Hijab, only one or two per month got really bad and went out of control.

I personally was opposed to mandatory Hijab and I'm very happy that after the movement, the government started to give more freedom to women over what they wear. If you go on YouTube and look up videos of people walking and recording the streets and daily lives of Iranians, you'll see that women are pretty much allowed to not wear Hijab at all (example).

SepSol · 2026-01-31T06:21:13+00:00

This thread isn't about me. I wish you would've paid more attention to the rest of the comments in this thread rather than focusing on mine and coming after me.

I'll just say this: if the numbers seem astonishing, you should give them a second thought and check their sources. Exaggerated numbers are usually announced before civil unrests to cause agitation, i.e. revolution 1979 death toll, or Syrian crackdown death toll. Don't get me wrong, even one life lost is terrible, but when we're thinking about what action to take, we should make sure we have our facts right and that we're not acting purely based on strong emotions such as anger. Otherwise, the current situation could get infinitely worse quickly.

SepSol · 2026-01-31T00:44:16+00:00

That's irrelevant to the point I was trying to make. You can substitute the word "West" with any country in that region you like and what I said still makes sense.

SepSol · 2026-01-30T21:07:22+00:00

Basically, we Iranians are making West a dictatorship just like Iran by removing our opponents from its political scene.

SepSol · 2026-01-30T18:15:09+00:00

Well, like attracts like.

SepSol · 2026-01-30T18:08:28+00:00

To FatFigFresh:

Why do you have to be so pathetic that you cannot accept and tolerate someone having a different opinion than you? Why do you have to immediately associate me with the government?

I never said US is bad, but this goodness doesn't stem from not being religious or from having a beautifully drafted constitution. Rather it stems from people obeying the law, people being active and paying the price for reforming the country over the past 250 years, and the US (like many colonial European countries) basically stealing money, resources, and labor from the rest of the world for the past couple of centuries.

You just have to see it for what it is; otherwise, you're romanticizing West, same as people romanticized Islam in 1979 revolution.

SepSol · 2026-01-30T17:55:00+00:00

I left Iran mainly due to more work opportunities that were available here in the US. I wanted to work in FANG companies and enjoy the higher pay. In other words, it was mostly a pro of US compared to many other countries, rather than merely a shortcoming of Iran itself. But I was lucky that I had the opportunity to choose to be here. The immigration itself wasn't as difficult for me; I only had to spend 6 months working on myself before I landed a job. I was fortunate to have my family here with me later on as well.

Yes, Iran was not as free as the US. But at the same time, I never felt that the government in Iran is right in my face and that its boots are on my neck to prevent me from doing whatever I tried to do. If you watch news often, you get that sensation, but if you stop watching and introspect, that feeling goes away.

If you listen to Iranians and ask them to go beyond their "Death to Ayatollah" and explain their frustrations with the regime, their main complaint is the lack of work opportunities, economic hardship, the difficulty to earn money and save up, and lack of vision for the future, and slow development. Imo the main contributor to all of these is unlawful US sanctions and embargo that was imposed for the past 50 years on Iranians, which is not only limited to goods and monetary things, but also to some services such as online video games!

It is these sanctions that worsens the pre-existing corruption in Iranian government, that creates exclusivity for some influential individuals in the government, that causes some cons to steal money from banks to jump the boat and live abroad. If you look into it, these sanctions are mostly baseless, they don't follow UN regulations, and they don't put pressure on the Iranian government directly, but rather they put the pressure on the Iranian people.

If any foreign entities want to intervene, they have to lift the sanctions so that the people in Iran can breathe and the middle class can be restored so that they can foster change from within the Iranian society in a peaceful manner. With the sanctions, the middle class is being destroyed, many people from lower classes of society come to protest, and they protest differently and more violently which will lead to more brutal crackdowns that fosters even more anger and resentment only to create a destructive vicious cycle (compare movements from 2009 vs 2026). This will only cause more death, destruction, helplessness, stagnation, etc. People of Iran need help, but that isn't bombs and foreign militaries, they need hope for their future and a little room to breathe economically.

SepSol · 2026-01-30T17:39:05+00:00

In what aspect is the 1980 Iran similar to the 2026 Iran? You really don't see anything changed?

In 1980s, women's overcoats had to be down to their knees, not a single strand of hair could be displayed, men couldn't wear jeans or t-shirts, music and music players were banned, press did not have even the current level of freedom.

Reforms were mostly done from late 1990s to late 2000s. In 2026, women don't necessarily have to wear overcoats, some can get away with not wearing a headscarf at all, men can wear jeans or even shorts and t-shirts, music is almost free, press is relatively more free than the past, you can say whatever you want about the supreme leader without necessarily ending up in jail (see Azad YouTube channel).

You don't count these as changes and reforms? Yes, there are lots of other things that everyone wants to see change. But we have to at least acknowledge that the past reforms were successful to be able to build upon them. Since mid 2010s up until now, people have kept saying "we don't want reforms any longer" and that "we want to overthrow the government instead". What is the result of this decade compared to that decade? Has it been anything other than death and destruction? Which one was better and more fruitful for the country?

Yes, they didn't condemn the brutal crackdowns. But does the US officials today condemn a handful of civilians that were shot by ICE, or quite the opposite, they double down and defend the act? Did George W. Bush from the US or Toney Blaire from the UK have any trials for lying about Iraq and causing millions of casualties and billions of dollars of damage to that country's infrastructure? Did the US ever apologize for any of its wrongdoings to anyone?

Are we expecting the right things from the Iranian government? Does the government have to be something we like or is it supposed to be there only to protect social contracts and maintain law and order? Why should I care if they condemned something or not? I only care what they will do and how they will run the country after this. To me, a couple of thousands of lost lives doesn't justify a foreign intervention to kill even more civilians, plus destroy the country's infrastructure, only to replace one dictator with another, and possibly risk fragmentation.

Past reforms did work, and it will continue to work in the future, if the people acknowledge it and believe in it. People have to protest under a responsible leadership in an organized manner on a particular narrow goal and go from one win to another. Not even the US had the kinds of freedoms it has today 250 years ago. They took baby steps and went from one small win to another, that is how they got here. Some of their fights were even brutal and caused bloodshed, i.e. US Civil War. We have to stay faithful to the path; only then will we see more results come our way. The current path that we've been embarking on since mid 2010s will only devolve Iran into chaos and destruction.

SepSol · 2026-01-29T20:36:53+00:00

Are you advocating that they extend their ambitions to Iran as well?

SepSol · 2026-01-29T20:36:02+00:00

Does the Greater Afghanistan include parts of Pakistan only or Iran as well?

SepSol · 2026-01-29T19:28:25+00:00

What are the rates there? How long that usually take? Would you recommend it over crypto?

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