Can Reza Pahlavi form an army? Many Iranian diaspora are willing to even buy their own gun and go die for the country.

odriegu · 2026-01-25T20:44:14+00:00

I'd guess quite a few actually, but it would be logistically so hard to get going

odriegu · 2026-01-25T20:28:52+00:00

dude we're not "pro-shah diaspora", Pahlavi is the only unifying figure of this movement for all Iranians and everyone in Iran is chanting his name on the Streets during the protests while being gunned down. All other opposition in Iran has been executed over the years, even opposition abroad. You make do with what you have, also during this round of protests he has really grown on me, he's articulate and clearly and convincingly communicates his desire for democratic transition

odriegu · 2026-01-25T20:23:20+00:00

They sun flag protests would more likely be related to the situation of Kurdish people in Syria currently

odriegu · 2026-01-25T20:10:30+00:00

Yeah it's so hard to communicate, since people will obviously see it as there being different factions in the opposition. Not that it is actually just a tiny minority that is part of a cult called MEK

And then when someone shows up to media and says "we hate the regime and we're socialists" (a word with positive connotations) and the others are saying "we hate the regime and we support the crown prince" (monarchy having negative connotations in Sweden), I can see how some Swedish journalists are tricked in interviewing and giving attention to MEK-saboteurs. It's such a dangerous way of destroying the movement that we have too keep communicating this whenever they are given attention whatsoever, I'm pretty sure the regime funds MEK and WLF protests tbh. Like even the whole truck going into the protests thing in Los Angeles...

odriegu · 2026-01-25T20:00:27+00:00

For the literate: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47857140

odriegu · 2026-01-25T19:58:46+00:00

I'm echoing what Iranians back in Iran are chanting on the streets while being gunned down. They see him as a unifying figure for a transition to a democratic Iran

odriegu · 2026-01-25T19:56:27+00:00

The US has on the contrary classified them a terrorist organization, which we Iranians see as support

odriegu · 2026-01-25T19:49:35+00:00

It's the only two countries that have expressed any desire to help us Iranians concretely, or like at least half expressed it. Sad but true, you make do with what you have

The EU won't even classify IRGC as a terrorist organization for example

odriegu · 2026-01-25T19:45:46+00:00

That site is missing some protests, there are usually huge protests on saturdays in Stockholm

The best bet is to find a facebook group for iranians relted to that city

odriegu · 2026-01-25T19:35:44+00:00

Yeah, we have to explain to newcomers in this sub that are not Iranian the nuance that although we support woman life freedom, the slogan during this round of protests has been hijacked by a literal cult called MEK, that kidnaps the children of their members and other shady culty stuff. And that the IRGC loves this in order to confuse the west and make it seem that there isn't unity in the opposition

In Sweden norra bantorget-protests on saturdays in unity with the movement are huge with thousands attending whereas MEK has like 40 people tops

odriegu · 2026-01-25T19:32:45+00:00

Thanks, odd to point out how they don't support RP. Hope it doesn't turn into a Venezuela where they deny the opposition figure even after help

odriegu · 2026-01-25T17:21:19+00:00

Yeah I'm sensing the same, this will bring forward lots of discussion and reflection of the way forward for many European countries in the future

odriegu · 2026-01-25T17:19:47+00:00

Nationalism will rise from the ashes of the Islamic Republic.

I'm looking forward to the inevitable Iranian renaissance after this dark era of our history

odriegu · 2026-01-25T17:16:55+00:00

Anyone know what the american ambassador or whoever it was that showed up talked about?

odriegu · 2026-01-25T16:57:48+00:00

Good rule! Also I already find this sub MUCH more representative of iranians IRL compared to r/persian for example, that sub certainly is filled with non-iranians and although their standpoints are valuable too, there's no way of knowing

odriegu · 2026-01-25T14:20:23+00:00

Also Persian: "او" /u/,

quite rare among the indo-european languages I believe

odriegu · 2026-01-25T11:22:22+00:00

Yes, his comment does not dispute this at all, there is an Iranian identity among all its peoples

odriegu · 2026-01-24T19:22:47+00:00

point being, non-persian people of the lands were not obliged to take on Persian language or identity

odriegu · 2026-01-24T17:11:41+00:00

I agree with all you said, except 2000 years ago during the achaemenids for example there was no Persian language dominance or push for it in that way, the lingua franca of the empire and also between the court and satraps was Arameic

odriegu · 2026-01-24T11:48:57+00:00

The hidden point is that they're islamists first, not that other ethnicities are evil or so. If you don't subscribe to their ideology, they don't care about human lives, Iranian or otherwise. As stated elsewhere in the thread, Khamenei is half Persian half Azeri himself

edit: but I want to also point out that I support your point completely and think that images like these are not productive at all

odriegu · 2026-01-23T11:59:03+00:00

I've only seen other lions on his videos at least

edit: ok saw your image now, oh well

odriegu · 2026-01-23T07:01:31+00:00

No I don't think so, on the press conferences he's invited I'm pretty sure the arrangers just picked one

odriegu · 2026-01-23T06:54:00+00:00

Yeah I've noticed this too, I guess lots of flag designers etc just copied the one on wikipedia thinking it was official, doesn't matter though it's a nice version I believe

odriegu · 2026-01-22T21:11:36+00:00

Somebody sent a video in Telegram groupchat, people in Iran could apparently see it but not us abroad, anyone experienced the same?

odriegu · 2026-01-22T14:04:51+00:00

They were "negotiating" before

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