For Background read This Has Become Newsworthy and This Has Also Become Newsworthy
The 2019-20 Iranian Protests were nationwide unrest led by the Iranian Democracy Movement. The Iranian government responded by killing up to 1,500 protestors and arresting 7,000. They also shut down the nation’s internet service for 6 days to create a media blackout. If you’ve never heard of these protests the tactic worked.
As many as 1,500 Iranian protesters were killed. The government crackdown and protests resulted in the destruction of 731 government banks including Iran’s central bank, nine Islamic religious centres, protesters tearing down anti-American billboards, and posters and statues of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as well as former leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Wikipedia
Some of the slogans used by protestors; “Shah of Iran, return to Iran!” “Not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life only for Iran,” “Death to the Islamic Republic“
This protest movement was anti Theocracy and pro democracy. The participants called for the ouster of the Ayatollah and a return to the constitutional monarchy that existed prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The protests lasted through June of 2020.
Here’s the kicker. On 3 January 2020 then president Donald Trump‘s US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani (gods had a new assignment lined up) and a subsequent missile attack against US forces in Iraq is what the world was focused on; not the protest movement. On 8 January 2020 Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The flight carried 176 people, all of whom perished (Wikipedia). The pro democracy protests faded away.
On September 13, 2022 a 22 year old woman named Mahsa Amini was arrested by the Iranian morality police for not wearing a hijab. She was beaten by the police and taken to a hospital 2 hours later. She died from her wounds 3 days later. Her death inspired new protests against the Iranian Theocracy (The Hill). These protests are ongoing with brutal retaliation by Iranian police.
Authorities have not released an official death toll, but Iran’s Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) says at least 530 protesters have been killed by security forces. Almost 20,000 other protesters have reportedly been detained, including journalists, film stars and footballers. (BBC)
Here’s the kicker. On Jan 3, 2024, Tajik terrorists from ISIS-K attacked a commemoration ceremony for Qasem Soleimani at the Kerman cemetery where he is buried. Twin bomb blasts killed 94 and injured 284 others (Wikipedia). ISIS-K is a Sunni fundamentalist group of religious fanatics bent on establishing a theocracy in the regions including part of Iran, Afghanistan and Eastern Pakistan. This action against the Shia theocracy, by a Sunni theocratic movement, has helped to sideline the pro democracy movement in Iran. This is similar to ISIS contribution in the Syrian Revolution against Bashir al-Assad by the Free Syrian Army.
It’s as if the gods have moved their hands to maintain these leaders.
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This is the death chart of Georges Ernest Boulanger (29 April 1837 – 30 September 1891), nicknamed Général Revanche (“General Revenge”). He was a French General and politician of the 19th century. He used inflammatory rhetoric and nationalism to vault to popularity during the Third Republic. He called for revenge against Germany for the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. In January of 1989 it was feared he had enough popularity to become a dictator and is considered by some historians to be the first fascist or “proto-fascist.”
He was considered a Republican because he did not go to church. Later it was realized that he was a conservative Monarchist.
His downfall from politics occurred in January of 1889 when he won a race for a seat as a deputy for Paris. His supporters were elated and wanted to conduct a coup d’etat; immediately take over the national government. He was a threat to the Republic and was accused by his detractors of treason (later convicted in absentia). He fled to Brussels and then to London. He committed suicide in 1891 with a pistol over the grave of his mistress Marguerite de Bonnemains who had died two months earlier.
The chart on the right is the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989). He was a religious leader of Twelver Shi’a Islam. He became the Ayatollah (religious title) around 1962. He went into exile in 1963, living in Iraq, Turkey and France. In Turkey he stayed in Bursa in the home of Colonel Ali Cetiner, head of Turkish Military Intelligence. According to the BBC, recently released documents show the Ayatollah had contact with the CIA on different occasions. He returned to Iran during the Iranian Revolution with the help of the US and France. The leaders of the countries were led to believe he would help calm the situation. He promptly took over the revolutionary government and formed a Theocracy. He eliminated all competition from the original groups behind the overthrow of Shah Pahlavi. Iran was then involved in a 10 year war against Saddam Hussein’s<< Iraq (Iran-Iraq War),
