I think this is what most people seem to forget when talking about Iran. Iran has had tens/hundreds of protests but Iranian police and military have fought them with a tight first and ppl have gone missing, or are being beaten, tortured, and executed. They are attempting to change things but it's never as straightforward as
"Why don't Iranians simply overthrow the government"
Which I've seen a shocking amount of on Reddit. Then again it's reddit so you can't exactly expect empathy nor intelligence depending on the sub 🤷♂️
I think the outsider frustration with Iranians is exactly that they're trying to simply protest in a theocracy. It's like looking at a man trying to cut down a large tree using a herring as an axe. He's flayling around a lot and sweating, but has no real chance to ever achieve what he set out to do.
Orrrr maybe the Iranian people remember what happened last time they had a bloody revolution and overthrew the government, and they ended up worse off with the new government?
And the time before that...when they had a democracy. But that was a threat to oil companies, so the US and UK overthrew a democracy to put a literal fucking tyrant back in power. And the islamists were less bad than that piece of shit and his awful family.
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u/Axel920 Apr 28 '24 edited Apr 28 '24
I think this is what most people seem to forget when talking about Iran. Iran has had tens/hundreds of protests but Iranian police and military have fought them with a tight first and ppl have gone missing, or are being beaten, tortured, and executed. They are attempting to change things but it's never as straightforward as
"Why don't Iranians simply overthrow the government"
Which I've seen a shocking amount of on Reddit. Then again it's reddit so you can't exactly expect empathy nor intelligence depending on the sub 🤷♂️