Protests in Iran

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I think people are reading too far into this. They are protests. Protests happen all the time everywhere. The Iranian government is probably safe for now. This is something I would keep an eye on though because it could escalate. Hopefully not, because anyone who thinks the Iranian government will fall and then there will be a modern, democratic, peaceful Iran is mistaken. The Iranian government remains with a lot of public support. Rouhani was just re-elected by a very strong landslide. There is also Syria, Hezbollah, the Iraqi PMU who have benefited from years of Iranian support and may want to return the favour.

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This thread is full of pro-regime hacks.

Just read through and didn't find any pro-regime comments. Is there something I'm missing?

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I think people are reading too far into this. They are protests. Protests happen all the time everywhere. The Iranian government is probably safe for now. This is something I would keep an eye on though because it could escalate. Hopefully not, because anyone who thinks the Iranian government will fall and then there will be a modern, democratic, peaceful Iran is mistaken. The Iranian government remains with a lot of public support. Rouhani was just re-elected by a very strong landslide. There is also Syria, Hezbollah, the Iraqi PMU who have benefited from years of Iranian support and may want to return the favour.

Rouhani is a moderate reformist. His opponents he beat in a landslide were the hardliners.

I think thumb's point is that the election had a decent turnout giving the regime a bit of 'legitimacy'.

Kinda.

My point is that a president who just won an election with 57% of the vote with 73% turnout is not a president who is about to be rebelled against, even if some of that support was for a lesser of evils.

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I think people are reading too far into this. They are protests. Protests happen all the time everywhere. The Iranian government is probably safe for now. This is something I would keep an eye on though because it could escalate. Hopefully not, because anyone who thinks the Iranian government will fall and then there will be a modern, democratic, peaceful Iran is mistaken. The Iranian government remains with a lot of public support. Rouhani was just re-elected by a very strong landslide. There is also Syria, Hezbollah, the Iraqi PMU who have benefited from years of Iranian support and may want to return the favour.

Rouhani is a moderate reformist. His opponents he beat in a landslide were the hardliners.

I think thumb's point is that the election had a decent turnout giving the regime a bit of 'legitimacy'.

Kinda.

My point is that a president who just won an election with 57% of the vote with 73% turnout is not a president who is about to be rebelled against, even if some of that support was for a lesser of evils.

Their election had more legitimacy then ours, because while ours had 60% turnout theirs had 73% turnout and while our leader won 46% of the vote (Trump lost the popular vote and only won because of the undemocratic electoral college) their leader won 57% of the vote so who’s really spose to lecture who about Democratic elections?

American election candidates don't have to be approved my a bunch of clerics.

Also the Iranian elections are less important because the unelected Ayatollah has the final say.