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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 months ago (13 children)

The west is really pushing for the Shah to take over, huh

There were some reports from Arak that workers started taking over factories. But no, what gets reported are some fringe monarchists.

Btw, the Iranian communist party talks of 600ish dead and 11000 arrested. Those seem more believable numbers. Protests seem to still be ongoing on a large scale, I hope they bring down the Ayatollah regime. All power to the workers!

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

A single video shows ~400 bodies piled up in one Tehran suburb.

What the honest fuck are your talking about 600ish sounds more believable? More believable based on what? Based on you dick riding the Ayatollah?

[–] RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Based on other protests, probably?

Apart from that, killing 12000 people is a huge effort even for a military using artillery and whatnot. If you have some military insight, just think of the logistics.

Or compare to the massacres Nazis did in WW2. Extreme cases like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had something like 20000 people killed on site, so you see how believing that they pulled of more than half of that here, without all the supporting context the nazis had, is not a given.

[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

Protests have occurred in approximately 180 towns and cities.

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