This could also be an inside job to justify the killing that will result later.
Yes and Modi jee with his 42 inch chest shall protect him against all forces including Trump
You can thank the Indian trolls and the Bangladeshi trolls (like sweep_shot) and their fake Alt IDs (like finalfantasy07) in this forum for that.
There have been pro regime protests in Iran too.
The Shah of Iran was more pro- Pakistan back in the day. In fact Ayatollah has some
It is a difficult demographic to really understand particularly their allegiance to the religion and the theocratic state. You will only see opinions from seculars or regime supporters. I wonder what average Joe in Iran feels and what percentage of the public don't really fall into either category.
I don't particularly think these are ant-religious or political protests. Maybe they've become that but they started as economic protests.
Why do the expat Iranian diaspora seem to be so deranged and detached from reality.... protesting to bring about monarchy in the 21st century and then waving Israelis flags on marches... I mean seriously!!
Its an afghan propaganda account.
www.ncr-iran.org
You are free to leave in that case. The day extremists like you live Britain, country will improve anyway.
People are supporting Liberal, democratic govt to rule Iran as opposed to oppressive Mullah regime. You enjoy liberal benefits as a minority in Britain but want autocratic rule in Iran. Why?
You are asbolute tool.... aping talking points that are not your own. I suppose its to be expected with individuals like you.
But that is not for you to decide right? As a Pakistani sitting in Great Britain?
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That is the point, not is not for me to decide. I am giving an opinion which is slightly more informed than yours.But that is not for you to decide right? As a Pakistani sitting in Great Britain?
Only Iranians must decide what is good for their country or what is independence for them.
81 per cent of Iranians do not want an Islamic republic
Support for protests in Iran significant: “81 per cent of Iranians do not want an Islamic republic”
Pooyan Tamimi Arab’s research foundation GAMAAN shows that more than 80 per cent of Iranians do not want an Islamic republic and support protests in the country.www.uu.nl
Which part of it you dont understand?
Also will you agree killing 3000 people in 72 hours by cutting internet countrywide is genocide?
100%. Everyone in India does the same.
lol he doesn’t realize that if these rioters are burning mosques, what will they do to Mandirs.
You are free to leave in that case. The day extremists like you live Britain, country will improve anyway.
Majority of Iranians reject Islamic Republic, survey finds
Recent surveys and reports, especially from 2024-2025, indicate a significant majority of Iranians desire a fundamental political change, with large percentages rejecting the Islamic Republic and supporting regime transformation, particularly among the youth and educated. Polls by GAMAAN in 2024 showed around 70-80% of Iranians oppose the current system, favoring either outright regime change or a structural shift, while support for the ruling principles has fallen to around 11%
Majority of Iranians reject Islamic Republic, survey finds
A survey conducted by a Netherlands-based institute found that the majority of Iranians would vote for either a regime change or a structural transition away from the Islamic Republic, highlighting growing demands for political change across Iran.www.iranintl.com
81 per cent of Iranians do not want an Islamic republic
Support for protests in Iran significant: “81 per cent of Iranians do not want an Islamic republic”
Pooyan Tamimi Arab’s research foundation GAMAAN shows that more than 80 per cent of Iranians do not want an Islamic republic and support protests in the country.
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But but but...a Brit Pakistani sitting in Bradford knows what majority of Iranians want
People are supporting Liberal, democratic govt to rule Iran as opposed to oppressive Mullah regime. You enjoy liberal benefits as a minority in Britain but want autocratic rule in Iran. Why?
They are burning mosques because they are fed up with Mullah regime. Why will they harm temples? Then you call others stupid. Are you accusing Iranians fighting for their freedoms as religious bigots?
Bhai, I know those areas. People are pretty happy with things. It’s comical what you guys spread. It would be impossible to convince you otherwise because … low iq, at least 2 SD below average- almost in retarded zone.
I know those areas cant be the answer na? In internet, everyone knows everything. Agree na Bhai. Get some facts and then come back for a proper debate.
Na! you are hypocrite, y'all supporting your government for giving royal treatment to a fugitive.@KingKhanWC want regime change in Pakistan and IK to come in power, liberalism in Britian where he lives with equal rights for everyone, condemns about Israel oppression of Palestine but want Iran to live under autocratic regime.
You expose his hypocrisy - he will bring silly things like Student Visa, RSS, Indians etc.
Except that Sikhs were not burning down property and killing people in the streets like they are in Iran.
I don’t think anyone here has said they like the Mullahs. I would prefer them gone as they are oppressive and incompetent. However, people are concerned about it being done the right way or you will have anarchy. Also, the irony is that you are saying all this but supporting those outside of Iran wanting regime change to bring in the Shah or an Israeli backed regime. You should acknowledge that neither will benefit Iranians, who simply want freedom and a better economy that is open to the rest of the world with no wars.
I can post bunch of proofs, articles, polls, videos of first hand accounts but these type of people are not here for purpose of learning and removing misunderstandings. They only have one purpose.
What genocide? Let’s not use the term Willy Nilly or you reduce its meaning. I only use it because majority of genocide scholars including Israeli scholars have said what is happening in Gaza is genocide.More than 3,000 Dead in Iran’s Nationwide Uprising as of January 11
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced that the death toll from the nationwide uprising, which began on December 28, 2025, has surpassed 3,000 as of January 11, 2026.
The figures are based on investigations drawing on local sources, hospitals, forensic medicine centers, and the families of those killed or disappeared across 195 cities. The Iranian regime was forced to display some of the bodies on state television, falsely attributing the killings to its opponents and to protesters.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), extended her condolences to the people of Iran, particularly to the families, relatives, friends, and fellow activists of these proud martyrs. She stated that this major crime against humanity will not go unanswered by the Iranian people and the uprising youth.
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that those who ordered and carried out this brutal massacre will undoubtedly be brought to justice in a democratic Iran of tomorrow.
PMOI: More than 3,000 Dead in Iran’s Nationwide Uprising as of January 11 - NCRI
Nationwide Uprising- No. 41 Maryam Rajavi: This Is a Major Crime Against Humanity, and Its Architects and Perpetrators Will Face Justice The People’s
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Now no one will call it a genocide
Iran is a much simpler scenario. A government which is oppressing their people. I agree this government should go, it’s a ridiculous system. Supreme leader unelected by their own people.
Came to see the source and it's Indian source so obviously fake newsThe republic’s supreme leader has plotted an exit route out of Tehran should his forces fail to quell dissent, an intelligence report reveals
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei greeting a crowd during a ceremony in Tehran on Saturday
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Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a back-up plan to flee the country should his security forces fail to suppress protests or desert, according to an intelligence report shared with The Times.
Khamenei, 86, plans to escape Tehran with a close circle of up to 20 aides and family, should he see that the army and security called on to quell the unrest are deserting, defecting or failing to follow orders.
“The ‘plan B’ is for Khamenei and his very close circle of associates and family, including his son and nominated heir apparent, Mojtaba,” an intelligence source told The Times.
Beni Sabti, who served for decades in Israeli intelligence after fleeing the regime eight years after the Islamic revolution, told The Times that Khamenei would flee to Moscow as “there is no other place for him”.
• Inside Iran protests that threaten regime: ‘This is the final battle’
Khamenei also “admires Putin, while the Iranian culture is more similar to the Russian culture”.
The getaway plan is based on the escape of his ally, the fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who fled Damascus aboard a plane to Moscow to join his family before opposition forces stormed the capital in December 2024.
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“They have plotted an exit route out of Tehran should they feel the need to escape,” which includes “gathering assets, properties abroad and cash to facilitate their safe passage”, the source said.
Khamenei is known to hold a major network of assets, some under one of the most powerful organisations in Iran, Setad — part of a system of semi-state charitable foundations known for their financial obfuscation. Estimates put the total holdings at $95 billion, according to a Reuters investigation in 2013, including properties and companies, all held and controlled by Khamenei.
Many of his closest aides, including the secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council, Ali Larijani — who warned President Trump to stay out of Tehran’s affairs — have family members already living abroad, including in the US, Canada and Dubai.
Nationwide protests triggered by economic hardships have gripped cities across Iran, including in the holy city of Qom, over the last week.
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Protesters accuse anti-riot forces — made up of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Basij militia, the police and the army — of using violent means including live fire, tear gas and water cannons to suppress the demonstrations.
The forces are under the total command of Khameini, who is the supreme source of power in the Islamic republic, overruling the army, courts and media. He relies on the IRGC to enforce his bidding as a central source of power.
The escape plan will be activated should Khamenei feel his security forces are not following orders. Desertion and defection are not easily undertaken, with Khamenei protecting loyalists, controlling key appointments and their safety, according to a psychological profile of the leader done by a western intelligence agency and seen by The Times.
But the same assessment said Khamenei was “weaker, both mentally and physically” since last year’s 12-day war with Israel. He has barely been seen in public and, notably, has not been seen or heard from during the last several days of protests. For the duration of war, Khamenei holed up in a bunker, avoiding the fate of several other high-level IRGC officials and feeding his “obsession with survival”.
The assessment calls him a “paranoid” leader, a trait that shaped his plan to leave Iran should his forces desert him. “On one hand, he is very ideologically motivated, but on the other he is pragmatic in what he sees: he sees tactical compromise for long-term greater cause. He is a long-term thinker,” the assessment read.
Khamenei was born in Mashhad in 1939 to a family of religious clerics, from Azeri-Turkish origins. When he was young, he was interested in poetry, Persian and Western music, and literature, reading classics including by Tolstoy and Steinbeck.
Under the rule of Iran’s last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Khamenei joined the opposition. He was arrested several times and tortured by the Savak secret police, and in 1981 survived an assassination attempt that resulted in the loss of the use of one of his hands.
According to the assessment, the assassination attempt solidified a sense of “divine mission” to lead Iran in its mission to oppose Israel and the west, and preserve the regime above all else. After the revolution, he became deputy defence minister and member of council before becoming president. When the former supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini died, Khamenei rose to power — despite not having the necessary chain of learned liturgical credentials to be leader.
He sees himself as the leader of Shi’ite Muslims worldwide, justifying his investments in the so-called axis of resistance — Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and Shi’ite movements and militias in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
The decapitation of those fronts in the war with Israel has led Iranians to question the investment in external forces instead of his own people, who have been left with record inflation and deteriorating living conditions. One chant heard on the streets of Iran sounded out: “No to Gaza, no to Lebanon, I’d give my life for Iran only.”
Ayatollah Khamenei plans to flee to Moscow if Iran unrest intensifies
The republic’s supreme leader has plotted an exit route out of Tehran should his forces fail to quell dissent, an intelligence report revealswww.thetimes.com
We are only getting distorted news but weirdly it seems like Iranian people don't want a third option. They are fighting between monarchy and theocracy.
PRo regime protesters are backed by police and military so have no fear to come out in numbers.
To be fair to Iran, I think the Presidential general election is probably one of the most democratic in the Middle East and probably in the top tier for developing countries.
To be fair, @emranabbas and I have lots of differences which is obvious based on various heated debates we had here. However, I respect him for being a patriot for his country just like I am for mine. He has the best interest of his country in his heart just like I have for mine. Not sure under which pretext you poke your nose everywhere? You dont even have an identity - sometimes you become British, sometimes Pakistani, sometimes liberal, sometimes right wing. First you make up your mind who you are or what you want to be, stick to it for few days and then people will respect you. I have many Pakistani friends here in UK and will any day make friends with Emranabbas or @DeadlyVenom in real life than someone like you.Lol. You don't have an issue with @Rajdeep because he wouldn't defend extremist behaviour...the same Rajdeep who claims to have met and supports Tommy Robinson and his zionist funded propaganda?
Is this Zia Yusuf posting under a pseudonym I wonder?
Didn't complete the middle paragraph - "So it remains more a bureaucracy than a functioning government".
It is same under most religious regimes. People start to leave the religion.
