[HN Gopher] Iran students stage first large anti-government prot...
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       Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since
       deadly crackdown
        
       Author : tartoran
       Score  : 86 points
       Date   : 2026-02-22 13:59 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
        
       | regularization wrote:
       | The UK funded BBC - the government which overthrew Mossadegh and
       | Iran's parliament with the help of ayatollah Borujerdi in the
       | 1950s when the elected officials starting making moves to take
       | Iranian oil back for Iranians, and away from the UK.
       | 
       | Looks like the British (and the US, and of course Israel) are
       | eager to try to overthrow the Iranian government again. For very
       | liberal, humanitarian reasons of course.
        
         | lokar wrote:
         | Are you arguing the protests did not happen? That they did not
         | happen as reported? That they did happen as reported, but it
         | should not have been reported?
         | 
         | What is your point?
        
           | mattmaroon wrote:
           | [delayed]
        
         | cucumber3732842 wrote:
         | I always found it kinda tragic (in the greek literature sense)
         | how Ike's ability to partner well with the British was both the
         | source of his ascent and the biggest black mark on his legacy.
        
       | JumpCrisscross wrote:
       | "To simplify greatly, the strategy of non-violence aims first to
       | cause disruption (non-violently) in order both to draw attention
       | but also in order to bait state overreaction. The state's
       | overreaction then becomes the 'spectacular attack' which
       | broadcasts the movement's message, while the group's willingness
       | to endure that overreaction without violence not only avoids
       | alienating supporters, it heightens the contrast between the
       | unjust state and the just movement. That reaction maintains
       | support for the movement, but at the same time disruption does
       | not stop: the movements growing popularity enable new recruits to
       | replace those arrested (just as with insurgent recruitment)
       | rendering the state incapable of restoring order. The state's
       | supporters may grow to sympathize with the movement, but at the
       | very least they grow impatient with the disruption, which as you
       | will recall refuses to stop. As support for state repression of
       | the movement declines (because repression is not stopping the
       | disruption) and the movement itself proves impossible to
       | extinguish (because repression is recruiting for it), the only
       | viable solution becomes giving the movement its demands."
       | 
       | https://acoup.blog/2026/02/13/collections-against-the-state-...
        
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