“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth.
(Zechariah 4: 6)
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Fox News—Iran’s widespread and growing protests push citizens to brink:
Iranians protested for a third day in a row against the clerical regime that they blame for running the economy into the ground.
Protesters have long complained of regime corruption and mismanagement that has led to severe water shortages and significant price hikes on basic foodstuffs. Another big complaint is its spending on its foreign adventurism in places such as Syria and Yemen, while ignoring problems at home, which seems to have pushed ordinary Iranians over the edge as they risk prison or worse.
According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the protests are growing. A spokesman told Fox News that the regime has arrested many protesters, and have dealt with them violently. He also said the authorities have used water cannons and tear gas to halt the protesters.
A video circulating on Twitter shows protesters marching in the Iranian capital of Tehran Thursday evening: #IranProtests against Khamenei’s regime reach the capital Tehran tonight w/chants of “The mullahs must get lost (video via MEK in Vali Asr Street) For 3 days protests have rocked Iran’s major cities #FreeIran2018
Another Tweet showed protesters in Arak shouting, “No to Gaza, No to Lebanon. My life for Iran.”
Iran analyst Behnam Ben Taleblu, a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), in Washington, D.C., said the words of the protesters are significant.
“The chants by the brave, chador clad women of Najafabad in Isfahan province, which used to be a traditional bastion of regime support said it best: ‘They fed Syria, but made our young people turn old.’ Iranian protestors recognize that the regime in Tehran does not have their best interests at heart, and will continue to divert national treasure towards its ideological contests abroad,” he said.
Ben Taleblu said it’s significant that the very people who have been the backbone of support for the regime are now protesting against it. “Although Tehran is yet to respond with the same type of force deployment seen in 2009, these protests present a larger problem for the regime’s leadership than previous movements. They represent those whom the regime relied upon in the past, such as day laborers, the urban and rural poor, and even select religious classes. In a sense, the regime’s social base is turning against it, indicative of the growing cleavage between state and society in Iran.”
A spokesman for Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who has long called for supporting Iranian protesters, told Fox News: “Senator Cruz believes that the United States should be doing everything possible to support these protesters. These are people who have been bravely taking to the streets for months to speak out against the ayatollahs, who brutalize and repress them, and who spent Iran’s windfall from the Obama Iran deal on terrorism, and bolstering Assad, instead of on Iran’s citizens.”
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SnyderTalk Comment:
The mullahs in Iran are heading for a showdown with the Iranian people. Their belligerent talk, sponsorship of domestic brutality, support of terrorism around the globe, and looting of the national treasury have led to their predicament.
Ordinary Iranians have had enough. Governments can’t survive indefinitely without the consent of the governed. That’s a lesson the mullahs should have learned from Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, but they didn’t. Their support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War proves that.
With Russian backing, Assad will survive in the short-term, but in the long-term, he’s toast, too. Assad may hang on to power in Syria long enough to watch Iran’s leaders hang. Think of it as Haman revisited.
Yahweh works in mysterious ways. Iranian leaders can’t see what’s coming:
- Iran rocked by new protests as economy heads for collapse
- Iran readying massive military exercise in Persian Gulf, officials say
- Iran is seen readying major exercise as tensions with U.S. simmer
- Israel warns Iran of military response if it closed key Red Sea strait
President Trump is a game changer. He’s Yahweh’s man for a time like this.
Democrats in the U.S., particularly Barack Obama, don’t get it, either. They are slow learners. So are their water-toters in the establishment media and their operatives in the Deep State.
See “Obama gives midterm endorsements to 81 candidates in 13 states”. Keep an eye on the people Obama endorsed. The community organizer-in-chief is a toothless tiger.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
