Iranian protests growing full-on violent. Rumors about a destroyed military base.

[DetlefK]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/24/2125006/-Iran-update-As-protests-continue-to-grow-government-reportedly-forced-from-Kurdish-city

The murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by Iranian “morality police” has launched a sustained protest over the suppression of women and the brutal rule of the theocratic government in Iran. For nine nights in a row, protests have grown and spread, and what many initially took as social unrest that would be quickly be quieted has turned into a widespread uprising that those in Iran report to be far larger than previous protests in 2019 or 2012.

On Saturday night, there were reports that riot police had lost control of much of Tehran, along with terrifying scenes of Iranian police firing AK-47 rifles into crows of protestors. The number of dead is unknown. And still the protestors did not back down. There are even reports that in the north of Iran, government forces have been pushed out of the Kurdish city of Oshnavieh with Iranian military bases being burned.

The Kurds do not have a good relationship with the iranian government. There has been an ongoing secessionist movement of the iranian Kurds since the early 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_separatism_in_Iran

So, you can guess that when a kurdish woman gets murdered by iranian police, the Kurds won't take this lightly.

Reuters reports that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has called for decisive action, and the government has staged a series of pro-government rallies that it is heavily promoting on social media. Meanwhile the Associated Press reports that Amini’s death trigged an “explosion of outrage” that is nowhere near to being calmed. So far, the fake flag waving of those government “protests” is no match for the real thing.

Amini was Kurdish, and in the northwest of Iran, where those with Kurdish backgrounds are in the majority, her death has also served as a cause for renewed tension between local Kurdish groups and the Iranian government. However, protests are not restricted to that area. At last report, there were protests in 31 provinces spanning the whole of Iran.

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1. Total suppression of women, isn't that the GOP's wet dream for America? n/t

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2. Another video from Oshnavieh (Shno)

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It is a majority Kurdish town of 40,000 near the Iranian border with Iraq

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3. Sound like a cannon firing heard in this video from Isfahan today

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4. Police appear to retreat before protestors in Rasht in northern Iran

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Meanwhile, in another video from Tabriz, as well from northern Iran, police apparently side with the protesters there

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