The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.
but in seriousness if you want to hurt your psyche go back to the news mega about a week into it starting to see the terrible things here people were saying about them people were calling them violent paid actors performing violent terrorist riots being controlled by nefarious western bbc propaganda, etc. etc.
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I was there and I didn't see any of that. Though I guess that's hard to prove as the comments don't go back too far.
The main argument being made, at least by me, was: "The protests are beyond reasonable doubt being fueled by American intelligence, thus making it an attempted colour revolution, but that doesn't make the demands of the protestors invalid, and I hope that Iran can find a way of achieving reform without succumbing to regime change as that would simply involve the neoliberals taking everything in Iran that isn't nailed down under the guise of human rights etc etc, like in every other country the US has gotten involved with in that way"
which seems perfectly in line with every reasonable left-wing analysis of the situation that isn't terminally America-brained
like, the most controversial thing I ever said about them before they dropped off my radar was that every large protest in a country that America hates likely has some nefarious motive behind it, but again, that doesn't mean that hating America = god's angels on earth who can do no wrong, it just means that the government must find a way to address legitimate grievances while not letting the "My country is a totalitarian evil state who hates the concept of freedom itself, we yearn for freedom Mr CIA, please send in a neoliberal stooge to harvest all our oil" views that are Definitely Things That Normal Protestors Say dominate the protests
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I was there and I didn't see any of that. Though I guess that's hard to prove as the comments don't go back too far.
The main argument being made, at least by me, was: "The protests are beyond reasonable doubt being fueled by American intelligence, thus making it an attempted colour revolution, but that doesn't make the demands of the protestors invalid, and I hope that Iran can find a way of achieving reform without succumbing to regime change as that would simply involve the neoliberals taking everything in Iran that isn't nailed down under the guise of human rights etc etc, like in every other country the US has gotten involved with in that way"
which seems perfectly in line with every reasonable left-wing analysis of the situation that isn't terminally America-brained
like, the most controversial thing I ever said about them before they dropped off my radar was that every large protest in a country that America hates likely has some nefarious motive behind it, but again, that doesn't mean that hating America = god's angels on earth who can do no wrong, it just means that the government must find a way to address legitimate grievances while not letting the "My country is a totalitarian evil state who hates the concept of freedom itself, we yearn for freedom Mr CIA, please send in a neoliberal stooge to harvest all our oil" views that are Definitely Things That Normal Protestors Say dominate the protests
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