Protests in Iran

With regards to what's going on in Iran, I think that you have to separate a lot of the issues here. Because first of all, the young woman who was arrested and who died in police custody, that's one issue. The reason she was arrested is one issue, and her death in custody is another issue. The death in custody is something that happens all around the world, and that has to do with, police brutality, abuse, and lack of transparency and accountability of police. And that is something that exists across societies, across countries, across law enforcement all around the world.

That's one issue. How she died, nobody really knows. We don't really know, and that's a transparency issue. It's a problem that we are not going to be able to know and probably never will know what was her actual cause of death. The police say that she had a heart attack.

Her family says that she was fine and that she didn't have a heart attack. Then there were reports that she was beaten in the police van in the head until she died. Personally, I find that a little bit difficult to believe. Could've it could've been. There are some police who are genuinely brutal monsters, so it's that's also possible.

But that's a police brutality issue. Now if you have a problem with her being arrested because she wasn't, apparently wearing hijab according to the regulations in Iran, that's a separate issue. You can argue about whether or not that should that regulation should exist or shouldn't exist, but that has nothing to do with whether or not someone should be safe in police custody regardless of what they get arrested for. If she had been arrested for possession of hashish, it doesn't mean that she should be beaten to death or that she should die in police custody for whatever reason, Unless, of course, it's a perfectly natural cause, which also seems unlikely. With regards to the protests, there's no question in my mind that, obviously, the protests in Iran are going to have some element of coordination by intelligence.

It doesn't mean that it's complete, that there's no organic aspect to it. Of course, there's going to be because there are a lot of people in Iran who are genuinely, dissatisfied with that government. Those people will be supported. Those people will be incited. Those people will be encouraged by instigators from the West, from Israel, from, the Arab world even, from The Gulf, or from who who whoever else.

So there's a lot of issues there. Now with regards to making this an issue about the hijab, well, that's just stupid. That's just stupid because, I mean, you in the West are banning the hijab in certain places. So it's not as if you believe in freedom with regards to the hijab. You don't believe in the freedom to wear it, but you apparently believe in the freedom to not wear it.

You have to be consistent. So, obviously, that's just ridiculous. That that whole position is you can just throw that away immediately because the overwhelming majority of women, Muslim women who wear the hijab do it by their own choice, and you don't want them to in your societies. You want to enforce a certain dress code in your societies, but you don't think that Muslim countries should be able to enforce a dress code in their societies. So that's just a ridiculous position to begin with.

What you should be talking about is police brutality, whether it's in Iran or anywhere else. Police accountability, police transparency, and these sorts of things. The government policy on hijab is not the reason that you would wanna overthrow the government in Iran. So if it's gonna end up toppling on the back of this, this has nothing to do with why it gets toppled. That's narrative creation on the part of the West, which indicates that it's not genuine.

Because if it was a genuine protest movement, it would be based on things that have broad societal appeal that are that that reflect broad sentiments in the society, like against police brutality, against, prosecution by the police, by law enforcement, corruption in law enforcement, corruption in politics. These kinds of things have broad societal sentiment behind them. Women wanna take off the hijab. This is Western narrative creation. That's what that is.

So that looks like an illegitimate protest movement. Just my thoughts.