Millions of people in Iran are now united around the hope of destroying the Islamic Republic and removing its leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
Iran has seen huge protests before, many of them heralded--prematurely--as the regime's last gasp. Yet unless Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decides (and is able) to deploy extensive brute force, his options are narrowing
-- The Economist (@economist.com) Jan 10, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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#2 What makes you think that Iranians will abandon their religion, onepigironheadedbrainaut?
- A_MORON
You must be a government numbers guzzler, makes sense.
Surveys from groups like GAMAAN and the World Values Survey indicate a significant rise in non-religious Iranians (atheists, spiritual) and a shift away from Shia identity, with some surveys showing Shia identity under 40%.
Related to A_MORONs moronic government numbers guzzling statement....
The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.
....
Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.
Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on "brown people," Arabs, or "the Middle East," as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.
This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. .....
By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them"or ignores them entirely.
There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues.
...
Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically.
Western liberal media and A_MORON prefers not to hear reality. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape.
That is what terrifies Western liberal media and A_MORON. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored.
So the silence and ignorance of A_MORON continues.
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Legacy media would never want to tell you why the Iranian people are burning down mosques.
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A_MORON thinks Muslims would burn mosques....
#3 Just thought I would let you know that there's some unsightly dribble running down your virtual chin, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut.
You're welcome.
Hey, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut , when are you going to respond to your lie about the Federal government?
Or are you just a trolling coward: Drop a lie, get schooled on your lie, and then disappear ? ? ? ?
#33 Well, more than 40 minutes later ...
The silence and ignorance and incompetence of onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut continues, unabated.
I don't suppose that onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut will own up to his other lie, either.
But one can always hope. :-)
Where is the left now?
Where are the "pro-Palestinian" and "anti war" activists when the Islamic Republic is killing innocent Iranians?
At least 20 people got killed in 10 days protests including 4 children ... .
Same story, my friends, the same story I once told @billmaher.
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This Iranian woman paints an excellent description of people like Snoofy and A_MORON.
#21 **** ANATOMY OF A LIAR AND A COWARD ****
Are you ever going to own up to THIS LIE, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut ? ? ? ?Well, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut, are you ever going to own up to your own lies ? ? ? ?
And I don't suppose that you will own up to your other lie, either.
#24 Won't work, liar and coward.
I am only too happy to point out your lack of integrity and your cowardice... until you own up to your own lies:
**** ANATOMY OF A LIAR AND A COWARD ****
Are you ever going to own up to THIS LIE, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut ? ? ? ?Well, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut, are you ever going to own up to your own lies ? ? ? ?
And I don't suppose that you will own up to your other lie, either.
#24 Oh, and thank you, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut, for reposting my new moniker for you.
You're a real champ, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut.
#21 onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut asks: "Where are the "pro-Palestinian" and "anti war" activists when the Islamic Republic is killing innocent Iranians?"
Where are we?
Why, right here.
Now, when are you ever going to own up to THIS LIE, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut ? ? ? ?
As well as your other lie, too ? ? ? ?
#33 I cannot understand, oneironaut, why you're incapable of saying "I was wrong" or "That was my understanding" or "That was (past tense) what I thought".
And why is that onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut ? ? ? ??
Meanwhile ... are you ever going to own up to your own lies ? ? ? ?
Corky harassing Iranians at an anti-Islamic Regime rally in Washington State.
Because nothing says moral narcissism like a white woman telling Iranian refugees that opposing the terrorist Islamic Regime is "Islamophobic."
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The latest estimates are that the Islamic regime has massacred more than 3000 anti-regime protesters just in the past 72 hours
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3000 Islamaphobics slaughtered.
Snoofy approved!
The Iranian Goverment are now utilising "Death Squads." To kill protesters.
Groups of 8-10 IRGC"Basij members are sent into streets and are given direct orders to shoot on sight.
We are witnessing a genocide ...
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When will ClownHack be along to "100% approve of the enthusiasm"?
What lengths?
What are you even talking about?
#46 | POSTED BY SNOOFY
Even as a Chinese immigrant I know what he's talking about, how can you and Corky be so ill informed?
PBS even waters it down ...
Secret Obama-era permit let Iran convert funds to (BIlLIONS OF) dollars
www.pbs.org
Socially and intellectually challenged pests can be liberals? Who knew?
~ Corky
You have the wrong thread, the Renee Nicole Good thread is Here
#50 Since you're clearly a coward ...
Well, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut (25 plonks), are you ever going to own up to your own lies ? ? ? ?
#52 Sounds like I've gotten under your skin, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut.
Otherwise, you would to own up to your own lies.
#55 onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut (25 plonks) calls the Retort an "extremist site."
Then WTF are you doing on an "extremist site," onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut (25 plonks).
Inquiring minds want to know.
#55 If lies are being posted here by others, then I suggest that you do what I did with you, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut (25 plonks):
Offer indisputable proof that what they said was a lie, and that it wasn't just an opinion to which you disagree.
You know, like I did with you (HERE).
You're most welcome, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut (25 plonks).
(are you ever going to own up to your own lies ? ? ? ?)
#62 Oh, it works for me just fine, bell boi.
But your defense of onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut (25 plonks) is sweet.
Perhaps the two of you should get a room, bell boi.
#65 And you believe that anyone cares what anything tells you, bell boi.
In the words of shrimpsized(30-40)genitaliahiddenbyataco"Danielle" (28 plonks):
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA **
** Yes, an actual quote.
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