An interesting take on ""Cafè Culture" in Iran. This holds true in America and everywhere else... It is really known as a generational culture shift.
The United States, also ran by derelict ideological mouthpieces of yesteryear, is making the same mistakes with the same results as the Iranians.
Iranian women are sick of being marginalized and are slowly rising up against sharia subjugation.
Iranian men are sick of the BurqaStanian (trooper's word) sexual repression of both young women, and young men wanting to choose their own method of courtship and relationships with women.
Add a major sociological shift - a generational gap - a movement - to a crushed economy - and the season is ripe for color revolution.
The United States is on the brink of the same cultural revolution.
Here are some key threats and risk factors with respect to the Iranian unrest:
1. The Mullahs wrecked their own economy, but that was well-lubricated with US and Israeli influence, as well as the agent provocateur (artificial incitement) of public outcry - germinated inside those same coffee houses the hardliner mullahs could not control or "throttle" as they could online.
2. People are genuinely angry, but so is the government, who has zero issues with shooting their own citizens to quell unrest. Iran is due for a constitutional evolution - and foreign intelligence services are doing their best to influence that change, but the people of Iran have to want it. Their citizens must be willing to do the heavy lifting.
3. Any significant or prolonged havoc will start affecting Russian war efforts. China will pick up some slack, but without Iran, Russians will lose hard-fought ground.
4. IF the ruling regime sees barbarians at the gates of their capitol, facing likely death in the street, they will attack Israel with everything they have. China will not be able to constrain them.
My estimate is maybe another few weeks, at most, of unhappy iranians, a few live fire exercises into public protests, and maybe some token changes among some embedded within their three tiers of government... and everything will cool off by spring. Business as usual.
Nothing to see here.
-tC
Tragic indeed... And critical for officer safety to examine how many times this officer had to fck with his optic under stress to compensate for the lighting conditions. Optics on defensive handguns are fking stupid, dangerous, and lethal distractions when milliseconds matter.
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