War with Iran is it imminent

[Gnasher]

[Arniepie]

great stuff

[Bobby Hundreds]

Send all the war mongers to war. Tell Lindsey Graham the new policy is any politicians calling for killing/war is immediately conscripted as infantry. I wonder if they'll try harder to seek alternative solutions.

[Gnasher]

Here we go  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

Iran is scrambling to boost turnout ahead of legislative elections on March 1, but calls on voters to show up to the polls may be falling on deaf ears as Iranians grapple with an ailing economy, growing political distrust and a quashed protest movement.

Some 15,000 candidates are comnpeting for the 290-seat parliamentary election, and 144 are running for the 88 seats of the Assembly of Experts, which has the power to appoint the Supreme Leader, the highest political authority in Iran.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is more than 84 years old, and so this incoming Assembly will select his successor if he dies during the body’s eight-year term.

 

Voter turnout is expected to be at record lows, however, with candidates opposed to the current hardline government disqualified amid a widespread crackdown on dissent, which rights groups say only intensified after the 2022 protest movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody.

“No, I will not vote,” a 23-year-old Iranian woman said. “They (elections) take place as a show and propaganda, and, in my opinion, participating in such events is being complicit and helping their political propaganda,” she said, asking to be quoted anonymously for fear of retribution by authorities.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

So, imminent has a new meaning then? 16 years ago this thread was started.

 

Like a transfer thread in the old days on the *f, when Tuesday used to be day things would happen. 

[TheHowieLama]

On 16/09/2019 at 13:57, TheHowieLama said:

Yea, imminent.

 

On 16/10/2022 at 09:47, TheHowieLama said:

Imminent, probably Tuesday.

 

5 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

So, imminent has a new meaning then? 16 years ago this thread was started.

 

Like a transfer thread in the old days on the *f, when Tuesday used to be day things would happen. 

 

[SasaS]

19 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Voter turnout is expected to be at record lows, however, with candidates opposed to the current hardline government disqualified amid a widespread crackdown on dissent, which rights groups say only intensified after the 2022 protest movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody.

 

I was thinking the other day, they seem to have this widespread protests in Iran every couple of years when it looks like that regime may be finished and they always seem to come out of it unscathed.

 

Maybe we don't understand Iranian political culture or society or something too well, or as well as we think. 

[TheHowieLama]

Hard-liners dominate Iran’s parliamentary election after record-low turnout

It remains unclear whether turnout was depressed by voter apathy or an active desire to send a message to Iran’s theocracy.

 

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the vote saw 25 million ballots cast — a turnout of just under 41 percent. The lowest previous came in the last parliamentary election in 2020, which saw a 42 percent turnout.

It took days for Iran to announce the turnout statistics without explanation. The Interior Ministry run Iranian elections, which have no substantial international observation.

 

 

Friday’s vote turnout came after authorities kept polls open an additional six hours. Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf even posted online, as polls appeared largely empty in Tehran, to urge people to call “their friends or acquaintances right now and convince them to participate in the elections.”

[Strontium]

Iran now attacking dissidents on British soil

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68695902

[SasaS]

But if it was indeed Iran, note that, as respectful traditionalists, they used a local culture-appropriate method.  

[SasaS]

What, nobody cares about Iran anymore?

[Section_31]

Was a good shot that to be fair. 

[TheHowieLama]

41 minutes ago, SasaS said:

What, nobody cares about Iran anymore?

 

someone definitely does.

 

China has condemned a deadly strike on Iran's consulate in Syria, which Tehran blamed on Israel.

Iran has vowed to retaliate after the bombing, which is a deadly escalation of regional tensions over the war in Gaza that has appeared to raise the risk of a wider Middle Eastern conflict.

 

 

[SasaS]

What is also interesting is what is a senior Republican Guard doing in Syria. I mean, I know, but it makes it harder for Iran to protest. Was it preemptive or retaliatory, that is the question.

[SasaS]

On 30/03/2024 at 05:11, Strontium said:

Iran now attacking dissidents on British soil

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68695902

 

It looks like a foreign agents mission indeed.

[Bjornebye]

If Iran retaliates it will be very worrying that WW3 will kick off and we will all die. At least Israel will get their murdering arses handed to them for the genocide they’re committing. 

[Section_31]

30 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

If Iran retaliates it will be very worrying that WW3 will kick off and we will all die. At least Israel will get their murdering arses handed to them for the genocide they’re committing. 

 

Not by Iran they wouldn't. Israel could take on all comers un the middle east, and have in the past.

[Bjornebye]

24 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

Not by Iran they wouldn't. Israel could take on all comers un the middle east, and have in the past.

Fuck them anyway. Well the IDF and the government. Vile racist cunts 

[SasaS]

I think Iran is going to get it in the near future, as a message to Russia, as they are all increasingly on a collision course with the West. Not a war, but they will be seriously spanked somewhere. 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

We'll hit them with a major - and I repeat major - leaflet campaign.

[Jairzinho]

26 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

We'll hit them with a major - and I repeat major - leaflet campaign.

 

Mark my words, they will know that we are offering double glazing in the area.

[SasaS]

And they will need double glazing.

[Gnasher]

On 28/01/2024 at 20:42, Gnasher said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gnasher]

Bomber Bidens getting itchy trigger finger syndrome again. Israels bitch, . How many countries those two bombed this year already? 

 

 

Shame he didn't have the courage to tell the lunatics not to bomb the Iranian consulate in Lebanon.