Will these protests succeed where their predecessors failed?

People don’t risk their lives for niche issues like climate change and trans sports cheating. It was revealed that many of the protesters in cities throughout Iran were chanting, “There is nothing in the refrigerator!” When a person has nothing left to lose, then he goes out to fight. The Iranian people are denied freedoms and weapons, so their massive protests against the mullahs and their enforcer muscle are a sign of both desperation and incredible bravery. People are getting shot and killed. This is not some stupid “Stop Oil!” protest blocking people from going to work. This is the real deal.

Will it work this time? Several times in the past, there were significant protests and disruptions. President Obama famously sat on his hands and did nothing in 2009 when protests swept the country. Obama, the Left, and their media are on the side of mullahs—they are in love with Islam, until it comes for them. They like Islamic control—far more than messy freedom of expression. I think that most normal people are rooting for the Iranian people, but are somewhat skeptical. People want the evil mullocracy gone for the good of the Iranian people and the world. But we’ve seen this movie before. Just as the people are desperate, so too is the government. They will not roll over, and as is their playbook, they are using foreign thugs to attack their own citizens. They are not interested in opening a new falafel restaurant next to Assad’s place in Moscow. They will hold onto power with increasing brutality and ruthlessness. Just like the people whose currency is worth less than toilet paper, the mullahs have nowhere else to go. The people can’t go back to abject poverty driven by the government’s throwing probably trillions of petrodollars at worldwide terror organizations. And the mullahs have no place to go; they will not become an opposition party. They either........

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