IRGC is way more worried about their own people than any-sized "Satan"
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VTcamperguy1 day ago
+7
There is no positive way you can spin this for Iran and their regime. Either they are arresting thousands of people illegitimately on bullshit charges, or there are thousands of people in the country who are working with outside forces to try and topple the regime. Those are both terrible situations optics-wise for the regime.
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Rusty-Shackleford1 day ago
+8
If the regime *has* to jail thousands of people then either the regime is insane or legitimately afraid that their hold on the country is weak.
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
+3
Wasn't there a report a month or so ago that the regime had arrested and detained tens of thousands of people?
What happened to them? Does anyone know?
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Rusty-Shackleford1 day ago
+6
They're publicly announcing executions on a daily basis. It's truly horrifying and clearly the regime is trying to taunt, torment and intimidate their population.
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Rusty-Shackleford2 days ago
+21
**APRIL 22, 2026**
Iranian authorities have arrested more than 3,600 people on charges related to the US-Israeli war ranging from sharing videos with media outlets based overseas to possessing Starlink internet terminals, an NGO said on Tuesday.
Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said the figure, based on state media reports and its own research, represented a minimum given the current internet restrictions in the Islamic republic, and that the actual number of arrests was “likely much higher.”
It said at least 3,646 people had been arrested since the war broke out on February 28, with at least 767 of the cases reported after the start of a ceasefire on April 8.
“The charges leveled against the detainees predominantly include espionage, communicating with foreign intelligence services, transmitting images or coordinates of sensitive locations to foreign-based media, and attempting to establish operational cells or conduct armed activities,” it said.
People have also been arrested for using and distributing Starlink satellite-based internet terminals to circumvent internet blackouts, and for alleged cooperation with pro-monarchist groups.
IHR said more than 100 civil society activists were among those arrested, including prize-winning rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was detained on April 2.
Sotoudeh’s daughter Mehraveh Khandan wrote on Instagram on Saturday that her mother had telephoned for the first time since her arrest, saying she was being held by the intelligence ministry but was not allowed to disclose where.
Her fellow rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize w***** Narges Mohammadi remains in prison after her arrest in December, which took place before the war and mass protests in January.
Mohammadi on Tuesday turned 54 behind the bars of her prison in the northern city of Zanjan, her foundation said, after warning last week her health was “critical” following a heart attack in March.
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Idiot_Savant_132 days ago
-40
Sadly, those are rookie numbers.
The U.S. (via I.C.E.) has arrested over 45,000 people since it began the Iran war, plus is keeping them in detention centers where conditions trigger international condemnation for being "inhumane" & equivalent to torture.
Why is it the comparison to the U.S. always makes Iran look... Diet Coke Evil?
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AccomplishedDesk82832 days ago
+15
Hahahahaha
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Extension-Toe-70272 days ago
+9
I have one strike and one ban. Have really nice day.
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Rusty-Shackleford2 days ago
+13
This is definitely unrelated. That said the vast majority of people arrested by ICE are released within a few days. IcmCE has to keep up arrest quotas so they frequently arrest people who aren't even breaking the law. It's absurd. And yes ICE is bad but it's not "mowing down protesters with truck mounted machine guns" bad like you see in Iran.
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Idiot_Savant_132 days ago
-8
You seem to forget Pretti / Goode.
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Rusty-Shackleford1 day ago
+8
Horrible yes. But multiple that by 3,500 and that's the low end estimate of what Iran did this winter to protesters.
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Idiot_Savant_131 day ago
-8
Pretti & Goode are the not the only fatalities caused by I.C.E., so...
I'm not perceiving the differences you seem to think are so obvious. Can you explain?
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Rusty-Shackleford1 day ago
+7
Oh my God dude. Literally the death toll of protesters in Iran is several thousand times greater than the death of protesters by ICE.
How do you not get it?
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Idiot_Savant_131 day ago
-1
You can ***com***plain; you cannot ***ex***plain.
I see now what your input is worth.
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Rusty-Shackleford1 day ago
+5
I just explained but you refuse to listen. Numbers are clear. 2 protesters killed by ICE. It's a horrible tragedy. But that's 2 tragedies, compare that to the 7,000 tragedies in Iran. What's not obvious?
Dude if you can understand Stargate and understand what human resources does, you can understand death tolls from government brutality. You just refuse to understand and you're being petulant.
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Bug-King1 day ago
+7
1000s>2
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Idiot_Savant_131 day ago
Video examples vs. claims of "estimates" from the U.S. government who lies routinely.
If you can't discern the difference, your contributions here are completed.
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Ok-Lingonberry71432 days ago
+42
Where are all the bots and anti-US Listnookors to defend them doing this?
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
+10
Waiting for their few talking points from the regime of course.
Predictions:
1) "It's all Saudi and Mossad propaganda"
or
2) "So we should bomb Iranians then?"
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Rusty-Shackleford2 days ago
+27
They don't have a response yet. They know the IRGC in the long run is indefensible.
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killerkingbee92 days ago
+22
They are waiting to receive the newest IRGC video so they can post everywhere about how it "slaps".
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SunChungShan1 day ago
+5
Two things can be true at once. I'm Chinese, and both are religious extremists
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captaintrips4201 day ago
+2
Shitty authoritarian governments are shitty, regardless of what flavor of religion they use to justify their shittyness.
Also, have we put forward any plans for any realistic regime change or just threats to destroy the entire civilization?
I’d love to see regime changes in all three primarily involved countries, but would like to see them come from the Civillian populations and not dictated by some other zealot.
Is that good enough for a standard bot?
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NobodyLikedThat12 days ago
+6
I'm kind of surprised they have the manpower to do these massive arrest operations considering they're in the middle of a war right now
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noir_lord2 days ago
+13
They are in kinda a box, they either crack down or they risk another widespread rebellion at home while dealing with the war.
Going after the people they think may be the fuse for that rebellion makes sense *from their fucked up point of view*.
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NotACyborg6662 days ago
+9
They always use a crisis to purge Iran of people it thinks are a threat to them. Look at what the Iran-Iraq war did for dissidents in Iran. Even people who supported the revolution were purged because they didn't believe in clerical rule. Members of the military, academics, revolutionary factions, and general dissidents all found themselves on the end of sham trial guilty convictions and execution (or being forced on military suicide missions).
Crisis for them is always an opportunity to purge civilians who are against their rule, it's how they have always operated.
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One-Monkey-Army2 days ago
+10
It’s not a land invasion (yet)
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NotACyborg6662 days ago
+5
They're doing what they did during the Iran-Iraq war, using the cover of war to purge dissidents.
The Iran-Iraq war shaped modern Iran more than anything else. The revolution originally wasn't just islamists, but they used the US embassy situation to consolidate power and all of the western educated moderates that were a part of the interim government resigned. This let Khomeini consolidate power.
But the Iran-Iraq war led to the creation of sepah (the revolutionary guard), suicide missions and sham trials were used to purge the military of anti-revolutionary leadership, academics and dissidents were hauled away with nobody really reporting on it (because of a brutal war) and executed.
This regime uses crisis to purge those that it sees as a threat to it's existence. It always has. Right now, the regime sees itself in an existential fight against the US and Israel... it's going to use this crisis to purge Iranians who are seen as possible threats to their rule.
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Dark_World_Blues2 days ago
+4
Well, they are having volunteers, many of them kids and some of them are as young as 11. Some of these kids were forced by their parents to volunteer.
They also imported militias from Iraq, Afghanistan, and I heard from Africa.
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