How Iran Crushed a Citizen Uprising with Lethal Force (nytimes.com)

[usonian]

Last edited Mon Jan 26, 2026, 11:16 AM - Edit history (1)

Cross-posted from Foreign Affairs.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113354791

NYT is blocked. Same story at rsn.

https://www.rsn.org/001/how-iran-crushed-a-citizen-uprising-with-lethal-force.html

See also. Iran's uprising has been crushed. What comes next?

https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/01/19/why-irans-regime-survived-its-largest-protest-in-history/

On Edit, celerity, below notes a right wing bias for this source, so I'll only take one important paragraph from it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220970358#post4

Those who gave the protests momentum were the exiled crown prince, Reza Cyrus Ali Pahlavi, who called on the masses to take to the streets, and US President Donald Trump, who threatened to strike the Islamic Republic if it harmed protesters. But while the claimant to the throne, whom many hoped would return, and the backing Trump appeared to promise both remained in Washington, 10,000 kilometers away, the regime in Tehran was massacring crowds. Trump did not come to the rescue, and the words of a leader seeking to rule a country he has not set foot in since 1978 did not protect demonstrators from regime gunfire or from Iraqi militias that rushed to its aid.

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[RandySF]

1. Just like 2009.

[JBTaurus83]

2. Coming to a nation

Near us. I wouldn’t put this past the pig and his goons here at all.

[Stuckinthebush]

3. Wait a minute! Didn't Taco Don say he was going to do something???

Didn't he threaten Iran to not harm protestors?

Hmmm....guess that, too, was bluster.

[Celerity]

4. You should pull the link to the RW shitrag Israel Hayom. Sheldon Adelson family's pro Trump/Netanyahu paper of hate.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/israel-hayom/

[David__77]

5. "... whom many hoped would return..." Ridiculous jounrnalism.