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Originally Posted by cacophony
just tossing it out there for discussion;
let's say in the last US election the mccain supporters decided to protest and set things on fire in the street (as many pieces of footage have shown). how do you think the US gov't would react?
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Depends on the scope and violence of the protests of course, but I would assume arrests, maybe tear gas, things along those lines.
But making activists disappear as I linked earlier? Probably not. Or assigning someone like Saaed Mortazavi, aka “the butcher of the press” thanks to his involvement in the torture, rape and killing of a detained photographer back in 2003 to interrogating arrested protesters? I don't think so. Or unleashing hundreds of violent, government sponsored fundamentalists onto the streets with clubs, axes and various weapons to quell non-violent protests? I'd say no to that too.
If Iran was simply trying to maintain order with their actions, then that's one thing. And frankly, even if that was the case, there'd probably some random instances of unnecessary violence thanks to the fact that there will always be some bad eggs on both sides of a large stand-off. But that's not what Iran is trying to do. They're actively suppressing the voices of the Iranian people through violence and terror, period.
How would you answer your own question?