Countdown for the “Iran Understanders” to log on

More than 30 million votes were cast. Let’s wait and see.

Live coverage from PressTV: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/07/05/728787/live-results-iran-presidential-runoff-election-results-in-numbers

Today is the last one for this cycle. It is the second round of elections and a runoff between the two mentioned candidates. The polls either just closed or are about to close.

Agreed.

The information landscape today has created strange phenomenon whereby even people whose class interests are against Palestine are now motivated to “do something.” The guy who lit himself on fire is perhaps the best example of this but it seems to be pretty widespread. The question for organizers in the west is how to mobilize these activated individuals before they get shoed into controlled opposition or lose interest again.

Is Dr. Jalili a “perfect candidate”? No such thing.

But let’s keep a principled anti-imperialist position regarding the Islamic Republic and not spread regime change narratives or other anti-Iran slander. (Long-form interview with activist Helyeh Doutaghi on what that principled position is)

No problem I’m glad you’re willing to learn more. 🙌

I made a post on the main thread to explain more differences.

Regarding elections in Iran today, let’s clear some things up for the hexies.

There is actually a massive difference between the candidates.

One candidate, Dr. Pezeshkian is a free market neoliberal whose inner circle has ties to the NED and wants to redollarize the economy and enable privatization of certain nationalized industries. He is partially campaigning on “lifting hijab law” and is largely supported by high-middle and upper classes as well as minority groups that have been heavily targeted by US/israel propaganda schemes.

The other candidate Dr Saeed Jalili has vowed to completely dedollarize the economy (USD still run the black market in Iran) and complete Iran’s economic and political “turn to the East” fulfilling its destined role in building multipolarity. He has vowed increased protections for workers, government regulation of financial markets, and prioritizing welfare of women (such as state funded daycare) which explains why he’s endorsed by every major labor union in Iran. He will be a continuation of the Raisi government which saw the largest economic growth ever for Iran and those benefits were reflected in the lower classes such as massively increasing minimum wage.

Pezeshkian will be a disaster for working class Iranians and slow down Iran’s contributions to developing multipolar world, so this election is actually quite important.

In reality the overwhelming majority of Iranians do support the revolution even if they have dissatisfaction with their government and their living situation under a genocidal embargo enforced by US imperialism. (See below citation)

Dr. Pezeshkian is pretty much a step backwards for the country but he’s allowed to run because Iran is a real democracy. Despite leading the previous snap election, Dr Pezeshkian only received support of 16% of the Iranian nation which is interestingly similar to the amount who have supported anti-government riots in previous years.

Therefore one of the reasons why voter participation has been emphasized is because the leadership of the revolution recognizes that the more regular people who participate the less likely it is that the liberal wins.

Addendum: the defeat of Qalibaf by Jalili in the first round reflects the major disagreements inside the Principlist faction. One of the major ones being economic policies. Qalibaf was promoting more free-market (rightist) economic policy whereas Jalili is more pro-worker and anti-privatization. Dr. Jalili winning the first round against Qalibaf is actually a great victory for regular working people in Iran provided that he is able to win today.

The number on the right is voter participation.

Electoral participation in Iran is inversely related to the intensity of the genocidal sanctions. But you can continue to spread regime change narratives I guess

Thanks for the realistic cynicism. Seems correct

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What does Biden-Trump drama or UK election drama mean for the people of Yemen who have been under US and UK bombs and embargo for a decade?

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Bookmarking ill show you real life high school physics and chemistry tests from friends in south lebanon.

Right Hollywood is one of the most evil cultural institutions in human history.

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Where can I read more about this from anti-imperialist perspective?

Thinking about this a lot today… “American internet colonialism”

I hate this MAGACommunism twink as much as anyone but I don’t think this Instagram post without date or context is adequate evidence. I really think someone should do an comprehensive investigation into the guy because nobody who needs to be convinced is going to be convinced by out of context stuff like this.

Fake friends are dangerous and this guy fits the bill.

Amen. US, Turkey, and ‘israel’ all of them need to pack their bags.

Thank you for comprehensive answer

Two different untrue rumors regarding Turkey and Syria spark chaos.

Earlier this week a rumor was spread in Turkey that a Syrian refugee had assaulted a young Turkish girl, this led to pogroms against Syrian businesses and people, and dozens of arrests by the Turkish government.

Another rumor was that Ankara and Damascus had a meeting in Latakia province to discuss normalization of relations. Turns out this rumor was also untrue.

That didn’t stop the HTS Turkish-backed “moderate rebels” from turning on their masters accusing them of “selling them out to Bashar.” Dozens of Turkish soldiers and HTS terrorists were killed and injured in gunfire exchanges, military bases were torched, and internet is reportedly down across much of the northern occupied Syria. Turkish flags were burned, border crossings closed, and Turkish businesses in the territory vandalized.

It’s noteworthy that in all of the so-called “liberated territories” of Northern Syria, a Turkish appointed governor runs the affairs and Turkish soldiers have some presence.

Everyone knows that Damascus condition of Turkish-Syria normalization talks is for Ankara to agree to leave all of Syria. So the proxy terrorists are feeling the heat of their impending abandonment.

Some Syrian commentators suspect that both rumors are connected and Erdogan is trying to spread greater ethnic strife in order to better his position in future negotiations with Syria.

We’ll see what happens.

This makes sense. I guess I’m wondering what the “organizing” in the West regarding these other places is. What are their demands and how does that relate to the demands for the Liberation of Palestine outside of “genocide bad”?

We know the “genocide in Darfur” and “genocide in Tigray” narratives are pushed by US State Dept.

I’ve seen “end genocide in Palestine and Xinjiang” kind of stuff floating around western activism stuff too which is just ahhhhhh

Either way it’s cool they shut down the nazi parade. I’m just spiraling out don’t mind me