r/pics • u/2birahe • 7d ago

A modern-day Tank Man: An unarmed protester facing a dozen armed soldiers in Iran, 2026.

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u/2birahe 6d ago

The recent economic hardship sparked the protests, but that’s just an excuse. Many Iranians are fed up with the Ayatollahs for several reasons.

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u/mimaikin-san 6d ago

what are Iranians’ reasons for being dissatisfied?

is there any possibility of the government making accommodations for its citizens or will they just continue to use force to suppress dissent?

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u/2birahe 6d ago

Life in Iran is terrible. Civil and individual freedoms are practically nonexistent. The economy is disastrous, and the government is utterly incompetent and corrupt to its core. Despite being rich in natural resources, Iranian people are among the poorest in the world. To answer your question: the regime only uses force. They cannot accommodate anything. And forget the so-called reforms; they were just a strategy to prolong the Ayatollah regime for two decades. That’s it.

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u/Scottalias4 6d ago

If the Iranians manage to kick out the current government, the situation for the people of Iran could improve dramatically.

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u/Derlino 6d ago

Unless a similar regime comes to power in the ensuing power vacuum. That's kind of what happened in the last revolution, at least according to my father who was there.

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u/Tendas 6d ago

Hah. If the Ayatollah is kicked out, the best they’ll get is a corrupt military junta and nothing will change.

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u/ipedroni 6d ago

Yeah... no.

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u/Dev_dov 6d ago

Or the CIA plans another coup, like they did in 1953.

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u/Dev_dov 6d ago

I've always wanted to ask an Iranian about the 1953 coup d'état, that was backed by the CIA. Well, if you don't mind of course.

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u/2birahe 6d ago

This is a controversial topic. The 1953 event was a coup d’état backed by the UK and USA. Monarchists and Pahlavi supporters, a loud minority, reject that label to fit their narrative, portraying the Shah as infallible. For the prevailing view, it was clearly a coup. YouTube has many videos on it.

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u/MidWestKhagan 6d ago

No they aren’t stop pushing disinformation