In other bizarre developments, I can't make much sense of what's happening in Iran atm.
Trump says Iran wants to negotiate as the death toll in protests rises to at least 572
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-says-iran-wants-to-negotiate-as-the-death-toll-in-protests-rises-to-at-least-572
U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its crackdown on protesters, a move coming as activists said Monday that the death toll in nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 572.
Trump acknowledges proposal for talks
Trump and his national security team have been weighing a range of potential responses against Iran, including cyberattacks and direct strikes by the U.S. or Israel, according to two people familiar with internal White House discussions who weren't authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
"The military is looking at it, and we're looking at some very strong options," Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday night. Asked about Iran's threats of retaliation, he said: "If they do that, we will hit them at levels that they've never been hit before."
Trump said that his administration was in talks to set up a meeting with Tehran, but cautioned that he may have to act first as reports of the death toll in Iran mount and the government continues to arrest protesters.
"I think they're tired of being beat up by the United States," Trump said. "Iran wants to negotiate."
Iran, through the country's parliamentary speaker, warned Sunday that the U.S. military and Israel would be "legitimate targets" if Washington uses force to protect demonstrators.
Now first of all, what force would Trump use other than bombing the country. How does that protect protesters...
Are these protests 'encouraged' from outside the country to manufacture consent for another war against Iran?
And what's with the calls to reinstall the shaw, the Pahlavi Dynasty.
That's in Montreal Canada.
The CIA and MI6 overthrew the democratically elected government in Iran in 1953 to install the shaw to protect British oil interests. Now we have outside demonstrations to do the same? It's literally the son of the installed 'king' from 1953 'people' are now chanting to take over Iran...
The son of Iran’s last shah is rallying protesters. But do Iranians really want another king?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/middleeast/analysis-does-iran-want-shah-son-pahlavi-latam-intl
Reza Pahlavi was only 16 years old when Iran’s 1979 revolution toppled his father’s 40-year rule. The eldest son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, he was the first in the line to inherit the oil-rich thousand-year-old empire.
Now at the age of 65, nearly half a century after the unravelling of his birthright, his wait may finally be coming to an end.
What is going on, why are people protesting to install another dictator. Every day the world seems to go more insane.
Motives for the US and Israel's involvement are clear
“Reza Pahlavi has indubitably increased his clout and has turned himself into a frontrunner in Iranian opposition politics,” said Arash Azizi, an academic and author of the book “What Iranians Want.”
“But he also suffers from many problems. He is a divisive figure and not a unifying one.”
A divided Iran is the goal, turning Iran into another Yemen, Lebanon, Syria.
History repeating. And of course the media only reports on the outsiders, no insights to what Iranians inside Iran actually want. All we know is that the protests started because of the economic sanctions crippling the country.
Plus this
https://www.xe.com/en-ca/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=IRR
Jan 8 the exchange rate went from 42K IRR per $1 to almost 1 million IRR per $1.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/iran-protests-1-equals-1400000-iranian-rial-and-42-percent-inflation-why-has-the-irans-currency-plunged-to-a-record-low-against-us-dollar/articleshow/126429482.cms?from=mdr
Everything points to regime change from outside. It's just a waiting game now until Trump does something stupid again to get the news cycle off Renee Good. Is it a coincidence the Rial suddenly collapsed against the dollar 2 days after the murder of Renee Good? All these outside protests suddenly springing up, while the economic protests have been going on since December.
Iran’s inflation rate in December reached 42.2%, with food prices rising 72% compared to the previous year. The collapsed currency, high inflation and political conditions prompted shopkeepers to hit the streets in capital Tehran in late December to vent their frustration at a government they accuse of mismanaging the economy. The unrest spread into a broader protest movement involving students, workers and other groups calling not just for an improvement in living standards but an end to the Islamic republic system led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The currency collapsed in Januari after the protests started...
I would love for Iran to get rid of Khamenei, but all I'm seeing is US and Israel trying to start a civil war in Iran since bombing the country last year didn't work for their purposes. How many more people have to die...
