Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest

▲ Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest(reuters.com)

85 points by mhb 2 hours ago | 16 comments

▲ MyHonestOpinon an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We don't want countries intervening on the afairs of other countries but there comes a time when you really have to consider it.

	▲	ozlikethewizard 32 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yea, I mean, its always led to such stable transfers of power in the past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Nicaragua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80... need I go on? I can?
	▲	dmbche 28 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You mean the CIA backed Iranian coup in 1953? Edit0:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

▲ asymptotic an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://archive.ph/LzV2M

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lukan an hour ago | parent [-]

Is reuters anywhere paywalled?

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amatecha an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes, I just got "Subscribe to Reuters to continue reading." paywall after scrolling down into the page a bit. I could probably delete the element/scrim and make the page scrollable again with dev tools, but yeah... either way. (I assume that's also why https://neuters.de/ exists)

	▲	lukan 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I see. Well, ublock origin seems to have taken care of that for me.

▲ ourmandave an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Meanwhile the headlines say Trump is sending more warships to the area and telling Iran it's running out of time to make a deal or else.

▲ trvz 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Like last time, so far he’s bad mostly for his own country.

The Medrano abduction and kirking Iran’s leadership may end up positive actions from a humanitarian view.

▲ shevy-java an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

But what deal exactly?

I can not help but feel that a lot of what Trump is doing in general, is for the show purpose effect.

▲ unsnap_biceps 31 minutes ago | parent [-]

    But his precise objectives remain unclear. Speaking at the premiere of the documentary Melania, the US president told reporters Iran had to do “two things” to avoid military action. “Number one, no nuclear. And number two, stop killing protesters,” saying that “they are killing them by the thousands”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/donald-trump...

▲ lastwalz 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So, tell me: where are the human "protesters" (the "Free Palestine" mob) and the oh so useful United Nations?

Hint: The first won't get paid for this one, the second is not w/o reason called Useless Nations.

	▲	michaelhoney 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Are you a MAGA bot? This is Hacker News, not Fox News

▲ burnto 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“Plainclothes forces raid homes across country, put detainees in secret lockups”

Huh.

▲ roenxi 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Based on the US troop movements, Israel's sneak attack last year and the ongoing suspicion that the US uses protests and NGOs to achieve regime change it'd seem to be a no-brainer for Iran to be on extreme war footing right now. I imagine this'd be part of their preparation.

	▲	mhb 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Israel's sneak attack LOL. You mean they didn't warn them like they do in Gaza?