Now, why isn’t old media covering this? I thought that they liked uprisings! I thought that they liked revolutions! For a long time, I was thinking that protesters doing stuff was what they were into! Why aren’t they interested, this time?

Things started popping off in Iran late in December. It’s been escalating since, and at this point, it seems as though the uprising is almost certain to be successful.

If your source of information is the Beavis and Butthead box, then you’re probably only just now hearing about this. And you were probably told that the motivation for the uprising is economic in nature. The people in old media are still in character. In their thinking, there’s nothing worse than not being rich. Of course that’s the sensibility that they’re going to project onto the people of Iran.

In reality, that’s only part of the motivation. In late December, months after the IRGC (Iran’s Islamist regime) failed war against Israel in which Israel dominated Iran’s air space, and months after their nuclear ambitions were destroyed by the US, Iran’s currency collapsed. It was so bad that if you had one American dollar, then you were a millionaire in Iran’s currency. Naturally, the merchants went out to protest.

But then, something interesting happened. Or, more like, something didn’t happen. The IRCG broke character. They didn’t immediately respond with a brutal crackdown. So, the protests continued the next day. And so on for days afterwards, except the protests got bigger. And still no answer from the IRGC.

As this was going on, the IRGC publicly declared their intention to war against Israel. Yeah, the same Israel that they couldn’t beat before. Except this time, while totally unable to keep a growing uprising under control.

As it so happens, the Iranian people had more problems with the IRCG than just that the currency collapsed. They wanted the Ayatollah gone. And they were sick of Islam. So much so that they started burning Mosques.

And now I think I have a guess as to why legacy news outlets don’t want to report on this. Being co-opted by leftism, they’ve staked their pride on Islam being a wonderful religion that no one could possibly refuse. Leftism has stupidly decided on Islam as what they’d prop up to maintain a veneer of tolerance, and now, every time that Islam acts like Islam, they have to do damage control. But now, after decades of experience with the Ayatollahs, Iranians have decided that they’ve had enough.

One thing to know about the Iranians is that they’ve been controlled by relatively few fanatics for decades. The Iranians are among the world’s most intelligent people, and Islamic fundamentalism is well outside the character of the typical Iranian. Even in recent years, Iranians have been shedding themselves of Islam. Just in the last couple decades, the number of Mosques in Iran has been reduced by about half. Currently, Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran, and it could be the country’s dominant religion by 2050.

It can also be pointed out that Iranians want the return of their king. The name of their crown prince, Pahlavi, was actually illegal to even mention under the Ayatollahs. The punishment for doing so was death.

Also, leading up to the riots, Iran has been running out of water. It was to the point that the capital had just about no water. I’m not sure how this issue will be handled after the IRGC is overthrown.

At this point, the protests are a nightly occurrence, and have engulfed every major Iranian city, including the capital, Tehran. It would seem as though the IRGC has completely lost control.

But that doesn’t mean that they aren’t trying. As of this writing, the internet in Iran is shut down, including for the IRGC. All that’s left is Elon Musk’s Starlink, which is in the hands of relatively few Iranians, and a limited intranet that’s mainly only used by the IRGC.

What’s more, the IRGC’s armed forces have begun opening fire on the protesters. This doesn’t seem to deter the protesters, who still have been showing up in massive numbers. There doesn’t seem to be any reliable counts for death toll, but I’ve heard numbers ranging from dozens to over a thousand.

IRGC leadership has announced their intention to execute anyone who has protested against them. Which is remarkably stupid. For one thing, because that’s an immense number of people. The logistics behind detaining huge percentages of the populations of entire cities would seem well beyond the means of a regime whose currency has just collapsed. But also because, in saying as much, they’ve given everyone who has protested so far another reason to dig their heels in.

Forgiveness isn’t just something that sounds nice, it gives someone an incentive to possibly come around to your own side. If someone were to tell me that I’d be their enemy forever, and nothing would change that, then what reason would I have to attempt to reconcile myself to them?

But it doesn’t seem like the IRGC will be able to carry out their threat against their own people. Not only are the protests so huge and so widespread that it seems nearly impossible for the regime to overcome them, the leadership, including the Ayatollah himself, is in hiding.

If the Ayatollah knows that his time is almost up, it might be that his heart is set on trying to cause as much damage as he can on the way out. Thus, his announced intention of going to war against Israel and the United States. It might be his intention to fire off one last volley of missiles before things end for him.

Here in the USA, we have a saying: Don’t let your mouth write checks that your ass can’t cash.

But, war or no war, it seems as though it’s over for the IRGC. The Ayatollah has already publicly announced his intention of leaving Iran, which doesn’t suggest that he has much under control. And as time goes on, he seems to be running out of opportunity to leave. It might even be that there’s currently no safe way for him to leave the country.

I think we’re seeing history being made. Not only are a people unshackling themselves of a despot, it’s an Islamic despot. Islam has some of the strictest mechanisms of control which have ever been developed. Since Islam’s inception in Muhammad’s diseased mind, there might not have been any nations which have succeeded in unshackling themselves of Islam without external intervention.

Which is why it would be awesome to see the Iranians pull it off without another country getting involved. Sure, I’d like to see the US get involved if that was necessary to guarantee the uprising’s success, and to prevent more bloodshed than necessary. If the Iranians accomplished it on their own, then the hope that many around the world could have in casting off the shackles of ancient Bedouin mysticism would be tremendous. But so would the knowledge that a strong ally might have your back. So, in either case, there’s something great to come away with.

If you’re interested in following developments with the Iranian uprising, you might like Tousi TV. He’s an Iranian living in the UK who wants to see the IRGC fall, and has been livestreaming with updates. He’s got his bias on the matter, but he’s honest about it.

What a decade it’s been so far this year!