Iran’s fascist Basij attacking protesters.

Iranian refugee Siyaves Azeri gives the following report. It is important not only because it gives an update, but also because it gives a glimpse of what the monarchist supporters of Pahlevi are doing there:

I have just received a call from Iran through Telegram. We managed to speak some 20 minutes. I was truly excited. Here is what my friend Sepehr told me (schematically and to the extent I recall):

1. Here it is like a war zone

2. It is very difficult; I am fine as much as the country is fine

3. Almost everybody I know is fine, but almost (we didn’t speak in more details not to put him in risk)

4. We have received some food ration coupons as everything has become super expensive, even eggs and cooking oil

5. On the first day of the crackdown things were “softer” but by the second day they (the security forces, the Basij, Revolutionary Guards, soldiers) came to the street to kill and smash

6. In the places I were participating in the demonstrations monarchists were a minority but they would attack any other demonstrators that would not chant their slogans

7. Some monarchists were armed with knifes and even guns but they never set any systematic attacks on police precincts; they were setting buses and similar stuff on fire aimlessly

8. Their (monarchists’) presence amounted in less participation in the protests as people used to attend even with their children during the initial days; so they disdained from attending

9. I am not sure how stable the Internet will be; the regime says it depends on the security level; they openly state that if the protests begin they will shut it down again

10. The regime threatens that sending videos to opposition TVs is considered a terrorist act and terrorists will be punished severely

We then shortly talked about Marx’s Capital and Hessen’s work on Newton’s Principia (we needed to distract our attention to something that would point to life and hope)