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This is just spreading rumors. You have to do better than "apparently".

This is all likely true. Although I feel people undersell how they work together.

Iranians broadly hate their government, yeah. But the thing that gets them rioting is economic failure. Which the strikes have exacerbated.

Social media is swarmed by people saying it’ll be like Iraq and Iranians will hate the US for its actions. I’m not convinced. My small anecdata of Iranian friends with contacts in Iran agrees with me.

I think we could see regime change within a decade.

> Apparently they are also (at least in some cases) dressing as women to avoid airstrikes

Didn't help anybody in Minab.

Can you provide a source for any of this that is not just American or Isreali propaganda? Because I know you can't

When a regime starts killing thousands of it's own people it's a sign of weakness, not strength. Iran's theocracy was teetering above the abyss before the U.S. started bombing them.

Now, they're probably good to go for a couple more decades. Trump is precisely the kind of threat Iranians have been warned about since the revolution. When a regime spends almost half a century preparing for something and it finally happens, it earns them considerable forgiveness. Also, nothing unites people quite like a foreign threat, especially one dumb enough to bomb schoolgirls in its opening salvo.

By scuttling the JCPOA for no apparent reason and now invading Iran right when it appeared the regime was crumbling, Trump has single-handedly reinvigorated Iran's theocracy and given them the public support they need for the final push towards nuclear weapons. That's what's so sickening about this invasion. It has acted in diametric opposition to the the policy goals it was purportedly pursuing.

Are these Iranian friends and their children the ones at risk the next time the US or Israel "accidentally" double taps civilian infrastructure?

The regime will kill you/your loved ones and brand them as criminals if you protest against them or break an unreasonable law, the US and Israel will kill you and brand you as terrorists because you happened to be Iranian and in the wrong place.

Iranian here! I want to see the regime answer for its crimes. They act like an occupying force, taking the country hostage.

With that being said I don’t like/want the war. I understand and sympathize with the emotional response from my compatriots because they see the oppressors are getting the bloody beating they well deserve. But I don’t really think that the current war brings anything good for the people. I wish it did but it doesn’t look like it. I wish the regime would fall but they haven’t and we now have ~2000 more innocents dead on top of thousands that government killed in January.

It's very easy to offer the lives of others for your goals.

That’s interesting; how many of them are currently in Iran or have close family in Iran?

The big question is what comes after. I don't think many disagreed with Saddam or Gaddafi but history shows that this doesn't necessarily lead to good outcomes.

It's always good to state if the Iranians you know are currently residing in Iran, for clarity.

Your paraphased quote also implies that there must be actual regime change for the deaths to be worth it (ie, no IRGC).

It's easy to say that when you're a shah supporter living in the west.

Do you ever think what would happen to them in the West if they weren't vocal opponents of the Iranian state?

Did you see on the news how many people were mourning for Khomeini on the streets ?

Clearly your sample of Iranians is very biased.

I am not pro theocratic regimes, but not only does the US/Israel _not_ have the right to wage this war, but this war will only make the regime stronger.

Nothing more unifying than getting bombed, especially in martyrdom cultures.

> Every Iranian I know support the current US/Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.

That seems a little bit suspect, how many Iranians do you know? I have difficulty believing that less than around 20-30% of them support the regime. There seems to be a baseline of around that fraction of people who support the status quo.

It isn't so hard to find people who support full-on communism. Any reasonable sample should be turning up a lot of really weird opinions.

> Noteworthy: It’s not that no one in Iran has no access. Actually some have internet access via “white SIM cards”

Erm, dude, you did look at the graph on the Mastodon post linked to, right ?

You see that bit where it falls off a cliff to 0% netblocks ?

"white SIM card" or not, you're not getting internet if there's no BGP routes being announced.

The only way around 0 BGP announcements would be satellite...

I suspect your "white SIM card" was a pre-war status-quo ...

It’s very economically harmful to be disconnected. That’s the downside

It’s proven time and time again that Mossad always find a way to infiltrate into even most secure Iranian network. This is mostly done to control the narrative and keep the pro regime supporters morale up.

It's way more centralized.

Iran has been rolling out the National Information Network (essentially a whitelisted internet) since the Green Revolution [0] back in 2009-12. Iran has a surprisingly robust domestic ecosystem of hyperscalers [1] and telco infra [6][7] built out over the past decade with limited outside involvement and a severe sanctions regime, and have even started exporting Iranian IT services to Uganda [2], Kenya [3], South Africa [4], Venezuela [5], Russia [8], and China [8].

Iran also uses a two-tier SIM card system - ideologically vetted individuals get a "white" SIM which gives full ingress/egress outside the NIN and others have a normal SIM that can be blacklisted from egressing outside the NIN.

Notice how Iranian websites have a page saying "Transferring to Website" - that's the gateway page for the NIN.

[0] - https://citizenlab.ca/irans-national-information-network/

[1] - https://www.arvancloud.ir/fa

[2] - https://tvbrics.com/en/news/uganda-and-iran-to-boost-ict-co-...

[3] - https://mail.techreviewafrica.com/public/news/1361/kenya-and...

[4] - https://www.samenacouncil.org/samena_daily_news?news=64545

[5] - https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/06/752585/Iranian-fibe...

[6] - https://zmc.co.ir/

[7] - https://www.rayafiber.com/en/home

[8] - https://www.kharon.com/brief/iran-sanctions-maximum-pressure...

See age verification, anti-pornography, and anti-VPN laws popping up like weeds all over democratic countries. Governments everywhere are pushing for more control over who and how people communicate over the Internet, so they can mute certain voices without shutting down the internet like Iran when they deem it necessary

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