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I don’t support the government in charge there. However the peace OP brings up in their other comment is extremely important, They tell us every other month they want to attack Iran, they literally did so three times in 20th century, and twice in 19th (and much worse when including russia, which was aligned with the english against the french).
Iran has not initiated any war since 1820s, and was neutral in both world wars. People die in wars.
Tortured. (The fact that I.R. of Iran routinely tortures political prisoners is beyond dispute.) No legal representation. No due process. Closed court. What else do you need to know?
> Anyways, as for freedom of women, what if it was all based on specious reasons?
Inform yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34274917
She was not the first innocent to be cut down in the flower of her youth. Our dear Jian Mahsa Amini's death in custody of the criminal state is not why Iranian are resolved to dispatch the theocratic regime "to the pages of history".
> I think people lose their sense and reason when it comes to such a vague concept like “freedom”? Freedom to what, from what, for what?
Freedom from oppression. Freedom from violent men and women in thrall of their own misunderstanding and entirely impervious to reason, common sense, decency, who insist at the pain of torture and death that others submit to their ignorance. Sufficient and frankly a demanding reason to motivate any sensible human being.
We Iranians have made a determination. The Islamic Republic must go.
> The reality of things is always different than what people think in the US, this is what traveling has taught me.
"Other"? Your travels have convinced you that there is no such thing as human being possessing of rights and deserving of respect divorced from local considerations.
Hear then the words of a poet saint of these "others", these Iranians, whose heroic struggle you seek to diminish and discount:
Human Beings are members of a whole
In creation of one essence and soul
If one member is inflected with pain
Other members uneasy will remain
If you have no sympathy for human pain
You have no claim to the name Human Being.
As the previous author wrote, we know nothing about what really happened and the first victim in the information war between the West and Iran is the truth.
This has absolutely -nothing- to do with the “West”. Those tropes do not work anymore. No amount of whataboutism will whitewash the crimes of I.R. against Iran.
You claimed "Iranians want X". I asked you who made you a representative of Iranians. You - of course - failed to answer and come up with a BS reply.
As a member of Iranian diaspora, my deep conviction is that decisions regarding the removal of this national & spiritual abomination from Iran and its future political orientation are primarily in the hands of Iranians who have lived and continue to reside in occupied Iran. Per your stated personal family sketch, you should be well familiar with Bahareh Hedayati who addressed the issue of violence in context of revolution in her letter from Evin. She is not alone in declaring that there remains no possibility of reforming the abomination, and as you must know, she is merely one out of thousands of the best of Iranians who are now held, illegally, in dungeons of the occupying regime of the so-called Islamic Republic. If you wish to discuss the mechanics of revolution and what is or is not acceptable, it would be best to direct your thoughts to those quarters. As it is, your comment in HN casting shade using "violence" seems 'misplaced'.