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*** 19-May-18 World View -- Two protesters killed in southern Iran in latest violent clashes with police

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • Iranian police clash with marginalized Qashqai tribe in southern Iran
  • Iranian police kill two as new protests erupt in Iran

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**** Iranian police clash with marginalized Qashqai tribe in southern Iran
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A picture of Kazerun on Friday shared on social media shows upturned and burnt out cars and wounded activists following violent scenes (NCRI)

The latest in a series of anti-government protests in cities across
Iran resulted in up to give protesters killed, and dozens more injured
or arrested, by Iranian regime security forces in the last two days in
the city of Kazerun (Kazeroon, Kazeroun) in southern Iran.

The population of Kazerun is about 150,000. The people are from the
Qashqai tribe, a minority group of about a million people in Iran that
the government has failed to fully integrate into the mainstream of
Iranian society. Although they are Shia Muslims, they have little use
for organized religion and are not devout followers.

They're a nomadic tribe, traditionally practicing pastoralism with
sheep and goats, using camels as transports. They endure long
seasonal migrations of hundreds of miles between lowland winter and
highland summer pastures.

This lifestyle is relative unique for Iran, and explains why they're
not integrated into mainstream society. Since the 1800s, their
fortunes have gone up and down depending on who was in power in Iran.
During the 1979 Great Islamic Revolution civil war, they fought in
support of the Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini and the revolutionary side
to oust the Shah of Iran.

After the revolution, Khomeini and the ruling regime looked upon the
Qashqai with favor. But because the Qashqai were so different from
the other Persian people, they quickly clashed with the new regime,
which was following a psychopathically harsh version of Sharia law and
imposing it on the entire country. The good feelings ended pretty
quickly in 1980, when Qashqai leaders were arrested, but then escaped
from prison and formed an anti-government insurgency. The regime
captured the escaped Qashqai leaders and executed them.

Nonetheless, the Qashqai had been harshly suppressed under the Shah,
and benefitted greatly from the Khomeini regime in the 1980s. In
particular, the government did not interfere with their pastoral
activities nor their migration routes by which they traveled with
their sheep and goats.

The Qashqai have been increasingly marginalized since the 1980s, and
they now harbor a great deal of anti-government sentiment. That
sentiment spilled out onto the streets in the last few months.

Last year, a government official proposed a plan to split the county
of Kazerun into two, and make other administrative changes. Although
some Qashqai supported the plan, most bitterly opposed it,
particularly the undeveloped and poor districts which viewed the plan
as further discrimination. Radio Farda and JCPA and Cultural Survival and Against The Compass

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**** Iranian police kill two as new protests erupt in Iran
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An Iranian Qashqai nomad carries a live goat from his herd

The people of Kazerun have been peacefully protesting for weeks
against the administrative plan to split the county. The government
made some concessions, but apparently their sincerity was in doubt.

On April 20, the protesters occupied the site for the city's Friday
prayers. There were a number of extremely angry chants, including
“Our enemy is right here; liars say it is America,” but there were
other, more shocking slogans too, including “Be afraid when we get
guns” and “We will kill the traitors.”

These chants revived memories of massive protests in cities across the
country starting in late December of last year. At that time, there
were chants like, "Seyed Ali [Khamenei] shame on you let go of our
country," "Death to the Dictator," "Death to Rouhani," "Leave Syria,
think about us," and "Forget about Gaza and Lebanon; I’ll sacrifice my
life for Iran."

Iran is in a generational Awakening era, following the 1979 Great
Islamic Revolution civil war. The psychopathic hardliners view any
sort of peaceful protest as a revival of the civil war, and so even
peaceful protests have to be crushed brutally. So the Iranian regime
brutally crushed the protests in January, killing some protesters and
arresting several thousand.

The peaceful Kazerun protests of the last few weeks are being
interpreted the same way, as an existential threat to the Khamenei
regime, and so they have to be crushed brutally as well.

On Thursday, the protesters gathered in the city's main square.
Iranian security forces fired teargas at the protesters, who set the
police station on fire. The security forces responded with live
gunfire, killing as many as five protesters, while dozens more were
injured and arrested.

There's an irony about this situation in that it's occurring at the
same time as Iran's government is criticizing the Israelis for the
deaths of people from Hamas trying to break through the border fence
from Gaza into Israel. Iran's government is criticizing the Israelis,
but ignoring their own actions in Kazerun. The protesters themselves
have noticed this hypocrisy in some of their chants: “The Government
Supports Gazans, But Betrays Kazerun," and “Our Enemy is Here, not in
the US." Iran Wire
and Deutsche Welle and CNN (14-Jan-2018) and JCPA

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Iran, Qashqai tribe,
Kazerun, Kazeroon, Kazeroun,
Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
Generational Dynamics, Iran, Qashqai tribe,
Kazerun, Kazeroon, Kazeroun,
Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei

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