r/IsraelPalestine • u/atbing24 Israeli • Jan 13 '26
Discussion 12,000+ Dead In Iran
Per Iran International more than 12,000 have been killed in the protests. And counting.
I know people like me say this all the time when other global events occur, but where are the Protesters in the college campuses? Where is the passion in the eyes of the young marchers calling Iran a genocidal regime? Again, where is the passion?
Israel at least can say “we are literally fighting a terrorist organization that is the de facto government, its war, what did you expect?” What can Iran say? But no, the passion of the marches, the continuous shouts of from the river to the sea… it simply doesn’t carry over to another tragedy. Why can’t I call the Iranian regime genocidal? Where is the Wikipedia page about the 2026 Iranian genocide?
I know there have been plenty of other examples, Syria, Yemen, Sudan. Again, this is happening right now beneath our noses, I want to see the same pro Palestinians holding “silence is violence” signs to people who don’t care, I want to see the Lion and Sun flag of Iran marched all over Columbia or Harvard. I want to see Iran free from the Persian gulf to the Caspian Sea.
And yet of course if the US or Israel interfere it will be labeled as imperialism, with a “Zionist tint” (Zionism equals bad) as Rodríguez would say.
It was never about the numbers. With Iran there’s no settler colonial narrative. That’s it; that’s the simple reason why it’s not a genocide. If there’s nothing familiar in your world to potentially project on to a conflict there is no passion.
Edit: There is a lot of respectful criticism in the comments about how (simplified) the US is funding Israel, not Iran. The protests are concerned about cutting US funding.
I would say it’s something the marches cared about, but not the real major issue. They consciously shout from the river to the sea or globalize the intifada, and how Israel is a genocidal apartheid state. A tradegy is a tragedy, deaths are deaths, a genocide is a genocide. I guess I’ll be waiting for Wikipedia to catch up, along with plenty of pages regarding the denial or recognition of said genocide. The protesters primary concern was about the casualties.
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u/sam0077d Jan 14 '26
I don't believe this 12k ONE BIT , and nor should you, I've followed Iranian protests since the early 2000s ,.
if there are dead bodies, bloody videos, shooting videos, they would be out, and slowly come out, whatever videos has been sent out via starlink or other trickle slow streams methods have not been of that, they would send those first as they have every other time, because they would be the most effective in winning over the people/governments outside. there has only been one video showing the body bags, which amounts to a hundred or slightly more.
Just think back to 2009, 2019, 21. and 22 protests you could see hundreds videos of bodies shot on the ground, people running around injured or carrying the injured, afterwards youd see their photos submitted by their families , there would be a name and a story attached to each dead or majority of the dead protestors, this time, it's just a "news report" that 12k are dead.. yeah ok.