Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest(www.reuters.com)
117 pointsby mhb6 hours ago7 comments
  • asymptotic5 hours ago
    https://archive.ph/LzV2M
    • lukan5 hours ago
      Is reuters anywhere paywalled?
      • amatecha5 hours ago
        Yes, I just got "Subscribe to Reuters to continue reading." paywall after scrolling down into the page a bit. I could probably delete the element/scrim and make the page scrollable again with dev tools, but yeah... either way. (I assume that's also why https://neuters.de/ exists)
        • lukan5 hours ago
          I see. Well, ublock origin seems to have taken care of that for me.
  • burnto4 hours ago
    “Plainclothes forces raid homes across country, put detainees in secret lockups”

    Huh.

  • MyHonestOpinon5 hours ago
    We don't want countries intervening on the afairs of other countries but there comes a time when you really have to consider it.
  • ourmandave5 hours ago
    Meanwhile the headlines say Trump is sending more warships to the area and telling Iran it's running out of time to make a deal or else.
    • shevy-java5 hours ago
      But what deal exactly?

      I can not help but feel that a lot of what Trump is doing in general, is for the show purpose effect.

      • unsnap_biceps4 hours ago

            But his precise objectives remain unclear. Speaking at the premiere of the documentary Melania, the US president told reporters Iran had to do “two things” to avoid military action. “Number one, no nuclear. And number two, stop killing protesters,” saying that “they are killing them by the thousands”.
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/donald-trump...
      • throw3108222 hours ago
        There is no deal. The problem with Iran is that it's a regional power that is not aligned with Israel, so Israel has been insisting for decades that it must be attacked. The desired outcome of course is not to "free" Iran but to weaken it so that it can't be a rival power. So first it claimed it was because of Iran's nuclear program, and when Obama put that under control with an agreement that gave Iran the opportunity to thrive, it pushed Trump to renege the deal so Iran's nuclear could be a problem again and the sanctions restored.
    • trvz5 hours ago
      Like last time, so far he’s bad mostly for his own country.

      The Medrano abduction and kirking Iran’s leadership may end up positive actions from a humanitarian view.

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    • smitty1e26 minutes ago
      In national politics, one calls for the vote when the outcome has been decided, in order to "put a bow" on matters.

      Trump can be expected to pull a trigger when the results are similarly "known" (Maduro), and not a moment before.

      The Iranian situation is orders of magnitude more complex than Venezuela, and the stakes are obviously higher on both ends. If the Iranian autocrats persevere, they will argue heaven is on their side. If Trump fumbles, the Loyal Opposition will be a proxy for the Ayatollah at the midterm elections this November.

      For one who (according to his detractors) is an idiot with no self-control, Trump shows much strategic patience.

  • tranquiltalk5 hours ago
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  • lastwalz4 hours ago
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  • roenxi5 hours ago
    Based on the US troop movements, Israel's sneak attack last year and the ongoing suspicion that the US uses protests and NGOs to achieve regime change it'd seem to be a no-brainer for Iran to be on extreme war footing right now. I imagine this'd be part of their preparation.
    • mhb4 hours ago
      > Israel's sneak attack

      LOL. You mean they didn't warn them like they do in Gaza?