Yeah, murdering a woman for not wearing her hijab properly is just a western plot. Iranians can't possibly have any agency. Is that what you're saying?
People were being murdered for not wearing their hijab last year. The year before. The year before that. Why didn't large scale 'spontaneous' protests erupt at any point in that time period but instead happened right within 2 weeks of SCO membership...
> Iranians can't possibly have any agency. Is that what you're saying?
As someone who grew up in a country that had experienced FOUR US backed coups, multiple 'spontaneous people's movements' of the same nature, yes. That's precisely what Im saying.
The agency that the locals have in such situations is co-opted and subverted by the source that organizes the protests, leaving only a husk of their original intention represented by various symbolism and paraphernalia. The resulting government NEVER does anything in line with the original protests. The policies are always privatizing the nation's resources, setting up US bases, borrowing more from US-controlled financial institutions, reduction of labor protections, deregulation. The same ills that plague the US.
Even if one is not a student of geopolitics or has no knowledge of recent political history, he or she can easily tell who backed such a regime change operation by the resulting policies.
