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Re:Iran students stage first large anti-government protests ... by odiroot on Sunday February 22, 2026 @04:25PM (#47114856)
> Mahatma Gandhi.

I daresay the Brits were not as willing to gun down peaceful protesters as today's regimes are.

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Re:Iran students stage first large anti-government protests ... by dugmartin on Sunday February 22, 2026 @05:52PM (#47115676)
You should look up the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

(Full disclosure - I had to look up the name after remembering it portrayed in the movie Gandhi)

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Re:Iran students stage first large anti-government protests ... by tim333 on Monday February 23, 2026 @10:39AM (#47123727)
At least that was condemned by Churchill as "unutterably monstrous".

The Iranian lot don't seem to have similar sentiments.

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