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Mainstream media keeps mislabeling this uprising as “economic protests.” That framing is false, and dangerously incomplete. What’s unfolding across Iran is an uprising against the Islamic regime itself. The message from the streets is clear: this is a rejection of the Islamic occupation, and a demand for national restoration under Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.

This viral video is being shared without context by engagement farmers so I did some research. A migrant community in the Harehills neighborhood of Leeds, England attacked police as revenge for them responding to help child protective workers who came to a home with endangered children. The police safely removed the children and social workers before coming under mass attack. Many areas of immigrant England operate as parallel societies where police are encouraged not to intervene. This leaves children, women and other vulnerable people often at the mercy of those who use violence. For example, Islamic migrant communities in England operated rape and grooming gangs for years.