Baby Rider, illegal motorcyclist, killed in Iran

By Karine Keyser —

Baby Rider has been shot by the Iranian Regime.

Nineteen-year-old Diana Bahador from northern Gonbad-e-Kavus — who had 150,000 followers on Instagram and loved to break the law by riding a motorcycle around AND by not wearing a headscarf — was shot in the head twice on Jan. 8, according to Hyrcani Human Rights group.

She had been participating in the uprising that the regime put down with heavy weapons.

Diana is the human face of the greatest massacre in modern Iranian history as the people — tired of repressive rules and rocketing inflation, tired that the kids of the regime live in luxury while they eke out a living — try to topple rulers who find themselves at their weakest moment militarily, economically and politically.

President Trump urged protesters to keep demonstrating and to take over their institutions, promising that help was on its way — a clear threat that the U.S. would conduct strikes to finalize the collapse.

But the strikes weren’t immediate, and an estimated 30,000 protesters have been brutally slaughtered by a panicked regime with few options to stay in power. Both the United States and Iran have waged a war of words as an aircraft carrier strike group moved into range and Britain joined the U.S.-Israeli attack plans.

On Tuesday, U.S. drones and Iranian drones faced off over the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian fighter jets shrieked over the skies of Tehran. Israel braces for an overwhelming ballistic missile launch from Iran, and Trump warns that the weapons used in Venezuela could be used in Iran with equal effectiveness.

After Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei slipped into his bunker, other Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officials did likewise.

Many of the dead bodies killed by the regime were, according to rumor, being sent to military bases to be able to blame airstrikes for their deaths. It is unconfirmed news but seems in line with the sort of thing that Iran’s disciples, Hamas, did. It’s good to have the fake news before CNN makes it real news.

But other than those chess moves, not much has happened other than both countries vowing all-out war as they step closer to the brink.

Faced with machine gun fire, Iranian protesters seem to have retreated to their homes in some areas but continue to combat in others. Reporters with contacts in Iran are unanimous: the Iranians are waiting for the right moment to return to the streets; they have not given up.

In the meantime, the human cost of this atrocity takes the face of more than just numbers are individual stories trickle out (limited by the shutdown of the Internet and by the seizing of Starlink devices by police).

Baby Rider, as Diana called herself, gives a face to the barbarity.

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