The hatred from woke activists backing Iran is as vile as their stupidity - "one extremist, who had attended the protest at the Sussex terminus to support the Iranian regime and Palestine Action, said the war in Gaza was the “third holocaust” and that all Zionists “should f---ing die”. She was too idiotic to recognise the hypocrisy... These various ignoramuses were so high on their supply of righteousness they were actually parading posters of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The hashtag groupies of #IstandwithIran are flailing moral vacuums. Did they stand with Iran in 2009 when the Green Movement, sometimes known as the Persian Spring (in which a mass protest movement sprang up), declared the presidential election fraudulent? Executions had increased three-fold under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. These human rights violations mostly involved juvenile offenders and gay people. Did they stand with Iran during the 2019 fuel protests? Where were they in 2022 when a new protest movement took to the streets called Woman, Life, Freedom, after a young woman called Mahsa Amini was beaten to death by the morality police for the crime of showing her hair? Many brave young men and women have been murdered since then because the Iranian regime is a heartless theocracy. Those in the Iranian diaspora, brilliant, educated, sophisticated people, will tell you what this regime is like. Still, ignorance is clearly bliss, which is why we get the likes of the ludicrous India Willoughby announcing on X: “I could live in Iran. Better trans rights than the UK and US. We do nearly all of the bad things they do. Israel is currently wiping out a whole people – aided and abetted by Labour, who are shamefully trying to cover their arse. War crime. I don’t feel safe with Netanyahu or Trump having nuclear weapons. I don’t believe anything that Israel, US or UK say. Why should I? Because I’m English and should trust the BBC?”. India is a trans rights activist. Her previous tweet (“Never thought I’d say this, but #TeamIran”) kicked off a row with JK Rowling, who responded by saying “India, a fan of a woman-hating, gay-hating, authoritarian regime? Colour me astonished.” Rowling offered to pay her fare to Iran. If you don’t know much about India Willoughby, then lucky you, because she exists to attack women like me. India was Jonathan until she transitioned in 2016. She was a local TV news reader, has a son and has appeared on Loose Women and Celebrity Big Brother. This person’s connection to reality is indeed loose as she says things like: “I’m 100 per cent a biological woman and female. The fact the GC [gender-critical] movement can’t handle this simple fact isn’t my problem. Jealous.” Whatevs. The one thing Willoughby is not is a biological woman. If she believes she would flourish in Iran she should talk to trans people there. Iran has the second highest number of “gender re-assignment” surgeries in the world, second only to Thailand. But this is not done out of some notion of some “live and let live” mentality. Quite the opposite. Homosexuality is punishable by death, often public hangings... As for gender nonconformity, forget it. In 2015 there was a crackdown on “devil worshipping” and “homosexual” hairstyles and tattoos. The regime bans the internet; there is no freedom of speech. This is a theocratic dictatorship that has occupied Syria, that has wrecked the countries of its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas. The current regime cannot fall quick enough but this is not what the clueless idiots on our streets are protesting about. They are siding with Iran because they hate Israel. Now, it is possible to want the destruction of Gaza to stop, to want aid to go in and to want to know what even a vague peace plan might look like. That is my position, but I am alarmed that where we once spoke of a two-state solution now there is only one. The obliteration of Israel means the obliteration of half the world’s Jewry. How anyone who thinks this claims to be on the moral high ground is beyond comprehension. Open your eyes to what Iran is. Not a single one of these protesters would last a day there. Their hatred is as vile as their stupidity. For all their “radicalism” these people who parade posters of the Ayatollah exhibit the ultimate colonialism. They know best and the rights they take for granted are not available to everyone. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sick."
Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "Khamenei just bragged about committing a war crime. Suddenly, the UN, ICC, and ICJ are silent."
@ar_khamenei: "We thank God who aided our armed forces, enabling them to penetrate the advanced, multi-layered Zionist defenses and level many of their civilian and military sites to the ground."
India Willoughby and other pro-Iran lefties have lost the plot - we owe Donald Trump a massive 'thank you' - "One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a politically involved person is to be so rigidly opposed to a cause, argument, individual, or group that you end up siding with the stupid, contemptible, or downright evil. Broad tents and coalitions are all very well, but when the open-door policy is so indiscriminate that it allows in the cranks or puts you in defence of the truly indefensible, then it is time for a rethink... I have heard several people, in the aftermath of President Trump’s strikes on its nuclear sites, making simpering noises about Iran. Some have even gone so far as to support retaliation by the Iranians or watch with glee, hoping that the ramifications for the West, especially for Israel and the United States, are as severe as possible. Comrades, have you lost your damn minds? Perhaps the most public example of this is that of broadcaster and Celebrity Big Brother star, India Willoughby who tweeted, inexplicably: "Never thought I’d say this, but #TeamIran." Sadly, she’s not alone, but her example is the most crystalline one, especially since when a sliver of what the horrific Iranian regime does was pointed out to her, she replied that: "The US and UK do all those things too." No, India, no they do not. For example, neither the UK nor the US include in their official policy, the call for the destruction of another country, as Iran does with Israel. As well as it being in the theocracy’s constitution that the world’s only Jewish state be obliterated, key figures like former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have regularly urged the obliteration of the state of Israel. This ought to be enough by itself to dissuade any reasonable person from aligning them to the eschatologically minded gangsters of Tehran. Perhaps it’s being a writer with a decent memory that makes me particularly alert and sensitive to just how dangerous the Iranian regime is and outraged when people play false equivalence team sports with nuclear bombs. In 1989, the brilliant British Indian writer Salman Rushdie published the excellent, The Satanic Verses. In response to the publishing of a work of fiction in English, Iran’s supreme leader at the time, Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a religious edict known as a “fatwa,” offering money, in the name of his country and religion, for the murder of Rushdie. Predictably, many on the left at the time preferred to focus on how the writer had hurt Muslim feelings with his book rather than on the threat of murder or the free speech implications. Far from being an historical curio, that declaration is the reason Rushdie almost died after being attacked in 2022 and now wears an eye patch. I do not call the US or UK ever doing something like that... Uncomfortable as it may be, we owe President Trump a massive thank you. It is possible to object to some or all of Israel’s actions, I have some reservations and criticisms of them myself, without siding with a regime that wants a nuke so that it can use it to kill Jews. It is possible to have grave concerns about US and UK foreign policy but not become a dim-witted cheerleader for a government that murders gay people and brutalises women for daring to show a single strand of hair in public. It is possible to advocate for peace without becoming culturally suicidal... The enemy of your enemy is only your friend in badly written fiction; in reality, you’re probably next on their list."
Meme - "Bill Clinton: "We are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons." (1995)
George W. Bush: "Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. Period." (2006)
Barack Obama: "I have stated that Iran will never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon." (2015)
Joe Biden: "We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon." (2022)
Donald J. Trump: "Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated... Thank you for your attention to this matter." (2025)"
Global Community Condemns Israel For Attacking Peace-Loving Nation Of Iran | Babylon Bee - "Israel announced the start of a large-scale campaign to deal with what it perceived as an imminent, existential threat to its existence posed by the humble nation that had never so much as hurt a fly and did not, in any way, spend the last few decades vowing to annihilate Israel and working to produce a nuclear weapon to make it possible... Other nations around the globe also joined in the call for Israel to face sanctions. "This was an unconscionable attack," said Xiang Bao, a representative of the Chinese Communist Party. "We cannot tolerate Israel committing such atrocities while stubbornly refusing to sit and wait to be annihilated by the peace-loving government of Iran. How dare they stand in the way of Iran's loving and generous quest to wipe them off the face of the earth?" At publishing time, activist Greta Thunberg was reportedly setting sail for Iran to bring a shipment of humanitarian aid in the form of new nuclear scientists."
Tommy Vietor on X - "Iran might retaliate today, tomorrow or in months. Or a year from now, Iran or its proxies might blow up a bus filled with American tourists in Cyprus. No one knows what comes next. Bombing Iran started something that we no longer have the capacity to predict or contain."
David Harsanyi on X - "I'm going to go out on a limb and say that people who would blow up buses filled with innocent civilians probably shouldn't have nukes."
Riley Moore on X - "BREAKING: Federal judge has ordered President Trump to rebuild the Iranian nuclear facilities. J/K 😂 😂"
Rob on X - "Liberals having to find an Iranian flag right after they replaced their Palestine flag with a Mexican flag, after they replaced their Ukrainian flag with a trans flag."
Dozens of pro-Indy accounts go dark after Israeli strikes - "On 12 June 2025, dozens of anonymous X (formerly Twitter) accounts advocating Scottish independence abruptly went silent. Many had posted hundreds of times per week, often using pro-independence slogans, anti-UK messaging, and identity cues like “NHS nurse” or “Glaswegian socialist.” Their sudden disappearance coincided with a major Israeli airstrike campaign against Iranian military and cyber infrastructure. Within days, Iran had suffered severe power outages, fuel shortages, and an internet blackout affecting 95 percent of national connectivity. What appeared at first glance to be a curious coincidence has since emerged as the most visible rupture to date in a long-running foreign influence operation... What emerges is a picture of a state actor, Tehran, deliberately using the Scottish independence issue to weaken its adversary by amplifying internal division. “The timing, posting patterns, and network structure all point in one direction,” said Charles, a veteran open-source intelligence researcher who publishes under a pseudonym due to contractual restrictions. “What we’re seeing is classic IRGC-linked activity: coordinated accounts posting at regular intervals, linguistic and thematic uniformity across profiles, and sudden synchronous silence. The kicker is infrastructure dependency. These accounts didn’t log off, they were cut off almost certainly because their command-and-control layer, likely hosted through Iranian VPN exit nodes or proxy managed access platforms, went down after the strikes. This kind of abrupt network wide halt is a textbook signature of an externalised influence operation losing its operational backend.” Iran’s strategy is asymmetric. Lacking the economic leverage or conventional military reach of its Western adversaries, it has turned to covert online influence as a low-cost, high-impact tool for shaping perceptions and political fault lines abroad. Within this broader playbook, the UK has long been a target. Tehran sees Britain as a historic antagonist associated with colonial exploitation and perceived meddling in Middle Eastern affairs. Weakening the UK’s internal cohesion fits into Iran’s strategic objectives, and Scottish independence provides a compelling wedge issue... The volume of output was striking. According to Clemson’s analysis, the network was responsible for at least 4 percent of all Scottish independence-related discussion on X in early 2024. That was roughly four times more than the official SNP account over the same period. The researchers concluded that the network had become one of the most active sources of Scottish independence messaging on the platform, not out of genuine political alignment, but in pursuit of destabilisation... Professor Darren Linvill, one of the lead researchers on the project, said the goal was not necessarily to convince but to create the impression that support for independence was more widespread than it really was. “Anyone in sales will tell you the bandwagon fallacy is a powerful tool,” he said. This form of amplification does not have to shift public opinion directly to be effective. It simply reshapes the perceived size and momentum of a movement."
Lucas Lynch | Facebook - "First they came for the centrifuges - and I said nothing, because standard uranium enrichment for use in commercial nuclear reactors involves increasing the concentration of the U-235 isotope from its natural level of 0.7% to between 3% and 5%."
Meme - "Democrats are suddenly worried that Iranian terror sleeper cells will now attack the USA from within. The same Democrats who let them all in. The same Democrats who want you to be unarmed."
Cam Higby 🇺🇸 on X - "Pssssssst If you’re saying Trump bad because now Iran will activate sleeper cells… Having sleeper cells in the U.S. is already justification for a war against Iran."
Gummi on X - "Take a moment to listen to the way Tucker argues his isolationist position It's all about being against "killing people"...an appeal to emotion, devoid of any other variables, because everyone is against killing people If you support any foreign policy that results in deaths of innocent people, then you are evil...period Later on he says "the power that people feel when they kill is the most alluring power there is" and goes on to attribute this motivation to anybody that thinks differently But worst is the other side of this argument which is the presumption that we have brought all this conflict upon ourselves...that, for examples, if we left Iran alone they would have no reason to hate us Look, I understand that we have made grave mistakes in our approach to foreign policy after 9/11. Nation building doesn't work...endless wars are bad. But it seems to me that 99% of us agree on this. First and foremost is Trump who has managed to thread the needle on his foreign policy by using the minimum amount of force necessary to establish deterrence...yet even supporting this doesn't seem to be enough Ultimately, this worldview is a a complete disconnect and misunderstanding of human nature. Much like the socialists believe that man is fundamentally good, so does Tucker. He doesn't understand that man is primarily self-interested and needs proper incentives to work towards common goals and not behave in destructive ways. And I'm not even going to go into his willful ignorance of the nature of Islamism..."
Ouriel 🇮🇱 on X - "24 hours after Iran targeted a civilian hospital, not a SINGLE world leader has made a single comment. NOT. ONE."
Ouriel 🇮🇱 on X - "I cannot think of any other recent war where 100% of targets and casualties are exclusively civilians and not a single condemnation is made. NONE. At this stage, I do not give a flying fuck about what they say or not. But I do want to expose the deep hypocrisy of the West, the NGOs, the UN, and the leadership of those democracies. After 28 000 rockets and missiles shot over israeli civilians in the past 18 months, They have factored in the murder of jews as an acceptable count, and their silence is complicity. The same leaders want to lecture us about how to fight our war here is my message FUCK. YOU. ALL."
Gad Saad on X - "It is interesting that many of the same people who wish to see greater gun control of the American populace (weakening of the 2nd Amendment) are the exact same people who think that it's not a really big deal for the Iranian regime to have nuclear weapons (for world stability). John can't own a gun but the mullahs can be fully trusted that their nuclear ambitions are truly peaceful."
Meme - Hide the Pain Harold: "DEMOCRATS ARE OKAY WITH IRAN HAVING A NUKE. BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE A GUN."
Iran hangs nuclear scientist for alleged espionage for Israel’s Mossad : r/worldnews - "Wow, so they have now killed more people than the Israeli attacks did."
Iran hangs nuclear scientist for alleged espionage for Israel’s Mossad : r/worldnews - "Imagine Mossad laying false intelligence everywhere making it look like the top Iranian scientists are all spies....and Iran executes them, 4D chess."
"Imagine getting Iran to set up an anti-Mossad intelligence agency, and it gets run by the Mossad. Oh, wait https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241001-iran-counter-intelligence-head-tasked-with-finding-mossad-operatives-was-himself-an-israel-agent-ex-president-reveals/"
MAZE on X - "Erin Burnett five days ago: Iran is years away from a nuclear weapon. Trump is risking starting a world war for no reason.
Erin Burnett today: Iran's nuclear program has only been set back a few months. This is a big deal.
This is CNN."
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ on X - ""Why won't Iranians simply rise up" You walk out of your home and basijis immediately stop you. They demand your phone to see if you're a "collaborator". You see your neighbours thrown into vans down the street. You are unarmed. They're aiming at you. It's a total mystery."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Iran has begun rounding up Jews, with the cover of them “collaborating with Israel.” With zero evidence, they have already executed six. Suddenly, the UN and media are silent."
Melissa Chen on X - "Not everyone who supported the US bombing Iranian nuclear sites is a “neocon,” a term whose meaning has expanded beyond utility. In some respects, being cartoonishly “anti-war” is a geopolitical luxury belief. First it assumes no one else wants war with you, that other actors in the word just want to Coexist™. It is a fundamental misreading of human nature. The only way to avoid war with minimal loss of your own people is to project power for deference; it’s what they call “peace through strength.” The B2 strikes epitomize this. Other world actors respond to signals like these. They are either deterred or encouraged by every course of action. None of this entails being the world’s police or intervening in order to spread democracy or doing regime change - these are the parts of the neocon project that I fully reject. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER"
Iran's strategic blunders paved the way for humiliating defeats, experts say - "Less than two years ago, Iran’s government sounded triumphant. It was November 2023, just weeks after Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and a senior Iranian general was predicting that the regime and its proxy forces in Gaza and Lebanon were poised to vanquish Israel, the United States and other enemies. “We are fighting America, Zionism and all those who are targeting the greatness and honor of the Islamic Revolution of Iran,” Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said in a speech in the city of Kazvin. “We are on the verge of conquering great heights. ... We are completely overcoming the enemies.” Now Iran is in its most precarious position since the early 1980s. Its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon have been devastated, Hamas has been eviscerated in Gaza, Tehran’s nuclear sites have been heavily bombed, and Israel’s military now owns the skies over Iran. As for Salami, he was killed in an Israeli airstrike this month. How Iran got here can be traced to a series of miscalculations and strategic blunders, experts and former officials say, a result of decisions made both decades and only months ago. Tehran’s often obstinate diplomacy, overreliance on regional militants and shoddy security left it vulnerable to adversaries with much more powerful militaries. And at a crucial moment, the regime’s leaders failed to grasp the intentions and capabilities of its arch foes in Jerusalem and Washington, with no foreign partner ready to come to its aid. “Iran was too inflexible when it had to be less stubborn,” said Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group think tank. “It never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” Among its more recent missteps, Iran failed to learn from how other countries managed their relations with President Donald Trump or how the ground had shifted after Israel devastated Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, Vaez said. But perhaps Iran’s biggest mistake was counting on those Hezbollah proxies in Lebanon in the first place to serve as a “forward defense” against any possible attack by Israel. That approach worked for years, and it dealt Israel a blow when it sent ground troops into Lebanon. But everything changed when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023... “I think there is a direct line from Oct. 7 to today,” said Jonathan Panikoff, a former senior intelligence official. While Israel hammered away at Hamas militants in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza after Oct. 7, Iran and its Hezbollah allies prepared for an eventual ground attack from Israel into Lebanon. Instead, Israel took a different tack, targeting Hezbollah’s commanders and its top leader through airstrikes and booby-trapped pagers used by Hezbollah’s members. Israeli forces staged only a small incursion into southern Lebanon. Alex Plitsas, a former Defense Department official with the Atlantic Council think tank, said, “The dominoes that fell after Oct. 7th left Iran’s proxy network in shambles, eroded deterrence and reduced its counterstrike capabilities.” But he said Iran failed to adapt and refused diplomatic overtures from Washington despite its increasingly vulnerable position. Seth Jones, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that after the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, Tehran invested heavily in arming and training militias in the region through its Revolutionary Guard Corps, with Hezbollah as the anchor of an “axis of resistance.” The scheme worked for decades, Jones said, but it neglected the country’s armed forces, which have fallen far behind. “What it means is that your conventional forces don’t get the same level of focus,” Jones said. During Israel’s air campaign, “the Iranians were fighting an enemy that’s got fifth-generation F-35 stealth aircraft.” “They just don’t have an answer to that,” Jones added. Iran has also faltered on the diplomatic front. In talks over its nuclear program, Iran’s leaders stuck to an uncompromising stance mistakenly believing they could buy more time and secure more concessions from Trump, as well as his predecessor, Joe Biden, experts said. Over four years, Iran dragged its feet and delayed talks with the Biden administration, which had expressed a willingness to revive and revise the 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump had abandoned in 2018, Western officials say... Iran appeared to misread Trump, calculating that it could extend the talks over a longer period... Apart from its regional network of proxy forces stretching from Lebanon to Yemen, Iran had long relied on the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad as its only genuine ally. But Sunni rebels ousted Assad in December, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers are no longer welcome in Damascus. Iran also had portrayed its increasing cooperation with Russia as a “strategic” partnership, with Tehran providing thousands of Shahed drones for its war on Ukraine, as well as technical advice to help Moscow build the unnamed aircraft on Russian territory. In return, Iran acquired some Russian air defense systems, but promised fighter jets and other hardware never materialized. Over the past two weeks, Israel’s air force destroyed Iran’s radars and Russian anti-aircraft weaponry, with Tehran losing control over its airspace."
Naturally, you have left wingers like Robert Reich pretending that Iran hasn't been attacking Israel for decades
(7) The Other 98% | Facebook - "MAGA wants us terrified of Iranian sleeper cells when the real danger is White Christian Nationalist sleeper cells, ICE goons, and the J6 thugs that Trump pardoned."
There's no limit to how much left wingers hate white people and their own countries
Sassafrass84 on X - "The left keeps surprising me. I never thought I would see the day when Americans are pro Iran. The Iranian regime that doesn't believe in women's rights. Executes women if they're räped. Beats them for even speaking up and out about Islam. They're terrorists and stupid Americans would support them. Chickens for KFC."
They don't even have the excuse of "genocide", as with Gaza. "Solidarity" just means hating white people and their own countries
ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi on X - "Today, we Iranians are faced with something truly unbelievable: Western, liberal, “woke” feminists, clueless about the brutal reality in our country, consistently stand with our oppressors under the delusion of saviorism. They have no understanding of the decades of humiliation, violence, and systemic oppression we’ve endured under the Islamic Republic. Driven by their own need to feel morally superior, they claim to fight for justice while turning a blind eye to the suffering of millions. And let’s be honest, they are some of the most racist voices out there. They look at Iranians and other “brown people” as too backward, too uncivilized, too dumb to deserve real freedom or democracy. In their eyes, we’re wild animals, only manageable under tyranny. But here’s the truth: we are the ones fighting for real freedom, the same freedom they weaponize to silence us. And we want absolutely nothing to do with their hypocrisy."
Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن on X - "It’s so weird being Iranian right now, scrolling through my feed and seeing all my fellow Iranians praying for freedom, and seeing every white leftist & terror sympathizer praying the oppressor wins… “for humanity.”"
Scott Jennings on X - "No matter how much Democrats want it to be true, the fact is bribery and appeasement does not work with fanatical, terrorist regimes like Iran. Obama sent them pallets of cash. Trump sent them Operation Midnight Hammer. The days of weak American leadership are over."
Thread by @MedvedevRussiaE on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran?
1. Critical infrastructure of the nuclear fuel cycle appears to have been unaffected or sustained only minor damage.
2. The enrichment of nuclear material — and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons — will continue.
3. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads."
Eric Weinstein on X - "Good to know from an Iranian ally and thus an authority with inside knowledge. Anti-War/America Firsters: Read quoted tweet carefully. “Now we can say it outright…” And thank you for clarifying, Mr. Medvedev."
Left wingers will continue to pretend that Iran was not and is not trying to get nuclear weapons, despite this naked admission
Max 📟 on X - ""In 2002, Saddam Hussein claimed that he had WMDs. It turned out that he didn't. This proves that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons in 2025.""
Israel says Iran was racing toward a nuclear weapon. US intel says it was years away | CNN Politics
Eylon Levy on X - "The US had no idea Bashar Al Assad was building a secret nuclear reactor until Israel told it. Maybe, just maybe, Israel has penetrated the Iranian regime more and has better intel."
Trump, Iran, and the Constitution - "As a constitutional matter, was President Trump required to have congressional authorization before he militarily struck Iran’s nuclear facilities? The answer is, “no.” The Congress’s authority “to declare war”—found in Article I, sec. 8 of the Constitution—is not the same as “to make war.” The key point is that Iran’s government and Iranian-directed proxies have been waging unconventional war on the United States for decades. It began with its “students” attacking the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 and holding more than five dozen Americans hostage. Through proxies, Iran has subsequently killed more than a thousand US military and diplomatic personnel in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. It also has sought at times to impede and/or shut down commercial traffic in an international waterway, the Persian Gulf. Moreover, in recent years, it has plotted to assassinate former National Security Advisor John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and President Trump. All of these acts are causa belli. The fact that the US has not responded to these attacks by hitting Iran directly was a matter of policy discretion tied, at times, to different administrations’ hopes for reducing America’s role in the region; husbanding resources for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; renewing diplomatic initiatives; and addressing concerns over the scale of an Iranian retaliation directed at Israel. That the US has not previously taken the fight to Iran directly does nothing to change the fact that Iran sees the United States as an enemy. The US is an enemy for its military presence in the region, its ties to Saudi Arabia, its support for Israel, and for being the most important ideological alternative (“the Great Satan”) to the Islamic Republic’s claim of legitimacy—and Iran has so acted consistently over the years. Given Iran’s behavior, the radically changed strategic and tactical environment since October 7, 2023, and Iran’s decision to move forward with producing even more highly enriched uranium, the Trump administration has a credible case for arguing the constitutional merits of its bombing of the Iranian nuclear program sites."
Left wingers think Western countries don't have the right to self defence
Israel-Iran ceasefire: What we know about the deal
From June. Weird. Left wingers kept insisting Trump had set off World War III
Following leaks, White House to curtail intelligence sharing with members of Congress - "There’s no great mystery as to the motivation for the change: Earlier this week, the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency completed a preliminary intelligence assessment and found Saturday’s U.S. airstrikes in Iran were less effective than Donald Trump claimed and that the mission set Iran’s nuclear program back by only months, not decades. That assessment was posted to the CAPNET system late Monday, which some members of Congress have access to, and the news leaked soon after."
A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to De-Escalate Hostilities With Israel and Negotiate : r/anime_titties - "People seem so upset about this. Wild how it has zero upvotes...... I thought you guys wanted peace but as soon as talk is brought up you guys downvote it. I guess you guys are upset in this sub that iran isnt winning the war like you guys here pretended."
If Iran collapses, regime officials likely to flee to Canada - "That’s according to security analyst Casey Babb, and it follows a lengthy track record of Canada serving as a covert haven for Iranian regime officials... As recently as April, the Canada Border Services Agency reported that 20 Iranians who had served in high-level positions with the Tehran government have been found to be living in Canada. According to Global News, only one of those has been successfully deported, although others have left voluntarily. This is despite the fact that Canada has explicitly barred Iranian officials from entering the country since 2022, announcing it as part of a new package of measures “to keep war criminals out of Canada.”... Babb said that while there are regime officials living illegally in Canada, they can become legal residents simply by claiming asylum. This was the case with Afshin Pirnoon, one of the 20 alleged regime officials identified as living in Canada. A former director general of Iran’s Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization, he claimed asylum upon arrival to Canada in 2022
The Case for Regime Change in Iran, and How Not to Screw It Up - "In response to charges that those in favor of regime change are leading us into another Iraq, one could point to North Korea as an example of what happens when an evil regime is allowed to exist indefinitely and has armed itself with nuclear weapons. It is an impoverished nation of 26 million people without any semblance of individual freedom, and little reason to believe things will ever get better as long as the current government is in power. Civil war would clearly be an improvement over the current North Korean regime, as there would be some hope of a better future. Iran is not Libya, Afghanistan, or Iraq. It has a history of parliamentary democracy that goes back over a century, and even continues in a certain form to this day under the current regime... The 2022 protests were among the most sustained since the Islamic Revolution, with schoolgirls, oil workers, and ethnic minorities all participating. These were not fringe disturbances but widespread, nationally coordinated acts of defiance that shook the regime’s confidence. The Islamic Republic deploys riot police, internet blackouts, and mass arrests not to defend against foreign agents or religious extremists, but its own citizens demanding freedom. By 2022, the regime had to arrest nearly 20,000 people in order to reestablish control. Still, the mullahs have had to accommodate popular sentiments. The government has scaled back enforcement of laws on what women can wear, understanding the risks involved in being too strict in this area. As one of the Iranian vice presidents told Davos in January, “[I]f you go to the streets of Tehran, you will find women not covering their hair. It's against the law, but the government has decided not to put women under pressure.”... No outcome would be guaranteed in an Iranian civil war, but the US could once again play the role of the Hegelian Hammer. We don’t put troops on the ground or try to nation build, which was the real original sin of Iraq. Rather, through bombs and financial pressure, we tilt the playing field towards the types of actors we want to win... The idea that the US will have to send in ground troops to deal with the aftermath of regime change is simply a fantasy cooked up by those who oppose intervention on principle. We watch countries descend into civil war without deploying our own soldiers all the time... Bombing Iran presents an opportunity to remove a destabilizing force in the world and add a large and educated country to the club of civilized nations, all with little risk to American lives. We should take it. "
Mano Sabnani | Facebook - "Consider this: none of Israel’s neighbors really worry about whether Israel has nukes or not. But most of Iran’s neighbors have said if Iran gets nuclear weapons, they’re gonna want some too.🌸
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Iran's neighbors are concerned about its potential nuclear weapons program due to a combination of factors:
Iran's regional influence, its past rhetoric and actions, and the potential for a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Israel, on the other hand, maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity regarding its nuclear weapons, and its neighbors, while concerned about its overall power, do not express the same level of fear regarding nuclear weapons specifically.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
Concerns about Iran's Nuclear Program:
Regional Instability: Iran's nuclear program is seen as a destabilizing factor, potentially leading to a regional arms race as other countries seek to acquire their own nuclear weapons for deterrence.
Historical Context: Iran has a history of challenging regional norms and supporting proxy groups, leading to concerns that a nuclear-armed Iran would be more assertive and aggressive in its foreign policy.
Lack of Transparency: Iran's nuclear program has been shrouded in secrecy, with limited access for international inspectors, fueling suspicions about its true intentions.
Existential Threat Perception: Some regional actors, particularly Israel, view Iran as an existential threat and fear that a nuclear-armed Iran could pose a direct danger.
Why Israel's Nuclear Weapons are viewed differently:
Ambiguity Policy: Israel maintains a policy of "deliberate ambiguity," neither confirming nor denying the existence of its nuclear weapons program. This ambiguity, while not eliminating concerns, makes it harder to pinpoint specific threats.
Historical Context: Israel argues that its nuclear weapons are purely for deterrence, citing its defensive wars and the perceived existential threats it faces from its neighbors.
Perceived Defensive Posture: Some argue that Israel has never brandished its nuclear capabilities to threaten or intimidate its neighbors, unlike the concerns surrounding Iran.
Western Support: Israel receives significant support from Western countries, including the US, which provides a different level of international scrutiny compared to Iran.
In essence, the difference in perception stems from a combination of Iran's historical actions, regional power dynamics, and the perception of its intentions, versus Israel's ambiguous status and perceived defensive posture."
