Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on X - "The Iranian government’s violent crackdown on demonstrators is horrific and must stop now. All people have the right to protest their government without fear of violence. I support the Iranians taking to the streets to call for a better future."
Ryan Saavedra on X - "Little history on AOC and Iran:
-She condemned Trump for killing top Iranian regime terrorist Qassem Soleimani
-She condemned Trump for blowing up Iran's nuclear facilities
-She co-sponsored legislation to prevent the U.S. military from taking action against Iran
-She was one of the only House members to not condemn Iran for attacking Israel
-Opposed to sanctions on Iran"
Eliana Goldin on X - "AOC literally went to the Columbia encampments — where they openly supported Hamas and harassed Jewish students such as myself — and thanked them. Don’t buy her BS"
Thread by @Valen10Francois on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "One of the oddest things about the islamic revolution is that Ayatollah Khomeini lived in exile in the cushy Parisian suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau for years before flying back to Iran His leftist allies (whom he will later persecute) knew that French elites would love him
Michel Foucault saw in the future revolution "the most modern form of government" and Khomeini "a saint man" Sartre believed he would lead an "anti colonialist and anti imperialist regime" French newspaper liberation called it a "Shiite socialism" The one french intellectual who somewhat saw through the BS was Simone de Beauvoir who saw that the regime's will to put every woman behind niqabs was incompatible with her feminist ideals This is where the concept of "islamo-leftism" comes from For decades you had intellectuals like Ali Shariati (partially educated in France) who worked to tie Islamism and Leftist ideology together
In the end the useful idiots in the West didn't get much comeuppance for their blind ignorance The useful idiots in Iran however largely paid their mistakes and naivety with their lives
He stayed for *months! Not years! Complete brain fart on my end that usually happens when I write threads on my phone"
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "The global academic left’s support for Khomeini—which has been completely memory-holed—is important because it shows that Islamo-leftism isn’t primarily about immigration and precedes mass immigration. It’s about hatred of the West."
Trusting Khomeini: Old NYT article praising former Supreme Leader surfaces amid Iran protests - "As protests continue to challenge Iran’s clerical establishment, a 1979 opinion article from the New York Times has resurfaced online. Titled Trusting Khomeini, the piece portrayed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as a restrained religious figure unlikely to exercise direct political power... Published days after Khomeini’s return from exile, the article suggested that fears of a theocratic dictatorship were overstated. It argued that Khomeini would act primarily as a moral guide rather than a ruler, that political pluralism would persist, and that his close associates included moderates with records of concern for human rights."g
Dr. Ben Braddock on X - "Leftwing foreign policy establishment during Carter Administration undermined the Shah of Iran as part of overall subversive project that included the dismantling of Rhodesia, giving up the Panama Canal, and granting Most Favored Nation trade status to China. BBC exposed interesting documents in 2016 showing that Carter convinced the Shah to travel abroad from Iran, while backchanneling with Khomeini and arranging for him to return to Iran from exile in France"
Melissa Chen on X - "What you need to understand is that Jimmy Carter, Obama, Keir Starmer and Philippe Sands are all cut from the same cloth. From the Shah's fall to the Chagos surrender, they all embody the same woolly globalist multipolarityMAXXING creed:
> self-loathing under the guise of anti-Western imperialism
> prioritizing "human rights" and international law over national strength
> backchanneling with revolutionaries and appeasing adversaries
> undermining Western allies - whether toppling the Pahlavi regime, inking nuclear deals with mullahs, or handing over strategic islands
It's the ideology of self-sabotage dressed as virtue"
Iran's supreme leader acknowledges thousands killed during recent protests - "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said thousands had been killed, "some in an inhuman, savage manner", and blamed the US for the deaths. A violent response to the unrest has claimed 3,090 lives, according to US-based Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), with some activist groups putting the death toll far higher. An internet blackout has made it extremely difficult to get clear information."
Clearly, the US forced them to shoot their own people
Meme - Centre for British Refugees: "While white liberal women in the west cosplay as muslims "for solidarity" with islamism, Iranian women celebrate their fight for freedom from islamism by showing their hair and burning a photo of Khamenei to light their cigarettes."
Iranian-Canadian refugee's photogenic protest inspires worldwide meme - "a 23-year-old Iranian refugee in Richmond Hill, Ont., has now confirmed to National Post it’s her, and that she was herself inspired by a similar protest a few days earlier. She says she does not want to be identified out of fear of reprisals. “A lot of spies, a lot of Islamic Republic fans are here,” she said from Richmond Hill, a city north of Toronto. The X account where she posted the picture calls her Morticia Addams, after a character from The Addams Family. In her X account she also refers to herself as a “radical feminist” and includes a reference to “52Hz,” the nickname of a whale that speaks in a language all its own, as documented in the film The Loneliest Whale. Morticia, as we’ll call her, grew up in Iran but ran into trouble with the regime when she was a teenager. During the 2019 protests also known as Bloody November, she participated in marches against the regime, and even spent a night in a detention centre after being picked up by police. Then in 2024, after then-president Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash, Morticia said she was arrested at her parents’ home. “I was taken in for interrogation, actually, and I was subject to severe humiliation and physical abuse,” she said. “And after two days of interrogation, they let me go. I don’t know why they released me. And so I fled to Turkey and then to Canada, because I had my student visa.” She then applied for refugee status in Canada... The image she shared is a powerful one. A screenshot from a short video, it, shows her, head tilted and a cigarette between her lips, grasping and leaning into a burning photograph of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. The video, Reuters has confirmed, was taken in Richmond Hill, just north of Toronto."
Online Communists Come Unglued When Cornel West Endorses Overthrow Of Iranian Government - "Former independent presidential candidate and democratic socialist Cornel West is facing backlash from the left after posting a video in support of Iran’s protest movement. The video, which drew more than 1 million views Wednesday, called on his “comrades” to be “morally consistent” on repression — and sparked attacks on both his position and character from within his own political sphere. “Long live the Iranian revolution, the heroic, courageous struggle of precious Iranians in face of overwhelming brutality and cruelty for 46 years,” West said. “And shame on those who would view those precious human beings willing to pay the ultimate cost as if they’re just pawns playing some ideological game.”... Nick Cruse, cofounder of the Revolutionary Blackout network, a black radical movement, called West’s take “bullshit” and asked him what gives him “the right to erase” the voices of Iranians who support their government. He further accused West of ignoring alleged Mossad “infiltration” of the protests. “You know exactly what you are doing. You imperialist dog,” Cruse said. The backlash against West exposes a fault line on the American left — a divide between those who prioritize solidarity with popular uprisings and those who view any movement opposed by U.S. adversaries as a CIA front. West’s critics represent the “anti-imperialist” wing that has defended governments from Iran to Russia to Syria against what they cast as Western regime-change operations. Jimmy Dore, a comedian-turned-political commentator, said West had become “out of touch” in “ivory towers” and was functioning as a CIA mouthpiece pushing regime change. Danny Haiphong, a pro-China and pro-Russia YouTuber who writes for Chinese state media outlet CGTN, dismissed the protests entirely. “Iranians had their revolution. In 1979,” he said, accusing the CIA and Mossad of killing “100s in these riots” and told West that Iranians “need your lecturing as much as they need US bombs: not at all.” The Marx Engels Lenin Stalin Mao Institute, a communist organization, called West “yet another imperialist clown” and “a disgrace.”"
Iran protests: Progressive left hypocritically silent on the killing of thousands of demonstrators (aka "Why the ‘Free Palestine’ crowd goes silent on Iran") - "Yasmine Mohammed, a Canadian author of Egyptian and Palestinian background who at 19 was forced into marriage with an Al-Qaeda operative, says progressives’ silence on Iran is a case of mutual convenience. “They see Iran as anti-Israel and anti-Trump, so it’s like the enemy of my enemy [is my friend],” she says. “This is extra vicious and inhumane, as they can see how brutally the regime is murdering people, and they shrug.” “They don’t care about Iranian lives. They don’t care about Yemeni lives. They don’t care about Nigerian lives. They only care if they can blame America or Israel. Their allegiance is to whoever is against them, not to supporting innocent people being killed.” Mohammad, who describes herself as a campaigner against Islamic fundamentalism and antisemitism, believes many pro-Palestinian protesters never knew what they were protesting. “They scream about anti-colonialism and then support the ideology that colonised a quarter of the planet. It’s absurd,” Mohammad tells The Australian Financial Review. “What about the fact that Iranian people were colonised by this regime? That Iranian people are fighting to decolonise their country? They are inconsistent with every assertion. “They scream about queers for Palestine, not realising homosexuality is punishable by death under sharia. They are even happy to support sharia, clearly, as they chant support for Hamas and the Islamic regime in Iran. “The only consistency they have is to always be on whatever side is anti-West, anti-America, anti-Israel. They will never condemn a regime that kills thousands of its citizens in a matter of days if that same regime also chants ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’.” Alastair Campbell, the former spin doctor to Tony Blair and now co-host of the popular The Rest is Politics podcast, makes a similar point about the reluctance of the left of politics to denounce Iran. “I’m a progressive. I think that because Israel and Trump are so voluble about Iran, I think sometimes my side of the political fence finds it hard to come and actually [say]: ‘This is a truly awful regime, and we should be standing up for the people of Iran,’ ” says Campbell. “There are people on the left that kind of … you know, basically, you sometimes feel they’re standing up for the regime in Iran rather than the people... Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist who has been targeted by the regime’s assassins, argues that the suffering of everyday Iranians does not fit the narrative of the left. “The silence of the left and liberals in America, in Europe, is not an accidental silence,” she said in a US media interview this week. “It is an ideological silence because they believe the suffering of Iranian women, Iranian men, thousands of people being killed or injured, it is not something they can talk about because it will expose their hypocrisy, it will expose how they sympathise with our killers, Islamist terrorists.” Casey Babb, a Canadian security and antisemitism expert, is blunt. “It was over six weeks into Israel’s war with Hamas that the death toll in Gaza reached 12,000 – of which thousands were terrorists,” he says. “It’s taken the Iranian regime 16 days to kill that many people – all of whom were civilians. Where’s the genocide crowd now?” Even when the killing gets too much for even the most ardent leftist to ignore, the criticism of Iran degenerates to both-sides-isms. Jeremy Corbyn, the former UK Labour leader, said while he was appalled by the killings in Iran, interference by external powers must also be resisted... But the lack of condemnation from the left on Iran cannot be wholly tied to events in Gaza. Left-wing activists and politicians have long given Iran a leave pass from criticism, despite its abysmal record on human rights since the mullahs seized power in the 1979 Islamic revolution. In a column for the UK Daily Telegraph this week, English author and journalist Jake Wallis Simons pointed to the support prominent that left-wing intellectuals Michel Foucault and Edward Said gave at the time to the revolution, which deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and ended Iran’s monarchy. Said framed the revolution as a product of postcolonialism, the theory he devised in which the Euro- and US-centric West had exploited and suppressed the Middle Eastern, African and Asian East countries that had been colonies or vassal states. “If Iranian workers, Egyptian students, Palestinian farmers resent the West or the US, it is a concrete response to the specific policy injuring them as human beings,” Said wrote in Time magazine in April 1979, several months after the revolution. The shah was seen as a juicy target for the Iranians’ ire. He was pro-American and regarded as heading a corrupt regime that ruled with a repressive secret police force, the SAVAK. But Said’s thesis ignores the religious dimension to the shah’s overthrow. The events of 1979 are recorded in the history books as the Islamic Revolution just as much as the Iranian Revolution... While the left-wingers may be keeping mum on Iran’s abuses, what is also telling is the lack of support for Tehran from other countries. Durham University Middle East expert, Professor Anoush Ehteshami, says Iran has not made many allies outside the Shia Muslim world, and even Shia-majority countries such as Azerbaijan have little solidarity with Tehran."
Asuka Groyper 🚬 on X - "No Muslim no matter how upset they were with the government would burn down a mosque. Another ‘organic’ rebellion the serves Israel’s interests. Go figure."
Yashar Ali 🐘 on X - "You don’t understand how much young Iranians resent Islam. And this is assuming that it was protesters who did it, and not the regime. Don’t forget: Khomeini’s supporters were willing to set a cinema on fire and murder 400 innocent Iranians in 1978 in order to achieve their political objectives. There’s no limit for them."
The West’s silence on Iran is the latest warning of Islamists’ growing power - "Islamism is an artificial, man-made 20th century totalitarian ideology that steals the language and metaphors of my religion – Islam – but distorts them for other ends, holding at its core a cosmic enmity towards Judaism, Zionism and Israel. These themes have defined the Iranian regime as a theocratic pseudo-democracy, an Islamist dictatorship masquerading as an Islamic republic. Under the country’s constitution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is mandated to export jihad, and it does so through the aggression of Iran’s proxies and via Islamist terrorism globally. Time after time, the Iranian people have shown that they do not support the regime. In 2009, the Green Movement protests saw Iranians revolt against the theft of an election, a movement that was crushed pitilessly. In September 2022, the Women Life Freedom movement — “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” — was ignited following the barbaric killing of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini for her refusal to wear a veil. It was similarly put down... Iranians seem to have been targeted by snipers, shot in the face and genitals, murdered and imprisoned by the tens of thousands. Reports have circulated of the state denying the release of bodies unless the family is filmed with a fake identity card claiming their loved one was a police or security officer murdered not by the state but by protestors. An eerie quiet now seems to have descended on Iran, but the nature of the protests showed the true feelings of the Iranian people. The Iranian foreign minister stated that 350 mosques nationwide were torched, a clear indication of the people’s fury towards the Islamist regime. Iranians saw the possibility of a historic break from the shackles of their rulers, glimpsing a future without the tyranny which has for decades dehumanised, disappeared and murdered its own people... Where were the outpourings of protest in solidarity with the Iranians defying their regime? Instead, the US and Europe had empty streets; it was business as usual on our otherwise politically militant university campuses; there were few if any demonstrations, and Iranian consulates and embassies were largely left unmolested by anti-regime protests. In New York City, the lack of reaction was particularly noteworthy given we have just elected our first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani. As a state assemblyman, and himself a Shia Muslim, Mamdani protested so vigorously for the Palestinians that he was once arrested for blocking traffic. He refused to condemn rankly Islamist calls to “globalise the Intifada”. Yet on Iran, he was silent until he issued a tepid statement almost a month into the brutal protests. Why are Iranians apparently so undeserving? Why the stark difference between the massive protest movement that mobilised immediately after October 7 (and in some cases before Israel’s war in Gaza began) and the silence over Iranians – a majority of whom are Muslim – dying for their freedom and liberty? Perhaps protests in the West have been throttled by the stranglehold of Islamophobia – an artificial construct that became mainstream after Ayatollah Khomeini issued his 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie. (That edict globalised calls for Rushdie’s execution for blasphemy due to the publication of The Satanic Verses). Since then, criticism of Islam or its institutions has been effectively deterred, even when the critics themselves are practising Muslims. The fact that the Iranian regime calls itself Islamic is awkward for Western progressives, especially if they are unable (or unwilling) to distinguish between Islam and Islamism. Never mind that the main victims of Tehran’s terror are vulnerable Muslims. The fear of Islamophobia instils a silence that only serves to protect the Ayatollah and his dictatorship. Western progressives are similarly compromised by critical race theory – indoctrination integral to woke ideology. Palestinian victimhood is lionised above all other struggles, partly because their so-called “oppressors” (Israelis) are erroneously deemed to be white. Thus, Islamist anti-Semitism merges seamlessly with virulent far-Left anti-Semitism under the banner of “anti-Zionist anti-racism”. When Islamists murder Muslims in Iran, Iranians are not accorded such “prestige” victimhood. There is also the small matter of money. There is a growing body of evidence that many pro-Palestinian protests were not spontaneous outpourings of support for the cause, but systematically organised and richly financed. Research from data analysts at the Network Contagion Research Institute, affiliated to Rutgers University, found evidence of Chinese links to certain groups, and concluded: “While nominally focused on Israel, the current protests [organised by these groups] can be better understood as a well-funded initiative driving a revolutionary, anti-government, and anti-capitalist agenda, with the leading organisations serving as versatile tools for foreign entities hostile to the US”. With Iran, the money in the West appears to be on the regime’s side. Extraordinary investigative research by journalist Asra Nomani for the Pearl Project has identified a network of allegedly pro-Iranian groups, encompassing “socialist revolutionaries, Islamist activists, foreign-influenced nonprofits and even political operatives from Democratic groups”, what she has dubbed the “woke army”. Nomani also describes this as the Red-Green alliance – a merging of socialism, even communism, with Islamism, seeking to pull apart the fabric of American society. She testified to the US Senate judiciary committee on March 5 2025, urging these organisations to be registered as foreign agents because many of them promote the propaganda of foreign regimes. I can’t be alone in thinking that any protest in the US in support of the Ayatollah should automatically be considered suspect... Iranians are forced to endure a double tragedy. The first is that their country, once a shining example of civilisation in the Islamic world, continues to struggle under the yoke of Islamist tyrants bent on exporting their twisted ideology everywhere. The second is that the very people in the West who claim to care most about the oppressed of the world have nothing to say about the brave people of Iran. We should all hope that the Iranian regime can be brought to its knees. But even then, we will still be left with the hypocrisy and corruption of our own societies."
