Meme - Shia Visuals @ShiaVisuals: "May Allah protect him. *Khamenei*"
Readers added context: "Allah didn't protect him."
CSIS acting to prevent possible Iranian proxy attacks on U.S. targets in Canada, former spies say - The Globe and Mail - "Canada’s spy service will be alert to any Iranian attempts to direct its proxies in Canada to strike U.S. targets in this country if the United States attacks Iran, according to former top spies. Two former assistant directors of operations at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service told The Globe and Mail Wednesday that Canada and other Western countries’ intelligence services have been working in concert to prevent Iranian attacks in Europe and North America."
Naturally, left wingers were pretending the true problem was the "far right"
Students For Liberty | Facebook - "A 1979 NYT article described Ayatollah Khomeini as: an honest man, surrounded by moderates concerned with human rights, who will leave his internal enemies free to express themselves, and overall a beacon of hope for the region's future. File under: 100% wrong wishful-thinking predictions. This is what happens when institutions mistake their desires for reality. The New York Times wasn't reporting on Khomeini, they were projecting onto him. They wanted to believe the Iranian Revolution would bring progress, so they saw moderation where none existed. What actually happened? Mass executions. Suppression of women. Persecution of minorities. Decades of regional instability. Iran became a theocratic regime that stones women, hangs dissidents, and funds proxy wars across the Middle East. The "moderates" around Khomeini? Purged within months. The internal enemies left "free to express themselves"? Silenced, imprisoned, or killed. This wasn't a failure of prediction. It was a failure of honesty. The signs were there. Khomeini's ideology was clear. But acknowledging it conflicted with the preferred narrative. The media still makes this mistake, romanticizing authoritarians, whitewashing extremists, calling skeptics alarmist. Listen to what people say. Believe what they do. Ignore what you wish were true."
Nervous nations calling Canada's energy minister after Iran strikes - "Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says he's starting to get calls from countries about how Canadian energy producers can fill the gap amid the war in Iran, which is driving up oil and gas prices."
How ignorant. Don't they know there's no business case for it?
Terry Glavin: Iran faces horrific disintegration, not righteous revolution - "It was Washington’s preoccupation with cementing a nuclear deal as Obama’s foreign-policy legacy that pulled the White House back from supporting Iran’s massive pro-democracy uprising in 2009, when the Islamic Republic’s constitutionally-rigged presidential election went to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Washington fixation with a nuclear deal resumed during Joe Biden’s presidency. “Iranians calling for democracy became an inconvenience,” is the way the high-profile Iranian-American human rights activist and journalist Masih Alinejad puts it. “We’ve had five or six major uprisings since 2009. And still, they thought they could make deals.” The most dramatic of those uprisings was the “Woman, Life Freedom” movement that Alinejad played a leading role in mobilizing following the killing of Mahsa Amini in police custody in September, 2022. That uprising produced a brief coalition of expatriate opposition leaders. It’s practically impossible to maintain an effective and disciplined revolutionary movement inside Iran, but the efforts of the expatriate community have been stymied, too, by a combination of factors — not least the NATO countries’ lack of interest in dislodging the Khomeinist regime once and for all. It hasn’t helped that the pro-democracy opposition has been so susceptible to the sabotage undertaken by the regime’s influence peddlers in the west, its vast “cyber army” of hackers and its disinformation and propaganda operations. Disunity in the anti-regime constituencies has been exacerbated by slander campaigns aimed at undermining promising leadership figures, like the Canadian author and activist Hamed Esmaeilion. Esmaeilion, whose wife and daughter were among the 176 people killed when the IRGC shot down Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 (PS752) in 2020, was largely responsible for the largest anti-regime protest in history, a gathering of 80,000 Europeans in Berlin in October 2022. But Esmaeilion gradually withdrew from the movement leadership after having to refute persistent and absurdly false allegations accusing him of being an agent of the IRGC, or alternatively, a secret operative of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq."
Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 on X - "🚨⚡️BREAKING: Iranian hackers claim they now have videos of Trump with minors and will release them if the U.S. attacks Iran"
The TDS were gleefully sharing this. Then after the bombing started, they immediately pivoted to claiming Trump bombed them because Israel threatened to release these same videos if he didn't
Columbia anti-Israel group posts 'Death to America' after US, Israel kill Khamenei - "Columbia University’s biggest anti-Israel student group — which notoriously organized last year’s on-campus encampment in protest of the war in Gaza — posted “death to America” in Persian after the US and Israel killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. “Marg bar Amrika,” the Columbia University Apartheid Divest [CUAD] group posted on X on Saturday — a rally cry made famous by founder Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini."
Insurrection Barbie on X - "March 2025 → Trump sends personal letter. Iran calls it “a deception.”
May 2025 → Trump sends nuclear proposal. Khamenei calls Trump “unworthy of a response.” Same week leads “Death to America” chants.
June 2025 → 60-day deadline expires. Iran still enriching. Israel strikes. US strikes. 12 days. Ceasefire.
October 2025 → Trump offers to negotiate AGAIN. Khamenei’s response: “Keep dreaming.”
January 2026 → Iran massacres thousands of its own people in the streets.
February 3 → Iran provokes US warships in the Gulf — WHILE scheduling talks.
February 17 → Talks in Geneva. Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz. DURING negotiations.
February 24 → Trump’s State of the Union. Iran calls it “big lies” within hours.
February 26 → Geneva talks. Iran walks out with no deal. Still won’t say three words: “No nuclear weapon.”
Yea, Trump and Israel are the problem. 😂😂😂😂"
Sadanand Dhume on X - "The 1979 Iranian revolution was a hinge point in history that dramatically set back the values that progressives claim to care about, including women’s rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and rationalism in public policy. In “Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi recalls the story of Niloufar, an 18-year-old communist activist sentenced to death by the clerical regime. The religious jurists have no problem with the death penalty for Niloufar, but they worry that as a virgin she may go to heaven. So they arrange for her to be raped by a prison guard before her execution. Later the authorities send Niloufar’s family a small dowry to commemorate this “marriage.” Ali Khamenei led this murderous medieval regime for nearly forty years. This is a regime that beat women for showing their hair and publicly hanged gays from cranes. It’s a regime that ignored the needs of its own people to fund jihadist groups in, among other places, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian Territories. It’s a regime that committed murder in dozens of countries, including Germany, France, India, Australia, Argentina and Saudi Arabia. Just weeks ago, it slaughtered thousands—possibly tens of thousands—of its own citizens for protesting its repressive policies. Because the Iranian revolution offered a template for Islamist rule, albeit a Shia variant crafted by Ayatollah Khomeini, Islamists of all stripes took inspiration from it. Few countries adopted the extreme measures favored by the mullahs of Iran, but the revolution’s malign influence was felt from Morocco to Mindanao. In the 1980s it also sparked a theological arms race with Saudi Arabia, which spread its own regressive brand of Islamism around the world. Progressives in democratic countries who mourn the death of Khamenei come in different flavors. Some are simply Islamists or Islamist adjacent. Their ideology conceals the deeper religious passions that motivate them. Others are so blinded by their hatred of America and Israel that they reflexively oppose any action by them. Yet others are simply so ignorant of the nature of the Iranian regime that they can’t see the absurdity of comparing Khamenei with Dumbledore from Harry Potter. But all of these people have one thing in common. They spit on the suffering of the talented Iranian people who have had to endure nearly 50 years of brutal clerical rule."
Left wingers just hate the West
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace. I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution. Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here."
ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi on X - "Mr @NYCMayor , I say it as an Iranian New Yorker: You are a human garbage. When our people were getting slaughtered and hunted like animals by the Islamic Republic terrorists, you stayed silent. You didn't say a word. Now that the regime, the murderers of our people are under attack, you came out of the woodwork to defend them. You are an Islamist human garbage and I fight your agenda as long as I breathe."
Stu Smith on X - "🚨 BREAKING: The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) just released a statement on Iran titled “DSA Stands against Imperialist War and with the Iranian People.” Read how it actually frames the regime... The framing is telling. Throughout the statement, DSA repeatedly invokes solidarity with “the Iranian people,” yet the argument consistently centers the sovereignty of the Iranian state. It condemns “violations of its sovereignty” and insists that “national sovereignty is a precondition for working-class liberation,” while saying nothing about the Islamic Republic’s repression of its own citizens. There’s no mention of political prisoners, protest crackdowns, executions, or the mass demonstrations that have defined Iranian domestic politics in recent years. Even more striking is how the statement assigns responsibility for Iranian suffering almost entirely to the United States. DSA claims U.S. policy has “destroyed the Iranian economy,” “empowered a class of domestic sanctions profiteers,” and “caused the Iranian working class to suffer.” Missing from the analysis: the regime’s own corruption and mismanagement, and its role as a central financer and sponsor of the Axis of Resistance—the network of proxies and militant groups Iran uses to project power across the region. Unsurprisingly, the statement eventually pivots from foreign policy commentary to movement-building, calling for “participation in mass mobilizations,” urging readers to “contact their representatives in Congress,” and to “join DSA and its International Committee.” That’s notable because DSA’s International Committee has recently drawn attention for full-throated defenses of the regime even amid repression of protesters—making it hard to read this document as neutral “solidarity” rather than ideological alignment."
Swann Marcus on X - "Unlike with Maduro, I’m skeptical of this because I fucking hate getting involved in Middle Eastern bullshit However, it is unbelievable how left-wing American organizations always frame foreign dictators as being the voice of their nation’s people. Just utterly dire"
Denise Wu on X - "Iran 🇮🇷 was utilizing the 🇨🇳 surveillance radar, YLC-8B, which was dubbed the “anti-stealth radar” that had arrived in January. Performed exactly like Venezuela’s Chinese “stealth-killer” but newer model."
Cliff Connolly 👁️🗨️☧ 🇵🇸 on X - "When the United States declares war, the duty of every US socialist is to make sure it ends in our government’s defeat. May God protect the people of Iran, and may God damn the Trump regime."
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on X - "This is a DSA party leader. This is the party our mayor belongs to, along with multiple members of the city council and state legislature. Does Zohran agree or disagree with this sentiment? Americans deserve answers."
Omar Sakr on X - "Fucking evil cunts. Fuck this murderous fascist empire forever. Fuck the inevitably stupid and servile shit our government will say to not piss off the genocidal US that is run by a pedophile rapist. Fuck the whole rotten status quo"
emily north on X - "woke up this morning burning with rage. nuremberg trials 2 would not be enough at this point. fuck this genocidal fascist imperial regime and fuck anyone who isn’t immediately outraged at shit like innocent schoolchildren in iran & civilians across the middle east getting bombed"
𝔏𝔢𝔫𝔞 🎀 on X - "leftists will see the islamic regime rape and murder 40,000 civilian protestors and declare their full support, and then suddenly be imbued with righteous anger and love for the iranian people the second the iranian regime starts blurting out propaganda. go fuck yourself"
Satire or Documentary? - "It is common knowledge that the UK would not allow the United States to use any of its bases or resources to strike Iran. Against that backdrop, Keir Starmer’s statement about the US and Israel’s actions may be the most honest encapsulation of how Western policymakers operate today. He said: “The United Kingdom played no role in these strikes. But we have long been clear — the regime in Iran is utterly abhorrent.” How should people interpret that? Does it betray fear of Britain’s restive Muslim migrant population? Is it a preemptive disclaimer — an advance excuse so that if Islamists riot in Britain’s streets, the government can wash its hands of responsibility? Or is it simply an admission that Western officials and policymakers are feckless cowards whose sole aim is to avoid difficult decisions for as long as humanly possible? Sir Keir’s statement might as well have read: “Don’t blame us. We say a lot of things, but none of it really means anything.” My first thought when I heard Starmer’s speech was “He is doing the meme!”—because it reminded me that Matt Stone and Trey Parker captured this governmental and diplomatic ethos in 2004’s Team America: World Police, when Hans Blix (the cartoon version of the head of the International Atomic Energy Administration) threatened Kim Jong Il (the cartoon version) with a series of “strongly worded letters” telling Kim how angry the IAEA was with him if he keeps breaking the rules. This attitude is not uniquely British, it is the posture of much of the Western political class to talk endlessly, condemn loudly, issue strongly worded letters, and when none of that works, convene conferences, draft more communiqués, and finally, impose toothless sanctions and ignore the breaches. Above all, avoid decisions that impose real cost—especially on hostile regimes that have spent decades testing the limits of Western patience. Yet these same officials somehow discover remarkable resolve when dealing with their own citizens. They regulate, they tax, they surveil and restrict. They experiment socially and economically at home with policies that would never be tolerated if imposed from abroad. It is a curious inversion: timidity outward, assertiveness inward. For nearly half a century, Western nations have talked about Iran. They have threatened, sanctioned and negotiated. They have released frozen assets and, under the Obama administration, even transferred literal pallets of cash to a regime widely acknowledged as a state sponsor of terrorism. Through it all, Iran’s behavior did not moderate, if anything, it intensified. When rhetoric is unaccompanied by consequence, the target learns quickly. The lesson is simple: endure the press conference, wait out the outrage, continue as before. That is why the return of consequential policy feels so jarring to the global establishment. President Trump’s approach—whether one agrees with every tactic or not—signals something different: that words may again be paired with action. I have said before that violence is not always the answer. It should never be the first answer, but history demonstrates that there are moments when credible force, or the demonstrated willingness to use it, is the only language an adversary understands. What is almost comical is watching long-time critics of Iran’s regime now cloak themselves in procedural piety... The sudden reverence for “process” seems less about constitutional principle and more about discomfort with decisive action. The deeper issue is this: for decades, Western foreign policy has been built on the illusion that perpetual negotiation, symbolic sanctions, and that moral condemnation would eventually bend hostile regimes toward compliance. It has not. The status quo persisted precisely because it carried no real cost – and when America engaged in seemingly perpetual wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, costing American lives and billions of dollars, we still accomplished nothing. If anything, these wars communicated to the world that we really didn’t mean it. Leadership is not measured by how eloquently one denounces evil or how many resources we can deploy to not achieve our goals. It is measured by whether one is willing to align means with ends. If a regime is “utterly abhorrent,” then policy must reflect that judgment, otherwise, the words are hollow, empty and worthless. The world has grown accustomed to Western leaders who speak loudly and act cautiously, but peace secured by fear of one’s own electorate, or by avoidance of hard choices, is not peace at all—it is an illusion that over time invites greater danger. Consequences must follow declarations or diplomacy becomes theater, governance becomes performance, and adversaries will fairly deduce that Team America: World Police wasn’t a satirical comedy, it was a documentary of Western policy. At some point, the talking has to stop. President Trump says a lot of things, but he has proven he is willing to act when the talk is going nowhere."
Left wingers are obsessed with words and rhetoric and think intentions matter more than outcomes
New Direction AFRICA on X - "Stephen King quotes the Constitution. Cites Article I, Section 8. Calls for impeachment. He's right. Only Congress can declare war. Not the president. Not alone. But here's the thing. They've been ignoring this for decades. Korea. Vietnam. Iraq. Libya. Now Iran. Every time, the same violation. Every time, silence. Now a novelist says what Congress won't. Impeach the SOB? Maybe. But the system that let him do it needs more than impeachment. It needs rebuilding."
Critical Spectator | Facebook - "Apparently Mdm Halimah is upset that US and Israel decided to take out a bloody, theocratic regime during Ramadan, despite the fact that Iranians in and out of the country took to the streets to celebrate the death of their butcher. Curiously, she has never published a single statement, posted a single Facebook entry when IRGC on orders of Khamenei massacred protesting Iranians, killing as many as 30,000 people over the past few weeks (compared to alleged 60,000+ Gazans over two years of war that Hamas started, which she flooded the social media about for months). And yet she had the temerity to once lecture everybody that "if you remain silent, you're complicit" in the atrocities. Well, there's A LOT she's been silent about. I don't see any posts about Afghanistan and Pakistan going to war in recent days either - two Muslim countries killing each other during Ramadan. But decapitation of one of the worst regimes on the planet is suddenly a problem? 🤔 As you can see, even PAP makes occasional recruitment blunders."
Melissa Chen on X - "This war was inevitable The Biden admin tried deals. The Trump admin tried talks. But all the Iranian regime was doing was to stall any action without concessions to its pursuit of acquiring nuclear capabilities. Their only option for survival - having nuclear weapons - threatens the survival of everybody else's. This is a pure zero sum situation. Trump promised the Iranian people that help was on its way after tens of thousands were slaughtered by their government. He spent billions moving assets into the region. He tried talks one last time. He gave the Iranian regime several offramps. Not acting at this point would've raised a lot of questions about American might and resolve around the world. It is not an easy choice to make as things can and probably will go wrong. But it was not "now or never." It was "now or later." He chose now. Godspeed to the Iranian people and all in the region who will face danger and uncertainty over the next few days. May Persia prosper soon"
hasanabi on X - "iran wouldn’t be getting bombed if they developed nukes and a delivery system like jericho 3. mearsheimer is totally correct. the region would be more stable if iran had nukes rn. the moment trump ripped up the jcpoa should’ve been the moment they threw away the fatwa."
Thread by @KareemRifai on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "There are about 500,000+ dead Syrians unavailable for comment on how "stabilizing" Iran is for the Middle East. Lots of commentary on Iran that conveniently omits its last 15 years of activity in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and beyond because it causes narrative failure"
Abubaker Abed on X - "Israel has hit Iran's airport, presidency and national security compound, and other residential areas. No way anyone in this world can defend this. Utter depravity and total impunity funded by Western governments."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Iran just killed 60,000 people, many of them feminist student fighters raped so badly their wombs allegedly had to be destroyed. None of you journ-o-list leftist clowns gave a shit until Israel, the GOP, etc could be invoked. Doesn't it at least make you feel bad during evening meditation?"
Iran Times on X - "Every Muslim country has betrayed Iran; Saudi Arabia handed over its bases to the U.S. and Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait are all against Muslims. Iran is fighting alone. Pray for Iran, and Allah will grant success."
🇬🇲🇸🇳PROUDEST SON OF MALI 🇸🇱🇲🇱 on X - "All Arab Muslim nation are complicit in the aggression against Iran….Saudi Jordan Bahrain Turkey Egypt Oman UAE Iraq Pakistan are all conniving with US to destroy Iran…As a Muslim am ashame of what we have become but Allah’s folk will prevail against evil 🙏🏿"
So if a Muslim country is at war with a non Muslim country, Muslims in the non Muslim country are expected to support the Muslim country. Clearly talking about a fifth column is racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic
Chaya’s Clan on X - "A failed missile launch in Iran caused the projectile to fall on a school. Images captured the moment it failed, fell back to ground, and struck. The Iranians - just like the Palestinians in Gaza at the beginning of the war - immediately claimed it was a missile fired by the United States or Israel."
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