Joe Kent on X - "Upcoming negotiations will fail if we don’t restrain the Israelis & stop giving them access to our decision making. The Israelis push for zero uranium enrichment because they know it’s a poison pill for Iran & will result in the war continuing. Iran has committed to not developing or obtaining a nuclear weapon since 2003. A deal can be reached about uranium enrichment lvls & monitoring - ending the war & opening the SOH. This can only happen if we treat the Israelis like the junior partner & put our interests 1st."
๐๐ข๐จ๐ก ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฎ๐ท ✡︎ on X - ""Iran has committed to not developing or obtaining a nuclear weapon since 2003" So your entire argument is based on the presumption that a fanatical islamic regime who hates you could never lie? What a relief that you're nowhere near the Trump admin anymore."
Persian Light on X - "Here’s the Iranian regime MP admitting that their intent was to build the bomb from DAY ONE, but they couldn’t keep it a secret."
Persian Light on X - "Never Trust a Mullah. Here’s their own MP straight-up admitting: "We wanted to build the bomb from day one."
This won't stop terrorism supporters, because they want to believe the lie
Dr. Eli David on X - "Araghchi, three weeks ago: “We have capped the range of our missiles to 2,000 km” ๐ Yesterday they fired at Diego Garcia, more than 4,000 km away from Iran. Now do: “We don't want to develop nuclear weapons” ๐คก"
Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Steve Witkoff reveals what Iran told him behind closed doors. “The Iranians have the 'inalienable right to enrich.' Then we heard they possessed enough 60% enriched material, 460 kilograms, to make 11 atomic bombs.”"
Aimen Dean on X - "I genuinely don’t know whether to laugh or lose my mind anymore at this European hypocritical double standards. When it comes to Vladimir Putin, suddenly it’s Churchillian resolve. No compromise. No dialogue. Arm Ukraine to the teeth, sanction everything that moves, wreck your own energy security if necessary - because tyranny must be confronted. Fine. I actually respect the consistency of that … in isolation. But then you turn around and lecture us - us - the Gulf monarchies, Jordan and Israel, about showing restraint with Tehran? About dialogue? About coexistence? Are you serious? For forty years - forty bloody years - this regime has been waging a shadow war across the region. Militias, proxies, sleeper cells, terror networks, destabilizing entire countries - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen - and threatening the Gulf monarchies, Jordan, and Israel nonstop. This isn’t theoretical. This isn’t abstract. This is lived reality. And yet here come Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, and the rest of the European choir, gently advising us to calm down, de-escalate, and - what was it again? - “give diplomacy a chance.” Diplomacy with who, exactly? With a system that has built its entire regional strategy on plausible deniability and proxy terror violence? You were willing to absorb inflation, energy shocks, and political backlash at home to confront Moscow. You made that choice. You said: this is the price of standing up to a tyrant. So don’t come here and tell us - after decades of being on the receiving end - that we should just sit down, smile politely, and “coexist.” Either you believe in confronting tyranny everywhere .. or you don’t. Macron, Starmer, rest of EU leaders and top bureaucrats should just STFU and spare us the self righteous sanctimonious lectures!๐ค๐คซ"
Gummi on X - "Trump is right when he says the Iran War is pretty much over, and it's because Iran has basically lost any and all leverage over the Strait of Hormuz (as well as its serious looming economic crisis). There's a small (but bombshell) detail from the ceasefire negotiations in Islamabad that has been unreported by the MSM, but was just broken by @aimendean ...and it means that the war is probably done. If you don't know who Aimen is, he's the most insightful and credible analyst of the Middle East I have found to date. He reports that this emerged at the negotiations this weekend and I quote: "The Saudis stood up for the whole GCC against this (Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz). And in fact, they threatened the Iranians that doing so would mean that we (the entire GCC) are not going to export a single drop of oil or LNG, forever, as long as you are in control of this. So technically, it's the GCC telling the world and especially the European Union that we're going to impose an embargo on the rest of the world if the rest of the world is not going to enforce international law when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz". So the GCC is ready to take 22% of global oil and LNG offline...and not just what transits the Strait of Hormuz, but all energy production. This means that Iran has basically lost all the leverage it ever had with regards to the Strait of Hormuz. This is why the US doesn't have to move a muscle to open the Strait and why Iran's rhetoric has become far softer in recent days. Nothing is guaranteed, but the Iranians have almost no cards at this point...which is why Trump is so confident that the Iran War is pretty much over. The Europeans could learn a thing or two from the GCC"
M.A. Rothman | Facebook - "๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐
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Zahra Ghanbari, captain of Iran’s national women’s football team with ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฌ, returned to Iran after the Asia Cup in Australia. State media called her return “๐ฑ๐ข๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ค” — describing her as “๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ.” Iranian authorities gave assurances to the international community that she wouldn’t be penalized. Now she’s on a ๐๐๐-๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง “๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ฒ” ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ and every asset she owns has been confiscated. The backstory: During the Asia Cup, after U.S. and Israeli strikes k!lled Supreme Leader Khamenei, Iran’s women’s squad stood silent during their national anthem before a match with South Korea. Iranian media branded them “๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด.” One player’s mother sent a voice message: “๐๐ฐ๐ฏ’๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ’๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฌ!๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ.” Australia offered asylum. President Trump warned they “๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฌ!๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ” if they went back. Ghanbari went back anyway — trusting the regime’s word. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐’๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ."
They released them later so according to terrorism supporters there's nothing to worry about
Elder: America's accidental tragedy vs. Iran's deliberate atrocities - "The recent U.S. Tomahawk missile strike in Iran, which reportedly killed 170 school children, has ignited a firestorm of outrage from anti-war critics. Former Bill Clinton White House staffer Keith Boykin used the unintentional tragedy, under investigation by the Pentagon, to write off the three-week-old Iran war as “a disaster for the 170 school children” and “an unmitigated disaster for the world.” Apart from the estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Iranian protesters killed early this year, consider Iran’s intentional history of using its children during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War. To repel Saddam Hussein’s invasion, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini mobilized child soldiers — boys as young as nine or 12 — from poor families to serve as human minesweepers. Children were promised martyrdom and given “keys to paradise” to wear around their necks. Iranian commanders sent waves of them, often tying them together with ropes to prevent retreat. They marched onto minefields and detonated explosives with their bodies, clearing paths for tanks and adult troops. Estimates suggest as many as 500,000 children were used in this way, with tens of thousands blown to pieces or mowed down by Iraqi machine guns. Some sources suggest some 100,000 died to clear the field for tanks and soldiers. Survivors recount the horror of being bound together, facing withering fire, their small bodies exploding on mines. Iran’s leaders glorified it as a holy duty. The depravity is staggering. Iran treats its own children like disposable tools, exploiting their poverty and brainwashing them with visions of post-death paradise. What would Iran do with a nuclear bomb? Imagine the mullahs, who chant “Death to America” and fund proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas, armed with nukes and missiles. They would not hesitate to threaten Israel, Saudi Arabia, Europe and America. Iran, since the start of this war, has launched strikes against over a dozen countries, including “neutral” Gulf states. Their proxy wars have already killed thousands. A nuclear Iran could kill millions. The regime’s history of terrorism, from the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing to plots against dissidents abroad, shows they’re not rational actors. Preventing that nightmare is why this war, however messy, is necessary. Appeasement, as with former president Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, only emboldened them. Let’s not forget the civilian toll. During the Obama administration, drone strikes in places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths, including children. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates that between 300 and 800 civilians were killed in those covert operations (excluding active war zones like Syria and Afghanistan). The Obama administration itself acknowledged between 64 and 116 civilian deaths in non-battlefield strikes from 2009 to 2016, though critics argued the true number was far higher. As with the Tomahawk strike on the Iranian school, the strikes conducted under Obama were not a deliberate targeting of innocents. Those civilian deaths resulted from intelligence errors in remote, hard-to-verify areas. Where was the outrage from the anti-Iran war critics when Obama ordered the attacks that killed civilians and children? Where was the outrage over Iran’s intentional mass killings of its own people, including the use of children and human detonators? According to the 2013 book Double Down: Game Change 2012, Obama reportedly told senior aides, “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was going to be a strong suit of mine.” It’s the kind of off-the-cuff remark that, if made by President Donald Trump, would be yet another addition of the ever-increasing list of “Why I hate Trump.” Yes, mourn the 170 children. Every innocent life lost is a tragedy. But the fury should be directed to Tehran. That regime has been at war against America for 47 years, including attacks on U.S. bases, killing American soldiers with IEDs with Iran’s fingerprints on them; nuclear sabre-rattling, and lethal regional aggression through its terror proxies. This is the real villain. America fights with rules and restraint. We are civilized. We regret mistakes that cause civilian deaths and show genuine contrition. Iran fights with fanaticism. It uses its own kids as shields and mine detectors. Iran must be stopped. Standing against Iran’s evil protects innocents everywhere. This includes Iran’s own oppressed people, as well as Americans who hate Trump."
‘We’re told that all the West does is evil – and all our enemies do is good’ - spiked - "Melanie Phillips: People in Israel, if they think about Britain at all, are astounded. To be blunt, they think Britain is finished. People in America think Britain is finished. They think it has been Islamised, that it no longer has any idea of what it is or what it should defend. They think it is no longer prepared to stand up for itself or the wider West. It’s over. That’s how they see it, and they’re not entirely wrong. You would have to be completely ignorant of what’s going on in the Middle East to think that this conflict with Iran is an unprovoked war. Or you would have to be so malevolently disposed towards Israel and America – which many people are – that nothing they do could be seen as anything other than wanton aggression. Both of these attitudes are clearly prevalent in Britain today... Several generations have grown up and been taught that the West is evil, racist, colonialist and oppressive, and that nothing it does is good. At the same time, they are taught that anything the developing world does – even if it is objectively bad – is somehow justified. This is the lens through which the world must be understood. Even on 7 October 2023, while Israelis were still being slaughtered in southern Israel by a Hamas-led mob, there were already ecstatic celebrations going on in the West in anticipation of Israel’s downfall. That same madness has continued and is now applied to the conflict with Iran... The narrative the West accepts has not been spun by the mainstream media alone, but by the entire international humanitarian establishment, from transnational courts like the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice to major NGOs. And if the moral framework of the West is shaped by institutions that invert good and evil, then everything becomes reversed. Good is seen as bad, and bad as good. Victims are portrayed as aggressors, and aggressors as victims. Justice is redefined as injustice... [Rama] Duwaji is monstrous. Mamdani is monstrous. He uses Jews to divide the Jewish community of New York – many of whom, I’m afraid to say, voted for him in great numbers. Whether they’re having buyer’s remorse now, I’m not sure. I look at the behaviour of people in Britain and Australia and Canada, and you see the same contorted hatred of Jews. You think: what is going through their minds? Why do they hate Jews? Most of them have never met a Jew. They know nothing about Judaism. They know nothing about the Middle East or Israel. Yet they have been taught that this is what passes for conscience. They observe that their entire peer group thinks this, and a kind of mob hysteria takes over. I’ve read that something similar took hold among educated classes in the 1930s over Stalin. They thought Stalinism would bring about the brotherhood of man and a perfect society. They refused to hear about the millions being slaughtered, imprisoned and abused. How does one account for this? How does one explain that so many in Germany supported Nazism? We can cite economic factors, the politics of the time, the aftermath of war – all valid reasons – but they don’t reach the heart of it. To me, this is very frightening. Despite living in what is supposed to be the most rational age ever known, we are witnessing a complete eclipse of reason. How can that be, when people are more educated than ever?... more people are noticing the alarming rise in anti-Semitism in Britain and across the West – largely because we’re seeing record numbers of antisemitic attacks. But I think it’s wrong to frame this simply as ‘a rise’ in anti-Jewish sentiment. This is something unprecedented. This is the normalisation of hatred of Jews, Israel and Zionism, turning them into social and political pariahs... Jews in Britain, America and Australia believed they were in countries where they were treated well, as equal citizens. They did not see themselves as having a problem. Then, suddenly – particularly in Australia, where the Jewish community had always felt very secure – they were confronted with something completely different. People they had known since childhood stopped speaking to them because of Palestine. People were asking them: ‘Why are you killing babies in Gaza?’ These are Western Jews being held responsible for what people perceive as Israel’s actions. Israel itself was being defamed with false accusations about war crimes, yes, but these were individuals. They were dealing with the consequences in their daily lives – at work, at university, in social settings. I spoke to a businesswoman in Australia who told me about a time she was negotiating a deal. Everything was proceeding normally, and suddenly the person she was negotiating with asked: ‘Why are you killing babies?’ She didn’t know what to do. This was a contract that mattered financially. Should she challenge the accusation and risk losing the deal? Should she try to reason with the person? Should she ignore it? In the end, she let it go. Again and again, I encountered Jews who were asking: ‘How should we respond?’ They don’t have the information. They don’t know the arguments. Even if they did, how do they defend themselves when confronted like that? How do they deal with friends, with colleagues? Most painful of all, how do you deal with a close family member who won’t speak to you any more?... what people are facing is not uniform. The terrible accusations – genocide, apartheid, killing babies – are similar, but the people making them come from different perspectives. They may be left-wing activists, right-wing critics, confused liberals, irreconcilable liberals, friends, family members or colleagues. Each requires a different response."
Pope Leo XIV on X - "God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples."
Cynical Publius on X - "So it was wrong to liberate Buchenwald?"
William Wolfe ๐บ๐ธ on X - "“God does not bless any conflict.” Has the…has the >Pope< ever read the Old Testament?"
William Wolfe ๐บ๐ธ on X - "“God does not bless any conflict.” Has the…has the >Pope< ever read the Old Testament?"
When your real religion is wokeness
Threads - "MAGA is claiming that the Pope is being "political." He's not being political, he's literally DOING HIS JOB. He's standing up for humanity based on Christ's teachings. It was MAGA that politicized Christianity. Don't confuse that."
It's only a violation of the separation of Church and State if it hurts the left wing agenda
Good luck if you're a pastor and you oppose abortion because it's your job
Jeremy Boreing on X - "Donald Trump has been a national politician for a decade. Anyone still reacting to the guy’s negotiating tactics and hyperbole with this sort of hysteria ten years in should be disqualified from political commentary. If he nukes Tehran at 8pm, I’ll admit I’m the crazy one. When he doesn’t, this crew will admit nothing and find some other comment to be scandalized by."
Left wingers are easily propagandised, think emotionally and have no grasp of history despite always invoking it
MAG๐ซ1775๐บ๐ธ on X - "U.S. Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) says she is introducing articles of impeachment against U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. So let me get this straight... Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari, whose both parents fled Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution to escape that tyrannical, murderous regime, is now out here defending the same Iranian mullahs and trying to impeach Pete Hegseth for actually fighting them? Her parents risked everything to get away from the ayatollahs, the oppression, the executions, and the theocracy and now their daughter is siding with the very regime that forced them to run for their lives? If her parents are still alive, they must be absolutely mortified and embarrassed. This isn’t “progressive” foreign policy. This is a daughter betraying the very reason her family came to America in the first place."
bitchuneedsoap on X - "The left is conducting "Hands off Iran" protests. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime murdered 36,500+ protesters in 48 hours three weeks ago. They're protesting to protect a government that just slaughtered its own people for protesting. ๐คก ๐คก"
The Political Demon on X - "The people who opposed mass genocides are calling for America to not topple a man who order the killing of thousands of protesters. #USA #ForeignPolicy #Iran #Protests #HandsOffIran"
Brian Jacobson on X - "Iran: "I didn't think you had it in you."
US: "I'm your huckleberry."
Iran: "My fights not with you."
US: "I beg to differ. We started a game we never got to finish. Death to America, remember?"
Iran: "I was just fooling about."
US: "I wasn't.""
Mohammed bin Salman ‘secretly lobbied Trump to attack Iran’ - "Many Gulf states will not side with Israel – only Bahrain and the UAE have formal diplomatic ties – but they believe Iran is a destabilising force and a danger to the region... After attacks on the Saudi embassy in Tehran in 2016, the UAE in 2022, and Saudi Arabia in 2023, the UAE and Saudi Arabia cautiously rekindled ties to boycott Iran."
Clearly, Saudi Arabia is controlled by "Zionists", since we all know this is Israel's war
Cynical Publius on X - "RE: Islamic Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia
I sense that too many Americans do not understand the public face-saving that is integral to Islamic culture in the Middle East and Central Asia. I recall numerous times I dealt with government or military officials in the region where they let me know that what was being said publicly was in no way related to what was actually going on. A leader or politician in these countries will never, ever publicly say the truth if the truth suggests weakness or vulnerability. Never. It just does not happen. They will lie publicly with outrageous bombast, knowing full well that what they are saying is untrue, because their culture demands it. Additionally, they respect the strongman. The strongman who speaks with ferocity and then backs it up with deeds is always respected (or feared, depending on the situation). These are vital concepts to understand when analyzing the public pronouncements of the Iranian regime and the Truth Social declarations of President Trump. The Iranians must save face no matter what. Literally none of their public pronouncements can be trusted as being accurate or truthful. At the same time, when Trump posts things like “ending a civilization,” he is NOT TALKING TO YOU. He is talking to the mullahs in the only language they understand. In fact, as the Democrat/Media Complex derides Trump as an idiot for such pronouncements, HE is the one who is culturally attuned in a very profound way that totally flies over the heads of his critics. These are vital concepts that must be understood to accurately interpret the very public exchange of declarations between Trump and the mullahs."
Left wingers don't understand cultural differences though they keep boasting about encouraging diversity. If you take into account cultural differences (eg the pain chapter in the medical textbook), that's racist. So ultimately diversity is about people who look different who all think identically
Eyal Yakoby on X - "Why does the term “war crimes” only get thrown at Western countries? Iran has been exclusively launching cluster munitions at civilians in Israel and no media outlet seems to be saying “war crime.” Weird."
Only the West is capable of committing war crimes
Wretchard T. Cat | Facebook - "JD Vance says US-Iran talks have ended without a deal after 21 hours of negotiations. If there is no negotiated solution to the problem posed by the Islamic Republic in Southwest Asia, then to paraphrase Donald Trump, "a whole civilization could die". To be fair that dubious accomplishment was largely and accidentally accomplished by France in 1979 when it allowed Khomeini organize from its borders, resulting in the rise of the Islamic Republic that resulted in lasting damage to Iran's ancient civilization. That ethnocide is described below. Khomeini viewed Iran's pre-Islamic past (Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid empires; Zoroastrianism) as an era of darkness or barbarism, to be eclipsed by Islamic rule. Universities were shut down for over two years to create "healthy environments for teaching advanced Islamic sciences" by expelling professors, students, and curricula tainted by "Western" or pre-Islamic influences. Persian culture—music, dance, mixed-gender socializing, dogs (as pets), certain poetry, and storytelling—when they conflicted with strict Shia rules, was banned. Not content with wiping out the Persian culture, the austere cleric did a number on the Marxists. Between June 1981 and March 1982, one of the largest massacre of leftists in modern history occurred: thousands of leftists, socialists were killed. The regime saw atheistic Marxism and organized leftist opposition as existential threats incompatible with Shia theocracy. It used torture, forced confessions, show trials, and extra-judicial killings. The Iranian left—once a major revolutionary force—was largely annihilated inside Iran. But it didn't stop there. Iran’s strategy of treating Lebanon and Syria as expendable forward bases against Israel and Sunni powers delivered the former to Hezbollah and precipitated civil war in the latter from which it has yet to recover. Now with the defeat of Islamic Republic's proxies the locus of destruction has returned to Iran again. The beast of war is back in Persia. Unless the Islamic Republic becomes a normal country, forgoing nuclear weapons, thousands of missiles and commerce strangling policies it may be consumed by a civil war abetted by the US and Israel. Groups long oppressed, armed by the CIA and Mossad, and supported by the most advanced drones may rise and overthrow them. The end will be the same but the ruin will be greater. The most destructive conflicts in history are civil wars and the one threatening Iran is no exception. The most desirable solution is one where regime elements accept defeat and make common cause with dissident elements to facilitate a reasonably smooth transition to a new and more peaceful Iran. The virus unleashed from France in 1979 has run its course. It cannot continue exporting mayhem to the Gulf, the Levant and the Red sea. It cannot go on firing missiles at all and sundry. It cannot continue to throttle the commerce of the world. The record of the last 47 years is dolorous and unmistakable. But we should never forget its final victim will be the ancient civilization of Iran. Stop now, negotiate now before its too late."
