Links - 10th March 2026 (2 - Iran Attack)

Ashley Rindsberg on X - "Wikipedia's article on Khamenei is a master class on narrative framing. The all-important lead section makes no reference to the fact that Khamenei murdered up to 80,000 of his own citizens in a two-day massacre. Instead, it:
+ Calls him a *pragmatic* hardliner
+ Elevates him as a religious figure
+ Softens the resistance into "faced many protests"
The only reference we have to Khamenei's numerous crimes against humanity is framed by "critics viewed"—not as actual objective fact, but as bias. This is carefully crafted narrative positioning. It looks and sounds neutral, which is precisely what makes it so effective."

🇮🇴WilliamTheBonqueror on X - "Being drafted to fight Israels wars is handmaid's tale for groypers"

Frank McCormick on X - "The “Israel made us do it” argument is for podcast bros too stupid to imagine U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East that have nothing to do with Israel.  To be sure, Israel benefits from our involvement in defanging Iran, and yes, we can debate how close Iran was to arming its 2,500 km range missiles with nuclear warheads, but there is no debate about how catastrophic it would be to allow Iran to reach a point where it could plunge the entire region into chaos with a few well-placed missile strikes, not to mention its growing drone capabilities.  Again, I’m asking you to forget the existential threat to Israel for a moment and consider the national security risk presented by an anti-American Islamic theocracy aggressively attacking us through proxies while possessing the capability to plunge the U.S. and the world into a recession.  Most people have no clue that nearly 20 million barrels per day, about 20% of global petroleum liquids consumption, move through the Strait of Hormuz, that 20% of global LNG trade also transits Hormuz, or that the Suez Canal handles 12–15% of global trade.  Iran has a history of pushing the region toward the brink, including by arming proxies that attacked our troops and bases, while fielding missiles reported capable of a 2,500 km range.  Now imagine that same behavior backed by a nuclear deterrent or longer-range delivery systems. That would mean more proxy escalation, more coercion of shipping, higher odds of miscalculation, and our economy taking a major shock.  That is the definition of a national security threat. It may be comforting to believe we can simply withdraw from the Middle East and let events play out without consequences for our economy or the standard of living we’re unwilling to sacrifice, but the real world does not work that way. Maturity means accepting that.  Strive to understand the world as it is, not as you wish it were. Accept that there are no perfect solutions, only trade-offs."

Jay Hubbard | Facebook - "4D CHESS??? THIS TIME, I ACTUALLY AGREE.
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Honestly, that feels weird to say, because I usually roll my eyes anytime Trump-fanatics claim he's playing 4D chess. But when it comes to foreign policy, that truly is what he's been doing.  How do you weaken Cuba without firing a shot? Turn off their oil supply from Venezuela. How do you rein in Venezuela without starting a full scale war? Arrest their president and let his successor know it'll happen to them if they don't play ball. How do you work towards peace in Gaza? Weaken what's left of Hamas by decapitating the source of their funding. How do you leverage Russia in the hopes of forcing them into peace negotiations with Ukraine? You isolate them by defenestrating their allies (Syria - check, Cuba - weakened, Venezuela - check, Iran - weakened). How do pursue possible regime change without starting a full scale ground war? Killing the Supreme Leader on day one of the attacks, including his successor, and sinking a hefty portion of the navy on day two, after previously crashing their economy and currency via sanctions. All this adds up to a weakened and isolated Russia, who may now lose the source of their high-tech war drones (Iran). Contrary to what Tucker Carlson and other prominent leftists say, rather than this leading to another "never-ending-war," these efforts might actually culminate in a leveraged peace agreement. If it doesn't, fine, it'll still have succeeded at severely blunting the world's main aggressors while re-aligning previously non-committed middle-eastern countries AGAINST Iran. (Which is good for us)  Iran's strategy has been to lash out in desperation by striking their neighbors. Their retaliatory strikes have hit Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates, NOT "just Israel." If their goal was to push those countries towards liking us and away from defending them, great job idiots. Trump's aim is peace through leverage, rather than peace through begging and bribery. I know that may concern some people who are still wary of W. Bush's penchant for nation building, but Trump's military successes were achieved WITHOUT an occupying ground force. Each move he's made in the past year has positioned us to better exploit the next move he made, all leading up to a world where our enemies are isolated, demoralized, diminished, destroyed, or dead. GOOD.  People need to start giving him credit for how well he's played this."

Al Jazeera Breaking News on X - "BREAKING: Qatar announces arrest of Iranian IRGC sleeper cells"
AG on X - "It has been incredible watching Al Jazeera, which is essentially run by Qatar, not only directly dismiss Tucker Carlson's invented conspiracy about Mossad bombers, but also report on the arrest of IRGC sleeper cells. All while Tucker was trying to sell his audience on the idea that Iran wasn't really targeting the Gulf states, and Israel is behind everything."

Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 on X - "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."

Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social on X - "🚨For those of you who were not around in 1979, here is how it all started when the radical Mullahs overtook the Iranian people and took hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran."
Wayback Machine - "No, 'it' started in the 1953 coup. The CIA, along with British intelligence, orchestrated a coup that deposed Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh on August 19, 1953. Known as Operation Ajax, the plot was designed to restore absolute power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, following Mossadegh's nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which threatened Western interests. "
Eli Lake on X - "This is an ignorant talking point repeated by people who want to sound like they know the history. Mossedegh had dissolved the Majles, replaced the army leadership and Supreme Court and closed newspapers by the time the Shah used his constitutional authority to fire him."
soonerhokie on X - "IIRC correctly from your podcast, wasn't most of this based on serial fabulist Kermit Roosevelt? And, while his memoir may have proved consequential in 1979, his actual actions were far less consequential?"

Emily Thornberry on X - "Wars are only ever resolved through negotiation. It’s tragic that calm heads did not prevail in the US when the Omani Foreign Minister said, just hours before the bombing started, that a peace deal was within reach. And now hotheads in Iran think it’s a good idea to bomb Oman."
Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 on X - "Military historian here: this is a widespread but erroneous assumption, propagated by people who don’t understand war.  Wars are won by winning them, in most cases by bringing about the military defeat of the enemy.   And, by the way, if you think that Iran was going to give up its millenarian fantasies because of a deal with Oman, you don’t understand jihad and shouldn’t be the chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee."

James Woods on X - "This is how the Washington Post eulogized the dirt bag who murdered 40,000 innocent civilians this month. This is not satire:  "With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s 'Les Misérables.' ... Some Iranians who knew Ayatollah Khamenei before he became supreme leader described him as a 'closet moderate'' ..."
Hans Mahncke on X - "While this paragraph is probably the worst, the entire Washington Post obituary of Khamenei, which is really just a hagiography, is riddled with astonishing distortions and absurd relativism. It claims that he was high minded in making the deal with Obama, that his doubts were totally justified because Trump undid the deal, that he would have been a responsible leader if not for Trump, that he only wanted nuclear energy and not weapons, that he never aimed to wipe Israel off the map but only sought a peaceful transition to the “Palestinians,” and on and on it goes. It is so spectacularly bad and proves, once again, that Jeff Bezos can fire as many Washington Post stenographers as he likes and nothing will change, because that place is corrupt to its very core."

Socialists for an Officers Coup Against Trump on X - "My statement on recent events: I am calling on the US military to declare martial law, arrest Trump for treason and round up every Israeli citizen in the US"
HowlingMutant on X - "These are the same people who think it’s a violation of human rights to deport an illegal alien"

Frank J. Fleming on X - "So leftist think anyone can murder CEOs in the street if they don’t like them but freak out when a murderous dictator gets blown up? They’re just really bad people."
memetic_sisyphus on X - "There’s only one thread that ties progressive beliefs together and that’s hatred for the United States and her people."

Ian O'Doherty on X - "I still find it baffling how many Irish and Western Leftists are throwing their allegiance behind the same regime that killed all the Leftists when they took over. That's a form of cognitive dissonance I genuinely cannot understand. Can they even explain it?"

Iran Military Daily on X - ""It is better to die STANDING than to Live on your knees." ~Che Guevara"
shevereshtus on X - "Fun fact: he was captured because he threw away his gun and shouted ‘Please don’t shoot I’m Che Guevara I’m worth far more to you alive than dead’ to the Bolivians he had just attempted to murder."

Ben Rhodes on X - "Among all the risks, one certainty is that U.S. taxpayers are spending tens of billions of dollars on something they overwhelmingly oppose."
Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 on X - "Speaking of spending tax dollars on something Americans overwhelmingly oppose, you sent Iran planes loaded with pallets of hard currency which they used to fund terror across the Middle East. Sit this one out."
Ben Rhodes was nicknamed "Hamas" after all

Liam Out Loud on X - "Here's why leftists are suddenly defenders of Iranian sovereignty.  Within a worldview that adheres to objective morality, it would not make sense for leftists to support the Iranian regime.  Women were beaten for showing their hair. Protesters have been jailed, tortured, and killed. Gay people face prison or worse.  Silence.  Now Trump strikes the regime, and we're supposed to be upset about Iranian sovereignty.  This disparity in outrage doesn't make sense through an objective moral lens, but it does through a leftist worldview of power.  In their view, Western patriarchal capitalist Christian nations are the cause of all evil, while everyone else is a helpless victim.  Anything that harms the cause of all evil is good. Anything that helps the cause of all evil is bad.  This is leftist morality in a nutshell.  Herbert Marcuse called it "liberating tolerance": tolerate movements that weaken the West, be intolerant of those that strengthen it.  Even Michel Foucault openly cheered the Iranian Revolution—not because he loved Islamism, but because he saw it as a revolt against Western hegemony.  For leftists, morality is not universal but strategic.  If a regime opposes the West, it's complicated, nuanced, and contextualized.  If the West opposes any non-Western nation, it's imperial aggression.  That's the entire moral architecture.  Without double standards, they'd have no standards at all."

Pope Leo XIV on X - "I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran during this tumultuous time. Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue."
leekern on X - "Thanks Pope. You put it so reasonably. I’m sure the Islamic fundamentalists who want to cut off people’s heads for Allah will sit down for a cup of tea and a nice old chinwag with some biscuits to resolve this like gentlemen after reading your tweet."
Wasson Watch Co. on X - "If you go to Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex )'s page, and search "Iran" all of his "appeals" seem to be about moderating or holding back the response of the US as it defends itself from Iran. Never direct appeals to Iran to "think things through" and "abandon the madness of their nuclear program" or maybe "stop  chanting death to Israel and America." Nothing about Iran slaughtering their own civilian population in the streets.   Makes you wonder..."

hasanabi on X - "if there’s any “terrorism” that happens on us soil now, you will never be able to convince me nor millions of other americans that it wasn’t israel and america conducting it together to rally the masses to support an insanely unpopular war."
Max K on X - "They *always* push this line, it’s such sinister bollocks. If jihadists only attack us ‘because of Israel and America’ why are they putting Yazidi girls, with nothing to do with Israel or the West, in cages and burning them to death? Why are they slaughtering Pakistani atheists, and wiping out hundreds of thousands of African Christians, and bombing British schoolgirls, and murdering French cartoonists and teachers, and machine gunning Hindu tourists and Sri Lankan kids, and tossing gays off of buildings, and shooting Jews in synagogues…they do this stuff because they are part of a religious-fundamentalist death cult. They want to kill us, they always have, and they always will. Everybody knows this.   The relentlessness with which Islamo-leftists seek to spin all of this so that the real enemy here isn’t the jihadists themselves, or their ideology, but US - for RESPONDING to the jihadists’ aggression, is one of the most nauseating trends in contemporary politics. Truly sick."

The greater game: Trump’s ultimate target in this war is China - "The United States and Israel killed Ayatollah Khamenei, and Xi Jinping’s decade-long project to build an alternative to the American-led order died with him. For years, Beijing quietly assembled a network of dictatorships and client states designed to blunt American power. Iran supplied China with cheap oil and kept Washington bogged down in the Middle East. Russia waged war on Ukraine with Chinese materiel support, a gamble that was supposed to cement a powerful anti-western axis but has instead bled Moscow into dependence on Beijing. Regional proxies from Lebanon to Gaza added just enough chaos to stop Washington focusing on China. The Chinese Communist party (CCP) propped up Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela, too, as it funnelled narcotics and other ills into America.  That network has now suffered damage so severe that no trade deal – no matter how many soybeans China agrees to buy from the US, or how many Boeing jets it orders – can disguise the devastation. And at the end of this month, Xi must sit across from Donald Trump, the man who greenlit the strike on the Ayatollah in Tehran and the seizure of Maduro in Caracas... China is the largest buyer of Iranian oil on Earth. It imports more than 70 per cent of the crude it burns, and Iran has been one of its cheapest suppliers. Khamenei’s death throws the terms of that arrangement into doubt and the US is now threatening tariffs on any country that trades with Tehran. Beijing has yet to find a coherent response.  I spent the better part of the past decade watching this network take shape, reporting from North Korea, Xinjiang, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine as the architecture grew. I walked the streets of Kashgar documenting a surveillance state being built in real time, and sat with Uighur exiles in Istanbul who told me what it was like to live inside it.  Xi built a coalition, loose and transactional and deniable, that would give China strategic depth if it ever needed to withstand serious American pressure. The line I heard constantly when I was in China, and still read in CCP sources today, is that the West is declining. Xi built his foreign policy on that premise. By most visible metrics, he was succeeding. Trade between China and Russia hit a record $245 billion in 2024, and Beijing was flooding Moscow with the microelectronics and drone components that kept Russia’s war machine running. Beijing overtook the combined West as the largest trading partner of the Gulf oil states, long an American sphere of influence. Every-where Xi looked, the system was transforming in his favour.  But even as the trade figures climbed, the foundations beneath them were giving way. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine four years ago has now cost it more than a million military casualties by most credible estimates – losses on a scale unseen in European warfare since the second world war. Moscow has gone from a partner capable of projecting power to a dependant surviving on Chinese goodwill. Iran’s regional proxies were wiped out, with Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, and Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh killed in response to the horrors of 7 October. Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was toppled. And now Khamenei, the linchpin of Tehran’s revolutionary state, is dead... China’s 25-year partnership with Tehran, signed with fanfare in 2021, promised $400 billion in investment. Almost none of the money arrived, because it didn’t need to.  What China took from Iran was oil. An average of nearly 1.4 million barrels a day in 2024 and 2025, according to tanker-tracking data from the commodities firm Kpler, often bought at $8 to $10 per barrel below market price, through a shadow fleet operating outside western sanctions.  Now Xi faces a problem he cannot talk his way out of. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning called the killing a ‘grave violation of Iran’s sovereignty and security’. But the Gulf states are watching what Beijing does, not what it says. And so far Beijing has offered Tehran no materiel support, no weapons, nothing that would cost China anything.   Beijing’s own spending reveals which side it has chosen. Last year, Iran received almost no investment from Belt and Road, Beijing’s flagship programme for building infrastructure and buying influence abroad. Saudi Arabia received nearly $20 billion in contracts. Xi cannot say so out loud but the money has moved to Riyadh, and Tehran gets little of it... What Xi has lost is harder to replace than a trading partner. Iran kept Washington tied down in the Middle East, unable to focus on China. That was extraordinarily useful, and it cost Beijing almost nothing...   Xi arrives boxed in on every front. He cannot defend Iran without alienating the Gulf states. He cannot abandon Iran without appearing weak to the remaining members of the coalition he spent a decade assembling. He needs a trade deal to stabilise China’s economy, which is slowing far faster than Beijing admits. Official figures claim 5 per cent growth, but Rhodium Group, a widely cited independent research firm, puts the real number at closer to 2.5 to 3 per cent. He needs Trump in a generous mood.  The deepest damage, though, is something Xi cannot afford to acknowledge: what losing Iran means for Taiwan.   Most analysts think about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in military terms. Can Beijing’s forces actually land there and take the island? But invading Taiwan would also trigger western sanctions far worse than any-thing imposed on Russia. And after what happened to Khamenei, Beijing knows that escalation does not end with sanctions. To survive all that, China needs countries willing to sell it oil off the books, help it move money past western banks and provide political cover. Iran and Russia were supposed to be those countries. China could still invade Taiwan, but not with any confidence that the CCP would survive the consequences. Some will argue that makes Xi more dangerous, that a leader who sees his options shrinking might act before they disappear. But everything he is doing points the other way. He is shoring up his economy, not preparing for war.   The summit will be conducted in the language of trade. Iran will hang over every session, but don’t expect that in the communiqué. Every government from Tokyo to Riyadh will read the subtext.  Xi will sit across from Trump and speak the language of a strong and ascendant China. The image is no longer the reality."

Trigganometry on X - "𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐀'𝐒 $𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑:  Every Iranian missile aimed at the Middle East carries Chinese fingerprints. The components. The guidance systems. The technical expertise. All from Beijing.  Peter Schweizer just exposed the hidden axis arming Iran—and how Trump's strikes obliterated China's strategic position overnight.  𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐣𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰:  China provided their most advanced air defense systems to Iran. U.S. and Israeli forces decimated them completely.  Over $100 billion in Chinese investments in Iran—mostly loans Beijing will never recover.  Iran and Venezuela? That was 20% of China's oil supply, bought at massive discounts, paid without U.S. dollars. Trump just eliminated both sources in one move.  𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨:  Forced back to global oil markets. Paying in American dollars. 40% of their oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump now effectively controls.  Any move on Taiwan? Catastrophic for Beijing. Remember 2020 when China threatened to withhold PPE during Covid? Remember their rare earth threats? Trump just reversed every bit of leverage they had.  China armed Iran with 5,000 missiles by 2027, potentially 10,000 by decade's end. Precision guidance systems that transformed inaccurate rockets into weapons capable of striking downtown Abu Dhabi.  They industrialized Iran's capacity to hold the Middle East at gunpoint.  Then Trump destroyed it all.  Spring negotiations with President Xi are coming. Trump's sitting at the table holding every single card."

Bin Xie on X - "Chinese are now leaving Iran like crazy, the price of a one-way ticket to Beijing has gone up to 3M Yuan ($425,000). What are the Chinese so afraid of? According to a Taiwanese news, they have done too many bad things in Iran (such as helping Iranian regime to crack down the protests), Iranian people hate them."

David Walpiri on X - "Some 80% of Iran’s illegal oil exports are delivered to the Chinese market. That's 13.4% to 14% of China's total seaborne crude oil imports. First Venezuela. Now Iran."
Michael Ron Bowling on X - "If China does not have access to discounted oil it becomes much harder to subsidize its massive fishing fleet. Which in turn will protect the environment and help countries being pillaged by China's distant waters fishing fleets."

James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on X - "Spare a thought for all the Western NGOs that will go silent over the next few months as they run out of funding but can't quite explain why it stopped being paid."

The Atlantic on X - "The U.S. bombardment of Iran was launched without a real plan for the Iranian people, @anneapplebaum argues: “We don’t have any tools to communicate with the Iranians, and we don’t have any tools to help build a legitimate state” determined by them."
John Ʌ Konrad V on X - "“What really disturbs me is… we don’t have any tools to build up a legitimate state” Translation: Trump’s not allowing a single NGO to grift"
liel leibovitz on X - "Hi, I'm part of the group of people who have been getting everything wrong for the last 70 years. And now that an American president exercised American power and won, I'm very troubled. Please read my essay in the magazine for fellow whiny losers."
Trust the Experts, even though they've always been wrong! Because "qualifications" are more important than achievements

DataRepublican (small r) on X - "Working on a write-up.  Whatever your feelings on the Iranian strikes are...  Note that the "our democracy" crowd who has interfered in hundreds of elections around the globe and waged endless wars is opposing the removal of Ali Khamenei, whose regime massacred 36,500 people.  The "rules-based international order" doesn't actually care about democracy. They had a system with Khamenei. They knew what he wanted: sanctions relief, recognition, a nuclear deal, regional influence. Their entire identity depends on existing power over those channels.  Their track record in creating actual democracies is awful. But they sure do have a good track record in installing NGOs that waste endless amounts of money on "democracy."  Oh, by the way, @anneapplebaum  is one of the architects behind the "Soul of the Nation" Biden speech which labeled half of America as threats to the Republic."

Adam Mossoff on X - "The same media that explicitly ignored the mass protests in Iran for first few weeks and then claimed it couldn't cover the regime's mass murder of these protestors because it didn't have reporters in Iran to verify the facts is back to its Hamas playbook from the October 7th War in Gaza. @AP  *immediately* publishes propaganda claim by Islamic regime of Iran of a "strike" on an elementary school. Just like with the false Hamas propaganda that AP told its readers was fact with the Al-Ahli Hospital explosion caused by a failed Hamas rocket launch at Israel, there is video evidence that the elementary school in Iran was hit by an Iranian missile that failed after launch. You can't hate AP enough."

Wilfred Reilly on X - "This is an interesting example of "how the political left do."   This is a tragic case, sure. But, in the context of (1) an almost totally and rather gloriously victorious war against (2) an Ayatollah-led state that just butchered 30,000-60,000 people while raping a bunch of young female fighters, probably 50-60% of all MSM coverage I have seen has focused on this one - prrrrobable - US mistake.   That is clearly not how a sane, unbiased person would cover this conflict. But, it IS how fairly mainstream American sources ("A People's History," etc) cover ALL of our history. And, that is important to remember."

Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 on X - "‼️IMPORTANT  The Islamists, Jihadis, and Balestinians (aka everyone who supports the terrorist Islamic Republic occupying Iran) are claiming that a civilian school was "randomly attacked" by USA and/or Israel.  This isn't Gaza and we Iranians are not a bunch of savage inbred Jihadis who lie about what's going on.  You can't make up lies about us or our country.  This school was being used as a military base, and if the news about the children is true, that's because the terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran was using them as human shields. They are a murderous death cult.  Every single civilian casualty in this conflict is because of the terrorist Islamic Regime, no one else.  It's incredibly shameful that supporters of the terrorist Islamic Regime are trying to use this incident to smear the allies and liberators of Iranians: USA and Israel.  Here's the truth about the situation with the school:  "What I found is that the school was built on this land, which belongs to the IRGC Navy and all the branches of the Shajare Tayyiba schools in all the cities belong to them. The Seyyed al-Shohada Cultural Complex of the IRGC, near Mahdi Town, has several buildings with a football field, an administrative section, and a specialized clinic. Even the IRGC Medical Command is there. The school building is located at the end of Resalat Dahm Alley, at the top of the picture, and you could say it is part of the complex. Its name is not even registered on Google Maps. The strange thing for me is that its address was announced everywhere as Dahm Corner, meaning Sarkocheh. I am waiting to see if more buildings from there were hit or just that building. I sincerely hope that the statistics that the IRGC officials are giving are wrong and false and that the children are safe... I am very sad for the children.""

Western Women vs Passport Bros

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"Let me get this straight.

You have been telling men for years that you don't want them, that you don't need them, that they don't meet your standards, that they don't treat you right, that you can pay for your own hair, you can pay for your own nails, you can afford your own home, you can afford your own car.

Men are good for nothing. You're strong. You're independent.

But then you get mad when these men go to another country to actually find a woman that has the qualities that they are looking for in a wife.

Make it make sense.

I also want to talk about why this mindset that so many Western women have is actually extremely problematic.

Because not only are you putting down the men who are going overseas with pure intentions, you're also putting down the women from these other countries solely off of the fact that they were not brought up in a western culture because you're calling them uneducated, you're calling them poor, you're calling them weak, you're calling them vulnerable.

You're creating a superiority complex where you are at the top and women from all these other countries are at the bottom.

Now, let me tell you something. If you were really superior, the men would not be leaving and you would not be single."

Links - 10th March 2026 (1 - Migrants: US)

Cory Archibald on X - "ICE is arresting and charging suburban moms who protest or document ICE activity with felonies that carry up to 20 years in prison."
Chris on X - "Every ICE Protestor tweet is like, "She was merely documenting them when ICE rammed a freaking A-10 Warthog into her garage." And then you read the story (from the mainstream media, no less) and what actually happened was
- Becky admits to following ICE around.
- ICE approaches her and then she runs away.
- So ICE follows Becky.
- Becky gets caught. She admits to thinking she could wait out law enforcement in her car. Which is nonsensical.
- They give her "a citation" and she goes about her life. She got exactly what she was looking for."

Meme - "r/Miami
Got stopped by ice yesterday as a Hispanic
They asked questions then asked for papers, I showed them drivers license, they told me have a nice day. Uhhh, what's the big deal again?
Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators"

Meme - The Maine Wire @TheMaineWire: "Former Lewiston City Councilor Tim Gallant gives an impassioned speech in opposition to the city's emergency anti-ICE order: "How many gunshot issues have we had since ICE ..."
Steve Robinson @SteveRob: "Lewiston shooting incidents 2019-2025. Lewiston shooting incidents post ICE surge *fall in shooting incidents*
(the green dots are taxpayer-subsidized housing)"

Meme - "Roving Whistle Patrol
Creature - Liberal
Whenever you commit a crime you may sacrifice Roving Whistle Patrol rol to to prevent target creature from being destroyed or detained until end of turn. If Roving Whistle Patrol crews a vehicle destroy it at end of combat
I'm a legal observer! - Indoctrinated young socialist"

Meme - Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminjlee: ">"easily disprovable"
>doesn't disprove it
Because when you look up the average IQ of Somalia, it is indeed 68.  Hasan relies on hackneyed, meaningless insults & temper tantrums to deceive his gullible audience."
hasanabi @hasanthehun: "you are an illiterate shut in for believing this easily disprovable white supremacist cope. your favorite pedophile protecting president has the intellectual capacity of an infant."
Zack @Asmongold:  "He called them low IQ because the average IQ in Somalia is 68 (borderline retarded)  It's not racist, it's a fact ..."
Left wingers keep lying to try to manifest reality (and if that fails, delude people so they believe falsehoods), on so many issues

A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants
Clearly, the kind, humane and empathetic thing to do right now is to have a "one-off" amnesty for all the poor, innocent "undocumented" immigrants, because it's not their fault they are "undocumented" and they didn't know it was wrong

Person appears to fire pistol at immigration agents in California protest, feds say - "The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward in the search for someone who appeared to fire a pistol at federal immigration agents during protests Thursday near Los Angeles... U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said Thursday night that the farm was a marijuana grow, and that 10 juveniles who are in the country without authorization were found there.  "It’s now under investigation for child labor violations," Scott said.  Glass House Brands, a cannabis company, said that officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement visited its farm Thursday."

LA protester aims gun at feds then flees scene - "A protester in downtown Los Angeles threw objects at federal agents early Saturday morning before turning toward offices and brandishing a gun as they sought to detain him, prompting agents to fire pepper balls as the suspect fled on foot"

Woman dragged from car by ICE yells 'I'm disabled' in chaotic scene - "Some reporting has suggested the woman in question was attempting to wedge the agents between her vehicle and another one blocking the street but that is not clear in the clip shared on social media. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told The Independent that ICE officers had been in the area to execute an arrest warrant for a 20-year-old man, originally from Ecuador, whom, they said, had entered the U.S. illegally near El Paso, Texas, in 2019. “As officers carried out their law enforcement duties, significant crowd surrounded them and began impeding law enforcement operations – a federal crime,” the spokesperson said. “One agitator ignored multiple commands by an officer to move her vehicle away from the scene, she was arrested for obstruction. Another agitator assaulted an officer by jumping on his back. Six of these agitators were taken into custody for assaulting law enforcement.” ICE official Charles Marcus previously told Fox News that at least 60 protesters have been arrested and charged with impeding or assaulting immigration authorities in Minnesota in the last five days... Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has called on ICE to “get the f*** out” of the city and a lawsuit has been filed in an attempt to stop the surge of immigration forces into the state. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Tuesday that the “federal invasion” had done “serious harm.” “DHS agents have sown chaos and terror across the metropolitan area,” Ellison said. “Schools have gone [into] lockdown. Entire districts have had to cancel school for tens of thousands of students to ensure safety and offer online education… Revenues are down, and some retail stores, daycares and restaurants have actually closed because people are afraid to go out.” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin responded: “Keith Ellison made it abundantly clear today he is prioritizing politics over public safety. “It really is astounding that the Left can miraculously rediscover the Tenth Amendment when they don’t want federal law enforcement officers to enforce federal law – which is a clear federal responsibility under Article I, Article II and the Supremacy Clause – and then go right back to federalizing every state responsibility possible when they get back in power. Spare us.”"

🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 on X - "And this is: One of the greatest crimes ever perpetrated in United States history against the American people: Former U.S. Border Chief Aaron Heitke, who served under five different administrations, CONFIRMS— BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT — that he was ordered by the Biden–Harris administration to cover up, conceal, and manipulate data on the border crisis; to deliberately decrease the amount of detention space nationwide; to issue new Social Security numbers to illegal aliens; to provide them with maximum Social Security benefits and Medicaid; to register them to vote; and, in fact, to allow them to vote in U.S. elections.
 Border Chief Aaron Heitke: “We have no idea who or what is coming through our country.”
— Regarding SIAs: “Special Interest Aliens (SIAs) and known and suspected terrorists… At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border.”
— FENTANYL “San Diego sees between 80% and 90% of the methamphetamine and fentanyl seizures annually for our entire country. With little enforcement at the border, these drugs were coming through in mass. During my last year in San Diego, the price for a single pill of fentanyl went from $10 to 25 cents.”
— FUNDING “To make matters worse, during 2022 and 2023 I had to shut down San Diego traffic checkpoints—which are critical for drug interdiction—because the resources had been diverted to the process and release mission.”
— THE COVER-UP “I had to release illegal aliens each day into communities that could not support them. To quiet the problem, two flights a week were provided from San Diego to Texas. Each flight cost approximately $150,000. This was the administration’s way of trying to quiet the border crisis.”  “Under pressure from the administration, my headquarters became more interested in the fiction being portrayed in the media, and not at all concerned with reality. We had 2,000 or more illegal aliens sitting between the fences, asking to turn themselves in. I WAS TOLD TO MOVE THEM OUT OF SIGHT OF THE MEDIA.”
— CONCLUSION: The Biden–Harris administration wasn’t just an unelected, illegitimate administration, but a terrorist organization."

ALX 🇺🇸 on X - "BREAKING: Gunman who attacked a bar in Austin, Texas last night has been identified as Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Senegal, who was wearing a sweatshirt that said “Property of Allah”, an undershirt referencing Iran and had a Quran in his car."

Chris on X - "CATO will classify him as “right wing” because he’s a religiously-inspired jihadist and “American” because he’s naturalized. That’s how their vaunted terrorist database works. But then they’ll also be classifying him as a net-paying immigrant because he won’t be taking social security. I’m serious. I am not exaggerating."
Jerod Frank on X - "My favorite part is that Cato credited higher property taxes caused by immigration on their side of the ledger rather than the native-born Americans paying for it."

Laura Loomer on X - "EXCLUSIVE:  The Islamic terrorist who opened fire on innocent people at a bar in Austin, Texas last night while wearing a shirt that said “Property of Allah” was a fan of @RealCandaceO  Candace Owens. This Islamic terrorist, who was an immigrant from the Muslim African country Senegal, obsessively tweeted at me on multiple occasions on my posts that criticized Islam.   In several of his tweets, this Islamic terrorist threatened my life and called me an “Israel First bitch” and told me to “move back to Israel”.   The Islamic terrorists who are now murdering Amercians in retaliation for strikes on Iran follow Woke Reich podcasters and influencers. I’ve been reporting this for years and have been trying to warn everyone.   The Woke Reich is an Islamic movement, as I have been saying for 2 years now.   People need to wake up!   It appears he wanted to murder me for speaking truth about Islam."

3 hero Austin cops who stopped deadly bar shooting expected to be dragged before grand jury thanks to George Floyd-era policy - "Three hero Austin cops who put their lives on the line to stop a maniac’s deadly shooting rampage are expected to face a grand-jury investigation thanks to a George Floyd-era policy.  Texas lawyer Doug O’Connell, whose firm O’Connell West has been tapped to represent the officers at the behest of the Austin Police Association, told The Post on Tuesday that such mandatory reviews are the brainchild of Austin District Attorney José Garza. “The district attorney, at the direction of the Wren Collective, insists on presenting every officer involved shooting to a grand jury,’’ O’Connell said, referencing a shadowy and influential left-wing Austin-based criminal-justice reform group...   “Every time an officer has to confront a violent criminal they may be indicted if the DA doesn’t like their actions,’’ the lawyer said.  The cops bravely shot dead pro-Iran Senegalese immigrant Ndiaga Diagne as he sprayed bullets at a popular college bar, killing three people and wounding 13 more."
Left wingers include people like this in the number of civilians killed by the police in the US

3 hero Austin cops who stopped deadly bar shooting expected to be dragged before grand jury thanks to George Floyd-era policy : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Same DA (José Garza), who kept Ndiaga "Property of Allah" Diagne out of jail, seems bent on harassing the working cops who stopped his jihadist murder spree."
"When you finally realize that George "Sauron" Soros's goal in funding all these Marxist prosecutors is your misery in service of his commie revolution, it will all begin to make sense."

Hans Mahncke on X - "The entire Somali presence in the U.S. can be traced directly back to George H. W. Bush, who gave Somalis special protected status, a decision which never made any sense given that Somalia is thousands of miles away and separated by a huge ocean and numerous other countries (which means this was never about providing protection and always about letting these people pick and choose the most prosperous destination available). It was also Bush who, after he had already lost the election, decided it was a good idea to get involved in Somalia’s civil war, and we all know how that ended, with Black Hawk Down."

Another person shot in Minneapolis by federal officer: What we know - "A man was shot in the leg by a U.S. federal officer on Wednesday in Minneapolis after the agent was attacked with a shovel and broom handle while trying to make an arrest... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on X that federal law enforcement officers were conducting a "targeted traffic stop in Minneapolis of an illegal alien from Venezuela." "In an attempt to evade arrest, the subject fled the scene in his vehicle and crashed into a parked car. The subject then fled on foot," the statement continued. "The law enforcement officer caught up to the subject on foot and attempted to apprehend him when the subject began to resist and violently assault the officer." While the man and the agent were "in a struggle on the ground, two subjects came out of a nearby apartment and also attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle," according to the DHS. "As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick," the DHS said. "Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life. "The initial subject was hit in the leg. All three subjects ran back into the apartment and barricaded themselves inside. The attacked officer and subject are both in the hospital. Both attackers are in custody."... Walz said. "Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live." "Let’s be very, very clear: This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement," he added. "Instead, it is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.""
If you can't attack law enforcement without consequences to maintain quasi-open borders, that is literally fascism

Protester ‘fakes’ being struck by police patrol car during ICE demonstration - "Dashcam footage shows a protester allegedly pretending to be hit by a patrol car during an anti-ICE demonstration in Memphis.  In the video shared by Tennessee Highway Patrol on Tuesday (13 January), a man in a high-vis jacket appears to step out in front of a slowly moving vehicle that was trying to work its way around a group of protesters.  The individual raised his hands whilst the officer shouted at him to move. The protester then slides himself under the vehicle for a couple of seconds before getting up and walking away.  The force dismissed claims that the protester had been hit “despite the narratives circulating on social media”, it said in a statement."

Visegrád 24 on X - "“If Somalians are the backbone of Minnesota, why are nearly 80% of them still on welfare after being here for 10+ years?” Asks Us Congressman @realBrandonGill"

To Whom Do They Bow? - "The fact that Democrats would not stand in solidarity with American citizens over illegal aliens was a mid-term political ad that every GOP candidate should run. Every Republican campaign should list the DNC as an in-kind contributor, but in the grand scheme of things, it raises a much larger question:  Just to whom or what do they believe they owe their loyalty?  There are clues, of course. Visible, undeniable, repeated clues that the American people have watched play out in real time across years of political theater, but clues only matter if you’re willing to follow where they lead — and that destination is deeply uncomfortable for anyone who still believes the Democratic Party represents the working men and women of this country.  I mean, they kneeled to BLM. Not metaphorically, not symbolically in some carefully managed press release — they literally dropped to their knees in Kente cloth scarves on the marble floors of the Capitol, performing submission to a movement that burned cities, defunded police departments, and left working-class neighborhoods — disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods, ironically — more vulnerable and less protected than before. That wasn’t solidarity. That was theater auditioning for a different audience entirely.  They bow to Alex Soros. The infrastructure of the modern left — the activist networks, the prosecutor races, the media pressure campaigns — flows through a financial ecosystem that the average Democratic voter has never examined and would likely find alarming. When policy priorities seem to defy common sense, when district attorneys decline to prosecute, when the border remains functionally open against the explicit wishes of the majority of Americans including legal immigrants, it’s worth asking who is actually setting the agenda. Elected officials who answer to their constituents behave differently than those who answer to their donors and ideological benefactors. They will genuflect to Islam. We have seen the reverence they hold for pro-Palestine protesters and the restraint they show when called upon to protect Jews as opposed to the lengths they will go to defend any Muslim community. We know about the Somali scam in Minnesota and the so-called “Michigan Problem” that prevented Harris from picking a Jew as a running mate, even when Josh Shapiro would clearly been a better choice than the Minneapolis Moron, Timmy Walz.  They worship celebrities. The Democratic Party has outsourced its moral authority to people whose primary qualification is fame. When the policy position of a pop star or an awards-show monologue carries more weight in Democratic circles than the economic anxiety of a Pennsylvania steelworker or an Arizona rancher watching his property overrun, you have a party that has fundamentally lost the plot.  So what are we supposed to deduce from this? What coherent picture emerges when you step back and look at the full canvas?  My guess is that it is truly the two-headed monster of ideology and the state — and the two heads feed each other. The ideology provides the moral justification, the sense of righteous mission that allows Democratic politicians to dismiss legitimate constituent concerns as bigotry or ignorance. The state provides the mechanism — the funding, the bureaucracy, the regulatory apparatus — that rewards loyalty to the ideological program and punishes deviation from it.  In this framework, American citizens aren’t constituents to be served, they’re subjects to be managed, educated, and if necessary, outvoted through demographic transformation. The illegal alien isn’t a policy problem to be solved. They’re a future dependent, a potential voter, a demographic chess piece in the longer game of House of Representative and Electoral College apportionment. This is why Democrats couldn’t stand up and simply say: American citizens come first. Not because they’re evil, necessarily, but because within their ideological and institutional framework, that statement is heresy. The nation-state and its citizens aren’t the highest loyalty. The movement is.  Not really a surprise, I guess, but even then, it is a bit jarring to see it performed in public—on prime-time TV, and months away from an important election"

Facebook - "DISAPPOINTING: Dems stay seated in front of angel families & those injured due to criminal illegal alien crime. "Tonight, I'm inviting every legislator to join with my admin in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.""
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Libs of TikTok on X - "OMG Democrat Rep. Janelle Bynum says it was "racist" and “uncomfortable” when Trump asked to stand for American citizens."

Greg Price on X - "BREAKING: The man with 30 prior arrests who stabbed 41-year-old Stephanie Minter to death at a Fairfax, VA bus stop earlier this week is an illegal alien from Sierra Leone, who entered the U.S. illegally in 2012 and has a final order of removal dating back to 2020.  Gov. Abigail Spanberger, on her first day in office, ended Virginia's cooperation with ICE, and later cancelled all state law enforcement's 287(g) programs with the federal government that allow them to work with ICE to detain illegal aliens.  Somehow this guy with 30 prior arrests for many violent crimes and in the country illegally for nearly 15 years was able to roam the streets in Virginia.   And an innocent woman is now dead."

Libs of TikTok on X - "Let me get this straight… An illegal had over 30 prior arrests. The police warned not to release him because he’s dangerous. He was released anyway. He then murdered a woman. Any now Abigail Spanberger says she’s not handing him over to ICE?? This should be a much bigger story"

Greg Price on X - "The murder of Stephanie Minter in Fairfax has turned into an unbelievably massive scandal.  A newly released email shows that the Fairfax Police Department warned Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano's office this past November about releasing illegal alien repeat offender Adbul Jalloh back into the community.  They said "it's not a question of if, but when he will maliciously wound (or worse) again." And they were right. He murdered Stephanie Minter at a bus stop last week.  Steve Descano and Abigail Spanberger have blood on their hands."

Greg Price on X - "Virginia Sen. Mark Warner is asked about the murder of Stephanie Minter-- stabbed to death in Fairfax by an illegal alien with 40 prior charges. He proceeds to say he's more concerned that illegals with no criminal records are being deported than his constituent being killed."

Daniel Friedman on X - "“Immigrants commit more crime than native born Americans” is a perfect example of how technically-accurate statistics can be used to deceive.  The category of “immigrants” aggregates Latino immigrants who commit disproportionate amounts of serious violent crime like robbery and homicide with Asian immigrants, who commit almost no crime at all. This tends to dilute and obscure the actual crime rates of people illegally crossing the southern border.  Meanwhile, the category of “native born Americans” aggregates whites, a low-offending group, with black Americans, who commit serious offenses at ten times the white rate and second-generation US-born children of Hispanic who have higher crime rates than migrants because they do not fear deportation.  “Immigrants” may have lower crime rates than “native born Americans,” but illegal migrants and “asylum seekers” entering the United States via the Southern border commit serious crimes in the United States at about triple the rate of white Americans."

Mass Daily News on X - "Boston progressives argue that if Mayor Michelle Wu were to disclose whether her police department ignored ICE detainers for dangerous and violent illegal immigrants, it would only “prop up Trump.”  In other words, they suggest the public shouldn’t see that information if it risks validating a political opponent. That’s where the debate now stands."

F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli on X - "GUILTY: A Los Angeles federal jury just returned guilty verdicts against two defendants for stalking an ICE deportation officer.  Cynthia Raygoza, 38, of Riverside, and Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado, were found guilty today of stalking.  On August 28, 2025, Raygoza and Brown followed the victim from a federal building in downtown Los Angeles to his home.  The defendants livestreamed their pursuit on their Instagram accounts, provided directions as they followed the victim home, and encouraged viewers to share the livestream.  Upon arriving at the victim’s residence, the defendants shouted to bystanders while livestreaming that their “neighbor is ICE,” “la migra lives here,” and “ICE lives on your street and you should know.” They also shouted racial slurs at the victim’s wife. The victim’s children witnessed the incident.  Raygoza and Brown each face up to five years in federal prison at their June 8 sentencing hearing.  We thank the jury for bringing justice to these agitators who violated the law and endangered the safety of this federal officer and his family.  Peaceful protests are protected by the Constitution, political violence and unlawful intimidation are not."

Kelsey Reichmann on X - "U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops files a SCOTUS amicus against Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship They call Trump's order "immoral" and urge the justices to "protect God-given human dignity" by finding it unconstitutional 👀"
Theo Wold on X - "You know which nations don't have Birthright Citizenship? Just about all of them in Europe, including Vatican City. America is apparently the only country in the world that must accept as citizens the children of foreigners who broke our laws."
The Church interfering in politics is only bad when it hurts the left wing agenda

blighter on X - "here's another in the long list of actual democrat policies that if you explain it to a normie they will believe you are insane: illegal immigrants allowed to use their sex offender conviction paperwork as an ID to board an airplane. official Biden policy."

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "Democrats telling rioters to record federal agents is turning detrimental to their narrative.  Meet Bangladesh-American activist Aliya Rahman from Minneapolis. Rahman went in front of a congressional forum and lied through her teeth, playing the victim while describing the moment she interfered with federal officers and got arrested.  She said she was monitoring traffic and couldn’t drive her vehicle because she was also watching for pedestrians, even though there were no cars or pedestrians in front of her."

Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد on X - "An asylum seeker from Iraq calls Jews and Christians in America the filthiest of God’s creation. He calls them dogs, and yet the government still allows him to stay. I don’t understand why.  When people start dehumanizing others like that, history shows what often follows. Don’t act surprised if words like these eventually lead to something worse.@FBI  @StateDept  @SecRubio  @FBIDirectorKash  @PamBondi  @AGPamBondi  @ICEgov"

New York Post on X - "Pakistan's Roosevelt Hotel took $146M in NYC taxpayer cash for migrants - now owes $13.6M in back taxes"
Darth Powell on X - "Pakistan owns a hotel. That took $146m in American taxpayer money to house likely illegal immigrants. Hasn't paid a $13.6m tax bill"

Links - 9th March 2026 (2 - Iran Attack [including International Law])

David Frum on X - "According to the self-proclaimed experts who get quoted at times like this, the corpus of international law can be reduced to one simple rule: "Terrorists and communists are always allowed to strike democracies, but democracies are never allowed to strike back.""

Meme - Noam Blum: "This post was about Venezuela, but applies here too:"
Cristian Campos: "If international law cannot prevent me from being tortured in a cell in El Helicoide, but it does protect Maduro so he can keep torturing me in El Helicoide, then international law not only does nothing for me, but it is actually fucking me over."

Meme - Yuan Yi Zhu: "The norm against the use of force to settle international disputes is an important achievement. But if every international lawyer's reaction to scenes such as this is to sourly lecture people to not be happy about scenes such as this, international law will be held in contempt."
OSINTdefender @sentdefender: "Crowds are seen gathering in the streets of Isfahan, Iran following the news of the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during joint U.S./ Israeli strikes earlier today. The crowds appear to be jovial."

AG on X - "The last few years have really exposed so much of the “human rights” establishment.   The Islamic Republic massacred hundreds of thousands of Syrians and these groups and the organizations supposed to defend human rights barely said a word. The regime would daily execute people for the crime of speaking out against them or even crimes like women wearing loose clothing, which was met with few condemnations. Even when they shot down 30-40K Iranians for the crime of protesting peacefully, the relative silence was deafening. They were responsible for countless other deaths in Lebanon, Israel, Yemen, and throughout the region via their terror proxies.  Yet now that someone is finally making that evil regime pay the price,  they whine about international law and other nonsense in defense of evil.   For these groups, the only side with agency and that must be held accountable is the west. The worst abusers get a pass.   Did you know the UN general assembly has had more resolutions condemning The United States (13) than the Islamic Republic since 2015 (11)? (187 condemning Israel FYI)  So can we stop pretending any of these corrupt organization and groups have any moral authority? That their complaints mean anything?   They are, for all practical purposes, just tasked to provide cover for our enemies. Despite receiving massive funding from us. The system is broken and we should stop rewarding it."

Dr. Brian L. Cox on X - "During the coming days & weeks, you're bound to encounter all kinds of claims that "attacks on Iran by Israel & the United States are illegal, unprovoked & unjustifiable."  These claims are false. Here's why.  @Israel  has publicly announced - correctly so - it is in an "ongoing armed conflict" against Iran (pic 1). For anyone interested in specific reasons & justifications, I invite you to review an info paper published @IsraelMFA  on Op Rising Lion available at this link (pic 1 is screenshot of 1st few paragraphs): https://gov.il/en/pages/opera tion-rising-lion-key-factual-and-legal-aspects-of-the-iran-israel-hostilities-june-2025-11-aug-2025   🇮🇱 is also designated with 🇺🇸 Major Non-NATO Ally status (pic 2). This doesn't provide a specific legal basis for 🇺🇸 to intervene in this ongoing armed conflict, but it shouldn't be a surprise that @POTUS  directs @DeptofWar  to do so on behalf of our MNNA - as he did for Op Midnight Hammer.  Don't let mass disinformation agents like Corbyn here distort reality & rewrite history in service of their preferred progressive social or political agenda.  Yes, there have been "illegal, unprovoked & unjustified attacks" in this strategic setting. They were carried out by IRAN & it's regional proxies starting on 10/7. Israel exercised the inherent right of individual self-defense, as reflected in art. 51 @UN  Charter, in response.  Intervention by 🇺🇸 to support its MNNA 🇮🇱 is an issue of neutrality, not the Charter. Joining an ONGOING armed conflict is not illegal - it just means 🇺🇸 is now a belligerent (again) in the conflict.  And yes, "peace & diplomacy" WERE possible.  During diplomatic engagement BEFORE Op Roaring Lion, 🇮🇷 refused peace. Now they get an escalation of this ONGOING armed conflict.  This IS behaviour of a rogue state. The "rogue state" is 🇮🇷...and now that behavior is met with escalated consequences.  Colloquially, I believe this is referred to as #FAFO. Khamenei & his gov't have been on FA axis of that calculation for quite a while. Now, they're transitioning further along on the FO axis. No surprise there.  Finally, the "flagrant breach of international law" here occurred on 10/7. Since then, 🇮🇱 has been involved in an ONGOING armed conflict against 🇮🇷 & its proxies.   Responding to the enduring threat is NOT "aggression." It is war. Governments like Corbyn's 🇬🇧 can join in or stay out of the way. Either way, ops by 🇮🇱 & 🇺🇸 do NOT constitute a "violation of international law."  Jeremy Corbyn here is misrepresenting both facts AND language of int'l law. Also no surprise there, considering the source.  But he most certainly won't be the only one. When you encounter disinformation like his rhetoric going forward, now you'll know exactly how you're being misled.  #TheMoreYouKnow"

International law is becoming a suicide pact for Western democracies - "World peace is a long-held dream, but ironically the agendas of some of its loudest cheerleaders expose the hypocrisy that often accompanies such lofty goals. During his nearly 30 years as head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth led the politicisation of both the organisation and the wider movement through the use of the institutional facades of international law as applied to modern war.  A blatant example is Roth’s recent essay in the Guardian, arguing that joint American-Israeli strikes against the Tehran regime constitute an illegal “act of aggression” and “no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine”. In facile terms, he effectively claims that, according to the law of armed conflict, the use of force is illegitimate unless it responds to an attack that has already occurred, is obvious and visible to all (so not, presumably, through proxies or thinly disguised attackers), and acknowledged by the United Nations Security Council.  It is a simple theory. It is also dangerously removed from the real world. Roth condemns the joint US-Israeli attack against Iran’s top leadership and military assets as though the decision was taken totally out of the blue, and not a necessary response to aggression. To make this case, he conveniently omits the central fact that, for decades, the Islamic Republic has been waging a violent war against the United States (the Big Satan), Israel (the Little Satan), and many of its Arab neighbours... Article 51 of the UN Charter affirms the inherent right of self-defence. That right is not erased because the aggressor pretends to aim its attacks at military targets or operates through intermediaries.  Then there is the nuclear question. Iran’s nuclear weapons programme has long violated both the spirit and letter of its commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The combination of advanced enrichment capacity, ballistic missile development, and explicit threats against Israel creates a uniquely destabilising mix. A regime that calls for the elimination of another UN member state cannot reasonably expect that state (i.e. Israel) to treat its march toward nuclear capability as a routine matter of sovereign discretion, regardless of actual international agreements. Roth’s analysis leans heavily on a narrow conception of “imminence”. Under such a reading of international law, unless a nuclear weapon is about to be launched, preventive action is supposedly unlawful. But international law has never been suicidal. The entirely justified Caroline standard of anticipatory self-defence – rooted in 19th-century diplomacy – recognises that, when a threat is “instant, overwhelming”, with no time for hesitation, preventive action is entirely justified. In a world of precision missiles and nuclear breakout timelines measured in weeks, not years, waiting for the mass slaughter of a mushroom cloud is not prudence; it is abdication. Critics often counter that striking Iran would inflame the region and erode global norms. But norms erode primarily when they are weaponised by aggressors who exploit legalisms as shields to hide their preparations for slaughter. The Islamic Republic has built a regional architecture of terror: Hezbollah’s entrenchment in Lebanon; Shiite militias violating Iraq’s fragile sovereignty; Houthi missiles from Yemen targeting Israel and attacks against international shipping. This is not a justifiable defensive posture, as apologists like Roth repeat. It is a bellicose strategy aimed at destroying Israel and hurting America. In the face of these very tangible threats, the responses available to the United States and Israel are limited. Allow Iran to consolidate a missile-and-nuclear umbrella under which its terror proxies can operate with impunity, or act decisively and precisely to block and dismantle that capability. The first course risks a future in which deterrence collapses and nuclear war in the Middle East becomes far more likely. The second may cause limited destruction, but it preserves the basic moral and political principle that violence and aggression will not be allowed to succeed. Roth’s attempts to market his interpretations of the ambiguities of international law by erasing the history of Iran’s terror are the antithesis of justice and morality. If accepted, they would become a suicide pact for democracies and for status-quo states opposed to the mass killing in the name of religion or ideology.  The war against Iranian tyranny is not the result of lust for conflict in Washington or Jerusalem – it comes because Tehran has made the status quo untenable. In the pursuit of justice and the rule of law, the correct question is not why the United States and Israel struck the regime, but why those claiming to embrace justice condemn this necessary act of self-defence."

Erielle Azerrad on X - "The big “secret” of modern international law is that it is now designed to cripple the West, make wars impossible to win, and keep us trapped in hostile quagmires. That’s the end game. It’s the great “equalizer,” the pinnacle of post-liberal equality. Under international law, bad actors have the privilege of acting with impunity while Western forces that respond get chastised by various Singham-funded NGOs and the Atlantic. Trump is the first president to buck this nonsense."

David Bernstein on X - "The mainstream of the Western international law establishment thinks/hopes that the purpose of international law is to restrain the United States from acting without the approval of the UN and the like. For those who specialize in international humanitarian law, it’s to make sure Western powers can’t defeat their enemies. Neither are concerned about human rights."

Haviv Rettig Gur on X - "I say this as gently as I know how, because it seems to me unforgivably obvious.  You cannot simultaneously build a strong international law system while also hating the West. International law is a Western idea born of a particular Western historical, cultural and political experience.  And because God loves irony, no one exemplifies this fact more than the evil regime whose travails since yesterday have sparked so much legalistic hand-wringing.  Both Khamenei himself and his teacher and predecessor Khomeini consistently and explicitly rejected international law as a tool of "global arrogance" (estekbar-e jahani) — i.e., of powerful secularist, individualistic democracies. Khamenei was even more explicit, routinely declaring legal frameworks like UN conventions as "colonial" traps.  These declarations weren’t marginal to their ideology. They were fundamental planks of the regime’s political theology.  I’ll say this, again, as gently as I can: The fact that international law and international institutions have transformed in practice into a system that more often than not runs defense for the most virulent and explicit enemies of said law might have something to do with their decline as an organizing framework of international affairs.  For example, when UN agencies and international institutions target Israel more than Iran, or more than China, Iran and Russia put together, or more than all the dictatorships and wars in the world combined — they’re doing more harm to the law than to Israel.  Similarly, it matters that so many of international law’s loudest spokespeople had nothing to say about Khamenei’s crimes just six weeks ago, but swung into action only when Khamenei’s long reign of terror was finally brought to an end.  That’s not law. It’s the opposite of law.  International law can be saved, but only if its scholars and practitioners grow up and shed the instinctive anti-Westernism and racist paternalism of the present-day academy. When international law is no longer seen by its own practitioners primarily as an instrument for containing, weakening and delegitimizing the West, but becomes genuinely about actual law, it will once again have a claim on us.  If you fail to see in Khamenei the bitter foe of international law that he was, if in the midst of your legitimate critique of a war you can’t summon at least a little joy that this avowed enemy of your purported moral system is dead and gone, then you haven’t actually been fighting for international law."

Randy Barnett on X - "The social contract is not a real contract but without reciprocity, there can be no rule of law internationally—or domestically. Without reciprocity, the rule of law is a sucker’s game."

Meme - Stephen R. C. Hicks @SRCHicks: "Fascinating (and new to me) 1979 NYT article on Ayatollah Khomeini, who is apparently: (1) an honest man, (2) surrounded by moderates concerned w/ human rights, (3) one who will leave his internal enemies (Jews, atheists, leftists) free to express themselves, & (4) overall a beacon of hope for the region's future. (File under: 100% wrong wishful-thinking predictions.)"
"Trusting Khomeini"

Ajit Pai on X - "In Feb. 1979, the @nytimes ran “Trusting Khomeini,” an op-ed from a @Princeton “expert” who opined: “Having created a new model of popular revolution based, for the most part, on nonviolent tactics, Iran may yet provide us with a desperately-needed model of humane governance.”
Some other quotes from the op-ed (whose author was appointed by @UN @Refugees in 2008 as "Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories"):
- "The news media have defamed [Ayatollah Khomeini] in many ways, associating him with efforts to turn the clock back 1,300 years, with virulent anti‐Semitism."
- "More even than any third‐world leader, he has been depicted in a manner calculated to frighten."
"[Khomeini] has also indicated that the nonreligious left will be free to express its views in an Islamic republic."
- "To suppose that Ayatollah Khomeini is dissembling seems almost beyond belief."
- "What is also encouraging is that his entourage of close advisers is uniformly composed of moderate, progressive individuals" who "share a notable record of concern for human rights and seem eager to achieve economic development that results in a modern society."
From the New York Times obituary of Ayatollah @khamenei_ir: “He affected an avuncular and magnanimous aloofness, running the country from a perch above the jousting of daily politics.”"

The US submarine which torpedoed the Iranian frigate will soon be flying the Jolly Roger
Does a submarine in combat make any effort to rescue survivors when they surface if enemy sailors are in the water? If yes, how much room does a sub have for prisoners? - Quora - "Submarine warfare is essentially “unrestricted warfare”. However, submarine commanders will endeavor to take prisoners, within the sensibilities of safety. That is, submarines are not ideal ships due to the compactness of their design to mission to have enemy combatants onboard. A handful of prisoners might be reasonably accommodated without endangering the submarine."
"Prisoners of War could reasonably be taken and there’s precedent in ww2 for recovering pilots shot down - both friendly and enemy.  However: when your submarine is surfaced, it’s sonar is less effective, it’s noiser and takes longer to dive. It also is much more susceptible to pitch and roll on the surface. So it’s blind, lame and very much out of its best performance envelope. If it was detected or sighted by other enemy ships (or planes) responding to the distress call of the sunken ship, you can bet they will be able to detect the submarine easily.  Submarines, once detected, are much less effective at engaging the enemy - and much more vulnerable.  So surfacing to recover enemy prisoners is at best a risky endeavour and at worst can be considered such a tactically bad idea as to be almost suicide.  Any captain choosing to recover POWs will most likely be doing it under direct orders - as it endangers the lives of every sailor and the submarine. That POW better have some amazing intelligence they are willing to share if you want to risk 100’s of sailors and an expensive if not irreplaceable submarine."
"Nuc boats rarely surface- they don’t need to and (as noted in pretty much all the other answers) doing so is huge security risk.  Likewise, engagement of surface targets can be done from many nautical mines away with modern torpedoes, even farther with anti-shipping missiles. So the odds of you being in the proximity of the sunk ship is low, in addition to hazardous."
"They have no space for survivors.  The best a u-boat can do is to provide compasses, maps, food, maybe blankets.  Actually providing assistance proved fatal to u-boats more than once, the most memorable instance being the Laconia incident"
Left wingers were very upset, of course, and went on about how this was a war crime, because they don't understand anything
Left wing logic: left wingers call it a war, but even though it's a war, you're not allowed to attack the enemy military first (and the clock resets with each individual engagement, so you must always wait for the enemy to attack you first). But of course, from Oct 7th we know they think you're not allowed to fight back either if you're from the West

Bob Koonce on X - "I should know better than to actually share my thoughts as I doubt you really want to hear from someone who was in that position. But here goes.   As a former SSN captain, I would certainly be weighed down with the thought of those sailors drowning and those that died - every sailor is a human and anyone who is sane would feel for them.   However, this was a lawful order that my crew carried out against a regime that has spewed hate and killed Americans for decades. So, my crew and I would do our duty.  As for a rescue attempt, modern nuclear submarines are not designed to surface and open hatches in open ocean without significant risk to the crew and the ship (low free board - possible flooding). So I would not endanger my ship and crew to attempt a rescue. And that doesn't even factor in the risk of exposing my ship to the enemy while on the surface. So surfacing and rescuing "enemy" sailors is out of the question.  I could radio in for help in the clear to local coast guard or authorities - as we would do for a peacetime at sea accident for a military or civilian crew. But I am pretty sure the explosion was enough to get others' attention to conduct a rescue. And my mission likely was Top Secret and I was under EMCON orders - no unsecure communications. I may break that EMCON for a civilian accident in peacetime, but again I think others were notified of the problem by the explosion.   So, years later in my rocking chair, would I think of those sailors? Yes. But as a professional military officer and submariner under lawful orders, I did my duty. I would sleep well at night.   God will judge someday, but I personally would not carry that burden nor want my crew to. War sucks."

ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi on X - "The father of one of the Islamic Republic Navy personnel says they were warned by the U.S. forces to evacuate the ship before the attack. But their commanders refused to let them leave. Eighty members of the crew died as a result."
Damn US killing "unarmed" sailors!

Eitan Fischberger on X - "Mehdi Hasan says the U.S. military is worse than the Nazis because it sank an Iranian submarine and didn’t save the crew"
Mark Dubowitz on X - "This supporter of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood says the U.S. military is worse than the Nazis. He naturalized as an American citizen in 2020 and lives in the U.S. Disgraceful."
He needs to be protected from a fate worse than what the Nazis did by removing his citizenship and evacuating him to a safe country so the US can't persecute him anymore

The Iran War began on 7 October - spiked - "Not even three years ago, paid goons of the Islamic Republic murdered a 13-year-old British girl. They bashed their way into the room in which she had scrabbled for sanctuary with her mother and sister and shot her to death. The tyrants in Tehran celebrated. They marshalled their supporters on to the streets to sing and dance over this orgy of violence that entailed the merciless slaying of a British innocent. It’s a ‘turning point in history’, they crowed in the wake of that unconscionable horror.  Her name was Yahel Sharabi. And I intend to say it to every fellow Briton who says the crisis in the Middle East ‘has nothing to do with us’. And to every slack-jawed Labour minister twiddling awkwardly with their ties as one of the great geopolitical emergencies of our time swirls all around them. And to every keffiyeh-smothered smug leftist who is currently painting the Islamic Republic as the innocent victim of an ‘unprovoked war of aggression’. Was the killing of a British girl not a provocation? Was the murder of her in the arms of her mother and sister – who were also killed – not an act of aggression? Was the slaying that day of a thousand others who were guilty of the same crime as young Yahel – they were Jews – not war?   Yahel was one of 18 British citizens murdered by Hamas and its allies on 7 October 2023... And their killers were backed by the Islamic Republic. The Iranian regime funded Hamas to the tune of $100million a year. It provided Hamas with weapons tech and logistical support. It had intimate knowledge of Hamas’s fascistic plans for 7 October. It has since held numerous official celebrations of the barbarism of that day. Nothing to do with us? The Iran-backed murder of 18 British citizens, most of them Jews? Perhaps Britain’s handwringers might let us know their threshold for Jew-murder, the point at which the foreign-funded killing of our Jewish compatriots might finally prick their slumbering consciences. Tell us: how many dead British Jews would be the price of your moral concern? Twenty-five? Fifty? A hundred?... The woke left’s depiction of Iran as the guiltless victim of Western imperialism is an outrageous lie. The crank right’s claim that Israel is the cause of every war in the Middle East – if not the whole world – reeks to the heavens of anti-Semitic ahistoricism. The UK government’s flummoxed nonchalance about the whole thing speaks to how thoroughly the technocratic mind-virus blinds one to truth and morality. This tyrannical regime funded the murder of our Jewish countrymen. Including a child. Does that mean nothing to you?... When people describe the Israel-US attack on the theocrats in Tehran as ‘unprovoked’, what they are really saying is that they do not consider the mass murder of Jews to be a provocation. When they call it unwarranted aggression, they’re saying the violent destruction of Jewish life is not something worth getting aggressive about. When they describe Israeli strikes against Tehran as an ‘escalation’, and never used that word for the Tehran-sponsored barbarism inflicted on Israel, they betray their own hyper-paternalistic Third Worldism. They confirm that in their Western-centric worldview, America and Israel are responsible for every earthly ill, while child-like states such as the Islamic Republic merely respond. Or ‘resist’. It’s ‘resistance’ when the Islamic Republic and its proxies kill Jews, but a ‘war crime’ when the Jews and their allies push back. We see you.   Events in Iran speak not to any criminal madness or bloodlust on the part of the American Empire and the Jewish State, but rather to the suicidal lunacy of 7 October. You don’t have to support the current regime-change efforts to recognise that the Iranian regime and its murderous proxies brought this calamity upon themselves. The 7 October attacks will go down as the most self-destructive military adventure of modern times, an act of apocalyptic vanity. Yahya Sinwar, the architect of that grim day, thought he would bring Zionism to its knees and provoke a Nazi-like expulsion of Jews from the Holy Land. Yet now he is dead, his movement of Hamas is decimated, Hezbollah is flagging, and the Iranian backers of their anti-Semitic crusade are under severe pressure.   The Islamic Republic did this to itself. It forgot that killing Jews has consequences now. It isn’t the 1490s or the 1930s. The rape and murder of Jews comes with repercussions these days. That the regime forgot this is somewhat understandable. It is, after all, consumed by cosmic delusions, by an inflated sense of holy importance as the final boss of Jew hatred. The Western left’s neglect of this truth, however, is less forgivable. You would think that woke agitators who love to talk about ‘consequence culture’ would recognise that murdering a thousand Jews might provoke war. Their demonisation of Israel and absolution of the Islamic Republic is not ‘anti-imperialism’ – it is the double racism of seeing the Jewish State as the sole author of violence in the Middle East and ‘brown’ Persians and Arabs as witless, wide-eyed victims... What concerns me is that the military suicide committed by Islamists on 7 October is finding its echo in the moral suicide of the West in the same period. Witness the Hamas sympathy on our streets these past two years or the current floundering of our rulers who can’t even bring themselves to say the Islamic Republic is a wicked regime whose Jew hatred, misogyny, homophobia and intolerance run counter to the moral virtues of our own civilisation. If you don’t think the killing of Yahel Sharabi and a thousand other Jews is an act of historic importance, then you have been defeated, too. Iran and its proxies may not have succeeded in destroying the Jewish nation, but they destroyed your soul."
Oct 7th showed us that there is no atrocity left wingers think justifies retaliation on the part of a Western countries, because they just hate the West (which Israel is considered part of)

The Atlantic on X - "Most of the press corps is not allowed into the Pentagon, where decisions about the war in Iran are being made. This lack of information makes it harder for journalists to do their jobs and harder for the American public to understand what’s happening, @nancyayoussef argues:"
John Ʌ Konrad V on X - "Why do you think these operations are going so well? It’s not just that they locked out the MSM. They also locked out, many think tanks, self proclaimed experts and allies. They are letting the warfighters cook."
L A R R Y on X - "Press corps is allowed in the Pentagon. They just forfeited their hard passes and their offices because they wouldn't promise to not peddle classified information. @seanspicer"

Meme - "EVERYBODY GANGSTA 'TIL THE SKY STARTS MISSING PIXELS *stealth bomber*"

Konstantin Kisin on X - "It's the third time WW3 has broken out in a year and as many smart people have predicted we're all going to die. Like the last two times. It's been a pleasure knowing you all and I hope to see you in the afterlife. Or just back here tomorrow reading the same panic slop."

Raffi on X - Remember when taking out Soleimani in Jan 2020 was FOR SURE the start of world war 3??"

Matt Van Swol on X - "So let me just get this straight… 12 months ago - Ukrainian flags 9 months ago - Palestinian flags 6 months ago - Mexican flags 1 month ago - Venezuelan flags Now - Iranian flags WHAT ON EARTH?????!!!!!! Do Leftists literally stand for EVERY COUNTRY but America?????"

Moy Miz on X: - "The Muslim world is divided about Iran:
Muslim countries in favor of removing the regime: Jordan 🇯🇴 Kuwait 🇰🇼 UAE 🇦🇪 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Oman 🇴🇲 Qatar 🇶🇦 Bahrain 🇧🇭
Muslim countries against the removal of the regime: Great Britain 🇬🇧 France 🇫🇷 Spain 🇪🇸"

Debra Lea on X - "This is the first time in history where the citizens of a country being bombed are celebrating, while some citizens of the country who did the bombing are protesting. Leftists man, they’re retarded."

The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 on X - "The selective outrage of the “I hate the West but live in the West” leftists over Iranian deaths is pure hypocrisy. Not once did Mehdi post about Iranians being massacred by the Islamic Republic regime, many of them children. Now he suddenly cares about Iranian children because it fits his West-bashing political narrative."

Asra Nomani on X - "2:34 AM: 10 minutes BEFORE Trump even revealed strikes against Iran, a U.S. nonprofit network funded by China-based tycoon Neville Roy Singham activated foot soldiers to hit the streets for PRO-REGIME, ANTI-U.S. protests. Read my latest @FoxNews Digital ⬇️"
Eric Schwalm on X - "Their ability to respond is ridiculous. They have the ability to respond with protests faster than your local emergency services center. In the military we call this "flash to bang time". It is the difference in time it takes from seeing a bomb hit until the sound wave hits you.  Their flash to bang time is Fortune 500 level stuff. They responded faster than Trump could announce it.  "Organic"...My ass."

Insurrection Barbie on X - "Catastrophizing escalation rhetoric.   Take a surgical, limited military action and describe it in the most apocalyptic terms possible to attach a 20-year war prediction and make the audience emotionally unable to distinguish between “airstrike” and “Iraq War.”  This is not just about being wrong and these people know it.   What Carlson, Bannon and their whole network do is structurally identical to Iranian state propaganda, and that’s not an accident.  Trump authorized the Twelve-Day War strikes as a limited, surgical operation to degrade nuclear infrastructure and then brokered a ceasefire within days. That is the Trump doctrine in action: decisive, fast, no boots on the ground, out.  Iran is already economically shattered, militarily degraded, facing its own people in the streets and cannot sustain a prolonged conflict.   According to World Bank projections, Iran’s economy is expected to contract by  2.8% in 2026, with inflation near 50% and the cost of basic goods having risen at least 50% in the past year.   There’s a reason why the same people who are screaming bloody murder about a war right now are being amplified on Iranian State TV.   Their messaging does not serve the best interests of the United States of America.   Their messaging only serves the best interests of the Iranian regime.   And whereas in June, you could’ve given them the benefit of a doubt .  Today not only are they doing this but they know exactly what they are doing.   They hate Israel so much that they would side with genocidal head choppers  over their own president who they campaigned and voted for.  And that is why Jew hatred is a brain virus from the pits of hell."