i/o on X - "Biden and Obama did everything they could to stop Israel from attacking Iran and derailing its nuclear program. Harris would have done the same. If Israel's military campaign achieves its goals, much of the credit should go to Trump for finally giving a green light."
hype on X - "Biden and obama also gave iran $6b"
Meme - Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders: "Netanyahu started this war by attacking Iran. He assassinated Ali Shamkhani, Iran's lead nuclear negotiator, deliberately sabotaging US-Iran nuclear negotiations. The US must not be dragged into another illegal Netanyahu war - either militarily or financially."
Sarah Adams @TPASarah: "Wow, seriously, this is terrorist propaganda by a sitting member of our Congress"
Vivid. @VividProwess: "Are you fucking stupid? Iran started this war by launching a massacre on October 7th through her proxy, Hamas, in Gaza, you absolute piece of shit. The people of Israel stands with Benjamin Netanyahu. Fuck off."
Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "The BBC posted a photo of Tel Aviv and falsely claimed it was a market in Tehran—so they could show women not forced to cover. This wasn’t a mistake. It was intentional propaganda to whitewash Iran. The BBC has zero credibility."
"Tehran is coming back to life, but its residents are deeply shaken and fear further attacks *Hebrew sign* *Man in kippah*"
Meme Pinochet: "*Massacred 3,000 communists and socialists*"
Soyjak: "Look at that Nazi fascist Dictator"
Khomeini: "*Massacred 30,000 communists and socialists*"
Soyjak: "OMG Anti Imperialism!"
Meme - *Mother Ignoring Kid Drowning In A Pool*
Iran: *Happy kid*
Palestine: *Drowning kid*
Pride Flag: *Skeleton submerged in water*
Ukraine: *sunken ship*
Comment: "They suddenly forgot that Iran supplied drones to Russia, and they also persecute LGBT"
AG on X - "Reminder that on April 12th, Trump publicly gave the Islamic Republic 60 days to seriously come to the table on dismantling their nuclear program or face military consequences. Today was day 61…."
Meme - "LIBERALS AFTER THEY JUST HUNG THEIR MEXICAN FLAG AND NOW HAVE TO FIND AN IRAN ONE"
Iran Is Cheating on the Nuclear Deal - "Last week, Germany’s intelligence agency produced a report detailing Iranian cheating"
From July 2016. It's all Trump's fault Iran decided to go for nuclear weapons!
Ursula von der Leyen on X - "Just spoke with Prime Minister @netanyahu . We are following developments in the Middle East with deep concern. I reiterated our commitment to peace, stability, and diplomatic efforts leading to de-escalation. In this context, I underlined that Israel has the right to defend itself. Iran is the main source of regional instability. Europe has always been clear: Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon. There is an urgent need for a negotiated solution. We have consistently voiced strong concerns about Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs — the same missiles indiscriminately hitting cities not only in Israel, but also in Ukraine. We also discussed Gaza. The humanitarian situation in Gaza is unacceptable. I reiterated our urgent call to allow all humanitarian aid to reach civilians in need immediately. The resumption of the ceasefire and the immediate release of the hostages, so that a permanent end of the hostilities can be finally achieved, is a must."
Jesse Kline: The Globe and Mail dismisses threat from Iran to bash Israel - "A direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran has been decades in the making, but some in the media are naively trying to make the case that the Islamic Republic didn’t pose much of a threat to the Jewish state. In Canada’s less interesting national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, columnist Doug Saunders claimed that the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement was “a success,” even though it enriched the country’s theocratic regime with funds it used to conduct a global campaign of terror, while doing little to retard Iran’s nuclear progress. In truth, Iran’s quest to develop nuclear technology, and its genocidal intents, have been well known for decades. At his state of the union address in January 2002, shortly after 9/11, then-U.S. president George W. Bush identified Iran as a member of the “ axis of evil ,” alongside Iraq and North Korea. Unfortunately, Bush attacked the wrong Persian Gulf country starting with the letters IRA, which took out Iran’s greatest regional foe and allowed it to develop its nuclear program unabated. In 2012, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood in front of the United Nations General Assembly and warned the world that Iran was reaching the point of no return. Yet no world leader has had the fortitude to do anything about it — until now. While it’s true that Iran had yet to take the final step of putting together a working bomb, at least as far as we know, the country has for years been enriching uranium past the point that is needed for civilian purposes. An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report released late last month found that the country had stockpiled enough highly enriched uranium to produce nine nuclear warheads. Although Saunders acknowledged that the IAEA’s board of governors censured Iran last week for failing to comply with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — including refusing to answer questions about uranium particles found at undeclared sites — he wrote this off as “a familiar tactic practised by Tehran during negotiations over the last 20 years: increasing tension over its nuclear program in order to create a sense of urgency.” The Globe’s senior international correspondent, Mark MacKinnon, also brushed off fears that Iran was racing towards a bomb, claiming that there is “no evidence suggesting Iran was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon — let alone threatening anyone with it — next week, next month or next year.” Those claims have been disputed by Israeli intelligence officials, who, according to an Army Radio report on Sunday, said that Israel had received information showing that Iranian scientists had been conducting secret nuclear weapons experiments since the end of 2023 and that they were mere weeks away from developing a functional bomb. We may never know the truth, but claiming, as Saunders did, that there is “no looming nuclear-weapons threat from Iran” is disingenuous, at best. Playing games with nuclear inspectors and threatening to ramp up nuclear activities following the IAEA’s damning resolution may be par for the course for the mullahs in Tehran, but the cost of not taking them and their word is far too high for the Jewish state. During the Cold War, the principle of mutual assured destruction ensured the Americans and Soviets never unleashed their nuclear arsenals, but this only worked because both governments were rational actors that did not want to bring about Armageddon. The same cannot be said for the Islamists in Tehran, who are far more concerned with collecting their 72 virgins in the afterlife than protecting life here on earth. For decades, Iranian leaders have been making explicit threats against the Jewish state. Twenty years ago, then-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a talk at the “World Without Zionism” conference, in which he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.” In 2018, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Israel a “cancerous tumour” that must be “removed and eradicated.” A couple years later, his website featured an image calling for a “ final solution ” in Palestine. And in 2019, the deputy head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the Islamic Republic intends to “erase Israel from the global political map.” It’s easy for us, in a safe country like Canada, to watch from afar and criticize the Israeli government’s policies; to claim, as the Globe’s journalists seem apt to do, that Netanyahu is “addicted to war” and that his decision to go to war was pure “political opportunism.” But Netanyahu did not start this war. Israel was the victim of a brutal terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, when thousands of Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel, brutally raping and slaughtering 1,200 people, mostly innocent civilians, and took over 250 hostages. Israel was then attacked by Hezbollah and the Houthis, which are also Iranian proxies. And last year, Tehran turned the long-simmering cold war between the two countries into a hot one when it launched a direct assault against Israel for the first time in history. It’s important to remember that Israel is a small country — less than half the size of Nova Scotia — and it’s surrounded by mortal enemies. According to the Nukemap website, a 150 kiloton nuke, the size of the one tested by North Korea in 2017, would take out Tel Aviv and some of its suburbs, killing an estimated 214,000 people and wounding around 278,000; a 100 megaton bomb, the world’s largest, dropped on Tel Aviv would destroy all of central Israel and kill millions. In the current conflict, Israeli officials estimate that five to 10 per cent of the missiles fired by Iran have penetrated Israel’s air defences. As tragic as it is to see whole apartment buildings destroyed, the effects of even one nuclear warhead detonating within Israeli territory would be catastrophic (and would surely invite a second strike that would bring about even more death and destruction). In the end, the calculation for Netanyahu was simple. He has the solemn duty of protecting the world’s only Jewish state, home to around half the global Jewish population, from experiencing a repeat of the Holocaust. And he is faced with a regime in Tehran that has explicitly stated that it wants to annihilate Israel and has been developing weapons capable of realizing that goal. It’s fair to question Netanyahu’s timing and his strategy, but anyone who didn’t see this coming, or thinks that, barring regime change, this standoff wasn’t eventually going to lead to war, hasn’t been paying attention."
Clearly, threatening for decades to destroy Israel, and sending terrorist proxies after it, means Iran is very peaceful, just like "Death to America" doesn't mean "Death to America"
Merz sparks backlash at home by saying Israel doing 'the dirty work'
Terry Newman: The woke protesters excited for Iran to 'kill' us all - "In response to Israel’s strikes, an X account with 1.2 million followers, calling itself “Daily Iran Military,” wrote on Friday “Fight them until mischief ends and obedience remains for God. The Noble Quran (2:193)” above an image of a devil-like character surrounded by fire, which, when examined from a different perspective like the famous rabbit-duck illusion, reveals a blatant, antisemitic caricature of a hooked-nosed Jew. It’s unclear exactly who is behind this account, but it features a steady stream of posts advocating the worldview of the Iranian regime. Whoever is behind it, it is unsurprising that Iran’s army responded in the same spirit as the inarguably antisemitic post. Unlike Israel, Iran’s bombardment didn’t seek to target only military sites or leaders. Its ballistic missiles targeted the only democratic nation in the Middle East with complete disregard as to whether they landed on civilian targets or not. This is consistent with world history and global politics. Iran is run by the Islamic regime, whose leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has denied the Holocaust, calling it Zionist propaganda, and referred to Israel as a “malignant cancerous tumour … that has to be removed and eradicated.” The aforementioned demand-chant to “Stop bombing Iran!” was recorded in London’s Parliament Square, screamed out over a crowd of what appeared to be mostly white, middle-aged (and older) Palestinian Solidarity Campaign protesters. Some repeated the chant — though not particularly exuberantly — while draped in their keffiyehs. Most had their arms down along their sides, or wrapped around their bodies in a guarded, defensive position, indicating that the defence of Iran might be more than they signed up for. Perhaps their bodies are telling them that it’s bizarre for a westerner to defend the Islamic Republic of Iran. This isn’t simply because it should never be allowed to have nuclear weapons, either. The Islamic regime’s morality police detain, arrest and kill protesters with impunity. They punish women whose public dress and behaviour do not strictly conform to Sharia law. Iranian women cannot show their hair. They cannot dance. They cannot sing. According to the U.S. Department of State, Iran is the “foremost state sponsor of terrorism,” providing “financial, training, and equipment, to (terrorist) groups around the world,” including the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas... A 2022 survey by the Dutch Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran found that over 80 per cent of Iranians reject the Islamic Republic and prefer a democratic government. Yet another reason why Israel’s strategic attack on the Islamic Republic should be applauded and not protested against — and not just for the people of Iran, but the entire western democratic world, which Iran sees as its enemy. Yet, brainwashed westerners have been convinced the problem is Israel, not the Islamic Republic of Iran. They don’t seem to be able to differentiate between the desires of the regime and the people it oppresses. Activist groups like Palestine Solidarity Campaign do not appear to be concerned about unreported money flowing into universities globally from Qatar, which the Institute for the Global Study of Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) suggests is being used to promote anti-democratic and antisemitic ideologies on campuses. In other words, to turn westerners against their own countries and democratic rights, including the right to protest. Palestine Solidarity Campaign has been organizing marches against Israel since 2019, some jointly, with other U.K.-based groups such as Friends of Al-Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain, and, ironically, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. I guess alignment on important matters such as nuclear disarmament is only possible when the disarmers aren’t Israelis. They weren’t the only activists out there embarrassing themselves. Founded as a feminist anti-war group, CODEPINK proudly listed its weekly accomplishments on X, including “opposed Israel’s attacks on Iran.” A strange thing to oppose, given Israel’s precision, Iran’s near-complete uranium enrichment and the group’s stated mission. Interestingly, CODEPINK’s feed is void of feminist issues and contains zero criticism of the attacks on women in Israel on October 7. Notably, they’ve expressed no outrage over the broken body of Shani Louk, paraded around by gleeful barbarians in the back of a truck, nor Naama Levy, hauled out of a jeep with the seat of her pants heavily bloodied. Nor did they express any concern for mother Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped, terrified and crying, while holding her two red-haired sons, who we’d later find out were all murdered by Hamas. In fact, there are no posts on or near October 7, 2023 from CODEPINK. The earliest is on Oct. 25, long after horrific videos circulated on Telegram. It reads: “A genocide is unfolding before our eyes — who is responsible? … Learn more about these criminals and many others backing Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestine: codepink.org/genocidegang.” Just this past Saturday, at a pro-Palestine event in Victoria, B.C., a Palestinian woman, Fadi Elarid gleefully remarked while being recorded, “Free Palestine. Iran will kill you all.”... Will westerners wake up? It’s hard to say. Critical theories such as white privilege, decolonization and anti-racism coupled with a secular vacuum has turned many into useful idiots marching for the benefit of the Islamic Republic."
Left wingers just hate the West and white people
CUPE Ontario sponsoring 'Hands off Iran' rally outside U.S. consulate this Sunday - "The Ontario chapter of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is sponsoring a demonstration outside the American consulate in Toronto in protest of support for Israel amid its ongoing efforts to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. “Hands off Iran,” the advertisement for the Sunday event reads in all caps. Nearly a dozen sponsoring groups are listed on the poster alongside CUPE Ontario, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, an organization that has repeatedly expressed support for the October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel... “By supporting this protest, CUPE Ontario is siding with a regime — run by unelected mullahs — that tortures and kills dissidents, oppresses women and LGBTQ+ Iranians, persecutes minorities, and sponsors terrorism across the globe,” the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) general counsel Richard Marceau said in an email. “In what world is this considered progressive? In backing Tehran’s theocracy, CUPE Ontario has aligned itself with the most extreme of the extremists.”... “In the past week, the Israeli occupation launched air strikes in Iran. We see this attack for what it is: a brazen attempt to escalate violence and undermine sovereignty in the region. From the Zionist occupation’s full blockade of the West Bank and starvation and genocide in Gaza, to U.S. claims of nuclear weapons, to (Prime Minister Mark) Carney’s failure to condemn the aggression, we stand against this coordinated imperialist attack on our region,” the Palestinian Youth Movement wrote on Instagram... In its statement Tuesday, CUPE Ontario said it was simply joining with “other unions, labour organizations, and allies” in calling for peace... B’nai Brith Canada, a national Jewish organization that runs an annual antisemitic tracker, questioned how the union was “standing in solidarity with terrorists and despots, whose ideology calls for the annihilation of Western civilization,” asking how it served “the best interest of Canadian workers?”... On several occasions, the political and religious leaders of Iran have called for the destruction of Israel. In 2005, then Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared, “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Ten years later, current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowed the Jewish state would not exist in “25 years” during a speech in Tehran... CUPE Ontario has faced increased scrutiny since the October 7 terrorist attacks, when union president Fred Hahn called the atrocities the “power of resistance.” He later issued an apology for his comments and said they were misconstrued by “bad faith actors with a divisive agenda,” but the union has remained opposed to Israel throughout its conflict with Iran’s proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis — and has encouraged members to attend anti-Israel vigils and rallies... In August 2024, dozens of union members called for Hahn’s resignation after he shared a video on his Facebook of an Olympic swimmer wearing a Star of David jumping off a diving board and turning into an exploding bomb. “My intent was never to associate Jewish people with the violence enacted by the state of Israel. It remains my strongly held view that it is a terrible mistake, and anti-Semitic, to conflate abhorrent actions by the state of Israel with Jewish humanity or identity,” he later wrote"
The left wing agenda is all linked. Violent "minorities" are never at fault and must be pandered to - only responsible adults have agency
Of course, if you condemn Iran sponsoring terrorism, that's racist and Islamophobic
Iran Claims: We Have Gained Complete Control over the Skies of Israel : r/nottheonion - "My favorite is the AI generated image Iran released of a supposedly shot down Israeli F-35. But it's like 5 times too big. I like to imagine the Iranians that made the image think Israelis are giants and need giant jets."
"You forget the time Iran publicly exhibited a Raspberry PI claiming it was a ground breaking quantum computer they just developed. The audience isn't us."
Opinion: Why the Muslim world failed to come to Iran's defence - "This says a lot about how much the theocratic regime in Tehran has been distanced from the rest of the Muslim world. Even Iran’s partners in the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation — which are largely seen as anti-U.S., anti-western alliances — didn’t lift a finger. Many Iranians living outside Iran supported the campaign by Israel and the United States to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities... The apathy of the Muslim world towards the regime spectacularly shattered the myth that its brand of Islam and its pan-jihadism is accepted and supported by a majority of Muslim nations. In truth, this has never been the case. Iran stands isolated from the Muslim world for a number of reasons. From a political perspective, many countries in the region believe the Iranian mullahs pervert Islam to further their own political ends and are angry over last year’s strikes against Pakistan and the more recent targeting of a U.S. military base in Qatar. Iran, of course, is a Shiite country, which has historically put it at odds with some of its Sunni neighbours. But even other Shiite nations do not like the fact that when Ayatollah Khomeini was in exile in France in the 1970s, he attempted to forge relations with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and brought many of its ideas back with him to Iran. Then there was the so-called Axis of Resistance, which consisted of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the Assad regime in Syria. These jihadists use violence as a means of achieving their extremist goals, which usually doesn’t garner much support among the international community. Just look at how many countries stood by Afghanistan after America was hit on 9/11 — almost none. The Iranian regime is hated both at home and abroad due to its internal oppression (especially of women) and external aggression. This shatters the myth that Muslims across the board are jihad-loving, regressive populations. The resistance of Iranians at home, and in the diaspora, shows that many of them never liked what was happening to their country. Even people from Lebanon and Syria, the countries where Iran ruled through its terror proxies for years, did not protest when Israel and the U.S. struck Iran. In fact, many Lebanese people did not even try to hide their jubilation when Hezbollah was knocked down from its perch. One thing that struck us is that, as American and Israeli bombs were raining down on Iran’s nuclear and military facilities, the streets of nearby Dubai remained unusually calm — something that likely never would have happened even 20 years ago. The United Arab Emirates has always lived under the threat of Iranian aggression, but now things seem different. Something has fundamentally changed in the Gulf security calculus. The calm on U.A.E. streets mean that rulers and businesses don’t think Iran poses a significant threat anymore. The U.A.E.’s warm relations with Israel and the U.S. following the signing of the Abraham Accord adds an extra layer of security and comfort. Perhaps this explains why there was no panic among the ruling elite when war broke out in a neighbouring country, as there was during the first and second Gulf wars. Now that the last vestige of jihadi Islam has been defanged, the hope is that Muslim rulers and populations will use this opportunity to reset their worldviews and pivot towards a future that brings prosperity and progress."
Time to blame the "Zionists" for nefarious skullduggery and undermining Muslim solidarity, and for left wingers to call for even more "solidarity" in their mission to destroy the West
Of course, you still have terrorism supporters blaming "Zionists" for all the evils in this world, even claiming that Chinese cyberattacks on Singapore are really by "Zionists", and praising Iran for standing up to them. Clearly, even other Muslim countries are controlled by "Zionists"
The Iranian regime's new war is targeting its own people - "Under the cover of conflict, Iran has begun a new war against its own people... The leaders of the human rights movement in Iran are suffering in the notorious Evin prison. In a country that enforces gender apartheid and has the highest rates of child executions in the world, their campaigns for just causes like equality for women and against the death penalty have garnered them praise and respect from the Iranian public, and punitive reprisals from the regime... So long as this crackdown goes unchallenged, the regime in Iran will continue its assault against the Iranian people and their most prominent voices for change. This intensifying attack on dissidents also undermines any hope for the reforms these heroes could lead to advance human rights, peace and stability in the region. This renewed repression was no mere byproduct of wartime governance. It is now worsening as a calculated and ambitious strategy of the Ayatollah to enforce ideological and religious conformity, extinguish the flame of dissent ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini and the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, and consolidate authoritarian control... The Supreme Leader’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization in Canada, is at the centre of this campaign. The IRGC not only directs missile programs, but also oversees prisons, monitors universities, and suppresses civil society. To treat the IRGC merely as a regional security threat is to misunderstand its full function as the regime’s primary mechanism for maintaining power at the expense of the Iranian people’s freedom and dignity. Canada commendably leads the annual UN General Assembly statement on human rights in Iran, but has been notably absent in supporting the Iranian people now in their greatest time of need. Instead, Canada has become a safe haven for their oppressors. Only 20 senior regime officials have been caught on Canadian soil and encouraged to depart or be deported, despite reports of over 700 IRGC members operating in Canada. It would send a powerful message to the Iranian people if their abusers were prosecuted rather than protected in Canada. This should be pursued even if only as a matter of Canadian public safety, given their efforts to carry out assassinations in Canada and harass the grieving Canadian families of Flight PS752 victims"
