Hannah Chan | Facebook - "“Dubai influencers are being paid to push a certain narrative!!” Or maybe.. People who live in Dubai are defending Dubai simply because we have a ton of trust and loyalty to UAE based on how competent the government is and how well we are taken care of. The same way a loyal client/customer would defend a product from inaccurate hate. It’s so crazy to see a lot of the UK ppl use this as an opportunity to hate Dubai. I’m even hearing people from the UK saying things like “this is what you get for dodging UK taxes and moving to Dubai.” As someone who is living in Dubai, the day to day streets is nowhere NEAR as chaotic as how western media is portraying. The past few days I’ve gone to Armani Hotel, Nobu, the gym, and this morning I just got back from Sauna. I can still order food on deliveroo. My housekeeper just came for their weekly clean. The streets are quieter, but everything still feels very peaceful.  I’m not saying nothing is happening. I’m saying a ton of news outlets online are cherry picking footage and painting a picture of Dubai being in shambles, stuff going up in flames, when it’s not riot on the streets. This photo was taken this morning from my gym. Don’t Western media trick you into thinking that there’s random explosions everywhere and ppl are hiding in shelters, as the norm. Myself & a ton of others have trust in the UAE government because they’ve shown a track record in being competent and taking care of their people. As someone with a British passport, I can’t say the same about the UK. That is the reason you see ppl defending Dubai. Not because influencers are paid to push propaganda or because we aren’t allowed to post any negativity."
British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles - "A 60-year-old British man has been charged under cyber-crime laws in Dubai after allegedly filming Iranian missiles over the city... The tourist was detained under a law in the United Arab Emirates that prohibits publishing or sharing material that could disturb public security, according to Detained in Dubai, which provides legal assistance in the country... The CEO of Detained in Dubai, Radha Stirling, said 21 people had been "charged together under the UAE's cybercrime laws in connection with videos and social media posts relating to the recent missile strikes". She said police found a video of an Iranian missile strike in Dubai on the British man's phone. She told the BBC the formal charges were "very vague". "I've reviewed the charge sheet and, from reading it, you wouldn't know what they've done wrong," Stirling said. "We're seeing more and more people being charged under the UAE's cyber-crime rules." She added that the man's family had been able to speak to him after he was detained. Stirling said she believed the UAE was cracking down on people filming missiles in order to "maintain the facade that it is safe for tourists". Criticism of the government is illegal in the UAE, and it exercises strict control over the flow information out of the country. UK-based human rights group Amnesty International has said the UAE has "continued to criminalise the right to freedom of expression through multiple laws and to punish actual or perceived critics of the government"."
Be Careful What You Say When Visiting These Countries (Insulting The Government Could Land You In Serious Trouble) - "Multiple foreign tourists have been arrested in Dubai and beyond for seemingly harmless activities (via Christian Science Monitor). In 2014, a boy was detained for posting a video mocking teenagers' fashion sense in the city, while a more recent and absurd case saw an Irishman detained at the border over a Google review of a previous employer (via BBC)."
‘If you make negative videos, you could be deported’: Dubai Police video warning Indians in UAE goes viral amid Iran’s attack - "A video message attributed to the Dubai Police is circulating widely on social media, warning Indian residents in the UAE against filming and sharing “negative” content such as accident clips or fire incidents. The speaker in the video says those who post such videos could face “direct deportation,” stressing that such content harms Dubai’s image and spreads misinformation"
Dubai Police Warn of Deportation for Spreading Negative Information on Social Media - "Authorities in the UAE have warned people for spreading negative information about the nation. A video of a Dubai Police officer giving an awareness speech has been shared on the internet, in which arguing social media users should not spread misinformation or negative information or videos about Dubai. Doing so will prompt action from authorities, which can lead to deportation."
Sarah Tuttle-Singer | Facebook - "Relief is sweeping across the world today as Greta Thunberg has emerged to excoriate Israel and the United States for harming the environment during their war with Iran. Apparently, the most urgent ecological concern in the Middle East right now is not the prospect of a nuclear Iran — which, inconveniently, might actually end the world and therefore damage the environment in a rather permanent way — but rather the carbon footprint of the people trying to prevent that from happening. Thank goodness someone is finally speaking up. Western moralist celebrities were quick to join the chorus. Roger Waters is reportedly already composing a new protest anthem that approximately 17 people will stream — 11 of them on a kibbutz in the Galilee. Mark Ruffalo has taken a break from his artisanal kambucha to explain that Israel remains the real problem. Susan Sarandon is once again bravely standing with “the oppressed,” a category that somehow never seems to include Israelis under missile fire or Iranian protestors murdered by the IRGC And just like that, Cynthia Nixon has joined in as well, reminding us that nothing says geopolitical expertise like a celebrity social media caption. It’s always comforting to see the international commentariat spring into action with such moral clarity. Especially when that clarity somehow manages to miss the small detail that a regime openly pursuing nuclear weapons while funding terror proxies across the region might pose a slightly larger threat to humanity — and, yes, to the environment — than the jets trying to stop it. But nuance has never been the point, right? Virtue signaling, on the other hand, remains a renewable resource."
The doomsayers are wrong on Iran. The war is already a success - "For decades, “anti-war” pundits, Democrats, Iranian shills from the Obama era, the United Nations, right-wing isolationists, think tank experts, and others have issued hysterically dire predictions of the tragedy that would befall the world if the United States moved against the Islamic regime in Iran. You could fill a thick book with quotes from experts bringing up the specter of World War III. Only a few months ago, groyper cult leader and podcaster Tucker Carlson predicted that Iran’s “fearsome arsenal of ballistic missiles” would “easily kill thousands of Americans” in the first week of conflict. Carlson predicted that the “global bloc called BRICS, which represents the majority of the world’s land mass,” would come to the aid of Iran, and the conflict could “easily become a world war.” Well, none of that has come true. Not even close. Yet, the public is being subjected to a campaign of demoralization, historical illiteracy, and lies. We’re less than two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, and an average American might be under the impression it’s the Vietnam War all over again. War never comes without a price. The truth about military conflicts shouldn’t be sugarcoated. No one knows how war will turn out. It will almost certainly be messy and expensive, and the media have a responsibility to report all the ugly and gory details. But the joint American and Israeli campaign to defang the Islamic Republic has been perhaps the most efficient and successful large-scale military operation in modern history, already meeting most of its objectives. You’d never know it reading the establishment media. “Even as Iran has been ‘pummeled’ by Israeli and American air strikes, with its military capabilities greatly diminished, Tehran continues to demonstrate resolve, both in adapting and expanding its military tactics,” reports ABC News, employing the media’s prevailing defeatist tone. By “diminished” capacity, ABC means that the U.S. and Israel have complete control of the Iranian airspace while suffering limited casualties. The regime’s air defense systems, supplied by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, are largely destroyed. We are now methodically demolishing Iran’s military infrastructure, control headquarters, manufacturing plants, and, almost surely, the cleric’s nuclear program. By “diminished,” ABC News means there is no real military hierarchy in Iran. Indeed, the Iranian air force and navy no longer functionally exist. The U.S. has already stopped the clerics from obtaining a “fearsome arsenal of ballistic missiles” and reaching a line of immunity that would have made conflict far more deadly. In 2024, the regime launched 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Today, it fires one or two at a time. And the attacks decrease every day. The Iranians are now relying on low-cost drones. No BRICS nation, incidentally, not Russia nor China, has come to the aid of the mullahs. The regime, in fact, has launched missiles at two BRICS members, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, in its attempt to widen the conflict. Even if Putin wanted to help the Islamists, he probably wouldn’t know who to call. The entire leadership of the regime was decapitated in the first minutes of the conflict. A pinpoint obliteration of an enemy’s top brass is unprecedented in modern war. Yet, outlets such as Reuters want us to believe that the U.S. military thinks, “Iran’s leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of imminent collapse.” Largely intact? Except, I guess, for the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei; Aziz Nasirzadeh, the minister of defense; Mohammad Pakpour, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Ali Shamkhani, the head of the Supreme National Security Council; Mohammad Shirazi, the chief of the military bureau … and, well, you get the idea. Over 60, and counting, of the top regime leaders are buried under rubble... One of the pressing issues is that the Islamic Republic has now reportedly closed the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world’s oil flows each day. CNN reports that the Trump administration “did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes.” This claim, almost surely leaked to the stenographers at the network by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, flies in the face of credulity. The Pentagon has been dealing with threats to strait for over 40 years. But if you’re really worried about the Strait of Hormuz, just imagine what the regime could do to world oil supplies if it were allowed to have a nuclear weapon or Chinese Communist Party supersonic anti-ship missiles. The objective of the assault was to stop that from happening. It’s perfectly healthy to debate the necessity to attack revolutionary Iran, which has waged a 47-year violent war against the U.S. through its proxies. Anyone using even a modicum of historical context should admire the extraordinary power and precision of the American military campaign... None of this is to say there aren’t questions, either... Many of the experts who warned an attack on Iran would unleash an apocalypse now caution that if the clerics hold on, they will be extra mad at us, more radicalized, and more incentivized to pursue nuclear weapons. Will they be more dangerous than the government that funded murderous proxy armies across the Middle East? Or the one that murdered tens of thousands of its own peaceful protesters over a few days’ time? Will they be more incentivized than the mullahs who built cement-reinforced nuclear facilities 300 feet under granite mountains? It’s doubtful. But if that’s the case, we’ll have to face them again in the future. There’s no panacea. But Epic Fury, at the very least, ensures that the regime is now weaker in every way imaginable."
The Paradox of Survival in Iran - "Reports of more than 100 elementary schoolgirls killed at a school in southern Iran—amid the first wave of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian territory—haunt a nation long accustomed to mourning its children. For almost half a century, Iranians have watched countless young lives extinguished by their own government: protesters shot in the streets, prisoners executed after sham trials, teenagers murdered in custody. This is the paradox of survival in Iran. Iranians are being asked to demonstrate moral clarity about a war that endangers them from two fronts. It should be unsurprising that impromptu celebrations occurred across Iran after the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of the regime’s security apparatus were killed. Instead, such celebrations were swiftly criticized. Some even condemned them as callous toward civilian suffering. And on March 2, members of Iran’s women’s national soccer team refused to sing the national anthem before a match in Australia—a courageous act of defiance that spoke loudly against the regime, even as non-Iranians abroad rally under its flag in opposition to war. Some players sought asylum in Australia. They too were scrutinized. But such judgments often come from a place of distance—from people who have never lived under a theocracy that imprisons, tortures, and kills with impunity. For those inside Iran—or those who have fled its repression—the moral calculus of survival looks very different... The international order promises universal human rights. Yet when a state itself becomes the chief violator of those rights, the system often offers little more than reports, statements of concern, and carefully worded condemnations. For too many Iranians, justice has never arrived. During the nationwide uprising that shook Iran in early 2026, human rights monitors documented thousands of deaths as security forces carried out a lethal crackdown on protesters. But according to local health officials, the true death toll could be as high as 30,000. When authorities cut internet and phone service across Iran, families were left searching for missing loved ones at makeshift morgues. For many Iranians, this violence is not an abstraction. It is the air they breathe. This context helps explain why many people inside the country have reacted to the deaths of regime figures with relief. Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh described the desperation bluntly in an interview earlier this year. Speaking about public sentiment inside Iran, she said that “many people are waiting for this strike. Many who have been driven to the brink see it as their last hope.” Many of us, including Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, called for "highly targeted actions against Iran's supreme leader and senior commanders of the Revolutionary Guard.” This does not mean Iranians welcome war. On the contrary, they long to end the war waged against them by the Islamic Republic. A friend in Iran, reaching me through a rare satellite connection after the fighting began, etched her experience into my memory. “If you have never lived in a prison state, if you’ve never had to search rows of body bags for your child, you cannot understand why we celebrated when the attacks killed our oppressors," she said. "It felt like long-awaited justice." Then her voice faltered. “My children are afraid of the bombs,” she explained. “And I am afraid for their future if this regime survives.”... For decades, Iranians have appealed to the international community to hold the Islamic Republic regime accountable for systematic abuses. We have filed reports, documented atrocities, and testified before international bodies. And for decades, those inside Iran have risked their lives to expose the regime’s atrocities. When justice is consistently denied, people begin to see its sudden arrival—even in violent form—as something else entirely. Not vengeance. Recognition. Recognition that the suffering they endured was real. That their tormentors were not untouchable. That the world had finally noticed."
Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن on X - "It is not inhumane to care that Iranian school girls were killed. It is inhumane to need the missile to be fired by the U.S. or Israel before deciding to care. That protest doesn't come from your heart. It comes from your hate. Trust me, we feel it."
@JudeanGeneral ll 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 on X - "Gazan children casualties due to Ham@s use of human shields only mattered as they could try to blame Israel. > 50,000 massacred in Iran by the terrorist regime and total silence as no angle to blame Israel or Jews. Pathetic hypocrisy."
Dragmits on X - "They still try to pin it on the Jews."
Partisanship on Iran Is Dangerous for America - WSJ - "Every past president since Bill Clinton, Republican and Democrat alike, has declared that Iran couldn’t be permitted to develop nuclear weapons. Not one acted to prevent it. Every president since Ronald Reagan has condemned Iran’s role in terrorism against American citizens, interests and allies. Not one acted to stop it. Instead each president left his successor with a more dangerous Iran and a more complicated threat to address. Last June President Trump undertook a limited military operation designed to interrupt Iran’s development of nuclear weapons and discourage the country from continuing its nuclear program. In the face of Iran’s refusal to forswear nuclear weapons and evidence that it was rapidly increasing the number, sophistication and range of its missiles, Mr. Trump began the current military campaign. If he hadn’t acted, his successor would have been left with an even more dangerous choice than his predecessors left him. Three or four years from now, the Iranian missiles now hitting Iran’s neighbors could be hitting Berlin or London, perhaps even New York or Washington—perhaps with a nuclear device or at least a dirty bomb.
‘Nothing Will Remain of Tehran,’ Iranians Say Amid Heavy Bombing - The New York Times - "“Some people are comfortable with the bombings — I know that may sound strange,” said Ali. “They are upset if there is a night without bombing, and fear the war might end while the regime remains. You can see this clearly. People say we have already paid enough of a price and the Islamic republic must go.” Ali said he was sympathetic to that view. “Our lives have no value for the Islamic republic,” he said. “We are the government’s human shields.”"
Clearly, left wingers and non-Iranian Islamists know better than "Iranians" (who are all really Mossad agents)
Nathan J Robinson on X - "every senior member of this administration should be prosecuted for war crimes"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "The same people who refuse to believe any vetted US-gov or mainstream media info, ever, will absolutely 100% always accept "Javad the Islamist militia-man from Tehran" as a reputable source. Amazing."
Why are people ‘standing up’ for Iranians now? - "thousands of Iranians have been slaughtered in the streets over the last few weeks alone and it’s been getting very little coverage in the press. Organizations, politicians, FB groups, and others that present themselves as peace activists, or who are ‘standing for the oppressed’, have also said very little (if anything) about it, and now they are speaking up about the school being hit. They are also circulating images of Iranian school girls wearing hijabs that show a bit of hair in front which totally ignores the reality of what these girls and women have to deal with every day of their lives. If they went out in to the streets showing this much hair, they would be beaten. Masha Amini was beaten for showing too much hair and she died of her injuries. They’ve been virtually ignoring the plight of Iranian women along with the thousands of Iranians who have been murdered in the streets over the last few weeks, and now they are speaking up. Why now? Obviously it can’t be out of concern for the Iranian people. If they are only speaking up now because America is involved, this is using the suffering of Iranians only to demonize America - the same way they use the suffering of Palestinians only to demonize Israel. Peace activists should be spreading peace. The politicians and organizations who spew nothing but vitriol are not peace activists. These are hate movements disguising themselves as peace movements and too many people are being fooled by it."
Danielle Gill on X - "Former Iranian women’s soccer player @Shiva_Amini_11 just said Iran’s oppressive Islamic regime “took everything” from her. “I lost my home. I lost my family. I lost my safety.” Why haven’t we heard a peep from the feminists on this? Follow: @DanielleDSouzaG"
Feminists will condemn her as an Islamophobe and supporting "imperialism"
U.S. Senator John Fetterman on X - "Why do Democrats now universally condemn what achieves a top, longstanding Democratic priority?"
Kamala Harris says Iran is ‘greatest adversary’ of US | Kamala Harris News | Al Jazeera
Hillary Clinton Says She ‘Will Not Hesitate to Take Military Action’ If Iran Attempts to Get Nuclear Weapon - ABC News
𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘™️ on X - "Who had liberals siding with the Ayatollah and the Iranian regime? Literally everyone."
Melissa 🇨🇦 on X - "So Canadian Armed Forces & bases were ATTACKED by Iran in Kuwait, and 1) Carney didn’t tell Canadians 2) Canada didn’t respond back, and 3) Carney said Canada would never get involved in the War on Iran, even though we were attacked 🤯 This is weakness and very concerning"
Naturally Carney supporters kept insisting it didn't happen
NP View: Iran is no longer a foreign war - "Iran committed an act of war against Canada and the Canadian government kept it from the public until it was reported by the media — 11 days later. When asked on Thursday why the fact that an Iranian missile hit a Canadian air base in Kuwait on March 1 was not disclosed, Prime Minister Mark Carney was visibly annoyed. “I’m not the only spokesperson for the government,” he said. The tone is revealing, but the secrecy should be unacceptable to anyone who takes the defence of Canada seriously. Article content Article content Carney and his ministers have repeatedly said that Canada will not be involved in the war in Iran, but at no point since March 1, did any of them explain that the Iranians had attacked the Canadian section of the Ali Al-salem Air Base, and how that might inform the government’s reaction... the Liberal government’s position on Iran is that it supports the attack, but objects on both legal and moral grounds... One wonders whether the prime minister informed his Liberal colleagues that a Canadian base had been hit. Would that change anything, or is the anti-Israeli faction of the party too strong for Canada to recognize that its sovereignty has been challenged in the direct form of a missile? Article content Article content The threat from Iran is hardly theoretical. In addition to targeting U.S. bases and civilian infrastructure around the Middle East, the Iranian regime has launched missiles at other NATO members, including Turkey and a British base in Cyprus. If this continues, the insistence that Canada will not be involved in the war begins to look less like prudence and more like an abdication of duty and a rejection of the basic responsibilities of the state, both to its own defence and the defence of its allies. When it comes to Iran, the government is barely willing to admit there’s a problem. There are potentially hundreds of agents linked to the regime in Canada, including members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which orchestrates terrorist attacks around the world and is responsible for blowing up a plane full of Canadians in 2020. Since 2022, immigration officials have suspended the travel visas of 239 people with concerning links to the Iranian regime, and some 32 have been named by the Canada Border Services Agency as being “inadmissible” to Canada. Yet only one has been deported. When asked about this at a committee this week, the CBSA’s asylum policy chief, Brett Bush, gave an outrageous answer: “One of the big problems today … is access to flights into Iran.” All that does is prompt the question: why weren’t they deported beforehand? Article content In a statement to CTV News earlier this week about the threat from Iranian agents in Canada, CSIS said that “a violent extremist attack remains a realistic possibility,” just as it was before the war. Article content CSIS has also intercepted death threats from Iranian agents against anti-regime dissidents in Canada. In a speech in November, CSIS Director Dan Rogers made the threat from Iran explicit: “We’ve had to re-prioritize our operations to counter the actions of Iranian intelligence services and their proxies who have targeted individuals they perceive as threats to their regime.” Article content The Islamic Republic of Iran is a direct threat to Canada, as it is to the rest of the West. This isn’t some foreign war. Canada’s leaders should respond accordingly."
Time to blame Trump, even if Iran's attacks on non-American and non-Israeli targets were deliberate. Of course, if Israel or the US accidentally attack the wrong target, they're evil monsters
Raza Ahmad Rumi on X - "Some segments of the Iranian diaspora cheering Iran’s destruction reflect a deeper identity politics. As Vali Nasr notes, they seek distance from the “Global South” and aspire to a Western—often white—political identity. Support for Israel or even MAGA politics is “integration.”"
Constance on X - "Only someone deeply disconnected from Iranian history would frame Iranian identity through the racial politics of the “Global South.” Iran is not a colonial construct searching for “whiteness.” It is a 7,000-year-old civilization and one of the world’s oldest continuous nation-states. Iranians supporting Israel, the West, or democracy is not “identity integration.” It is a rejection of the Islamist regime that hijacked their country in 1979. Iranians have resisted religious domination for centuries in many forms. Islam in Iran is not an organic expression of Iranian civilization — it is a colonial inheritance from the Arab conquest that has repeatedly clashed with Iran’s deeper civilizational identity. That tension runs through Iranian history: movements to reclaim Iranian culture, language, and statehood from clerical domination appear again and again. Anyone who wants to understand this should read Abbas Milani’s The Lost Wisdom of Persia and V. S. Naipaul’s Among the Believers and Beyond Belief, which examine the psychology of societies shaped by conquest and religious imperialism. Reducing that to racial aspiration is not analysis — it is projection."
