Mehdi Hasan on X - "To be clear, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will be responsible for every dead American, God forbid, if Iran retaliates against US targets in the region and beyond after an unprovoked and illegal attack by the United States, encouraged by Israel. Our media should be clear: Trump is about to launch a war of choice that the American public doesn’t want. Trump owns all the consequences of it."
Rachel Moiselle on X - "There is simply no way to make this argument without conceding that Hamas is responsible for every dead Gazan, which is of course a position that Mehdi has explicitly and relentlessly argued against for over two years. The hypocrisy is astounding."
Left wingers just hate the West
Meme - ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi @__Injaneb96: "As an Iranian, it is heart-wrenching to watch my homeland being burned down and my people being slaughtered in cold blood by savage Islamists. As an Iranian in New York, I would like to beg every single American to not let America fall into the hands of Islamists. You do not want to see your children getting slaughtered fighting this evil. And I know you think that cannot happen to America but believe me that is what Iranians thought in 1979… *Zohran Mamdani*"
David Patrikarakos on X - "Hitler salutes, calls for genocide, and stanning the ayatollah. These are today’s pro-Palestinian “peace” protestors. H/T @nicolelampert"
Toronto Police on X - "150,000 demonstrators and zero incidents. Thanks to the meticulous planning, effective on‑the‑ground work, and professionalism of our members and specialized units, yesterday’s event in the heart of our city remained safe and peaceful."
Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 on X - "This is the difference between Iranians and the pro-Balestine 7th century Allah-o-Akbar savages. Even Toronto Police are impressed that the largest political demonstration in Canada's history was conducted peacefully, with zero incidents. This is what being Iranian is about."
Terry Glavin: Iran faces horrific disintegration, not righteous revolution - "Historic geopolitical events are turning on dimes these days, but a democratic revolution to supplant the decrepit Khomeinist police state in Iran looks less likely at the moment than a total disintegration of the country, with the ayatollahs and the hard core of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps surviving in the rubble of economic and social ruin... It was Washington’s preoccupation with cementing a nuclear deal as Obama’s foreign-policy legacy that pulled the White House back from supporting Iran’s massive pro-democracy uprising in 2009, when the Islamic Republic’s constitutionally-rigged presidential election went to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Washington fixation with a nuclear deal resumed during Joe Biden’s presidency. “Iranians calling for democracy became an inconvenience,” is the way the high-profile Iranian-American human rights activist and journalist Masih Alinejad puts it. “We’ve had five or six major uprisings since 2009. And still, they thought they could make deals.”... The Pahlavists have developed a reputation for demanding fealty to their “crown prince” and insisting on the purging of liberals and leftists. Pahlavi’s associates “spend most of their time peddling distrust and attacking other opposition leaders on social media rather than organizing real action against the regime,” says Mariam Memarsadeghi, a founder of the Cyrus Forum for Iran’s Future and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who was re-arrested in Iran last month and remains incommunicado in jail, calls the Pahlavists “the opposition against the opposition.” As Trump resumes the American presidential habit of dithering and dabbling in discreet talks with regime interlocutors, the broad cross-section of the Euro-American “anti-war” movement prefers to ignore the cause of Iranian democracy altogether. And as long as the Khomeinists are allowed to remain in place and an exasperated and exhausted opposition waits for American firepower to undo the damage American policy has helped create, the prospects for a democratic revolution grow more dim. The IRGC has been allowed to entrench itself as a well-armed corporate caste within Iranian society, controlling perhaps a third of what’s left of the economy and surviving on oil sales through a shadow fleet that offloads in the Chinese ports south of Shandong. Then there’s the matter of Iran’s minorities — roughly 40 per cent of Iran’s 90 million people. They include Kurds, Azeris, and perhaps six million viciously persecuted Ahwazis — the remnant of an Arab emirate annexed by Iran in 1925. They’re not all averse to the idea of Iran falling apart entirely. It requires a great deal of wishful thinking to imagine that the western liberal democracies’ decades of delusion, dithering and disinterest will be soon rewarded by a democratic and unified Iran conjured from the ashes of Khomeinism. It doesn’t require much wishful thinking at all to conclude that Khomeinism is destined for the ash heap, however. So at least there’s that."
Meme - Kareem Rifai @KareemRifai: ""These Iranian youth getting shot in the face for demanding democracy are ignorant Western intelligence assets" I tweeted from my armchair in London."
Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh: "If you haven't figured it out yet, this is a war on Islam. Fully manufactured by Mossad, CIA and Western Imperialism. Supported by ignorant Iranians, working with foreign collaborators."
Readers added context: "For 46 years, the Islamic regime has been executing lranians under various pretexts, such as links to foreign powers and spying for foreign states. The rhetoric used by this individual could easily be weaponized as a justification for the regime's killing of Iranians."
Community Notes & Violations on X - "Q: "Who do you think is more for women's rights: The Trump administration or the Iranian regime?"
Feminists: "I'm against Trump. So, Iranian regime!""
Critical Spectator | Facebook - "I distinctly remember Singapore's ex-president Halimah Yacob claiming that if you stay silent about atrocities you're complicit in them. Of course she was talking about Gaza, not Sudan or Yemen. And I don't see her talking about Iran either, where thousands have likely already been murdered in cold blood for simply wanting to live in freedom and prosperity. Apparently a known theocratic dictatorship pursuing weapons of mass destruction, violently oppressing millions of its own people for 50 years, sponsoring global terrorism and regularly chanting DEATH! to two of Singapore's critical allies - USA and Israel - is simply not enough to register on her radar. Now, it's one thing to agree or disagree on the fate of Palestinians, the scale of the war in Gaza and so on. But why does it so often go hand in hand with utter blindness and deafness to disasters that kill thousands of other people just next door to Israel? Is it because they don't involve Jews? Because that seems to be the only plausible answer, does it not?
🔴 Similarly, it's one thing for regular people to indulge conspiracy theories and get brainwashed by Muslim Brotherhood propaganda peddled on social media. but it's another matter entirely where public figures of a particular country do not lead by example. I thought you can support Palestinians AND Persians, no? The only reason one would deem the two causes incompatible is if they believed that the particularly extremist brand of Islam practiced by the theocratic regime in Tehran was not only acceptable but its methods were defensible and excusable. It also shows that every vocal Palestine supporter and activist doesn't really give two craps about human lives or, indeed, Muslim lives, as long as Israel is not involved. Ironically, it's what makes their activism so weak - because the rest of us can see through their hypocrisy."
Terrorism supporters just blame "Zionists" for the Iranian regime massacring its people
Iranian protesters are showing courage in the face of tyranny — but Israel-obsessed liberals don't seem to care - "the uprising is not just against the regime but against the repressive tyranny of Islam itself. This is intolerable to Western liberals, because it gets in the way of their fixed narrative that, when Islamists commit mass murder against the innocent, it’s justified resistance against Western-backed imperialism. Such liberals simply cannot acknowledge the reality of Islamic terrorism and repression. Their belief that the Israelis and Western imperialism are always the villains, and Muslims are always their victims, is essential to their self-image as morally virtuous people. It may sound incredible, but Islam has become synonymous with conscience itself among Western progressives. This is because the Palestinian cause has become their signature motif. The Palestinians are viewed as the ultimate oppressed people, dispossessed of their rightful inheritance and victims of Israeli “genocide,” “apartheid” and war crimes in Gaza. Every part of that is a lie. But among liberals, it’s an article of faith. So they’ve failed to grasp how this cause has been leveraged by the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood bent upon the conquest of the West. This is particularly true of Qatar, which has patiently spread its influence throughout Western universities and even bought up various Western media personalities. The Palestinian cause has embedded into the Western mind the inversion of truth and lies, victim and aggressor, justice and tyranny, which is a hallmark of the Islamic world and has found such fertile ground in the post-truth, post-moral Western intelligentsia. So the keffiyeh-clad classes have been cementing Islamic control over Western streets and public space... This steady Islamist encroachment into Britain and America has been made possible by the connivance of liberals who believe the Muslim world is the historic victim of the West. When the mullahs came to power in Iran in 1979, those liberals cheered what they viewed as a revolution against US-backed repression by the shah. Ever since, they’ve ignored the Islamic regime’s hanging of gay people and dissidents from cranes, its murder of young women for exposing too much of their hair, and the global terrorism of its self-declared war on the free world. They have instead marched shoulder to shoulder with Islamists in a common cause against Israel and America. In fact, the Islamic holy war against the West was itself detonated by the 1979 Iranian revolution. Those Shia clerics electrified the entire Muslim world by being seen to have created in Iran an Islamic caliphate. This galvanized Sunni Muslims to believe that they could bring this off elsewhere."
Heidi Bachram on X - "One of the more insidious things I saw yesterday was the hateful response when the counter protesters showed Hamas and IRGC atrocities on a huge screen. They shouted “shame”. They laughed. They yelled “Zio-Nazis”. These ppl have lost their morality and humanity."
Daniel Schwammenthal on X - "There is something uniquely grotesque about watching people on the streets of London waving the flag of the Iranian regime-smiling, even laughing-when confronted with evidence of its atrocities. Not denying them. Not disputing them. Simply not caring. The Western left has a long and dishonourable tradition of excusing evil. In the 20th century, this usually came wrapped in self-deception. Stalin’s gulags were dismissed as capitalist propaganda. Mao’s famines were minimised as unfortunate growing pains. Pol Pot’s killing fields were relativised, explained away, or quietly ignored. The excuse-if one can call it that-was utopianism. These were misguided people who believed that communism would usher in a just and peaceful society, and that any reported horrors were either fake, exaggerated or grim necessities on the road to paradise. That excuse no longer exists. The protesters cheering on Tehran are not Shiite Islamists awaiting the return of the Hidden Imam. They are not converts to clerical rule, revolutionary martyrdom, or theocratic repression. They do not believe in Iran’s ideology. They believe in one thing only: the destruction of the Jewish state. That is the point. That is the whole point. Iran is waved like a banner not because of what it stands for, but because of what it opposes. A regime that jails and rapes women for removing headscarves, executes gay men, tortures dissidents, and shoots protesters in the streets is deemed acceptable- admirable, even-because it backs Hamas and Hezbollah, and openly calls for Israel’s annihilation. The suffering of Iranians is immaterial when the goal is Israel's end. Unlike earlier generations of Western radicals, today’s far-left extremists cannot plead naivety. They are not blinded by dreams of equality or brotherhood. They are animated by hatred. There is no emancipatory vision here, no promised future that might-however delusionally-explain moral blindness. There is only the cold calculation that any force opposing Israel is worthy of support, no matter how brutal, reactionary, or murderous. How any mainstream political party can imagine courting, indulging, or appeasing these kinds of voters is beyond comprehension. There is nothing redeemable to work with. No shared values to appeal to. No common moral language."
S Sebag Montefiore on X - "As 20,000 innocent Iranians are murdered in the streets, Iranians are shocked to see that neither the disgraceful UN Secretary General nor many of the West's famous news organizations nor virtually all the 'humanitarian' NGOs nor the international 'human rights' courts and their lawyers have supported them, exposing much about who controls who in the hierarchy of grievances and the degradation of the entire NGOsphere and the rules-based supranational infrastructure. For 40 years, Iranian dissidents nicknamed the British broadcaster “BBC Ayatollah” and in the last three weeks, the BBC and Sky initially avoided the protests. Ironically the comedian Omid Djalili was providing better coverage than the BBC whose coverage was embarrasing. The UN, long protecting Iran, abetted by its allies Russia and China, ignored it altogether and its secretary-general was revealed as a patspaw for vicious tyrannies. Only on Thursday did the security council hold a session at which the dissident Masih Alinejad, whom the regime had tried to assassinate, reprimanded António Guterres, the compromised secretary-general: “the Secretary-general has not spoken publicly against the massacre … Secretary-general why are you afraid of the Islamic Republic?” Iranian protesters chanted 'Neither Gaza nor Lebanon My Life for Iran' and in favour of the Shah and his son. Western activists have resisted backing this new anti-Islamic revolution, long seeing radical Iran as an authentic popular bulwark against US and Israeli power and Western imperialism - a shameful now unveiled view long espoused by many prominent TV anchors, newsrooms as well as the 'humanitarian' and international law NGOsphere and the 'peace' pro-Palestine activists. Iranians are outraged by his brazen ammoral humbug: “Where is the left now? Where are the ‘pro-Palestinian’ and ‘anti-war’ activists when the Islamic Republic is killing innocent Iranians?” asks Alinejad. The Iranian Yale lecturer Arash Azizi reflects: “You would have thought leftists would understand the killing of Iranians on the streets fighting against a brutal capitalist regime. But unfortunately they don’t. The western leftist movements hate the West. They hate their own societies.” Unlike the Islamists, the shah refused to slaughter Iranians, as did Louis XVI, Charles X, Louis Philippe, Napoleon III and Nicholas II who hesitated to unleash violence so as not to taint the succession of their sons. Now almost to the day since his father left Iran 47 years ago, Prince Reza is the leading opposition symbol. Critics question whether he has real support and we know little of who Iranians would really support after a revolution. But inconvenient and embarrassing as it is to the West's 'anti-imperalists' he obviously has spport as a symbol if not a future king. He will never represent that the 20% of Iranians who support the Islamist dictatorship nor probably the far left but it is now up to Prince Reza to assemble a wider coalition of other parties and attitudes if he really wishes to become a future leader around whom most Iranians can rally. But it is little wonder Iranians see the shah’s reign as golden: their royalism, says the journalist Roohola Ramezani, who escaped Iran days ago, is “not a return to absolute autocracy but a symbolic bulwark against the failure of clerical republicanism … the throne reimagined as a secular shield” and he adds that the funding of faraway Islamist organizations, Hamas and Hezbollah, have outraged Iranians who see billions of their money wasted on murderous paramilitaries. Some have chanted for Israel and waved Israeli flags...."
Timur Kuran on X - "The scandal that essentially ended the Minnesota governor’s political career and the rising existential threat to Iran’s theocracy share a critical feature: deep resentments caused by the use of tax revenue to support perceived “outsiders”—in the US, unassimilated Somali refugees and in Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other non-Iranian groups. Walz’ support plummeted as evidence mounted that he allowed Somali’s to milk various welfare programs at taxpayer expense. In Iran, economically desperate citizens are furious that the regime spent billions on foreign causes as the domestic economy shrunk. Unknown at this point is whether Iran’s regime will suffer Walz’ fate. The anger in the streets suggests the likelihood is rising."
Lucas Lynch | Facebook - "It’s very strange, literally zero people on the ground in Iran can be heard chanting “But what about Mossadegh?” Meanwhile hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands or more, can be heard chanting for the Shah to return. Leftists helped cheer and organize this theocracy into power - under the absurd name of “anti-imperialism”, they wholeheartedly supported Islamic imperialism occupying and oppressing the country of Iran. Of course they will deny their own role and lie about what the people are clamoring for now."
Defiant L’s on X - "Leftist woman melts down and screams “Free Palestine” at Iranian people’s rally to support the uprising against the Islamic government"
Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet 🎗 on X - "Iranian students are told to shout: "Death to America!" 🇺🇸 "Death to Israel!" 🇮🇱 They shout: "Death to Palestine!" 🏴☠️ Via @gghamari"
From 2024
Mark Dubowitz on X - "Khamenei paid Hezbollah fighters about $1,280 per fighter per month. Now, he’s offering Iranians $7 per month per person."
🐺 on X - "Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Greenland, Panama…it’s all interconnected and it all points to China. As U.S. energy ramps up, and China is deprived of subsidized oil, subsidized shipping channels, freedom of navigation through sovereign waters and allies that can cause the U.S. problems…their global position diminishes substantially and their costs of doing business skyrocket. Venezuela and Iran account for something like 20% of China’s oil imports and they’re getting an insane deal on it. China has a huge problem if that oil goes away. You’d be forgiven for thinking Trump’s foreign policy seems random and chaotic, but it’s actually one of the most focused and (thus far) well executed foreign policies in at least 2 generations."
Kian 🇮🇷 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 on X - "Footage of Iranians celebrating today's attack on the Islamic Republic. High school students: "They struck! They struck! How do you feel?" "I feel great. I love Trump!" Rooftop scene, women celebrating the strike on Khamenei's residence: "Wow. They hit Khamenei's residence.""
Damn Zionist infiltrators!
Dan Burmawi on X - "The absolute majority of Muslims who leave Islam in the West are Iranians. So when you see a study talking about how many Muslims in the West are leaving Islam, don’t let the numbers fool you. Muslims don't get affected by liberal democratic culture because many Islamic nations have invested billions in building Islamic centers, Islamic schools, and mosques to insulate the next generation from Western cultural influence. The majority of Iranians, however, never truly saw themselves as Muslims. Islam tried to hijack their civilization but couldn’t do so to the same extent that it hijacked other cultures, especially Arab ones, since Islam is basically the globalization of Arabism."
Hussain Abdul-Hussain on X - "If you’re an alien from space who just landed on Earth and started reading media and social media, you’d learn this:
- When Bashar Assad uses sarin gas on Syrians, that doesn’t violate international law. Requires de-escalation. But if America punishes Assad by taking him out, that’s a violation. Requires vilifying America as a bloodthirsty empire.
- When Palestinians kill 1,200 Israelis and kidnap 250, that’s not a violation. Requires de-escalation. When Israelis hit back, that’s a violation demanding Israel be isolated, delegitimized, dismantled.
- When Khamenei kills 20,000 Iranians protesting his rule in less than a week, that’s not a violation of international law. But when America threatens Khamenei with war unless the crazy dude surrenders nuclear and ballistic missile programs, that’s a violation.
What kind of law is this whimsical international law?"
Yannay Spitzer on X - "Starting wars during Ramadan is no longer the polite thing to do. Unless, of course, it’s also Yom Kippur."
Stew Peters on X - "I trust Iran with nuclear weapons much more than I do Israel."
Aristonkle on X - "“Iran isn’t a threat, Iran has never done anything, Israel is the real enemy.”
> April 1983 – US Embassy Bombing, Beirut: Hezbollah (Iranian-backed) killed 63 people, including 17 Americans.
> October 1983 – Beirut Barracks Bombing: Hezbollah truck bombs killed 241 Marines and 58 French paratroopers - the deadliest single-day loss for the Marines since Iwo Jima.
> 1984 – US Embassy Annex Bombing, Beirut: Hezbollah killed 24 people, including 2 Americans.
> 1985 – TWA Flight 847 Hijacking: Hezbollah hijacked the plane and murdered USN diver Robert Stethem.
> 1988 – Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie): While primarily attributed to Libya, Iranian involvement via the PFLP-GC is widely suspected; 270 killed including 190 Americans.
> June 1996 – Khobar Towers Bombing, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Hezbollah (backed by Iran’s IRGC) killed 19 USAF personnel and wounded hundreds more.
> 1998 – US Embassy Bombings, Kenya & Tanzania: While primarily an al-Qaeda operation, Iranian logistical links were alleged; 224 killed.
> 2003–2011 – Iraq War: Iranian-backed militias (Kata’ib Hezbollah, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, Jaysh al-Mahdi) killed hundreds of American soldiers using Iranian-supplied IEDs. The Pentagon estimated Iranian-backed groups were responsible for the deaths of over 600 Americans.
> December 2019 – K1 Air Base Attack, Iraq: Kata’ib Hezbollah rocket attack killed American contractor Nawres Hamid.
> January 2020 – Al-Asad Air Base Ballistic Missile Strike: Iran directly fired ballistic missiles at a base housing US troops; no deaths but over 100 soldiers suffered traumatic brain injuries.
> 2022–2024 – Syria & Iraq Drone/Rocket Attacks: Iranian proxy groups launched over 160 attacks on US bases across the region, killing and wounding multiple American personnel.
> January 2024 – Tower 22 Attack, Jordan: Iranian-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq (Kata’ib Hezbollah) drone strike killed 3 (Sgt. William Rivers, Sgt. Kennedy Sanders, Sgt. Breonna Moffett) and wounded dozens."
The US needs to invade Israel for conducting all these false flag attacks with Mossad!
